240kconvertible

I'd like to strengthen the point where the chassis rails meet the firewall inside the engine bay. All the strengthening so far has been from the firewall back (see pics). When all the engineering work has been finished I'll post photos of the diff, etc.

Hi Guys, I have just started on the convertible again. I've added a couple of before and after shots of one of the rusty sills you can see some of the box section chassis she's had attached. I'm about to pay $1200 + GST to get all the rust I've cut out welded up, I'll be doing the major sanding work and priming of the car. A friends workshop will do the colour finishing coats for free but he doesn't want to know about the rust work. Do you think $1200 is reasonable? there is about 3 days of work for a panelbeater to do. I have the V8 and supra 5 speed ready to go in, a 300zx r230 lsd, brakes, suspension and cradle. Although at the moment I only have a R31 front crossmember, suspension, brakes, rack and pinion steering for the front end and at 5 turns lock to lock I'm not to keen on using it but I suppose i have accepted it. It's costing me $3k to get a engineer to put all of this in plus a little extra chassis strengething before approving it for rego. Any info on the costings would be appreciated.

Another question for you guys What is the best upgrade to rack and pinion steering for my K I don't care if it's not a nissan part it just has to be no more than 2.5 turns lock to lock

The white one scraping the road in the background looks interesting any photo's of it?

Thanks Camo, I'm new to this computer stuff and wasn't able to figure out how to put photo's in (no pay outs please). Could you please put some on the Ozdat thread of the same heading? I didn't build the car myself. It was built by a panel shop owner (george) around 1990 and engineered at the same time. It then never saw the light of day again until 2001 when the shop was sold. The new owners of the shop (who I knew) stored it for George but as he owed them money and had caused big problems with telstra they sold it to me to recover the money. I bought it for $1000 and then stored it at mates garages and various grassy knolls until december 2004. When it came time to register it all I had to do was fix the carbies, do the head and reco the front calipers. I've had some fun in it got more yells and stares in the city one night than one of those red sporty roofless things from italy with a horse on the badge. Nearly got beaten up by some lebs for paying out convertible m3 they were in on same night actually. Then one night I smoked a few hot ones and drank a few cold ones looked into the garage and realised I had a smallblock mopar sitting there, a centrifugal blower bigger than my head (my heads big) and a tired little datto nearly out of rego just gasping for more power. I know the best V8 to put in would be the toyota or nissan all alloy V8 but I'd rather use what I have and get that old school sound happening. Plus it's quite cheap to get power from an old mopar. I've been assured of a horsepower per cube at the wheels N/A for 6k aus. It will be approx 390 cubes after being stroked. I'm not even guessing what the power will be with blower attached just going to wait and see. Cheers Drew

I'm putting a 318 V8 in my convertible along with centrifungal blower, intercooler blah blah blah thinking of upgrading using R31 struts, rack and pinion steering and braking assembly. Does anyone know of any pro's and con's of this swap? Does anyone have a better idea of parts to use for the swap? I want to put a wrx diff into it has anyone done this? Cheers andrew