Ashkellybarr

More wheels to refurb Wheel nuts and rubber and it's all go

Picked up hubs from the road race and rally. Pretty dam happy. Good service too! Just need washers to space spring perch from camber plates Wheels nuts Tires Pull front guards Fibre glass rear guards

Get more / \ Nice product, seem really high quality Got them anodised black Need spring pirchs still to hold springs aligned Hubs and wheels should be back next, just need to call the bloke at road, race and rally

I have for rear trims if you want them. Also celica front calipers if you want an upgrade. Still haven't measured those shocks sorry mate, their at about her property where I store stuff and haven't been there since

Visor extent io and front splitter. Got so slower epoxi thinking it would give me more time to play around, unfortunately it's so slow even with a heater and dehumidifier it's taking a couple days to get it rock solid UV resistant self levelling epoxi sea to take a lot longer the the west system stuff I've been using

Further progress on the rear bumper Hubs are getting new bearings, longer studs, and slotted disks on the front Finally got started on carbon parts. Front splitter Side skirt extensions Rear defuser Spoiler extension

So I've got no idea where my camber plates are, cars still on stands Reckon they will turn up this week they said Did a bit of sorting on the rear while its up. Full rust removal. Cut the back out under the bumper too, want to make a rear defuser kind of like this red one. Possably out of alloy the same as my front and side lips. I've now got some more free time and extra dosh so might get the hubs sorted within the next couple weeks too all going to plan P.S Simon I'm no longer with that crowd so flick me a PM

If you go DE you might find it easier finding manifolds etc Might even find a full second hand set up ready to go for 25de for not to much. I'm unsure what's involved in a +D conversion but I'm sure it's not hard to find info I'm also unsure of Nissan RWD Gboxs but it might be something to look into if a cam and snail could possibly double your power output

Just 4g63 with OEM loom and ecu? Unless there's a 63 thats carby already your'd haft to make a manifold and piss around setting up a carb. Better yet shell out for lancer turbo fwd or evo front cut?

sides mostly done Little bit lumpy but I'll play with it. Maybe foam backed cloth will take it out a bit too. Holds ya snug though! No movement at all

Reinforcement filler. Ados F2 is good stuff Tin snips worked a treat for cutting the foam

Found bride RO rails fit recaro lx-c.. However.. They retail at 220+gst per rail +500 pretty speny Guy in mr2ocnz said nzkw do aw11 ones but their not listed on their site. nzkw around 150 per rail

Welded some tube onto the sides. Bends look rough as I dont have a tube bender so just cut notches then ran over them with the welder once bent to place Picked up foam from para rubber. Went through the cut offs and go the lot for $12. Picked up some ados f2 contact adhesive to glue All the foam together. Dunno how I'll cut it, couldn't find a cheap enough elec bread knife (all +$60) so I'll try the angle grinder with a thin cutting disk. Woohoo! Recaro reclinable buckets on their way

Got started on the seat this evening while watching TV Kinda nice, flat mates and miss' tend to kick up a storm when I bring stuff inside. Bits of wire from a wire wheel in a drill stuck through all the carpet was a good one Probably the easiest seat I've ever pulled apart. Centres take 5mins to take out. Possably change centres between different recaro's if the frame the same There's some factory side enforcement already so I'll weld some 12mm tube the same to build out the sides more. No idea for foam. Maybe two part stuff to build off the original foam inner then cut it to shape?? Luckily my mums pretty handy with a sowing machine so I've conned her into sorting a pattern and fabric FYI I don't normally have this much free time, I've been off work for two weeks so making up for lost time

Do I dare ask what they set you back? I've got one spare mint one, was thinking of getting it galvanised haha

Yeah I had a look at some rails I've got from the burgundy one and it would be ruff to try jimmy something up. That and their +30mm to wide on each side so would need cross brace mounts If SW seats fit easy then maybe pick up some recaro rails for an SW ya reckon? I'd like to do it properly Surely there's someone in AKL that I can take the AW rails to and get them to make some up to suit the recaros??

Working threw little gremlins atm while I wait on some suspension and hub parts to roll in Swopping booster and hilux cylinder over too. Old one had leaked, pealing the paint underneath it. Seems to be a common thing in these Sanded it back and painted it, it's a couple shades off so hopefully no WOF guys get funny about it Long ass acsel cable Hanging on by a thread Finley found it fun too Started on the drivers chair too, will make sure to do a good write up on that

Toyota still sell front bumper irons And strips for the top of the windscreen. Sounds like your having fun, just keep reminding your self of when it's all finished

Picked up some fish nets (yes anouther Toyota with fishnets) Finley seems to like them too Drivers sides woren as per usual how ever I'm gonna pull it apart and add more support in the sides. Kinda need bucket seats but I think new style buckets are out of place and finding a same pair of retro buckets at a reasonable price is un realistic. Plus I like putting stuff behind my seat so reclinable is nice How I'll add more support I have no idea! haha maybe some alloy sides and glue foam either side?? Sand or bread knife the form to shape?? Oh and I have no idea for rails. Any one got ideas? Could buy some form NZKW or someone??

