Caboobaroo

what all do you need? I got lots of parts since I just stripped my '78 Brat for my minitruck project. PM me with a list of parts you need and I'll see about hooking you up! I got everything from the steering column to the master cylinder, tranny, bed trim, etc. etc. etc......

WOW thats IS a beauty. I hope the "4 Wheel Drive" badge will look good on that. Maybe I'll get a set of silver stripes and paint the car blue.....hmmm would look quite nice actually....

what likes to happen on EA82Ts is they will crack between the valves in the combustion chamber and they like to crack inside the exhaust port where the two exhaust chambers come together. This is where a coolant line runs so it crakcs right into the exhaust creating some white smoke, and coolant residue inside the exhaust. Best bet is to find a better set of heads like either a gen 2 or gen 3 set. Gen 2's will be marked with an "E82" (note the line under the E82) and the gen 3's will be the same but it will have a box around the E82....

Try driving through Eastern Oregon on highway 20....wanna talk about boring? Its completely flat, straight, and hardly any buildings for like 60 miles...:-\

oh derr derr derr, I didn't think about that. I used to have a subscription to Kt Car magazine and I still have all of the issues...I'll look into that:D

maybe the lifters are sticking and keeping the valves open to have very little comperssion then sits, the lifters slowly go down and giving you compression until they fill back up......?

no a 2.8 isn't a fave motor for the Nissan crowd, its a motor I trust since I drove 10,000 miles in my '88 Camaro that had the 2.8 MPFI and I had my foot in it everyday! I also have acess to cheap hop up parts for it and also a nice stroker kit for a couple hundred bucks. I'm planning on using the Nissan front suspension because I want to lay frame. I want to have the first Brat to LAY FRAME. This is why I want to do all of this but unfortunatly, if I can get it to lay frame with the stock suspension and no frame, I'll rip the unibody apart! Trust me on this guys, a Nissan frame, a bare frame doesn't weight hardy anything since I can pick one up by myself! and the front and rear suspension/axle will be about the same weight as the stock Subaru suspension, rear diff, axles, etc. I am going to be cutting all of the unnecessary CRAP off of this frame and of course I'm going to chop the crap out of the body. I'm going to be removing the trans tunnel, firewall, a bunch of the bed, and some of the rear cab for a crawl through for subs. So total I'm guessing that it will be a little heavier but not by too much. Also have you guys ever heard of the GM powerbook? They've got a 2.8 that is pushin some major HP numbers!! I don't want to go with a Suby drivetrain cause how boring is that??? There are people that have done the Ej20T swap into a Gen 1 and yadda yadda yadda but its still boring to me! This is MY car and I asked a simple question and people started giving me crap about putting a "junk" motor into this car and how I should leave it all Suby and stuff like that. Screw you guys that say crap to mea bout how stupid it is because guess what THIS ISN'T YOUR CAR!!!! Lemme have my fun.........

yes it can be done. I haven't done it myself yet but I plan on doing it to my gen 1 wagon. I've heard that all you need are the rear hubs, backing plates, calipers and the bolts. Its ALMOST a direct bolt on but you have to grind a little bit off of the trailing arm to get one of the bolts to fit. Try it and find out:D

rust? I haven't had any problems with rust before and I lived in the Willamette Valley. I have a '79 4wd wagon with little to no rust at all (sat for a few years next to some dudes house) and my Brat has lived in the PNW all its life. It was bought in Troutdale, went to Washington, sat in a wrecking yard for 10 years, came down to Albany (not running) and sat in another yard for a few months when the guy I got it from saved it to fix up. Unfortunatyl, he is extremely unintellegent and couldn't get it going good in 6 months so I traded an '88 Justy to him for it:D Rust? Meh I have no steeeeeeeenkin rust:D

hey Shawn, if you want to, stop on by Laramie cause if its ok, I have some parts I can donate to the USMB like a gen 1 4-speed s/r from my Brat, driveshaft, and a bunch of other smaller items:D

I'm not planning on it since I can lift a complete Nissan bare fram by myself....and since I'm cutting about 40lbs worth of metal (maybe more) off of the body and about 10lbs off of the frame, I don't think it will make it much heavier then it is (maybe 100 lbs?) I sat down last night and started designing the 4-link setup in the rear and from what I'm gathering, this will be an easy 4-link to build.

I was driving an 86 GL-10 turbosedan that had 317,000 on it and was still going until the head cracked wide open. Now its going again with a different set of heads and a minor reseal but still the original shortblock.....I think I was getting about 25mpg but that was on the freway with my foot in it:D

well the motor has already been started on....granted the BLOCK is cast iron, the heads are a nice , shiny aluminum. When I can be pushin 500hp out of this motor, weight of a Nissan frame and chopped up Brat body doesn't concern me that much. I'm sorry but I like the street and I like my domestics. Screw these little rice rocket crap and friggin Honda's. I do NOT own a Honda and never plan on it. If people are going to be tellin me its gonna suck or its gonna be heavy and blah, blah, blah then SHUT YOUR FRIGGIN MOUTH!!! Thats not what I asked for in this thread...... LUVMYBRAT, I plan on starting in a year maybe sooner but finacial wise...I can't as of right now. Andrew is still starting on the 4th and of course I'll be around. I don't plan on heading home until AFTER I'm done!!

