Well as many of you know i have recently acquired a 93 BG 323 Sedan. I had no previous plans to wreck or part my TX3 ( http://fordlaser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=67097 ) but peer pressure form having children and needing a 4 door car became more and more.
Ben AKA (soul) Was moving back to geelong from QLD and had this sitting around doing nothing and he had to get rid of it before he left. That's the long and the short of how i came upon the 323.
Now the Original Plan was To Put an F8 DOHC with 626 Gear In It But the initial outlay in parts was going to cost a fortune and i dont have an endless income. I tried selling the TX3 to come up with some cash to put it together but i couldn't let it go. i have spent soo much time and money on the tx3 to see it go.
so i pulled it all out hahaha
The 323 was in no shape to just have an engine slammed in it and drive away. It needed a lot of work and after 2 months of working between 9am and 1pm saturdays its now done
It Needed A Fuel Tank but there was a dilema
It has an astina V6 Rear Sub frame and control arm setup and because they are quite a bit different a standard tank will not fit. you need to custom make one or do something like this. i dropped the 4 main bolts holding the rear sub frame in and bolted the tank up. then using a gearbox jack i lifted sub frame with a piece of 15mm timber in the areas it fowles to cave the tank in. then drop sub frame and remove timber bolt back up and wallah about 5mm clearance all round.
so that was the first head ake and mind ****. in that same saturday morning i swapped the manual steering rack over to power steering while the engine was out only to find yet another issue. it has a v6 astina K Frame in the front and as such a bg power steering rack does not fit. some of you more wiser fellas would know that they changed the rear mount for gearbox and there is a 3 bolt bracket on k frame. well that fowls on the fluid feed lines to each side of the rack. so out came the whole k frame and an angle grinder. done and dusted.
the next real problem was getting all the mounts to work from the awd cross member to the fwd and it took a fair bit of cutting welding and making new brackets it now is together but i had issues with getting the cv boots to clear k frame and lower cross member to bolt up correctly.
however not having a fuse box and wiring loom to deal with makes a huge difference, cudos to ben do doing the hard parts of the engine bay delooming.
what a pain in the neck haha
Ben AKA (soul) Was moving back to geelong from QLD and had this sitting around doing nothing and he had to get rid of it before he left. That's the long and the short of how i came upon the 323.
Now the Original Plan was To Put an F8 DOHC with 626 Gear In It But the initial outlay in parts was going to cost a fortune and i dont have an endless income. I tried selling the TX3 to come up with some cash to put it together but i couldn't let it go. i have spent soo much time and money on the tx3 to see it go.
so i pulled it all out hahaha
The 323 was in no shape to just have an engine slammed in it and drive away. It needed a lot of work and after 2 months of working between 9am and 1pm saturdays its now done
It Needed A Fuel Tank but there was a dilema
It has an astina V6 Rear Sub frame and control arm setup and because they are quite a bit different a standard tank will not fit. you need to custom make one or do something like this. i dropped the 4 main bolts holding the rear sub frame in and bolted the tank up. then using a gearbox jack i lifted sub frame with a piece of 15mm timber in the areas it fowles to cave the tank in. then drop sub frame and remove timber bolt back up and wallah about 5mm clearance all round.
so that was the first head ake and mind ****. in that same saturday morning i swapped the manual steering rack over to power steering while the engine was out only to find yet another issue. it has a v6 astina K Frame in the front and as such a bg power steering rack does not fit. some of you more wiser fellas would know that they changed the rear mount for gearbox and there is a 3 bolt bracket on k frame. well that fowls on the fluid feed lines to each side of the rack. so out came the whole k frame and an angle grinder. done and dusted.
the next real problem was getting all the mounts to work from the awd cross member to the fwd and it took a fair bit of cutting welding and making new brackets it now is together but i had issues with getting the cv boots to clear k frame and lower cross member to bolt up correctly.
however not having a fuse box and wiring loom to deal with makes a huge difference, cudos to ben do doing the hard parts of the engine bay delooming.
what a pain in the neck haha
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