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Performance chips... removing vvt... sigh. Inb4 Octane booster

My car's probably a little heavier than this, and I went 3.5kgmm in the back and it's perfect. That's coming from springs which were previously... way way too hard, way too hard, too hard, then 3.5kg. I'd rather see this thing raised a bit and doorting around some back roads than barely scraping along the highway without fear of killing yourself.

It's a bit of a fuck around, but if you measure heights, swap springs left to right and then measure again, you can narrow it down to either an issue with the springs or the rest of the suspension/car. then go from there.

Got a new one today for $45 so no dramas.

Soooo... Things have been a bit shit! I've been busy working to get everything crossed off the list, for cert recheck. I've only got a few things left to do - swap back to factory steering arms, wheel alignment, and check Engine light. Plenty of swearing was done while fitting driveshaft loops! Happy to have that finished though, I've been putting it off for years haha. I've got about 3 weeks left to complete it all, I was hoping to have it done already but then my daily driver decided to spring a water leak from 'the hose from hell'... A 90 degree rubber hose on the side of the engine block that the rest of the car is built around, basically. So I had a week with no daily driver while I was pulling it to bits trying to fix the leak... Then borrowed my old mans car to go get some parts to fix my daily, and crashed it on the motorway. Pretty much written off. I was super gutted about this, I've never had a crash before. Spent the whole Saturday of Labour weekend sitting on the side of the motorway waiting for a tow truck, talking to cops, or contemplating how shitty it is to crash a car. The cars in front of me had a nose to tail, and the brake lights never came on so I didnt expect the car in front to stop so suddenly. So that sucks! Supposed to be concentrating on this, now I've got these whole other set of problems to deal with. Bah. In more positive news however, I had some springs custom made by Snells, fitted them and they were too tall. Called them back up, and they were happy to modify them to be shorter for free. Good service! Fitted these springs back in, adjusted front suspension to some more sensible castor/camber, and took it for a run up the road. It's driving so much better than it ever has! Cant wait to get a proper alignment done, I'm sure it would work wonders. The softer rear springs are perfect, I had these made to 3.5kgmm. My front springs are probably a bit soft currently, so will try find out the rate and source some at maybe 10-20% stiffer. I was hoping to take it for an alignment tomorrow, however, the ONE damn thing that I'm using from the original car (T50 slave cylinder) dumped its guts tonight, thankfully just as I got to the top of my driveway. So I'll have to try source a replacement tomorrow, and fit it over the weekend. pooz. If you wish discuss any of my first world problems such as: -Lack of pictures in thread -Too many words in thread -Lack of cert -Lack of daily car -Lack of non smashed borrowed car -Lack of lack of ride height -Lack of skids -Lack of T50 slave cylinder (giz?) You may do so here: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?showtopic=21625#p614135

I went into a parts shop near Penrose, talking to a guy at the counter when I was going in to buy some parts and he asked what car it was for... He said "Oh, I tried to buy a wagon one of those a while ago. It was a white diesel one, with twin round lights" "Was the guys name Sam?" "Yep!" Didnt think there would be too many others around.

Price up all of the rest of the stuff you will need to put in any manualised *UZ engine, and buy all that stuff first. Because it's rediculous how much it all costs. Toyota tax on those bits is retarded, might make you think twice about either. If the idea of working with a 3UZ is buying it cheap, it's neither here nor there in total cost of project. And it's possible that off the shelf solutions which have been done a million times for 1UZs may not apply, so more expense. So it's not something I'd try to, to be honest. In other, possibly more helpful news, isnt the 3UZ iron block? Not really what you'd want. A VVTI 1UZ could be a better purchase, if wanting a fancy *UZ engine. A 1JZGTE is likely a cheaper/better option tbh

Lewl P.S. Nice work on the custom made C-walk... Oh, sorry I mean flare, but same thing.

Good to see yas briefly. I'll try be a bit more punctual next time and/or should turn up more often now that I live up the road. Heh. Enjoy some blurry pics, that red truck was super sweet

Once I ordered the manufacture of about 1200 welded struts, which turned up on site made out of solid steel rods instead of hollow pipe. Which the client promptly rejected as they were twice the weight they should have been. When my boss came over, I was all like, pokerface.jpg So who's the retard now! RHS / Rectangular Hollow Section

You having a laugh?

Looking good man, you and Vegie make me wish I had an S12!

You should spend some time tuning the VVTI - to give it a rowdy idle

Or, keep current wheels and spend 3 weeks in Fiji instead, telling bishes at a lush resort that you've got SSRs back home.

Top work Vegie, look forward to seeing this out at another track day some time.

Not much a fan of the fender mirrors on this shape car tbh. Think it only really suits more 70s era vehicles. Cringed a bit at your rust work, I think I'd cry if I had to work through what you're doing!

I'm a bit opposite about torsen/clutch LSDs.... I've got a 2 way clutch type Cusco LSD and it sucks. So tight that it may as well be a locker, clunks and bangs all the time, and makes the front understeer a bit. Would happily go to a torsen instead for a road car. Although in saying this, the one I've got is notoriously bad for all of the above, other clutch type ones are probably a bit more streetable.

I did a check on toyodiy.com, and the PS rack does have a different part number for the tie rod ends. So possibly it has the ball joint spaced down a little lower maybe? Yeah the castor/camber/toe/everything is a mess at the moment, it might be a combination of all of these things being incorrect causing the problems.

Oh yeah. Also, while I had the intake manifold off to fix the engine mount, I noticed a 4-5mm ID hose coming off my throttle body, with nothing plugging on to it or blocking it. I blew through one end, and it tees into the throttle body ahead of the throttle plate, which is the same place my idle speed controller draws air from. The car has never idled too well and bogs a bit at low rpm, I'd attributed this to a light flywheel and different manifolds etc to the standard motor... Nope! Once I blocked this off, it now idles fine first pop! And revs out a lot nicer. As previously, air was sneaking in past the MAF sensor and the engine didnt know wtf was going on. I'm glad I spotted this, because since it's not a vaccum leak it's pretty tricky to find an air leak. I've got to replace the rear brake hose and fix the axle seals etc before I can take it for a test drive, but it's looking a LOT better just from idle anyway. Pretty stoked about that, because I was running out of ideas for what could have been causing the crappy idle, next thing I was going to try was replacing the ISCV.

So this went pretty well for the most part! Took my car to Clint Field / Cletus as he'd been reccomended by many others from here and elsewhere... Found him to be very knowledgeable and easy to deal with, A++ recommend. A few things to fix up though: Brake hose from body to diff needs replacing (easy fix!) Driveshaft loops required (expected this one... Not looking forward to this job though!) Rear axle seals leaking (easy fix, sorting this out today) Rear springs need to seat correctly at the top (will get some replacements made up...) Engine mount on one side needs reinforcing (Now sorted) A brake hard line too close to the manifold (Sorted this while getting the engine mount out) Engine check light is required, if using a factory ECU (Didnt know about this one! should be easy though) And surprisingly... The car had super horrid bump steer! As in, when the car was lifted up on the hoist you could see probably 5-10 degrees toe out just from static height to full droop. This was a real surprise, seeing how I've used all factory steering bits. However, it probably does explain why I've never really felt particularly confident driving this car so far. The only things I can attribute it to are the fact the car's never had a proper wheel alignment, a quick run of the tape measure showed that it had pretty horrid toe-out, even before it starts increasing. If the tie rods were adjusted way too short it could contribute to toe out through suspension travel I guess. The other possibility is that since I've changed to Power Steer steering arms with a non PS rack, it's messed the geometry up a bit somehow. Since I've got two months to get everything fixed, I'm going to put the standard arms back in, take it for an alignment and then hopefully it should be okay. Pretty happy on the whole though, even though it didnt pass it was a pretty satisfying milestone to reach.

Ahh, that's stink about your Soarer. Yeah this is coming along slowly... It's just how we seem to do things, haha. I'm just smashing through my to-do list for fixing up things on my Carina which I took for cert last week, once this is over that hurdle the Soarer will get a bit more attention! The last pictures are fairly indicative of it's current state. Yeah it was a bit of fun to drive around with the MTEU, even though it was horridly slow and used ALL the gas. The next task is to get someone on to the job of rust/panel work... I now think it's worth paying someone else to do this task, it's not much fun and is very time consuming to get right compared to someone who's a pro at it who can smash through it all in 1/10th of the time. Mike's old car with the 1UZ was pretty boss!

Sooooo..... Cert tomorrow The laborious part of Project Forever hopefully draws to a close soon. And forever onwards, just posting .wav files of doort noises and tire squealing till happily ever after.

I remember when people used to have a waaahhh saying that Starlets had too shorter a wheelbase for doing skids. Then I remember that awesome Japanese video with that guy running a KP in the amateur D1 or whatever, with a 4age setup. Was pretty much the best thing I'd yet witnessed. Starlets are the best thing ever! I need some KP in my life.

Holy shitballs, that revs out awesomely. Do want!

GOAT YOU FUCKING SCOUNDREL! I want this car