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.
 
 

Awesome stuff.  Turning into a beast. 
 
Matt

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.

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.

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

A small update where the tubs and boot were prepped and painted.



With the bigger tubs the rear legs of the cage had to be changed. The harness bar is now welded into the hoop.

The alloy drop tank is now bolted in. Really like the way that has turned out.


Running gear is now complete with the installation of the T5 gearbox.
Having the auto tunnel made life so much easier, it didn't need any further mods and there is still room around the box.
We made up some new gearbox mounts and used the original crossmember that came with the box to bolt it in.



As you can see the hole for the gear lever had to be enlarged a bit, but it all looks good with the quick shifter installed.

Measured up the tail shaft and it needs to be shortened by 2.5 inches, so that's this weeks job.
 

Oh hell yes.