[neofitou]

Go and buy a baleno 1.6 and and AW4 and wiring harness from a 1.6 from a vitara.
Get a closeoff plate & custom jackshaft, a coily tank, vitara fuel pump, vss, a set of headers and put it all together, fab up the new engine mounts.

Do it right the first time, this setup will be all you ever need now and in the future.
Doing this project like this will get it running will teach you the skills to do anything else you need to do on the car.
The drivetrain will be sorted from the radiator to the transfer case and you wont have to touch them again.

If you cant afford to do this then get rid of the project and buy a car that already works or get the 1L engine, put it in a leave it there.
If you dont do it like this (or similar) your just fucking around and wasting everyones time with your dribble.

[royce]

Jake terry wrote:

I want to do it my self
A resteration project

Lovely thing you youngsters have this internet stuff.
Back when I was a youngster all we had was out shitty car we got from somewhere, some random car magazines to read ads from, The Trading Post for a supply of stuff we could almost afford and our dreams.
Problem was, we got all these dreams, fueled by pouring over the smallest details in these amazing cars in these magazines and we wanted to do it too

But there was nobody told us we were dickheads, that we were wasting our time, that we were trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear.

Nobody told us these awesome magazine cars we saw cost more to build than a house and took years, we were all going to make these monster show cars in 6 months in the back yard.

But now we have the internet, and on the internet are all us now older and smarter people that have realised it was really stupid blowing every cent we had trying to make some cheap non running piece of shit into something useful, these people are telling you these ideas are stupid, listen to them, its not cause they don't think you are capable, its cause they know at the end of it, you've taken a 30 yo car and added some shit from a 20yo car, well not a 20yo car, numerous 20yo cars, the reason you can get these parts is cause as a whole, these 20yo cars are in some way a piece of shit not worth keeping going.

When I say its great to want to do stuff I mean it, when I say get this $200 shitheap, strip it and try and make some money from it I mean that too.
Then put that money into a newer, better, complete running well version of the same thing, its cheaper and you'll spend time actually driving it, not trying to fix up some engine mount you bodged up to get some shitty engine you found in a bin installed.

[KEENSY85]

found this clip a while a go why wont this work again in aussi zook
http://youtu.be/ssP1g0qgwl4

[atari4x4]

KEENSY85 wrote:

found this clip a while a go why wont this work again in aussi zook
http://youtu.be/ssP1g0qgwl4

engine isn't available easily in australia

have a read of this thread.
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=31418&hilit=diesel+sierra

[Jake terry]

royce wrote:

Jake terry wrote:

I want to do it my self
A resteration project

Lovely thing you youngsters have this internet stuff.
Back when I was a youngster all we had was out shitty car we got from somewhere, some random car magazines to read ads from, The Trading Post for a supply of stuff we could almost afford and our dreams.
Problem was, we got all these dreams, fueled by pouring over the smallest details in these amazing cars in these magazines and we wanted to do it too

But there was nobody told us we were dickheads, that we were wasting our time, that we were trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear.

Nobody told us these awesome magazine cars we saw cost more to build than a house and took years, we were all going to make these monster show cars in 6 months in the back yard.

But now we have the internet, and on the internet are all us now older and smarter people that have realised it was really stupid blowing every cent we had trying to make some cheap non running piece of shit into something useful, these people are telling you these ideas are stupid, listen to them, its not cause they don't think you are capable, its cause they know at the end of it, you've taken a 30 yo car and added some shit from a 20yo car, well not a 20yo car, numerous 20yo cars, the reason you can get these parts is cause as a whole, these 20yo cars are in some way a piece of shit not worth keeping going.

When I say its great to want to do stuff I mean it, when I say get this $200 shitheap, strip it and try and make some money from it I mean that too.
Then put that money into a newer, better, complete running well version of the same thing, its cheaper and you'll spend time actually driving it, not trying to fix up some engine mount you bodged up to get some shitty engine you found in a bin installed.

I think your right ill do that ok thanks

[mnemonix]

Best old, modified car summary ever! Lol

[Jake terry]

A daihatsu 1.3 will the use a sierra 1.3 gear box

[Jake terry]

A daihatsu 1.3 will that fit a sierra 1.3 gear box

[Fatzook]

Jake terry wrote:

A daihatsu 1.3 will that fit a sierra 1.3 gear box

Just bolts up hey?

[Jake terry]

So it will work

[atari4x4]

Fatzook wrote:

Jake terry wrote:

A daihatsu 1.3 will that fit a sierra 1.3 gear box

Just bolts up hey?

Pretty sure you don't even need bolts, they come pre assembled these days.

[Fatzook]

Jake terry wrote:

So it will work

No. And why?

Put simply, an engine conversion is alot of work. Why would you go to all that effort for such a terrible engine.

I'd say arguably; when in reality, its closer to fact; but the best engine for a sierra on the endlessly sliding scale of effort and cost vs result and reliability, is the G16B. No other engine is easier to fit ( save G13B & G13BB) that gives the near perfect power/ torque for a sierra. Period. If you cannot afford a G16B, save up. Because everything else is either more work, more expensive, or not worth the effort.

