_Matt

Thanks for all the info Rhys and Mark! I will definitely take all this into consideration in the near future.

As for racing harnesses I was thinking of these http://www.sabelt.co.nz/collections/race-harnesses/products/steel-ccb633nu-basic-4pt

I realise they're only 4 point and either 5 or 6 point would be more ideal, but the seats I currently have can only use 4 point.

Plus the seats I sit quite deep in, so I can't see myself slipping forward very easily.

They work out to be about $550 delivered for a pair. Is that all good? Since they are a decent/recognised brand worldwide.

I have never really been a fan of Jamex, NZKW, Monza etc. They just look yuck and cheap, I probably shouldn't be going off looks too much haha.

And Takata, Sparco, Racetech etc are a little out of my budget/what I want to pay for harnesses.

Any other suggestions that are around/under $500?

This is of my interest. Awesome job of doing everything properly also it looks great.

Lucky to find some enkei tarmac ES's in 4x100 also there aren't many of them around!

My only advice around oil cooler is the bigger the better. We ran one of those small mocal coolers to start with on the ae82 and it didn't really do much to the cooling. Oil temps were still up over 150deg. We went to a 15 row greddy cooler and can now hold the temps below 120deg which makes the oil last a lot longer.

Standard blacktops on the track can see at least 140-150deg oil temps which means it's essentially doing nothing at that temp!

My only other questions are;

- plans with the brakes?

- please tell me no Super strut??

- once your through your cert seriously look into changing spring rates to something more suitable

- plans with swaybar in rear?

This will be a well set up car once your done I like that your keeping it road legal too!

Thanks man!

I'm pretty sure the wheels are actually WedsSports TC-05's.

Sweet as, I did have a feeling that the oil cooler may be a bit small. Is about 70x250mm. So i'll have a look into some larger ones.

Any suggestions on some cheapish kits?

I was thinking of getting an MRP thermostat sandwich plate, since it would be driven on the road occasionally.

As for brakes, I've been suggested to get some hawk blue brake pads.

Was thinking i could eventually swap in some twin pot callipers and bigger rotors from a superstrut model.

It's MacPherson strut. Although I do have a Ae111 Levin with Superstrut as my daily.

Suggestions on spring rates? Since I noticed you have heavier springs in the rear. I always thought the heavier ones would be in the front.

Whats the reasoning behind that?

I haven't really thought about the swaybars yet. But will defiantly in the future.

I took it to a test day at Manfeild.

It only lasted for about ~10mins of thrashing before it lost power and then started to knock as I was rolling into the pits haha.

I wasn't really surprised that it only lasted that long tbh. Oh well.

It was a good excuse to swap in a blacktop for more dooortz!

Started to sand it back for a full respray since the colour is pretty yuck.

Hey everyone!

I've been hanging around this forum since the Oldschool Nats were held in the Manawatu a couple of years ago.

I haven't been very active posting, but attended a few events and posted some of my pics up on here.

I thought I would post up my project I've been working on since mid June 2014.

I acquired it from a friend who had gotten it green stickered for bald tires (pretty much full on slicks)

and then snapped a couple of bolts on the half shaft mount (from my guess was trying to do skids or launches lol).

He thought he had snapped an axle haha, since it wasn't drivable.

We towed it back to my place and I got straight into it and ripped off all the "jdm" stickers, started to strip the interior

and give it a general tidy up.

Came with a 4AGE 20v silvertop which was near the end of it's days.

The piston rings were pretty buggered from all the thrashing.

Good side was that it had a full FGK (Fujitsubo) exhaust.

I was pretty stocked when I noticed that since I scored the whole car for so cheap.

I had previously bought some Tein adjustable coilovers for another car but decided against installing them,

luckily they fitted this car as well.

Installed the coilovers and realised it had lowering springs as well. Sold them for some money back haha.

It looks so much nicer after a good tidy up!

My 4age 20v BT makes a screeching sound when revving/accelerating/downchanging. It sounds like it is coming from the alternator.
Has anyone had a similar problem or know what could be causing it?

I have one of these sitting in the shed at the moment, but mine is in a lot better condition.

This basically describes what I'm going to do.

roadworthy, bare minimum body work, slam, steelies and drive as is.