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NWHTanK's Eclipse GST (AWD swap)

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Rear brake up grade from the early 2g vented to the 13 inch 4 piston rear. The use a machined stock center section so as retain the ebrake
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Thanks. I finnaly came up with my own rear subframe design. So i guess a major garage clean up is in order so i can work on it this winter.
 
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The 2g uses 4 points to mount the subframe . Im gonna use 6 . Im gonna tie into the lower floor crossmember to create the other 2 mounts . This should reduce the amount of diagonal cross tubing . Rough idea picks
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Throwing this out thier.

Gst to awd gas tank install the easy way.
Thier are 4 bolts that need relocated to mount the gas tank. When u have ur bolts weld a tab to the bolt head to keep it from spinning. I think it was like a inch or 2. Now on each crossmember thier are thier are some bigger diam holes that the bolt and tab will almost bit but not quite. So use a big step bit to open the hole just enough to get the bolt thru. Now the tricky part find a bolt smaller in diam ,fire up the welder and spool out about 10 to 18 inches of welding wire. Now tab the wire end to the bolt and lock it to the bolt. Wrap the wire in the threads till u get to the end of the threads. Remove the smaller bolt and replace with the gastank bolt . Now this will allow you fish the bolt thru to proper location. When the bolt is thru slide a star washer on. The washer keeps the bolt in the hole and welded tab keels the bolt from spinning. The pick is a bolt for installing a hitch on a truck.
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Well I now have a complete tubular arm setup. Front,mid,and rear toe arm, for my setup. These are megan arms that i used and combined parts from the front and toe arm to make a mid arm. Now these arms are sold for the gst, but when I got my complete urethane bushing kit, that it comes with a spacer for the toe arm that is needed on the awd. So I used it with the megan arms to complete the arm install.
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The car still sits up on jack stands as I pass by it on a daily basis. I haven't worked on the car much since 2014 15 ?since it spun a rod bearing. I have been instead purchasing parts to get it were I want it to be. Other than every thing in my wish list, every thing is purchased. Ugh years later. And whish list items will be treated as upgrades. Awd gas tank and rear subframe swap has been done for awhile, except I did make some changes. One,all rear lower arms have now been replaced with volk arms. Two ,the poly rear subframe bushings have been swaped out for billet aluminum ones. One of the biggest changes and has cost me the most to purchase to date is the rotating assembly. At the end of Dec 2018,I contacted FFWD to purchase one of thier rotating assemblies. Here are the specs. Going a Non turbo 6 bolt block, 88mm Eagle knifed edge crank , 156 aluminum rods, wiesco stroker hd 8.5 to 1 pistons. Everything has been coated balance and blue printed. So I'm building a 6bolt 2.0 long rod engine. I have also acquired billet main caps, and kiggly girdle. The next step is to send the block out for machine work and start building a long block.
 
So I have been sitting on some parts for a while and was wondering if certain after market parts would combine so I could get the tcase rebuilt to 300m spec. The drive shaft is a dss 650hp and a while back I bought into a group buy on the sonnax slip yoke . Well Dss doesn't say what size ujoint is in the 650 shaft. So I opened up some dusty boxes and did a pre assembly. The 650 shaft has a 1310 u joint so it will work with the sonnax slip yoke and as a added bonus it is now 300m case usable and lighter than the one it replaces.
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So I changed some things around a bit , rear subframe mount bushings are now billet aluminum, all megan arms have been replaced with volk arms, wheels have been changed out to a 17x9 with a 255/35/17
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At the end of last January I recieved the rotating assembly. It's a FFWD rotating assembly. The crank is a 6bolt knifed edged and coated. The rods are 156 aluminum with thier coatings also. The pistons are wiesco HD strokers with again with thier coatings. This rotating assembly is a long rod 2.0 the assembly is going in a 6bolt na block.
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Since I'm running no squirts, and no balance shafts. I put some parts together to to make my oiling system. Fty racing remote filter adapter , this replaces the ofh. To adjust oil pressure a petersons adjustable oil regulator. The oil filter housing, Improved racing. It has a built in thermostat and allows for a big oil filter. Combined with Moroso pan and a oil cooler will round out the oiling system.
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Some time the small parts can be such a pain to find. After alot of searching I found somthing over the shelf that is direct bolt in for the oil squirter delete. Racetronix part number FIT-PLGM1212. Metric hex plug. M12x1.25. 5mm thread length.
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