It's good that the project is coming along. I'm in the middle of this swap at the moment, got the engine in the bay and am gonna do first start next week after work. Wish me luck!
Are you using the BRZ/86 manual box with your ez30? If so, I know you can bolt the box to engine with some modifications but do you know if the gearbox mounts to its original position and then it can use the original tail shaft or is a custom gearbox mount and custom tail shaft needed?
@@jordaneversen3147 Okay so I'm using the original Auto Transmission. But the only modification I had to do to the gearbox to get it to fit is notch the EZ30 block to let the starter motor fit. One of the starter motor bolts also doesn't thread through to the block anymore so I had to tap a thread into the gearbox to get the starter motor to mount solidly. I've seen another guy mount his ez30 to the original manual transmission though. He basically had to make the same modifications.
Still planning on using the Raptor headers with an off the shelf 86 exhaust and mid-pipe. Its going to be easier for other people to follow my installation guide if I stick to off the shelf parts. But I will need to weld myself up a Y-pipe with a catalytic converter because there isn’t anything already out there that fits.
Hey Lee, really keen to see the progress, I’m so interested in doing this myself, I would love to see absolutely everything
Sure thing. Will lay bare all the steps in the swap :)
Thanks for the update! Love seeing the progress
Thanks. Its great to be actually progressing now! :)
It's good that the project is coming along. I'm in the middle of this swap at the moment, got the engine in the bay and am gonna do first start next week after work. Wish me luck!
Are you using the BRZ/86 manual box with your ez30? If so, I know you can bolt the box to engine with some modifications but do you know if the gearbox mounts to its original position and then it can use the original tail shaft or is a custom gearbox mount and custom tail shaft needed?
Nothing custom is required. Everything bolts up.
Cool stuff :) good luck!
@@jordaneversen3147 Okay so I'm using the original Auto Transmission. But the only modification I had to do to the gearbox to get it to fit is notch the EZ30 block to let the starter motor fit. One of the starter motor bolts also doesn't thread through to the block anymore so I had to tap a thread into the gearbox to get the starter motor to mount solidly. I've seen another guy mount his ez30 to the original manual transmission though. He basically had to make the same modifications.
Will be using raptor headers or making something yourself? It would be awesome to see some custom stepped headers like F1 and an x pipe
Still planning on using the Raptor headers with an off the shelf 86 exhaust and mid-pipe. Its going to be easier for other people to follow my installation guide if I stick to off the shelf parts. But I will need to weld myself up a Y-pipe with a catalytic converter because there isn’t anything already out there that fits.