[Jake terry]

Ok then

[bakerboy]

My god you are a fucking idiot, you couldn't figure what suspension to use or what a shackle was and now you think your cert 1 in tacking pieces of mild steel together means you're ready to do an engine swap? What happened to the other zook? Or did your all knowing and wise mechanic tell you to sell it and then butcher a 1L?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq-7P94pUoI

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0

[Jake terry]

No I still have but I'm leaving it alone and building one the way I want and not killing a perfectly fine car

[303zuke]

Jake terry wrote:

No I still have but I'm leaving it alone and building one the way I want and not killing a perfectly fine car

And the way you want to build it is with a Daihatsu 1.3?

[jonno_racing]

well this was a good read..
Just put a frecking F10A in it.. Hell i even have a spare one here i will sell to you.

[TZAR]

Just send me $5800 and i will deliver a rusted out shit heap thats broken to you. Its sort of the fast way down the track you are going. Then you can sell that shit heap for $400 bucks and start again by buying a car which is running.

Cert 1 in heavy metal??? is that just like you can tell the difference between justin beiber and bon jovi??

cert 1 are a joke. its saying you can write your name, and wont bring a hammer when asked for a screwdriver.

Enough feeding your inner tard, Back on topic yes you are keen thats great, but listen to everyone else, dont pull the I'll show those cunce on the internet who I never met and never will that i can do it cause you cant, you have no idea. Buy a car drive it then fix it, no point getting a absolute shit heap, spending billions on it to make a shit heap that is just more expensive. So for fucking once just shut the fuck up and listen. Okay.

[droverdave]

Experience is gained directly after it was needed.

You gotta have a crack at it else you will never know.

my advice, stop posting untill you have read all the build threads you can find. see what others have done, and decide if you can do it.

[atari4x4]

droverdave wrote:

my advice, stop posting.

[sideways]

neofitou wrote:

Go and buy a baleno 1.6 and and AW4 and wiring harness from a 1.6 from a vitara.
Get a closeoff plate & custom jackshaft, a coily tank, vitara fuel pump, vss, a set of headers and put it all together, fab up the new engine mounts.

It takes a fair bit more work than that to fit that stuff to a 1l!

[Fatzook]

sideways wrote:

neofitou wrote:

Go and buy a baleno 1.6 and and AW4 and wiring harness from a 1.6 from a vitara.
Get a closeoff plate & custom jackshaft, a coily tank, vitara fuel pump, vss, a set of headers and put it all together, fab up the new engine mounts.

It takes a fair bit more work than that to fit that stuff to a 1l!

YEP!!!

Support bearing for rear of gearbox, gearbox cross member, widen transmition tunnel, trans oil cooler, the 1.6 vit loom won't run a baleno engine, so it all needs to be vitara, and heaps more small shit.

[Ace]

Wow - I can feel the love from NZ .

Apparently you have asked some silly questions before, ones that may imply your ideas outmatch your skill level at this stage. I think everyone that has posted has been where you are now many moons ago and are trying to tell you its just not fkn worth it.

If you want to do a resto then thats cool but if you want to modify- by the time you buy the parts individually it will cost more than getting it complete .eg in a road legal sammy

I didn't realise the "cert 1 welding"etc you mentioned before was a warm fuzzy awarded for turning up on the day.

By all means have ambitions but get a 4wd you can drive from the get go and learn from it.



Sorry for feeding the monster

[SierraDan]

Jake terry wrote:

No I still have but I'm leaving it alone and building one the way I want and not killing a perfectly fine car

I would love to kill my car with a 1.6 and AW4

[tanshi]

Ive already killed all of my cars with crappy motors.
G16. J20, LJ50

horrible!!!!!!

[rhys bond]

been waiting all day for my acc to be activated. new to the group, been about a year ive been chasing a zook, and like a god send down the read, on the same road one came up for sale so i took it straight away, relevance to this post is it came with a datsun sunny a15 nissan engine with 4 speed box. low end grunt but screams its tits on to do 100km/h.
i have a second car for speed though

[sideways]

I want your wheels.

An A15 in a sierra as late as yours is an interesting conversion to say the least! From what I understand the 5 speed is mega long and would probably need the transfer moved back to fit? That would be bloody painful to drive with the 4 speed!

[Gwagensteve]

Oh I hadn't even noticed how new the car was - yes, that's a weird swap choice - up there with the 18R in a coiler. They were quite a good swap for a 1.0, in fact, I recall there was a LWB 1.0 competing at the first Tuff Truck with an A15/auto in it.

[rhys bond]

Well with the 4 speed behind it the low end is great but 60 to max speed (100km/h) it's screaming. And the 4 speed box has a universal joint bolted straight into the transfer case. The gap is I'd say about 5-7" from the box to transfer. I think it threw the a bearing in the uni joint so I might have to move the transfer just to get the uni out. I have a picture of the connection but havnt figured out how to upload one. Ill try when I get home to show you after work.

[kenn]

Put bigger tyres on it.