This is another "will it fit" project, but hopefully won't become still-born at the first hurdle..
Mrs. H has been on at me (and Jim) to make an Automatic SS1 for several years now and it seems like things have fallen into place to get the right bits together to see if this will actually work. If so, this might not be the first automatic Small Sports (that honour, I think, goes to a certain Sabre with a V8, currently disguised as a dining table), but it might the first one that still looks just like an SS1. It doesn't look to be the easiest task in the world, but hopefully no more difficult than fitting an Omega engine into an SE5a
Start off with this:
And add one of these:
..and see if it fits!
Some remedial work to do on the SS1 first and it looks like there will need to be some tunnel surgery required, but how much is currently an unknown. The autobox looks to be considerably wider, but not as tall as the manual one that will be coming out:
but some more detailed measurements are needed before getting Mr. Angry Grinder out to play. There are also a few wiring mods needed as there's a control unit for the box itself, an extra input from the throttle body, another signal from the ECU as well as a speed sensor which on the donor Silvia comes from the speedo head (so that might be fun!).
Lets see how long this one takes - although Mrs. H wants to do the Autotest at Billing in it...
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we'll have a look for an alternative with built in gearbox oil cooler before deciding on this.
