It would be far easier to do what Andrew's suggest below if you're going to be dropping an EJ in later down the track:twilightprotege wrote:question - does an EA gearbox with EJ internals have the same length as an EJ gearbox? ie what i'm thinking of doing is putting EJ AWD internals in my EA box, shortening the driveshaft and using that for a while. then when i get an EJ20turbo, i'll just move the internals back to the EJ box and use it.
thoughts?
Second that one!AndrewT wrote:Although adaptor plates work perfectly fine - tried and tested even on EJ20turbos without any issues at all, not sure why you'd bother messing around to avoid one. It's not hard to get a std AWD cased gearbox to fit in an EA car, just shorten the shifter linkages, shorten the tailshaft and mod the crossmember abit. You can use adaptor plates in reverse (fit EA engine to EJ gearbox) altho most people use them to fit EJ engine to EA gearbox.
It's also alot easier to just swap your rear diff for one that matches the gearbox rather than customise the gearbox to match your rear diff.
The reason I did my gearbox into an EJ casing was to avoid an engineer's report for the adaptor plate, plus it was cheaper for me to do it this way too - and I like to get my hands dirtys/look into new things that I haven't explored mechanically. I also needed as much room up front as possible...
Cheers
Bennie