wako240z

I have a set of competition Sparcos. They are about three years old. These are old pics (the interior has changed a bit since) but you will get an idea how they look in the car.

Mine are 16x8 Gold Panasports wrapped with 225x50x16 Yokohama EVS.

I haven't found any alternatives and I was not too impressed by their mounts especially the trans. I do not like the idea of bolting in a flat bar into the floor of a 240. You can't really blame JCI for that since it is a "bolt on kit". I opted out to make my own witch requires much more effort and extensive welding. I am working on documentation of the swap (it's still work in progress). Just to give you an idea of my mounts I attached few pics of the progress. The first two show the location of the engine mounts in relation to the front crossmember. The next two pics are of the brackets that were welded to the frame rails to hold the engine mounts (It's actually a plate that was welded to two sides of the frame rail to reinforce the rails with a tab that the actual engine mounts bolts up to, the bar that goes across is actually part of the engine mount and its removable). Next picture is the start of the fabrication of the engine mount and the engine finally in on the newly fabricated engine mounts. It sits in about the same location as the JCI kit. The next few pics are of the trans mount. It uses more or less the same idea as the original trans mount. I removed the ears from the original mounts and fabricated a brace that I welded the original ears to. The new brace is located about 6 inches back from the original one and since the original one was not in the way of the trans I left it in for some added strength. The trans crossmember was fabricated to go between the mouts and it hangs at about the same hight as the frame rails.

I did not like the trans mount in the JCI kit at all so I made my own. I did not like the idea of bolting in the crossmember to the floor on a 240. I re-used the ears from the old mounts and welded them up to the tunnel in the new location similar to the original setup. You can see the brace that was welded to the trans tunnel and the crossmember that holds the trans. The bottom of the crossmember is about the same height as the frame rails on the sides. The original trans tunel brace was not in the way so I left it in for some extra strength.

Here is mine. Flip down license plate with fuel filler behind it, shaved license plate lights, shaved trunk lock, shaved… still work in progress. Currently getting a heart transplant, LS1 with 6-speed and dual SS exhaust.