When was the last time you bought a high-performance anti-roll bar for 10 bucks? How about a limited-slip differential for $75? You say you just spent only $500 for a set of wide wheels for your car? Hey, we could have gotten the same size wheels for only $100-and that's for all four of them.
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I printed out the GM portion and used it to find inexpensive performance parts for my 3rd gen firebird on ebay and craigslist. Thanks
Quick addition to the 3rd gen Camaro/Firebird section
Fast ratio steering boxes came on cars with 16" wheels.
The Wonder bar is a bolt on brace that runs from side to side near the front sway bar mounts. Get one if you find it.
From 82-89 there was a 7.75 ring gear axle as well. The Borg-Warner 9 bolt. ratios were 2.77, 3.23 and 3.45. Its very strong with an easy to shim LSD unit, bolt in axles, and a 2 pin carrier. Most had disc brakes too. 1989 had aluminum rear calipers but brackets are out the to use these on the earlier ones too.
This is in the first issue of GRM I ever bought, IIRC.
In BMWland, an E36 fuel pump and sender will drop into a 2002 tank to replace the stock pickup/sender. Oddly, I never had any slosh-related issues autocrossing it with Megasquirt. Sure seems like I should've needed a surge tank. Fuel gauge even worked. The only hiccup is that you need a 2002 tank with a bung for the fuel return line, which I think means tii...
You jumped right over Jaguar.
Would you like the low down on those? A lot of swapping and interchange goes on there. Much of it I’ve already posted.
In reply to frenchyd :
They just didn’t want to step on our resident expert’s toes.
In reply to grover :
Well, it was written 20 years ago...
Cooter said:This is in the first issue of GRM I ever bought, IIRC.
Yep. I bought this at Barnes and Nobles back in the day. Still have it somewhere....
For the RX7, the '84-85 rear diffs can accept the Torsen LSD from a Miata. You can actually use the entire front section (u-joint hub to ring+pinion + diff) if you grind off the mounts for the IRS, which eliminates the need to set backlash.
Those early Corollas and Celicas can fit the variety of inline six and UZ v8 engines from later cars, if you want to make a drag missile on the (relatively) cheap. I know of at least a handful of 10 second tin cans that always put a smile on my face.
Did I miss the Subaru swap/interchangeability list? It probably needs it's own article.
In reply to fornetti14 :
Subaru’s were covered in the original article, the link in David’s post will bring you there.
How can I miss that ?!
Wish I had seen this 20 years ago. It is basically the starter kit to everything I think is cool about modifying cars...
Ransom said:In BMWland, an E36 fuel pump and sender will drop into a 2002 tank to replace the stock pickup/sender. Oddly, I never had any slosh-related issues autocrossing it with Megasquirt. Sure seems like I should've needed a surge tank. Fuel gauge even worked. The only hiccup is that you need a 2002 tank with a bung for the fuel return line, which I think means tii...
Or a drill and a bulkhead fitting. :)
This article is about 15 years too late now to actually find any of that stuff in the junkyard even in California lol. Its hard to find vw stuff older than mk4, even second gen neons are nearly gone from the dodge section, the 3-4 rows of f bodies are down to the occasional v6 4th gen, etc.
I loved this article when it came out.
I'd really like to see an updated version of it. Like how the 350Z LSD goes on a G35- you know, the stuff you can find in the boneyards now. Yes, all of the information is likely available with a Google search and some forum trolling. The signal to noise ratio at GRM seems to always be better than at the forums, though.
I know you also covered lots of it in the vehicle specific articles in the mag already.
I remember this article. And some of the pics . . .
The link in the Miata segment takes you to AOL! LOL!
Cooter said:This is in the first issue of GRM I ever bought, IIRC.
Wow, cool. And, dang, that's from like 20 years ago!
Brett_Murphy said:
I'd really like to see an updated version of it.
Not a crazy idea....
frenchyd said:You jumped right over Jaguar.
Would you like the low down on those? A lot of swapping and interchange goes on there. Much of it I’ve already posted.
frenchy
Yes please! While I doubt much of it would carry over into the X400 (X-Type) it would still be interesting to learn.
Maybe it is time for an updated article talking about some of the more popular cross-platform swaps (leaving out the obvious LS swaps...)?
In reply to chknhwk :
The basic platform all Jaguars made after 1975 is based on the first XJ6 In 1971 so swapping back and forth between the early Iron six cylinder, the V12 and the later all aluminum six cylinder is relatively easy.
Unbolt the rear end. And it will go onto any sedan from 1971- 1997. Inboard brakes until 1990 on most platforms. Out board afterwards. Various years had different or no rear sway bar. Suggest springs were in the sedans lighted spring were in the XJS COUPES
Same with the front crossmember. Springs and swaybar will interchange. 3.6 XJS coupes had the softest and XJ12 sedans had the stiffest.
Transmission mounts varied between the Iron Borg Warner used up to mid 1977 and the Aluminum GM Turbo 400 BUT you can bolt the later transmission mount onto the earlier cars.
A Jaguar manual transmission 4 speed from the V12 XKE will bolt onto any V12 up to mid 1977 and even 8 XJS’s were built using that combination. The basic manual 4 speed ( Full syncro ) from XKE’s and early 3.8 sedans is used even though it is near its upper limit regarding strength.
Wiring though is a nightmare. Little interchange and even mid year modifications and changes. particularly with regard to fuel injection. The first cars came out with carburetors. Switched to fuel injection ( which is basically 3 Jetronic units) then switched to various Lucas fuel injection units.
In reply to frenchyd :
Awesome, thank you!
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