Stani's SR20 Micra Build

stani1029 said:
Cheers and ill take credit if she fires up and all electrics work at first time of trying! Will know in a few months i suppose :)

Regarding the flooring its pretty common, im in alot of houses so come across it a fair bit lol
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The micra build not the floor mate...worring about the fucking floor being common.
 
The reason this aint finished yet, wouldnt change it one bit! Think my sons indicating the size of turbo he wants me to fit :D

 
Rear arches are now patched, then zinc primered over both sides




Made a start on weld filling the holes where dave had drilled out the rear mounts but no photos as it aint finished.

Plan is to have the interior welding/grinding done then move onto getting the engine mounted and measured up and order drivehafts
 
So looks like ive got the welding down to a T! Thoughts?








Also just picked up this little beaut with thanks to my mate glen for spotting it! 2 owners from new (both pensioners) 57,000 miles 7k of which in the last 4 years. Few dings/rust but perfect and cheap donor car!


 
Had another few hours at it today, decided to do something a bit more fun and make a start on the engine. Borrowed my mate glen's centre member from the sr micra me and him pieced together so it gave me a good starting point for the other 2 mounts!






Going away back up tonight to mess about with it, the LH and RH mounts are marked up ready to weld so might get that done but i think i should make my centre member first incase it doesnt quite match this one...
 
I did end up back at the car tonight and everything went spot on. Heres what we do to the centre member to take the rear engine mount. It lands exactly in the middle of that (no idea how others have done it but it works for us)



Also got the LH mount tacked on and engine is back in

Next time up ill be looking to have the RH mount completed the finish of the rear
 
Great progress buddy. With your welding you want to go forward a bit and then pause and knit that pool with the cooling pool you've left before. When you get in a rhythm it's easy and you'll end up with a stronger weld and better penetration. Latin down straight beads is easy, the hard bit is sticking the two bits together like they were made in one piece.
 
Spook said:
Great progress buddy. With your welding you want to go forward a bit and then pause and knit that pool with the cooling pool you've left before. When you get in a rhythm it's easy and you'll end up with a stronger weld and better penetration. Latin down straight beads is easy, the hard bit is sticking the two bits together like they were made in one piece.
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Yeah you can see where ive start and stopped eh, so your saying to hold the weld longer where ive just stopped and that will bring the joins together better? I could have done the whole lot in one swoop but i was worried about messing that up lol

I got a tad welding happy and done along the underside too but better beefing it up now than it failing on the car
 
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