Kassie

Thanks Silver Bullet. The petrol engine is 1497cc.

Just a little pic of how my custom aluminium radiator holds. Plus I hit the jackpot with interior parts nearly two months ago too. Found a felicia and a felicia estate of the same year they were parting out in a Junk Yard. So I took the best of the lot between the two...for my car. After all the both carry the same parts from the front all the way up to the backseat.

Haven't updated for a while. The pics below are of the work I had done on the exhaust. Not the best work I know.......but hey...its functional. The barrel on the left is the new barrel I had installed about 2 months ago and the one on the right was the old one I had removed. It was completely shelled out on the inside and had bits n pieces of rust knocking about inside the barrel. The old barrel as you can see was bigger and did not have a silencer. Needed changing so I decided to go with something smaller and less noisy. Also had a resonator put in to aid with the noise level.

Thanks TeflonTom. Loved the 1.8 conversion you did on the felicia.

Yes it is much faster with engine. Well I haven't hooked up the speedometer cable yet so I can't tell you exactly how much faster it is but there is a difference. The diesel engine was alot heavier than the gas engine. When the diesel engine was in, I found myself changing the front shock absorbers very often. I also had the piping for the exhaust system re-done last week. The previous owner had used about 3 different sizes of exhaust piping on the entire system. I didn't like that so from where the piping of the engine manifold stopped.......all the way to the new muffler barrel.......I had it replaced with one size (2") piping.

Alright.....so the car has been back from the paint shop about 2 months now. It's still not buffed yet......have a few runs on it. Not satisfied with the job done but at least it is still alot better than before. I did put it back in white though, a base and clear. Its not skoda's white.......but it's white.....with a little bit of white flakes in the clear coat. I don't really like to mess with the colour a vehicle usually comes in. Maybe I'll be brave enough to change it sometime next year. I also had the rims painted in a custom grey they mixed at the shop and had the colour of the brake calipers and drums changed from blue to red.

Hi........If you don't mind me asking......how many watts or lumens are the blue LED bulbs that you put in Mr. Uma1998?

Bought a used B13 radiator and decided to take out the plastic tanks from the core and had them rebuilt out of aluminium. Cause those plastic tanks crack after a while and usually you either find yourself purchasing a new one or replacing the tanks out of metal. In order to accommodate the radiator, I had to cut out the crossbar in the front and replace it with a 90 degree angle iron, and welded 2 rings (and placed circular rubbers with holes in them) so the studs of the radiator can fit snug at the base, and welded 2 nuts at the top so that 2 10mm bolts with aluminium L brackets and grummets in them, can hold the radiator in place at the top. Will take a pic of the rad soon to show what I was typing about. These pics however were taken a few months ago when everything was complete. Had to purchase a transmission cooler and strap that on to the bumper since we couldn't build one into one of the aluminium tanks itself.

Replaced the windshield and back fender glasses. Also sold the 15" x 6 1/2" rims and 205/55 series tyres and replaced them with some used 17" x 7" rims and new 205/40 series tyres.

So with the engine bay in a much better condition, my brother, my dad and I dropped this engine in. Its a nissan GA15DE petrol engine. We didn't have to do much modifications to the engine mounts cause the CD17 and the GA15 mounts line up almost the same way. The rear engine mount needed to shift just a tiny bit though. Sorry about the first pic being blurry.

This is what the engine bay looked like after it was painted with 3 spray cans of rustoleum paint. Again at the time I couldn't afford to have it painted professionally at a paint shop......so I improvised. And I'm okay with it.

These are some pics of the engine bay after the engine was taken out. These were taken after it was cleaned and the right side repaired

The engine is from a second generation nissan sunny/sentra or tsuru. That model has quite a few names in other contries. It is also known as the B12 here. Diesel is very affordable here.....that's one of the reasons why I left the engine in. It was easy on my pocket.....fuel wise.