My EE4 RWD wagovan project
gavin
Band Wagon
So the time has come to try and document my little fun project i have been working on, it has been built as a support vehicle for our BDC Skyline, so we can tqke it along and have a bit of a laugh at the same time. My plan when i started back in january was to run it as my daily but with a few hickups along the way its been on the road for just the last week but i am really enjoying it, so much fun on the road.
Ok so some of you may recognise the car as Darrens old shuttle, i had it off of him at the start of last december for an absolute steel really, below is a picture of it from when he came drifting with it last summer.
So by the time it came to me it looked like this
Bright pink wheels, sticker bombed bonnet, totally stripped inside with just two standard seats and no interior trim to speak of really except door cards and dash.
At this point i had to decide what to do with it, after looking around i struggled to find rear interior trim or even rear seats so i made the decision to turn it into something a little different, lots of people did not like the idea i had but at the end of the day, if your building something it has to be for yourself right?
So the conversion began.
The rear windows were very hard to pop out and one got broken, but didnt cry over it as dont really need them anymore.
This was the start of the van conversion, as much as alot of people may not approve, the idea was to make something different and importantly on a tight budget, it was never going to be a concourse car so meh...lets van it lol
Ok so some of you may recognise the car as Darrens old shuttle, i had it off of him at the start of last december for an absolute steel really, below is a picture of it from when he came drifting with it last summer.
So by the time it came to me it looked like this
Bright pink wheels, sticker bombed bonnet, totally stripped inside with just two standard seats and no interior trim to speak of really except door cards and dash.
At this point i had to decide what to do with it, after looking around i struggled to find rear interior trim or even rear seats so i made the decision to turn it into something a little different, lots of people did not like the idea i had but at the end of the day, if your building something it has to be for yourself right?
So the conversion began.
The rear windows were very hard to pop out and one got broken, but didnt cry over it as dont really need them anymore.
This was the start of the van conversion, as much as alot of people may not approve, the idea was to make something different and importantly on a tight budget, it was never going to be a concourse car so meh...lets van it lol
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Unfortunately the head was cracked in 4 places, aarrgghh.
Well these things happen, so out it came, painted the engine bay ready for the new engine.
At this point i got a little carried away, so got on the phone to one of our BDC sponsors, SFS Performance hoses and ordered up a nice shinny set of silicone hoses, Thank you Anthony.
Fortunately a friend had a d16y7 lying in the corner of his garage so £60 quid later and after some vigorous degreasing the transfer box and sump and all ancilleries were swapped off of the old engine bolted on to the new one and dropped into place, also fitted the new ss manifold and the flocked intake manifold.
And this is what it all looked like when it was fitted.
Im pretty happy with it. As you can see from the pics, we had a pair of cheapish fixed back bucket seats so we made our own custom runners for them, mounted them nice and low and in they went.
As i said earlier i decided to wooden panel the rear, whilst doing that i discoverd this great stretch camper van lining carpet, amazing to use and really easy to shape, also fitted a pair of infinity 6x9s, an infinity 10' sub sunk into the spare wheel well and put a kenwood amp under the floor.
Also fitted inside is a Tegiwa gear stick extension and an awesome house of toast gear nob from sunny california.
We have a gretafriend called Jono he runs the dsign studio in milford haven very talented when it comes to graphics and vehicle wrapping, he did the skyline for us and helped to do the shuttle to.
The rear with tow hook fitted.
pretty much finished, new windscreen fitted, new bumper fitted, its not a perfect fit but its not far off, also fitted as you can see is a new golf VR6 front splitter that afriend had humg up in his garage.
A little engine test in the workshop....seems to work,
So sad, but after unloading and parking you would never know it didnt get there under its own steam.
So this is how it stands now, all finished, tax and mot'ed and running sweet as a nut.
So there we have it, been lots of fun and just done a photoshoot for Banzai mag with it and the skyline together, now its time for me to move on to my next project.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToqwARxwPN0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Its a very ghetto spec way of making it rwd im afraid, nothing very technical, very simply removed the front drive shafts and made some blanking plates to cover the holes to syop loads of crap getting in, then welded up the rear diff. thats it. nice and simple, just the way i like it, theonly problem i can see really is where to source a new transfer box from as here in the uk they are like finding hens teeth, so im hoping it lasts a while!
100% different, way cool.
almost looks like the new ford transit vans.
Still like the old transit vans better.
Thank you very much, glad you like it :smug:
Does it still retain the viscous coupler?
Flocking has filtered down from motorsport to modified cars over here in the uk now as its available in so many colours and even lengths.