Invincibleextremes

I was in the junkyard today digging around, and the 02 explorers have a lower mount on the outer suspension that's similar to the datsun one. Was curious if just using the 8.8, cut down explorer axles and explorer brakes and all would be the cheapest solution... you would need to fab up a way to mount a shock to the upper ball joint mount and you would then have 5x4.5 hubs, brakes and all those kinds of things for pennies. And all for the price of less than heat treated racing half shafts from the z store or where ever. Last i checked it was like $600 for them...

i love that. I need to move my engine back like yours but going to make do for now. lucky you started with a very clean body. not everyone got that lucky

No body work done yet, but making progress in the drivetrain and wiring for sure. Now I can drive it anywhere without overheating

got it wired, all the lights work, and it runs and drives just fine now

Got the thing working ok and test drove it a bit, needs more trans fluid but pretty excited to see it move under its own power and stop..

Heres a link to some of the videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ0SSsoQfh8 Heres a video on the details of the r200 swap, haven't taken the rear apart yet so no real info on the stub axles used but it has a cv axle conversion also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYyQUl9lzsg Also, here is a video of when i first started it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvImBdXvKCc

Building, or rather finishing up building a 73 240z with a chevy 350 swap and auto trans. It has an r200 and cv axle conversion in it already and an aluminum c4 corvette driveshaft. Still working on it but i got it running, now gotta do the brakes and the widebody kit or flares...