The Frankenprotege rallycar worklog

[jay]

I wasn't gonna start this thread till all the parts were in and we actually started putting the car back together, but I might as well get something started on this project. The hub spacers, transmount plates, and adapter plate showed up yesterday, along with my purty, purty Eagle Hbeams. Pistons should be here soon and the engine built will start then, while we wait for the modded oilpan to show up. Meanwhile, I plan on having Pierce Motorsports make me a tubular rear subframe that accepts the ST205 rear diff. Time saved should be worth money spent there...there's also some small amount of bellhousing work to be done, for instance to locate the starter where Toyota never intended, among other things.

All the effort is to get the BPT to talk to the GT4 gearbox/shafts/ rear end, and thus reduce, with any luck, the number of mechanical DNF's. Many thanks to Daryl and others in NZ and Sweden and such for pioneering the conversion.

[SgtRauksauff]

Kick. Ass. Vigorously.

That, my friend, is awesomeness!!

So, which side is the starter actually going to be on?

I'll shut up now, I don't want to clutter your worklog too much..

--sarge

[93BlkOnGreenPro]

Yota Trans?

[mx-3_4evr]

Nice! Now you will be able to really beat the crap out of it without thinking about breaking something

[Lex]

guessing it will be on the motor side as it is stock.

[Turpro]

**** both you and jon and your adapter plates.....*inside thinking is really * sub'd

[Mazda_Powered]

looking forward to reading your updates man, always respected you and your cars!

[jjmundt]

This thread officially rocks already!!

Go, jay!!

Regards,
Joel

[monoxidechild]

nice to see someone in america tackling this challenge! take lots of pic's. gonna follow this thread.

but please change the name, thats to much of a rip off of dan's frankenprobe. and he's used that name for like 7 years.

[jay]

Well heck. I had the frankengtx since, what, '95 or something? Gotta look up when we did the bpt swap on that car but it was um some time ago...

[therieldeal]

lol at calling jays name a rip off

[Dan [Sac]]

There is a Franken[x] for every car model ever made....because there are that many nuts in the world.

This build is going to be nice to watch!

[323driver]

Go Jay, keep up the good work. Maybe I should do that as well.

[nerd racing]

bump for updates ! lol

[808]

Nice. Go Jay go!!!! Really hoping to see you before Doo Wops.