Project Lex

[Halon]

Couple little updates.

- Got a bunch of stuff dropped off at Twin City Powder Coating in Lino. After a little boondoggle figuring out colors, I think I'm good to go now. Most of the stuff is getting fine texture black to just keep it looking clean/simple/semi-OEM. Couple things are getting a different color for a slight contrast. Again trying to keep it clean/simple/not flashy, I went with a silver color. Depending on the lighting, the silver does have a very slight light brown/bronze hue to it. Stuff on left will be silver, stuff on right will be black.

- Got the bellhousing cut off the trans. Got the input shaft cover off and the stud shaved down. Waiting on a seal, should be here in a couple days, and then I should be able to mount the adapter to the trans. Also still waiting on Flywheel...


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[goodhart]

Lookin good! Crazy that you had to cut the bellhousing off, I didn't realize you had to do that, thought the adapter was a bolt on type deal. Takes some testicular fortitude for sure! :lol:

[Halon]

The 350z trans doesn't have a removable bell housing. So u chop it off. But then that exposes the input shaft cover which is held in place by 11 bolts. So th let adapter bolts to that.

If you go on Collins website, he has a vid of how to do it. His vid is a T56 adapter I think, but same concept.

[Halon]

Got the adapter plate mounted to the trans today.

Also made up a little mounting plate rough cut for the AEM ECU. Picked up some 1/4" thick ABS Plastic. Will clean it up a little and start mounting things to it.

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[Speedfreak]

So with the bell housing cut off, installing the tranny should be much easier right?! If so, that's a big bonus.

On second thought, there has to be some new bell housing right?

[Halon]

Yeah that's the idea, and the whole reason I'm doing it. The OEM 350z bellhousing is massive. This will use a SC300 / NA Supra auto bellhousing. A bellhousing designed to fit this car. So 'hopefully' it will make install / removal way easier. I guess I'll find out...

[Halon]

Some small updates here. I got the AEM mounting plate cleaned up at work a bit. As good as I care to get it. Pretty happy with how it turned out, considering it was just like a $8 chunk of plastic :)

Got the 3rd design of the shifter fitting back from getting machined today (Thanks Rosey!). I think this is pretty much done. The shifting left to right is so close, I feel like I'm going to be experiencing a lot of miss-shifts. But everyone keeps telling me you get used to it. So we will see.

Got the trans pretty much buttoned up then. Got the slave installed. Flywheel should be here tomorrow. Powdercoat is 'supposed' to be done tomorrow. So time to just hunker down and start getting stuff installed.

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[rose0529]

Glad it fits! I like the updated rev with the thicker bottom and counter bored hole.

[turbotalon1g]

nice work!

[Halon]

Glad it fits! I like the updated rev with the thicker bottom and counter bored hole.

Me too. I hope it didn't create that much more machining work for you. Hopefully next week I'll feel comfortable enough to say it's good to go and see if you can make a couple more to finish off that chunk of aluminum. Thanks again dude!

nice work!

Thanks man :) Slowly but surely. But next week the wife is taking the kids to the cabin, so I'm gunna have Monday - Thursday evenings to get shit done since I'll be home alone. Hoping I can get some stuff done!