Transmission and Battery Update
After a week of no work we got a good afternoon of wrench turning in. We built a battery box and installed the transmission out of my Eclipse into the VR4.
A battery box is really important if you want to mount the battery in the trunk. I think Mistu should have put it there in the first place. Turbo motors are hell on engine bay mounted batteries. Getty the battery, circuit breaker, and other electrical stuff protected in a box will save you from a major arc welding should something inadvertently touch a hot wire. Plus, there isn’t a type of racing out there that isn’t just plain rabid about securing a battery.
Hot tip of the day for installing 1G and GVR4 transmissions….
Pull the front and rear motor mount “pins” and let the those mounts rest on the sub frame. With the upper and lower radiator hoses off you can move the engine about an inch closer to the radiator. That makes it a snap getting the ring gear on the transmission to clear the sub frame. Once you get the tranny on you can just lift the motor/tranny up and put the motor mount “pins” back in.
Using that method, Steve and I got the tranny on in about 15 minutes.
The end of February is coming pretty quick and although we are making progress the more we work on the car the we find to do. So we are going to scale back a bit and just work on getting the car moving. Then we can pick away at the smaller projects. Next up is getting the turbo and intake manifold installed so I can work at fabbing up the exhaust and IC pipes.
