The History
Years ago I had a GE wagon that I bought with this weird 1.8 litre imported motor in it. Was pretty slow but thought it had potential so gave it a home. Over a few years the motor had a rebuild with Hypatech pistons and a bunch of goodies thrown at it including 13Bt injectors, RB25 Turbo and Supra intercooler. The small motor never made anything that impressive on the dyno ( around 130kw at the wheels from memory ) but I had fun in the car and it ran flat 14's down the quarter. The car was sold years ago and the motor and all the gear has sat in the shed since.
Present day
I've been looking for a donor car for years but as I have too many projects just never got round to it. Saw a GK GSR for sale a while back and went and had a look. It was pretty rough but the guy was adamant it was a good genuine car so I bought it. Little did I know the car was gonna cost me a lot of time and effort and was not the "good car" the owner and his dad pretended it was. I've spent the past 4 weeks cleaning it up and fixing umpteen little things wrong. I was weighing up options of selling it, keeping it and keeping it original, or keeping it and doing the conversion. What has convinced me was the SA cruise on the weekend - the car drove great and I've managed to turn it into a nice cruiser, but the motor was blowin quite a bit of smoke ( possible valve stem seals as compression is sweet in all 4 ). So decision made, the Astron is coming out and the Sirius is going in.
The swap begins
Tonight I rearranged the shed and started pullin stuff off the car. I made good progress and got the box out so I can try and sort out what's needed. Straight away I can see the difference in the boxes. Below are some pics of the engine bay with the Astron, the Sirius motor I'll be swapping it for, the tailshafts I had in the shed and the gearboxes.
The engine bay with the Astron:
![Image](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v65/SHIFTA/P3170026.jpg)
The Sirius motor:
![Image](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v65/SHIFTA/P3170030.jpg)
The original GK box in the foreground, the box that was in my GE is the top one:
![Image](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v65/SHIFTA/P3170023.jpg)
From bottom of pic - the original GK shaft, a spare I had that looks to be the same length and stud pattern, and a third one that is shorter and won't bolt to diff:
![Image](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v65/SHIFTA/P3170025.jpg)
I need to sort out the gearbox/tailbox combo and from previous advice I need to sort a cable clutch, narrow block Jap 5 speed. It's disappointing to have two gearboxes sitting there that I can't use
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