My Mazda familia Infini

[maz94protege]

such a hawt car!

[ScOrTGtC]

I have access to another Infini LSD if I need one but it will cost like $800!!!!! thats gotta hurt! haha
My current LSD gear box is making funny sounds in first gear so I tried to find another one....

you dont mind sipping one to me eh? hehehhehehee

[yesidoeatpie]

hahaha! wish it was that easy!!

The one thing to watch out for is the gear box is useless without the rest of the drive train.... (the only extra bit I have access to is the Box so saddly it wont help people trying to upgrade unless they have the infini drive train......)

[yesidoeatpie]

here is the enginebay now i have finished the BTP drop....

(prity much standard minus the BOV, piping and intake setup.)

[D323]

very nice. I like the air horn up front there too.

[jacobrussell]

paint that manifold !

[yesidoeatpie]

On my way home on Saturday night a car locked up infront of me and i couldnt stop in time.....

[Identity_X]

Sorry to see that happen. Hope you get it fixed! Good luck!

[yesidoeatpie]

Thanks! The wost part is my Infini grill is in 100 bits all over the southern motorway off ramp so dont know what im gonna do about finding another one.....

[Identity_X]

Thanks! The wost part is my Infini grill is in 100 bits all over the southern motorway off ramp so dont know what im gonna do about finding another one.....

The grill would be the last thing I am worried about if I were you. Get everything else fixed, the grill could be found with a good search on the net I've come across a couple in the past year alone.

[yesidoeatpie]

yeah true that! Engine wise I am very lucky with only the dissy cap + rotor and radiator cracked... the rest looks ok...

[EricM]

yea i was gonna ask about the engine...hope u get it fixed!!!!

[yesidoeatpie]

Infini Repair Phase One

Saturday 8th/04/06

Since the Crash I hadn’t really done anything other than just strip all the bits and pieces back to figure out what’s wrong and what needed to be replaced.
From there its just had a car cover over it waiting for myself to be able to afford to start work on it.

My top radiator support bar is un-repairable and will need to be taken off and replaced with a new one. I have someone ready to do this for me BUT I need to get my car to Glenfeild for him to work his magic on the front of my car. Its about 40 kms away and im on a really strict budget so after a good look at my damaged radiator support bar I have decided to basically panel beat it out and fix everything myself. Then I will just drive it Glenfeild. There is enough strength for it to easily hold my radiator fine for one trip.

The plan for Saturday was to get it as ready for the trip as possible with the parts I have. Sadly money is the issue at the moment and that’s what is taking so long.

Thanks Amir for taking the photos...



First thing we did was pull the radiator support bar out and "beat" it into the right place!
Tools used? A big bit of wood and my trusty Hammer! That’s all I needed! :lol:

We Managed to get it prity straight! Them we bent my old radiator into shape and tryed to fit it back into the engine bay (We did this to check there was still enough room in the engine bay, Which there was)

As you can see there was heaps of room - After that I fitted the brackets on the top of the radiator to check the strength with a radiator in place. All ok!

From there we took off my old munched bonnet and went to replace it with a second hand white one I had picked up nice and cheap.

BUT it didnt fit So I am on the hunt for another bonnet. I’m not too worried at the mo but that will be added into my "to get list"


Here you can see where most of the damage is (to the passenger side) and how it missed the bottom radiator support and chassis rail. The easiest way to explain the hit would be, "Impact to passenger Headlight", So i was REALLY lucky!
You can also see that the radiator will still bolt in ok and everything should temp mount up for the trip with no major dramas.

Its time to mount the front mount!


I have modified to piping so that it will fit on my new intercooler (I just have to make a few small changes to a couple of pipes) and also checked to see if the bumper will bolt on ok with the intercooler mounted there. ALL OK! B) so now i just need to get some brackets made up for the cooler and get a couple of silicon joiners and the cooler will be ready to go!

Other than that front end wise we didn’t do much else! (that took a good few hours) So we moved onto the outside of the car to make a few small changes! :D

First we swapped my old door handles over to the Chrome ones I picked up through a friends old Familia

Then we moved onto the boot where I have had the "Familia" center piece painted to the colour of my car...
BEFORE

AFTER

As you can see its slightly off colour but she will do for now. I can swap it back to the tinted one if need be.


And thats about all we got done on Saturday..... Im planning on doing some more work next week so ill keep ya posted
Here is a pic of the 38mm external wastegate I have got (its got an 18psi spring so ill need to change that before it goes on.) B)

[worldhazard]

glad to see quick progress m8. lookin good. im sorry, but honestly, the first thing i thought of was the infini grille be smashed. heh.. ya, im a sap..

[yesidoeatpie]

glad to see quick progress m8. lookin good. im sorry, but honestly, the first thing i thought of was the infini grille be smashed. heh.. ya, im a sap..

haha yeah same here! Im going to miss that grill. I am hunting for one but isnt a priority at the mo.