73 Sahara take it or leave it Build Restoration

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finished the brackets for compressor and tank, welded all the joints up in the trunk sub floor and started on the sheet metal.

make shift metal brake

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trunk pan, tow hook will be slightly off center to the left

left side has brackets welded on for air tank and compressor and a spot for the valves. right side open for now till I get the fuel cell in.

motor mount #2

t67 25g picked up cheap, freshly rebuilt, 8cm exhaust housing. Might run this for a bit.

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mock up

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began cutting out rusty areas and fabin the floor/tunnel overall very happy with the limited amount of rust under that black tar heroin bmw put in there.

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other side with added channel to run oval exhaust tubing, this will allow me to run 3" oval exhaust so it will not drag the ground when the car is aired out.

channel was raised to the same level as the floor under the seat.

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just some more work

mocking up nexus gauges, plenum, wastegate-->collector pipe

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need clamp rods on the plemum-->intake to keep the couplers from blowing off under boost

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hopefully picking up some Borbet type A's friday. 16x9 rear.

have to find some fronts later on either 16x7.5 or run double staggered with 15x8 fronts.

these:

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need to do some fit adjustments and re-do the switch plate, damn step bit walked on me misaligning the toggles

controller either going on the console or flush mounting in the dash to the right of the shift pattern

plenum is done and got all the take off bungs welded in, the one on the #1 runner is for the Tial BOV the rest are for boost gauage, wastegate, FPR, and a spare possibly for a boost-retard setup later on.

trans mount supports almost done just gotta clean up some welds (vertical mig sucks) and made a temp bracket with a brick on top to hold the trans up while I put the dolly back under the car, going to be dropping the compete spare motor in when I get the turbo flanges in and mock the turbo up.

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well that took all morning for a one person engine swap.. took forever to get the engine clamped up to the trans, it is better to pull/install them as a unit but I wasn't sure if my rigged puller would hold the weight. anyways..

my "clutch alignment tool" lol

chevy one wire alternator bolts up nicely, just gotta make a small spacer and tensioner bracket

redrilled and tapped the M10x?? oil pressure sensor hole to 1/4" npt and installed the T for turbo supply and autometer pressure sensor.

because I am doing a heater box delete I gotta pick one of these up in 3/4"

bunch of room to work with, could run atleast a 2.5" core on the radiator if I want. even more if I go electric fan which I probably will be doing.

bulkhead studs for the main current lines from the battery

u-bolt to hold the shifter in place, works well, gotta cut the extra down a bit though. Felt good to go through the gears while "sitting" in the car

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smoothed the transitions on the runners today, made a alternator bracket, welded my first V-band, demo tested my gauges and they are pretty damn awesome. also played with the dual sport alittle.

before:

after:

bracket for a chevy 1 wire 80? amp

vband

gauges

aaand found a use for that battery strap I had laying around

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picked up some porsche 944 leather seats yesterday. fit is great, the brackets are about 1" longer and about .75" narrower than the bmw ones and the seat is perfect width. Going to cut down the floor mounts about 2.5" to lower them down a bit. they also have power ass height adjustment which I'll probably never use. Will reuposltered eventually when I complete the interior.

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Those gauges are gorgeous. What are they?

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autometer nexus gauges

http://www.autometer.com/demos/nexus/

they have peak, warning, and recall. adjustable colors and all kinda stuff lol.

My favorite part is the full gauge red when your set warning is reached