Subfram and Axle Questions?!?!?

[liamrsi]

Hi, as some of you probably know i was gonna put a volvo engine into my rsi but the mrs has it now and she couldnt afford to have it off the road!!!

i ave been offered a h reg 1.2 with a ruined engine, what i wanna know is, can i simply get a rear subframe with disks for the back and then lower it, then for the front get some willy/valver shocks, springs, disks, driveshafts and fit them

What i wanna know is if im doing the change to tht do i then need to buy 16v or willy lowering springs or can i buy any?

also when i pick up the front brakes what can i get away with as such as can i rip the lot out of the doner all together and swap it over, do i need a willy/16v subframe aswell to go with it or not?

Basically i want to change rear axle to disks, and uprate front brakes to 15v and driveshafts!!

Can someone please type me a list of exactly what i need to take from the doner car to do this!!!

Cheers

 

[Djw John]

You can defo do the axle swap if you get a rsi axle.]

For the front brakes you need the caliper, carriers and bolts along with pads and discs. No need to uprate the driveshafts tbh

 

[u33db]

^^What the man said.

You can buy any lowering springs as well - they all fit regardless.

 

[liamrsi]

i know they fitted it was just the fact that they only made a 50mm spring due to the weight of the 16v engine, i was thinking about thw weight of the volvo engine thats all!!

So i can just change disks pads and calipers on the front, no need to change the driveshafts and subframe at front!!

Cheers Guys

 

[u33db]

Yup, you can just fit the 16v pads, discs, calipers and caliper carriers.

Volvo engine will be lighter so having a 50mm 16v spring on will probably only equate to about 40mm actually lowering. I'd stick with non-16v springs as your engine will be pretty much the same weight as a normal RSI lump and that way it'll cut out the guess work of lowering it by x-amount.

 

[Djw John]

Yeah as Dougal says! The B18 will weigh only slightly more than the rsi block