1g - how low can you go (in your ra2x)

[stidnam]

Hi all,

I'm currently up to the stage of position my 1g in the engine bay of my ra28. I aquired some 1gge mounts and some new rubbers and bolted all that together. Knowning that it just wasn't going to bolt into the position I wanted it to I then proceeded to chop the mounts off my crossmember.

The mounts are all chopped off and I chopped around 10mm off the exhaust side and around 20mm off the intake side. I also positioned it a little back and a little biased to the intake side (away from the steering box).

This left it this far away from the steering box.





Now is this far enough away to get it passed engineering and if so do you think I can safely go lower? Reason being is my damn strut brace still doesn't fit over the intake :S I've made it my mission to make this strut brace fit.

I'd love to know how Toyman got his on

stidnam

[brett_celicacoupe]

id say 10mm (what mine is) is sufficient but that depends on how rigid your rubber mounts are.

once its all in and running, heel-toe the engine and see how close it gets

[Lambolica]

Toymans strut brace is only a whisker from the plenum and buy the looks of it the strut hits. do you have the same brace as his?

Cheers
Simon

[Toy77]

hey mate,

should be able to get it under the brace, mine used to clear pretty easy




only pic i could find with the brace on.

Cheers
Stew

[stidnam]

interesting...wish I had that turbo and intake though

To get it low enough I'm just going to have to keep chopping the mounts down till the brace fits. Not going to be much of a mount left I hear

Lambolica: Yeah same strut brace. I pm'd Rod about it as well .

Thanks for the replies

stidnam

[Toy77]

hey mate,

that is the factory intake manifold - modified obviously but the actual height of the plenum is factory. it has theflange cut out of the middle and the hole plated over - then the factory flange and throttle body was mounted on the front of the plenum.

Good luck with it,

Cheers
Stew