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Designed and produced in the Grindhouse skunk works, XAT Racing has just what you need to be doing clutch kicks in Grandpa's land yacht. This adapter uses a specific Wilwood clutch pedal with remote reservoir available from the dropdown menu! Contact us for UCF20 and rollcage-mounted options. Please keep in mind these are often made to order and may have a delay in producing them.

You will need to have the clutch line custom made of course, depending on transmission used. Let us know what you need for your application and we can supply that as well! Most product ships from either the manufacture or largest wholesale location to pass the saving to you. Most orders will ship via UPS, as we will be able to provide the best rates and have had the least issues when using UPS.

Especially for anyone outside the USA, please contact us with a list of parts you'd like to order, and where you are located. So in the last week and a half I've gotten a bunch done.

First and foremost, here are some terrible photos of the meh brake lines I promised. Again, I didn't have a pipe bender until the last 2 bends, and I know they're ugly, but they're functional. That's all I care about.

Ended up having some bad flares on the same line, so I had to get creative afterwards since I had already flared the longer one. Its not the "right way", but it works. I'll fix it some day. Was able to reuse one of the factory unions that has a little bracket on it. Bolted the line to an threaded stud for the plastic brake line holder that was there. Now onto the stuff I got done since the last update. My welder finally came in! Went to Tech-Air, got a 80cf tank, then to Harbor Freight for a welding cart and some gloves, and finally Lowe's for a Lincoln Electric mask.

Even got to give it a shot laying some beads down. Explain later why. Thank GOD. Never want to do that again, at least not alone. Next I tended to the trans crossmember. I got it from a Odyssey Parts Shop thanks again Cashflo! Gave it a quick spray with truck bedliner before tossing it on. Fit like a glove btw. After that, I noticed the shifter didn't line up with the hole like the swap kit builder speculated it would, though it was close.

Quick use my new favorite tool and it was no longer an issue. Next I decided to install the rad to try and figure out the hose situation. Stock hose isn't going to work Fixed it!!!

Seriously though, I hacked the stock one up to have something to take with me to Pep Boys.. So after a quick glance and realizing I'd be there forever, I did some quick googling at the SC upper hoses and it looked like the radiator flange was closer to the center much like the MK4 supra radiator, so I found one off the shelf and bingo, that's gonna work.

I then took a break from that since I had to wait for the Radiator temp. Back to Fluid Dynamics! And this is the final product. The giant grommet is from a B13 Sentra engine harness. Was almost the perfect size, but I put a little bit of window silicone just to fill the little gap. Tilton reservoir mounted nicely out of the way too. Then the only other thing I got done was test fitted the shifter to see what kind of shift lever modifications I'm going to need. Definitely going to have to cut and reweld this to get it to come out centered.

I did also end up ordering the driveshaft this past Monday, though of course it would be my luck that this ass took his sweet time so when I called to give Driveshaft Shop the measurements they informed me all of this week June July they're on vacation.

It most likely wont get shipped out for another week after they get back. Oh well, more time to finish tidying everything up. More to come soon! Spinnetti Member. Messages Location KY. Nice Job Some similarities I corner weighted it, but can't find my notes. I stuck with the auto though. Spinnetti said:.

Click to expand Its almost road worthy. Well for starters, I got the reverse lights working with the KA trans! Found a website that sells Nissan harness pigtails for dirt cheap. Ordered one for the speed sensor and the reverse lights. Mike helped out a lot with this, thanks again man! Next I moved onto tackling the lack of armrest.

Now I feel like an idiot that I didn't really take any photos of the process of building it. It happened over the course of a few months, but here is the finished product. Reason I had to make a new one was that my elbow would smash into it if I pulled the hydro, and it was too tall for the shifter. Just leaving the armrest in the open position when I want to use the hydrobrake wasn't a solution for me.

If this at all makes sense, I started by taking apart the armrest. I took the plastic piece that sits on the inside of the armrest, cut the plastic hump off so it was not a flat piece with a big hole in the center. If you lift up the armrest and look at the inside of it, its the big plastic piece.

I turned it upside down so what was before facing the inside pocket not faced up. I then took the stock hinge, removed the springs, and installed it on the plastic piece with some small screws that came out of taking everything apart. I took the latch which mounts to the armrest mold itself and put it on the plastic piece. I had to JB weld it on, no real other way of mounting it.

I then took some thin 18G sheet metal and cut a piece out to fill the open hole from cutting out the hump in the plastic piece. Bought some foam at Jo-Ann Fabrics, as well as some black headliner material and used some Loctite spray adhesive from Lowe's. I have to say, it turned out a lot more legit than I thought it would have. Next I decided to finish figuring out the cooling system. Didn't care for the weight, or bulkiness of it. With the MKIV rad in place, and having figured out the upper hose I realized I never even bothered to look at the lower..

Well, I lucked out. The stock one fits almost perfectly. A buddy of mine was over and mentioned to me a possible solution for the radiator fans. Now, if I haven't made it apparent, my philosophy behind this entire build is that I want a turn key daily drivable car that anyone could get into and just drive.

I don't want any special procedure for driving the car, just turn the key put it in gear and go. That meant no interior rad fan switches that I'd have to turn on at xxx temperature.

Solution, universal thermal fan switch. Took me forever to figure out where to mount the sensor, and my buddy came through to save the day again! I figured okay, no big deal I'll just bore it out. Sorry, that does not compute. Anywho, here is the adapter and the amount of hose I had to remove. Ended up having to take off an extra inch or so to make the hose fit correctly.

Left a bruise, that's how much freaking tension they have. Pure rage moment. So even after eating a face full of clamp, I continued to use it. Filled the rad and it started to leak. Down my arm into my shirt, over the creeper, over the floor, in my hair, on my glasses. This was one of those days. Moving on, I realized I still had no coolant overflow. You can think this is ghetto, or trashy. Frankly, I don't care. I'm way over budget on this car, its a purpose built vehicle, and hey Mar 16, GMT.

LS's seem ideal, the whole idea of them sounds ace. Big RWD saloon with a 4. Just a pipe dream. Whats prone to going wrong? And out of interest, how easily can you convert on to manual? Supra prop and box? Yum Yum! Sierra - here we go again! TBH not much goes wrong, the electrics can get dodgy, but not too often. The Idle valve sometimes sticks and needs rebuilding with new bearings, but its cheap and easy, alternator can go if power steering leaks, and AC compressor can fail.

All pretty simple fixes! As for manual conversion, you can use the gearbox from a supra mk3 turbo R or the non turbo from the mk4 w58 the adapter plates are available online, and you need a concentric release bearing from howe racing.

I'm not sure which pedals would work though. Flywheel use a 3sgte with slotted holes to fit the 1uzfe PCD and a heavy duty hilux clutch. There is also that box of magic from the states that I believe you posted about Robin that allowed for a sequential paddle affair on the box I have the link on my home PC and but as I rebuilt Windows this morning, I managed to not set my RDP up properly so cannot get the link whilst at work.

I will post it up in the morning! I'm building a supercharger manifold for the 1uzfe engine, if you get the ache for power gimme a shout.

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