A31 Cefiro Conversion

[ajscef]

Hi there, i recently bought a a31 Cefiro. RB20de auto. Stock standard, was owned by an old lady hah. So Im going to convert it to manual and then eventually put a turbo on it. So i know that pretty much any rb box would fit on it, but with the drive shaft. would it be better to buy a complete manual one or can i just change the front piece of it?

And because of it having a foot hand brake, whats the best way to convert it to a normal handbrake? and what one should i use?

Cheers ,

Aaron

[Nic_A31]

Just change the front. R32 GTST is the go for manual RB20 gearbox.

Cefiro tail shafts are very hard to find, and even if you do find one, it needs to be either ABS or non-ABS length accordingly, to the vehicle.

Cefiro (w/ ABS) tailshaft is still about 60mm longer than R32 (non-ABS).

[VRdrift]

same as what mine was, 100% of my manual conversion was using R32 GTST stuff for the drive shaft, r32 front on the cefiros rear, if yours is an early one you'll need to swap the centre flange over,

and use a s13/s14 gearbox xmember, if you wanna be a cheap ass, a VL box, but the ratios are a bit messed up for a RB20, first is a bit too tall for my liking

hand brake, R32 or s13, plus the bracket it bolts to, which needs to be drilled off and welded to your car, youll see an indent on the tunnel when your carpet is out, scrape away the sealer, and you'll find a outline in the floor plus 2 holes for where the handbrake cable goes through, cut that out, youll need to swap the cefiros splitter on to the r32 handbrake from memory, its easy, youll know what to do when its infront of you, once you have the r32 h/b's cable bit bolted to where it goes through the floor, that will give you a roundabout position as to where you need to weld the h/b bracket

[NZa31]

Hey guys ive bought an awd rb25det (out of a stagea) to replace the trusty old 20det that currently lives in my ceffy. I've had the front shafts/diff taken out and the holes welded up, I know I have to use the rb20 engine mounts but what I want to know is will the sump foul on the sway bar? And Yes I have tried lots of searching but can't seem to find anything cefiro specific. Any help is much appreciated

Edited July 28, 2012 by NZa31