240sx+lsx=cool,but add T76 and sy/ty=Nuts?
can you take a pic from the front of the car, just to see how much the diff hangs??
and how did you mount the alternator??
The original plan was to use grand prix knuckles with s10 hubs. s10 hubs have bearing pilot hole about 1/8 to big. so i figured i had have them turned down. (there is plenty material.) then they would have to be re drilled to the proper bolt pattern, for the wheels, then they would need the mounting holes welded and re drilled to match the steering knuckle. id be 300to 400 dollars into bearings per side. but hey i knew this going in.
I got home with knuckles and is aparant very soon that those knuckles would work but would be far from idea. The mounting location for the tie rod was too high in relation to the ball joint. I knew it would not be perfect. My plan was to use bump steer correction tie rods to get them where i need them. they would need to be about three inches with this knuckle
that just sounds like a snapped tie rod to me.So back to the junk yard. 05 malibus use a very similar design but the tie rod mounting point is much lower. problem solved right? well not wanting to spend $600+ on bearing i thought why not just use hub assemblies from the malibu and have the outer tulip switched from a malibu cv axle to a s10 cv axle. ( still believe this would have worked.) they appear identical.
I got to thinking (not good, thats how i got myself in this project in the first place, I have an enlarged medulla-bad-idea) s10s where designed way before any of the stuff I have been looking at for hub assemblies, so why not try one from that era? long story short 88 cutlass fwd with hd brakes has a hub assembly that not only has the proper bolt pattern for an 05 malibu knuckle, and the proper hub pilot size, and 27 spline axle that s10 use, and 5x115 bolt pattern which is close enough to 4x114.3 to fit my wheels and brake rotors. gotta love when engineers don't redesign stuff for no reason, and gm's ridiculous parts interchangeability
On this first day of the 6th month of 2008 A.D. The automotive gods have chosen to shine on me.
On a side note every response here has been positive same with syty/sgt, on the Nissan forum 1 reply and it was negative.

don't you love that feeling when all those parts from different eras and cars just seem to be made just for your project ?? a fuzzy feeling it is indeed
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s10 diff $100, bravada tranfercase, $150 skyline anything $$$
only down side if i remeber correctly is that the car will have to be rear steer , i.e. the rack would be behind the front axle centerline.
the plan is put the rack in front of the diff.
again the parts choice was largely due to what available.
the trasfercase is a bit of weight but its automatic in its operation. no electronic clutches to figure out. and all the weight is right in the middle of the car. my car weighed under 2700 pounds to start id be surprised if I added 300lbs, and most of the added weight well be between the axles. if I over shoot 3000lbs, I have excuse for carbon doors and trunk
I don't know and cant find what the holden uses for a t case but its probably not much smaller than a bravada t case. the holden has more power plus weighs probably just as much.
You probably thought about it, but have you looked at the AWD setup that is used in the Trailblazer SS? That pan is setup for one side of the front axle to pass through if I remember correctly.
any plans on making a kit out of this?? would be nice to get a sports type car that ran a turboed V8 and 4WD!

Chris.
PS. i'll PM you the links
Road racing, not so much. You might want to revisit your front diff choices as the GM front diffs are far from performance oriented in that realm. Further, with a 4L80 and transfercase and turbo, your gonna be putting on a bit of poundage and theres going to be some heat concerns with the tight fits.
What about a modified oilpan with a driveshaft through pan and set the engine far back into more of a front-mid-engine setup?
There might be some options with retrofitting a porsche front axle out of a C4S, it's been a while since I've seen one; but I *think* they are rather small.
It's very challenging to have a front and low V# longitudinally mounted for 4wd use. I always imagined it as being a front mid-engine with the the trans output being a little behind the center line. Transfer case with small diameter driveshaft then running hugged next to the block on the passenger side. Granted, AC might go bye bye. Basically very similar to the new gtr, but it's still a bit too high mounted.
Last edited by OKcruising; Jun 5, 2008 at 05:50 PM.







