taylorboosh
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Ill scour ebay for mount kit - that and a poss gearbox spacer do me?
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davegreen
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yes you will need 15mm spacer plate with longer bolts. all other mounts you should already have.
can be fitted without spacer but you have no clearance at the alternator. I used 8v alternator, mount and crank pulley single vee, gave loads of room.
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taylorboosh
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Can make a spacer
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taylorboosh
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http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=231437448965
This too much?
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davegreen
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I paid way more but that was 7/8 years ago and nobody was fitting the xev so was led to belive I needed a special mount. I did get the rear spacer and a fitting guide for whole conversion with the mount. think it was around £180?
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taylorboosh
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Thats not so bad at all
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taylorboosh
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Ordered the mount i linked up
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Nic Barnes
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Has it arrived yet?
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taylorboosh
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No mate sorry - but i have other stuff to get on with
Tomorrow = remove bumpers and arches and asses if theres extra welding to do
Need strengthening plates in and floor holes welding up
Have ordered battery cable and also waiting on a few other bits too
It will be in soon and running i hope
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Nic Barnes
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Any more progress?
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taylorboosh
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Yes m8
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taylorboosh
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So got a bit time in the garage today - really enjoyed it at first (more on that later)
Mates coming saturday to weld my strengthenning kit in and do a few bits and bobs - so i cracked on with some prep
Cleaned all these holes and then zinc primed
One was really a bit bad and the metal around it a bit thin
Cut the mother fucker out and made a dappa repair bit, then primed it up
Then i tackled the hole in the floor
Marked up, cut out, cleaned up
Used my pre fabbed repair bit - cleaned up and a test shot (it will be fully welded above and below
At this point i was in a good mood so took a pic of my coilies
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taylorboosh
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Why was i in a good mood? Because on saturday when my mate welds these up - along with the strengthenning kit i will have a solid corsa - (well theres a tiny hole in the inner arch on drivers side and im yet to remove the arches and rear bumper - but will tackle this when the cars back on its wheels)
So i started removing the shit gaurds, arches and bumper ready to dress up for the plates - so i found it a bit weird when no matter what i tried i couldnt get the pass side arb mount area 8mm bolt out for the bumper
I took a look underneath and found a patch of weld - no biggy i can sort that - grinder out and cut the bolt to release the bumper
Lower cross member is rotten - thank fully chassis legs are fine
Now what do people do in this situation?
Can you buy the panel?
Im tempted to cut it off flat and weld in a bit of box section with the holes for arb drilled in? Will make custom fabbing rad mounts easier too
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Robin
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15 seconds of googling and you'll have your crossmember for less than £50
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taylorboosh
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Didnt think they would be so cheap  thanks
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taylorboosh
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Ordered - guessing its spot welded on?
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--ToM--
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Good progress mate, why you zinc primering areas that are going to be welded?
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taylorboosh
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Its weld through anyways, it rather it had a covering on lol
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--ToM--
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Yeah fair dooes I left my cav bare metal for a few days started getting little surface rust bits on It so ground it back primed it with a rattle can until it went the body shop
Get back in the garage and drill that bottom panel off so can prep it all up ready for the new one
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taylorboosh
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Nahh am clean now ill do it next week - no rush
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--ToM--
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Slacker
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taylorboosh
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Will wait till the engines bolted in to do it aswell
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--ToM--
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To hold it all together
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taylorboosh
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Yea lol help make sure nothing moves lmao
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--ToM--
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Haha to be fair i doubt it would move that much better be safe than sorry though, my mate was thinking about making up some sort of brace for when he cut the boot floor out of his nova fucked it off in the end and chopped it out waiting to see if the new one fits now lol
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