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    Truenotch's BEAMS AE86 racecar

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    And off to the panel shop it went. It needed a little bit of bog to straighten out one or two bits. 

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    I removed the fuel tank cover and filler neck for the first time since I've owned it.. it's grubby under there! 

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    Emmett's been working in the booth already and sent a couple of teasers... I'm really looking forward to seeing the end result!

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    All going well it'll be back home by the weekend :grin:

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    Truenotch's-Old-Man's MX5 - MX5RacingNZ

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    Another couple of years on and this thing has been going strong!

    I won this little dude at the Toyota Racing Series round back in Feb 2021. The prize was meant to be a back, crack and sack wax... But it never came to be. 

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    Next up was last year's Feilding Auto Electrical Winter Series at Manfeild. We've seen really good growth in the class, with a bunch of new drivers and fresh cars appearing in the series! In 2021 we saw a couple of 17 car grids, which was the most we'd ever had. This spiced up the competition and made it a hell of an exciting season. 

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    Jerry in the pink 777 battled hard with me all season and we came into the final round with a few points between us for the championship. I had a small lead, but not enough to be able to relax!

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    We traded wins in the first two races, which left the final race of the season. Both Jerry and I started from the back of the grid on the final flag drop of a handicap race and worked our way through to the middle of the pack. He finished ahead, but it wasn't enough. I was pretty stoked to walk away as the 2021 MX5 Cup champ with only 9 points between us at the end. 

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    The car came through the season OK. It had a few new battle scars and some of the exterior paint was getting tired. This car has been a racecar since 2011 and has done thousands of competitive ks without much maintenance at al! It's had a diff rebuild, gearbox refresh and a set of shocks in that time, but apart from that it's only needed tyres, brake pads and fuel. We decided it deserved a birthday, so the next job was to sort a fresh coat of paint :) . 

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    Gav's 200sx RPS13 1JZGTE of race car.

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    That piston's had a big old lean moment eh. It reminds me of the time my Beams leaned out due to low battery voltage and had a big moment at 8000rpm. My issue was caused by an issue with my alternator wiring causing a lack of voltage, which combined with batch injection, caused bad things to happen. 

    I'm going to throw in my theory that your fuel pump supply might still be a problem? Either a bad connection or undersized wire, which would also explain the melted fuse - I've had fuel pump fuses melt exactly the same way because of undersized wiring. 

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    Truenotch's BEAMS AE86 racecar

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    One job I've been wanting to do for a long time is update the bumper mount to make it quicker and easier to fit. It needs to be removed every time it goes on the trailer, so my requirements were that it needed to be strong and tool-less to install.

    Nick at SAFEngineering bent up a bar out of offcuts for me and I've used quick latches to attach the bumper to the bar. The flares connect with little 1/4 turn motorbike fairing fasteners. 

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    I've also picked up a couple of modified engines to get my engine upgrades moving. One is from a TRD NZ Altezza touring car that ran in the NZ Touring Car series in 2001/2. They had limitations on cam lift and compression, so it's not an all out race build, but should work nicely for what I want to do and still allow full use of VVTi. 

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    The cams definitely have some lump to them: 

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    I bought a cam setup kit to measure everything up and be able to re-set the timing if the VVTi can't be used for some reason. This allowed us to work out the cam specs, which is around 264º at .050" and 313º at .010" (advertised duration). @CXGPWR is helping me out with the engine project. Thanks John! 

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    Now it's off to the panel beaters for a final bit of bodywork and some fresh red :) . 

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    I'm looking forward to seeing it in colour again! And I'm sure Taco's keen to spread his fur all over the seats when it gets back. 

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    Romans 2005 Toyota Echo

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    15 hours ago, Roman said:

    Man I am looking forward to getting this going again with 1NZ! 

    Can't wait to see and hear this happen too! 

    Will the Maxpeeding rods be making an entrance before the new 1NZ goes in? Or just go again and see how long it lasts? 

    Romans 2005 Toyota Echo

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    On 22/07/2022 at 17:38, cletus said:

    Ie does it go kerururururururu brmmmm

    Or  kerururirurururiruru blub blub blub 

    Low comp like a fat Kereru 

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    On 22/07/2022 at 17:51, Roman said:

    But what makes me think its cam timing is that when I took it for a drive with standard exhaust on, you go over 50% throttle and it just goes absolutely nowhere and makes this horrid sounding induction noise.

    This sounds like it could be ignition to me. I had almost exactly these symptoms on the MX5 and the Chariot on the same day. Both run the same style of dual coil setup as eachother and both were solved by clicking the ignition leads down properly. The MX5 in particular was fine until about 1/3 throttle, then it would just fart and crackle on all 4 cylinders and was incredibly slow. 

    Not sure if individual coil packs would act the same, but it's possible? 

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    Romans 2005 Toyota Echo

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    39 minutes ago, BiTurbo228 said:

    Although lord knows what VVT does to tuned length intakes. Probably makes them somewhat redundant I expect as you can move your cam opening and closing time around wherever you like it

    This is an interesting point. Does VVT mean we can tune engines to suit a set runner length at different points throughout the rev rage? I guess it does. 

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