Woodruffhallz

Awesome build! And highly informative. Do you have an IG or similar so we can see more? From your exp, were the stitch welds worth it? I want to do a 1JZ swap aiming for 450 hp. I’m adding F and R strut braces with the AE F/R subframe mounts. Frame rails are kind of a must, but drilling out all of those pinch welds gives me nightmares. Also, the engineer in me knows I need some sort of rear to front — top to bottom load path, but I’m also 6’3” and I want to safely drive the car on the road w/o a helmet. So l’m thinking a harness bar that bolts into the UPR/LWR seat belt locations would be better than nothing. pick of my build attached. Just painted this.

Sooo, I'm guessing he never got this off the ground.... Sad, as I have an S30 with dreams of doing an AWD swap. I preface this by sayig I am a Mechanical Design Engineer with tons of experience modeling. Does anyone have a good CAD file of an S30 chassis that I can use? I've designed entire race cars down to the bolts in Solidworks before and would be willing to map out/ make drawings for a project like this. Would need everyone's input on what needs to happen, however.