Gearbox like everything else just seemed to be made for this car. Ideally, as the dude in tahiland had intended, it should sit a little further back, or more biased towards to rear because at it sits, clearance with the front console ie. radio etc is going to be a squeeze.
Stripping the halfcut to get it a little tidier for house inspection
I opted to mount the engine further forward as mentioned earlier to avoid bigger headaches like clearing steering rack, master cylinder, and huge mods to the sump.
UPDATE ON PROGRESS: Its been about a week or 2 now that ive been stuffing around with the cooling system. Trying to decide whether to run hydro fan or electric fans, whether to run volvo radiator or toyota radiator, exploring what combo's may work in terms of fitment and performance etc etc. to keep costs to a minimum. Decided the massive hydro fan could not be beat by any electric fan so opted for that, and the smaller volvo radiator. Radiator, turns out, works differently on lolvo's. Pain in the arse, they have no radiator caps :S
So all the pressure was being contained in the overflow bottle which has a release valve in it. Not nearly enough for the heat coming off this 6 banger.
So thought bugger it. Cranked out the 12" angle grinder and got busy on the lolvo's front. Mounted the toyota radiator and hydro fan and they sit pretty mint! pretty dang close to the pulleys but mint.
Was having trouble with the engines idle also. Seemed to sit at what sounded like 3k rpm, which was not pleasant without an exhaust. So, made a temporary exhaust system, filled the coolant back up again, took off the ISCV, cleaned it, and now about to run it again to see if its happy.
Once we get a reasonable idle speed, and less noise than a rock saw we'll be singing! It'll mean back to sorting/neatening the wiring again. And a driveshaft.
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