Thanks for the positive reply LUVMYBRAT. I won't be starting school until next school year due to finacial aid problems and my dad type of thing but hopefully I will be able to attend next year with a slightly bigger pocketbook then I have currently.....

garner has dropped an EA82T into a gen 1 Brat. Ask him, he'll be able to tell you everything he did to get it to fit right....

dude if you need some of the trim, I got some for sale if need be. Lemme know if you need anything, I have a thread right now in the Marketplace with a big list of parts I'm selling!!

Now I DO have a couple Camaros and that remark was totally rude and degrating. I hate it when people put me down because I have a "white trash Camaro". WTF guys? I have an '88 IROC-Z thats worth more then any of my dad's cars and it doesn't run. And how much did I pick it up for? $500 bucks and sitting in a non-running condition, its worth $18,000 and I have the paperwork to prove it. So next time you go to make vulger comments about someone's ideas, please keep then to yourselves.

well I looked at a frame today and here is what I found. The frame is the same width as the Brat but it is 8" longer then I want so I will be cutting it down and making it work. I also am getting the 4-link setup worked out by people on a Nissan minitruck board www.nissanminis.com Another thing guys is that anything can be done. I'm going to be stripping the frame down of everything I DON'T need to make it light.....gimme a break guys, I know what kind of stuff I'm getting myself into and I also have friends that i live with that are helping me on this project. I am being realistic and so if you're input is going to be negative, I don't want to hear it. I know of people that have put flat 6 into a gen 3 wagon!!! Other people have built 12" lifts and put them under a hatchback and wheeled the Rubicon!!! So why is it so unrealistic to put a frame under a Brat and slam it????? Geez guys..................:-\

well I'm cutting the Brat body up so it will fit. I'm not gonna make it look trashy so I can cut a spot in the floorboards for the frame to tuck up nicely. I had this thought when I was wondering how hard it would be to take the frame fromt something else and make it fit under the Brat.....and besides, I gotta cut up the bed to make the axle fit.....and the trans. tunnel and firewall are getting cut up so I have room to put the Borg-Warner T5 and the motor in there:D

Well since I plan on doing all of this modification to the Brat, I want to build a chassis that I can mount the front Datsun suspension, rearend w/4-link, motor and tranny to but I can't seem to find a place online that can give me a good idea on how to go along either building a chassis or using a chassis from something else. Also, does anyone have a Datsun 2wd standard cab truck that they can measure the wheelbase on so maybe I could just go with a frame from one of those? Thanks guys:D

Does anyone know where I could get new weather stripping for the doors on my Brat? I heard someone might of found a place to get new weatherstripping but I can't remember....Todd maybe? Paul?

you can replace your stock struts wth the newer EA81 style struts. I don't know about the fit but with some slight modification, they can fit to my knowledge

mwahahahahahaha....sick and twisted is just the beginnging.............MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

well ok here's the plan for the Brat. First gutting the whole thing because I will be doing my own interior plus I will have to cut the trans tunnel and the firewall to fit the new motor. The new motor will be a RWD 2.8 v6 Multi Port Fuel Injection from a late 80's Camaro topped with a set of twisted wedge aluminum heads and a set of 350 rods with the offset shaved off of them to accomidate for the 12:1 compression ratio. Behind it will be a Borg-Warner T5, 5-speed transmission. Rear end will be a 4 linked Datsun H190 solid rear end from a truck. I'll be putting a posi unit into it also. Fully tubbed rear end to allow for some nice drap radials stuffed under it. The front end will be a newer style Datsun truck front end with disc brakes. But of course you're wondering how I'm going to do this with no chassis....well I'm going to be building a tubular chassis and full roll cage for the body to mount to. I'll be getting rid of the strut towers under the hood along with some other uneeded stuff. I'm shaving the side markers, door handles, locks, antenna, rear tailgate handle, the plastic "SUBARU" trim piece on the tailgate, the drip rails, and side mirrors. I'm making a hard tonneau cover with some new hatch struts from an 82-92 Camaro and I'm also gonna be using an electric latch mechanism from an 82-92 Camaro. The hood I will be making open sideways too. Oh and I almost forgot, I'm putting a full air ride setup under this too. So basically I'm planning on making the ultimate Brat minitruck. Between the powerplant and the stereo system, I don't want people to forget who that skinny white guy is in the pimpin, lowered black brat..... oh and sorry Paul, no valence is not up for grabs:D