Yeah they were pretty faint compared to those. Yeah sure! I'll measure them next when I'm back in AKL next week for ya

OEM 4agze throttles pretty small. NA's not much bigger. On the left is a 7MGTE throttle. Good as it has the same style cold start mech and TPS' are interchangeable. 7MGTE take 2.75 silicone. Good little upgrade to this bottle neck in the system Will take the NA intake manifold opening out and get a mounting plate welded on to put the bigger throttle Progressive plenum would probably be better but I'll invest on one later down the track. Sorting out a decent intake in these things is a pain in the ass. Air flow and heat soak being the biggest dramas. Have played around with a filter in the boot. maybe adding a vent on passenger side same as drivers and build an air box onto that, il do this at a later stage before cert. Fibre glass flanges and intake piping aren't hard to make, a lot lighter then alloy. Allthough I'm not sure about heat and pressure resistance. I've got to get some carbon mat so I'll have a play around

Hey didnt manage to get the numbers sorry mate. Could only read CD-40?? Rest was in jap aside from a heat warning

Braided brake lines in after a bit of pissing around Started playing around with the BC's, might look into shorter springs as I'm a bit worried about the having to add to much pre-load to get the ride hight I want. Will haft to crunch some numbers on spring rates and preload and see what's up. Form&function I've just ordered some rear camber plates so wait till those turn up then drop it and start sorting hight and then sort spring lengths and rates to get it handling nice at the track. Here's some more photos of the head, cutting out mostly done, about ready to take it through the grades and start on compound. There's some annoying grooves around the guides I can't get out as I don't want to take it out to far, Orwell... Oh and that ports not on the piss, photos taken on an angle, your'd be amazed how hard it is to get photos of shiny ports

So motor wise there's a fair bit happening on the rebuild. Bens old 7AGTE Bottom end is getting 8.9:1 +0.5mm The rods are mint, huge pauter bastards as thick as my wrist, quite heavy hey I'm not gonna go spending 700 or more so save a little weight Crank seemed in good nick and bearing wear was good as far as I could tell. The most part that bothered me was the use of the 7A stuff so a 4AG oil pump and pick up will be used as they pump a bit more. The other is the timing belt set up. The belt was lose between ex cam and crank gear. I'm unsure of this arrangement but I read it requires adjustable cam gears witch is awesome cause now I have some cam gear to play with So the MRP timing kit will be bought to solve this and give me reassurance. Now after crunching some numbers it turns out the 8.9:1 Pistons actually gives you near 10:1 Wanting to use a TRD 0.8mm HG (OEM are 1.2) to reduce my squish gap this would put my 8.9:1 Pistons and 36ml head chambers to 10.3:1 Now that's to high and after talking to some guys they all said to drop it into the 9's. Barry saying 9.2 is ideal. Sooo i needed to lower my comp. the factory 4a head has some pretty ridiculous casting marks in the ports and cylander so I desided that taking casting and machine edges out of the head chambers was the option, aiding in cylander operation, lowering chances of det, and at the same time dropping the compression to where I would like. After crunching some number I came to taking the chambers out from 36ml to 42ml At the same time I'm sorting out the ports. Now the ex ports are pretty small on the 16v heads being a little less then 30mm maybe 28mm. The ex port on a blacktop head are 32mm and some people take those out for racing The formula Atlantic heads are a whopping 38mm So I took the ex ports port out to 32mm witch should help the flow once the turbos spooled. The bowls taken out as well, and all of the guide support material removed. Then taken to a mirror finish with A polishing compound The intake ports are quite big, even on the small port heads I've got so those have been left pretty un molestered, the wall was thinned between the valve ports, all casting marks removed, and as much of the guide support as I could. The cams are pretty cool, their an old cam you can't get anymore. They were a joint venture between wade and Toyota Australia as an upgrade for the 4agze aw11 They measure 267 and 220 at .50 with I think 9mm lift from what I can remember?? Valves and springs we'll haft to wait and see but I've got some HKS and tomei springs sitting here with OE valves and retainers Head still got more work to be done, I've spent maybe 30hrs on it and probably have more then that to go still. I'll post some photos when I've got some spare time

My mate Kris's AW (yellow one in my thread) is pre facelift and had factory shocks when he got it. The left rear had a tab but the right rear didn't have a tab haha They were definitely the factory shocks too. Definitely seems like something went astray when they were putting them together. I know a lot of parts are shared with other cars. The rear hubs are the same as a FWD Rolla. Maybe the aw ones were ment to have tabs but ran low and grabbed some shocks ment for anouther car until more with tabs were made??