~Slideways~

So good! Looks like awesome fun on the track.

Found that the wiring for the brake lights on the original style brake lights are the same inside so used some from a damaged set. Removed the plug from the preface lift type lights and soldered/shrink wrapped: Yay, working type-x lights, the photo came out really dull/washed out but in real life they are a nice vibrant dark red: Sacrificial brake lights, cracked and chipped etc, in the bin:

Yeah these CP pistons should be within 1 gram of each other, will look into rod weights since I am using stock ones.

I think ceramic coating would be overkill to be honest. The stock pistons could have handled it, if it weren't for fueling issues. As for balancing, undecided. Inline 6's are pretty much the perfect engine for balance anyway, except v12's...which is just 2 of them haha.

Got a set of knuckles from a Ralliart Lancer/Cedia wagon thing. Normally they are 4 stud, but the Ralliart's are 5 stud with a very similar knuckle design. I measured the strut mount hole spacing (the two bolts at the bottom on the strut) and it's the same, but at some stage Mitsubishi changed to bigger bolts. The lower ball joint is different too, it's the clamp on type rather than the tapered hole type. But appears to be in the same place. Figured I could hopefully find a balljoint to suit. The driveshaft splines are identical as well. What I didn't think about is that the upper mounting point from knuckle to strut is also slightly thicker by only a couple of millimeters, so my Lancer strut won't fit. A bit more research and I found that this might be the case with the Evo 4 onwards anyway. So I guess either use coilovers for an Evo 4, only the front. The back won't work, but could possibly use Evo 1-3 rears. Or maybe try find a complete Evo 4 rear which would solve the 5 stud for the back. These Ralliart's normally have 276mm rotor's like the non-brembo Evo 4. But I plan on fitting the bigger 294mm and make some adapters to fit some GTO 4 pots which I have not bought yet but hopefully can. That way it should still fit within 17" wheels so will be able to use wheels I already have. Here is a completely unrelated picture of a steering wheel puller I made to get the stock wheel off of the 4wd Lancer, to swap only the Fwd Lancer that I will sell. The bugger simply would not come off otherwise. So I can now keep the Momo and boss kit that came with the parts car/fwd Lancer thing. I'd originally made it to pull the timing gear off of the 1jz.

Fitted lights: Car is filthy: Sooo much nicer: Did it properly with this stuff: Here is what the cracks in the st215 injectors look like: No update on the engine, except that it should be getting over bored at some stage soon based on the piston specs. Still a shame to hide these away, look at them! Have to wire the lights in since they changed the plug type and even the wire gauge on the later 180sx.

I hadnt thought of checking reisistance, thanks for the idea. It'll be interesting to see if there is a difference but eitherway I won't be using the ones with the cracks. Will take a photo when I get them back. I haven't yet bought new ones but think I will get them flow tested before using them. In other news it was my birthday the other day and months ago I had ordered some genuine Type X rear lights. I'd put it off for years since they are pretty expensive. Bit better buying direct from Japan but the shipping was still pretty bad. They arrived a while ago but decided to keep them until my birthday to semi justify buying them to the wife lol. Anyway, here's one in a box. Feels kind of silly since the car has no engine in it now.

The Xspurt 1000's appeared to be spraying directly on the very wide port divider killing atomisation and causing it to blow black smoke in higher rev's on the dyno. The factory injectors (and these 3sgte ones) have a nice 4 hole cap which sprays it down the ports at the valves instead of the centre. Using the 3sgte ones made it run better everywhere. Apparently the Xspurts work well on plenty of other engines though. I've had thought about unmodified Bosch injectors since they'd avoid the problem of spray pattern, but it looks like I can get some new genuine 3sgte ones for a decent price which would go straight in and still support 300kw's.

Well 2 injectors tested 8% and 10% lower than the other 4. One of those was on the melted number 4, so that has to be the cause. Spray pattern is good, but flowing less. Still doesn't explain the low load misfire behaviour . They are 3sgte 550cc injectors from a Caldina GTT, well two sets. Both used. Weirdly, it was noted that the plastic housing is starting to crack on some of them where the coil is inside the injector. Whether this is the problem, I don't know, it's like they got hot. I think one set of injectors has had a hard life previously because the actual colouring of the plastic is faded. I still have the Xspurt injectors but they didn't work well on this engine. The factory pintle cap with 4 holes divides the spray pattern properly and worked much better. So I think I will try get some brand new 3sgte ones, it is tempting to go for a different brand of aftermarket ones but they all seem to be decapped so will be like firehoses just like the Xspurts.

Sweet.

Went to pick a part to get interior trim for the 'parts' Lancer so I can sell it and they've removed all but one of the half dozen Lancers like mine. Which is a pain. The last one was a manual so took the trim I needed and decided I might as well grab the manual pedals etc for the 4wd Lancer. As I was taking the pedals out the fork lift guy came down the isle and I'm pretty sure he had no idea I was in there because he stopped when I popped my head up. He agreed to move it around the corner until I was done, it was just dumped on the ground but didn't really matter. I was going to take the shifter and cables but they were rusty due to a smashed windscreen so I just grabbed the pedals and clutch master. Will keep a look out for another one to turn up. It was a low km's one too so grabbed the cluster since I needed one for the parts lancer since I'm using the white face one in the 4wd lancer.

