Another update for today.
Since we will be running 350z seats for street practicality we needed to remove the old seat brackets. Jason drilled out all the spot welds, and out they came.
Next we started working on the oil pan. I chose to use the Stock Rb26dett oil pan instead of the rb25 one. Yes its alot of work to modify it, but then again its the right thing to for our goal.
Benefits of the 26 pan.
Its Aluminum so that helps with cooling.
It has kick outs.
It has better double level baffling and windage trays.
And most importantly it is a structural piece of the engine block.
Most people use a rb25 pan, but you have to drill out the bolt holes, remove the windage tray, and its stamped steel.
Since the 26 pan has a diff attached that is the first thing we will remove using the hypertherm powermax 800 plasma cutter
Some pieces are over an inch thick !
Then we chopped off the other sides axle flange on the Jet bandsaw.
Here is what we removed.
More updates tomorrow.