G'day all a quick history of my past vehicles 75. Triumph 2500 with 6 cylinder Holden motor & trimatic auto a 2500triumph PI with a 350 chev & 4speed turbo700 2 x xj6 jags with 350 chev's 1970 Toyota CROWN with holden 6cyl adapted to 5 speed celica box A 1967 vw split with a l18 180b Nissan motor with work & twin side draught dellorto's a beetle baja with 180b motor. This list goes on for to long. so on to the current project's The kombi 1st the rover trike 2nd.
ECLECTIC Is a 1976 VW kombi.
starting from the front & working to the rear.
Front mount light bar fitted into original front bar attached to the rear of bar is an aluminium radiator.
The frontwheel drive modifications consist of have end plates cut to spread the beam tubes 8cm's between the balljoints I have fitted modified Holden rodeo 4wd spindles with free wheeling hubs & rodeoe ventilated disc brakes. Initially I will be running an open centre Holden commodore V8 IRS diff centre 3.08 ratio. I plan on trying it with a LSD unit in the front once I have it running
The front drive shafts are made up of rodeo & holden units machined with a spigot to press together the left side I approx. 13inches long the right side has yet to be made
The rack & pinion is apower unit out of some type of Audi with modified Daewoo tierod arms with retapped thread where the rubber centre bushes were on the inner end
The steering column is being replaced with an L300 Mitsubishi column & bevel box
the brake mastercylinder will be a hydroboost BMW unit & pedal assembly with cross bar to left side. the booster cylinder will mount behind the glove box also using matching clutch pedal etc. The throttle pedal is a side mount Toyota hi Ace unit
Dash will be a modified kombi unit with digital 2inch gauges
Gear levers are a combination of Toyota tarago manual5 speed with morse cable shifting
A Mitsubishi L300 shifter will shift the transfer box
A Toyota hi ace handbrake lever next to the driverseat
the console to houses the shifters it's made out of a cut down aluminium checkerplate tool box
the front seats are Honda Prelude
Sitting directly behind the front seats in an engine cover made out of 2 power fuse boxes. Is The engine a 3.9 Discovery unit using a Dellow bellhousing to bolt up to a Hi Ace diesel alloy case 5 speed behind this is a Nissan 720 4wd divorced transfer case with 2wd H n 4wd H 4wd L
due to lack of space up the front of the engine I have made a blanking plate for the waterpump & using a Davies Craig electric unit & mounting the alternator on the rear of the right side head to be driven by an aluminium shaft to the front with a pulley running off the balancer pulley
Connecting drive to the rear diff is a shortened rear 180b Nissan 1/2 shaft
connecting the transfer case is a 3 piece shaft made up of commodore Nissan bits to get it around the sump & over to the left hand side where the diff id fitted
The rear diff is 3.08 LSD IRS diff out of a V8 commodore. I had adaptors made to bolt the kombi cv joints to the holden axle flanges it it running standard kombi rear suspension set up.
The rear disc assemblies are of a Mitsubishi Pajero this with some thought & machining is a blot
The fuel tank is an aluminium long range Range Rover unit sitting in the VW engine bay
The rear tyre rack & bar are off a Rodeo the brackets fit like they were designed to bolt up to the kombi chassis rails. this is all I can think of at the time I will post up some build pics tomorrow night our time. Enjoy the read
this is the setup engine the 1st day of work
this is the Toyota box sitting in front of transfer case to get an idea of what's needed to join them
this is the 1st connection between the 2 boxes consist of the gearbox cv drive flange out of a kombi box a Toyota tailshaft yoke machined to press fit the Nissan universal joint flange machined for VW axle to press into it the small shaft on the left is the Nissan factory unit
this is it in place but not aligned
this is the engine transmission cradle it can be taken out as a complee unit with engine g/box & transfer case bolted into it through the side door
this frame slides into the reinforcement channels under the cargo floor
this is the frame going in
this is rough position of engine transmission
the shifter set up
tool box console I have cut it down by 15cms to leave space in front & move shifters back to a better position
this is the cut lid which gives me a lock up compartment
This is the early set up of the front spindles prior to spreading the beam tubes
the template for the spread beam it has extra caster designed into it as the VW runs very little
final location
note the cut endplate the hold the beams cut & spread to check the required changes
The new end plates watercut out of 12mm plate.
both ends fitted up
spindle & arms insitu
this is initial set up note the freewheeling hub's
standard ride height note gap between bar & milk crate
the lift achieved with the spindles & beam spread
Due to lack of room standard exhaust manifolds don't fit so I made these up. This is the start of the left side because of the pulse it's a bit more complicated then the right side
on the head to check for room to fit 2 x 2 into 1 the 2 into 1 again
L300 bevel box for the steering conversion to power rack & pinion
Range Rover custom tank
the front diff in place to work out height & location for the tailshaft to run down the left I'd of the sump
this is what the front diff location will resemble when it's finished
the lefthand drive shaft made up of Rodeo & commodore splines
this is the work required to fit the Toyota electronic speedo drive into the Nissan transfer case the Nissan shaft had to be machined down & the slot enlarged to fit into the Toyota housing then a spacer machined up to fit the unit into the hole in case
assembled ready to fit because of the pulse the local instrument man has to do an adjustable unit to change the pulse to suit the rover engine
I will have to modify the wheel arches to clear the tyres on the front & back corners
setting up the gearbox mounts
the engine covers made from power board boxes
this is the Daewoo steering arms with the bent end cut off & machined & thread cut to take Astra tierod ends
setting up the Audi rack
due to the size of the tapered tieod holes on rodeo being to big I had the VW holes machined out of the steering pivot arm to be pressed into the bored out steering arms
pressed in
this is the difference between a standard spindle at the back & modified 1 in front
my Daily drive 2009 VE SS Commodore Sportswagon it was my 60th birthday present from me. 6litre ls6 with 6 peed auto
That's all for now & yes it is happening wannabemechanic