Haha yes I didn't notice to be honest. I had checked the other settings and they aren't in use. Waiting on results for injector testing, needs fluid first. Not really sure what to expect. In other news, I've just spent a large chunk on some CP pistons and head studs. Good to be a step closer to getting it back on the road. Have been working on getting some other cars ready to sell (Celica and Lancer) so I feel a bit better about the cost...

That's interesting! I don't have any memory of it doing that so it probably didn't, it was a 1983 model so pretty early digital stuff I guess.

Yeah I loved the interior, the seats had all kinds of adjustment too. Also the digital dash worked perfectly, was kind of funny having the fuel gauge measured in thick bars. Not super accurate... Pretty sure the digital speedo didn't read any higher than 180kph too haha. Anyway, that's enough of my old car haha. Yours is really what I wanted mine to look like, especially the front bumper. N/A power is really what these car's should have, the supercharger was fun but a screaming NA is just better.

Sorry kept forgetting to grab the old laptop with the last saved tune. This isn't directly off of the ECU but I don't think it will have changed from this. Update on the engine is that it has been measured and it is just over tolerance so really should be over bored, can probably get away with stock size pistons but the best will be to go with oversized pistons. So 86.5mm Am now trying to find a good price on some CP pistons, then will get the block machined based on those.

Found some! This is 14 years ago when I sold it (fourteen years...holy shit). This roughly 2001 or 2002 (20 fcking years ago) Stock bluetop 120km's and t50. Bought brand new Superlites because my dad got a good discount working for South Pacific Tyre/Dunlop in Upper Hutt. Might have been through Beaurepaires. Had good shocks and springs done by Ron Scanlon. After a few years it ran a bearing on Paekakariki hill and I put a 4agze from ae101 in it. Well Ron did. Wired by Nick Tollemache (spelling?) he used to race a purple ae86. I later put a W58 in it. It was very tidy (still have that steering wheel in my 200sx): I shouldn't have ever sold it. But I had it for about 7 years did autocrosses, Taupo (old track) and Manfeild (in the pouring rain). Drove it every day. Replaced it with an ae92 GTZ which I continued the idea of turbo charging the 4agze. tldr: spam about car sale regret.

Yep I'll have some photos at home. That is it on my profile, that photo must be from the mid 2000's though.

Fuck yeah that looks fucking awesome! I used to have one of these, had it painted bright red too, but it was orange. Those arches really suit it too.

Will get back soon with some photos of the ign map. Have been looking at images of bearings for far too long now...

Yeah no definitely not, my original plan was to get a SOHC 4g93 short block from pick a part which would have been around $100 (and hours or stuffing around in the mud) and I wouldn't know if it was good. Then aftermarket rods and pistons since it is the main issue with even the GSR 1.8 turbos. From what I understand the crank is the same across the 4g93 range. But I came across this GDI engine for so cheap it made more sense. Basically its a donor for a block and crank. Possibly some ancillaries. I did entertain the thought though that these high compression piston could actually make for a good N/A setup using the Mivec head.

Definitely worth testing, I'll wait till they are back from testing etc. That description does kind of match the intermittent misfire problem where it would happen at low load then go away it you let it drop down to idle, but I am sure I've been over logs and the voltage was fine. It's all in pieces now though so will press on with at least making a rebuild plan as well as trying to test all possibilities for the failure.

This engine will be the Cedia/Ralliart wagon type thing. Weird high compression, small turbo, direct injection, plastic intake manifold weirdness. It'll have tiny rods and high compression pistons so really wanted it for a good low k's base to build a Mivec turbo 1.8 Those turbo Colts look pretty cool, they are 1.5l though so not much use in this case.

Picked up this 4g93 GDI turbo for a really good price. I guess they are simply not sought after engines. The GDI's were a bit of a disaster really, but the block and crank should be good since it is a clean low km's engine. Plus handy to have spares and different variations of brackets for alternator/PS pump etc.

That does look very familiar! But on the fuel pump, it has a big dedicated power wire directly from the battery through a relay. Way bigger than the factory wiring etc. I checked the fuse a few times after that happened and it showed no signs of burning again, although I had crimped it down so the connection definitely has good contact. I'm pretty sure now that it was caused by a bad contact. The thing that gets me is that there doesn't look to be any damage to the other pistons, just number 4 and it is serious damage. Possibly long term, is its is likely a long term problem there. It has been suggested that it may be an injector driver fault with the Link g4+. I've been told of a similar story where an RB filled a cylinder with fuel after having similar misfire problems. Right now I'm working on getting the block ready to be measured and see if it needs over sized pistons or not. Then make a list of everything I need and figure out the best place to source them. There look to be supply delays on bearings etc. Will go with genuine Toyota headgasket etc though.

Yeah this is interesting because the big end on number 4 is actually pretty 'good', some scoring but nothing like number 2 with the pitting/corrosion. Out of all of the mains and big ends, it is only number 2 that had the weird pitting. The others are either good or light scoring. This is number 4: