So shortly after showing the car at the All Ford Day at Eastern Creek, I pulled the car off the road to have it's new rear end fitted. This includes some mini tubs so the original tubs were all cut out.




 
New steel tubs were fabricated and welded in with some sikaflex added to seal the seams.




 
The old diff has been pulled out and an 8 inch Borg Warner is about to go in. If anyone is interested in the standard Escort diff let me know as I'll have no need for the old one.


Just need to finalise some measurements then diff housing will be cut down. Planned wheels are 15 x 8 inch and we'll probably run a 10 inch tyre.
 

The New Year means time for an update. The new diff housing has been cut down and now installed. It has a Harrop Truetrac centre, Skyline rear calipers, a set of custom Caltracs and custom stabiliser bar.
 



 
The calipers are away being overhauled, the diff will come out for powder coating and a set of Bilstein shocks will go in on final assembly.
The wheels are 15 x 8 Weld Racing Prostars with 235/60 series Micky Thompson rubber. There's plenty of dish and the fat tyres fill the guards out nicely.



 
The original drop tank was beat up so a new alloy tank is being fabricated at the moment, which I think will fill the rear end rather nicely.
 
 

That is a very neat job with the mini tubs!
 
What power plant have you in mind?
 
Shaun

Awesome stuff.  Turning into a beast. 
 
Matt

Awesome job on the minitubs, the side stripe looks new too? Very RS1800.... nice....
Cheers Drew.....

I am very happy with how the tubs and rear end turned out.
 
I also have a turbo YB Cosworth motor waiting to put in.

Final installation of the rear end is complete including diff centre, brake callipers, traction bars, shocks, etc. (ignore the axles on the ground, they're for a different car)


 
In the photo above you will notice the hole in the boot floor. Well that's for the new drop tank we had fabricated.
The tank includes baffles to eliminate the need for an external swirl pot and lift pump. It's a lot bigger than the standard drop tank so should be good for some long distance cruising.








There's a little bit of detailing required but the car is now on it's way back home so we can begin installing the 5 speed gearbox and the new front brakes.

Thoroughly enjoying this build,fantastic work so far 80esky, If only we could all win lotto, we wouldn't have to go through all the agonising torment waiting for everyones cars to be finished.

Hi Theo, did the Nissan brakes bolt straight onto the Borgy or did you require adapters???

laurie
 did the Nissan brakes bolt straight onto the Borgy or did you require adapters???

R31 skyline/pintara come stock with a borgy, so it's a straight bolt on.

Cheers