Roman

Heh, yeah but most standard manifolds even for turbo cars have long runners - and people chuck them away for aftermarket manifolds which short runners which probably causes exactly what you describe.

That top cover is the same casting between the FWD engines and RWD ones - on my engine, the PCV valve sits on the top, where the round recess is just above the PCV valves current location. So you could just drill a hole there and block the other one up. Or find a FWD top cover I guess. If you're not going to use a PCV valve, then it doesnt matter if you use just the one hose on the right hand side of the picture. As the PCV side isnt going to do anything if not connected to vaccum anyway.

Yeah I'm looking forward to taking it for a post-1JZ hoon at Taupo... and seeing how much of a difference above a 2:10 laptime it can make with some modern stuff in it haha. Not much has changed with the coupe since you were up - Have been moving house / starting new job / GF is recovering from major surgery / other excuses to cover the fact that I'm lazy haha. Well, I've been aquiring cert monies anyway. Speaking of Which, time to pester Cletus me thinks...

Oh yeah, so some stuff has been slowly happening with this. The car is now a Torana Have needed some wheels for a while in a size that suits what it will end up with, as the gaurds need panel beating etc and want to make sure that everything clears the wheels/tires before $paint$. Might get something different later on, or might stick to our West Auckland Bogan heritage and rock the globes to be a troll. I actually quite like them. Picked up a TRD LSD already in the IRS housing that will slot straight in too, along with some spare axles. Vultured from NicT's Carina, snooze you lose people haha. Pretty much all of the wiring is complete now, according to my Dad at least - all I see is a horrifying cluster**** of wiring hell. But there's no Soarer wiring forward of the firewall anymore - it's all JZX100 stuff. We've had the motor fired up, and not reporting error codes for any of the above from memory, but still needs a few things like the ABS controller mounted properly in the engine bay and so on. It's now using the Power steering, aircon, ABS, traction control, motor, trans, fuse boxes, etc etc all from the JZX100. I believe he's retrofitted some of the body loo m as well, so for example all of the old worn out switches have had their internals swapped for newer stuff. A few other bits have been sand blasted and repainted etc too. Slowly but surely getting there. Still a long road ahead, but Daylight savings + summer coming up should help a fair bit As always, when at this stage of the project it looks like there's been nothing done for a long time, then it all sort of comes together at the end once it gets painted and reassembled. Although we have been a bit slack on it too, coupe life.

Oooohh.... aaahhh....

Well you cant be that OCD then, if you missed the link

I glanced at this thread thinking it was in the for sale section, then thought "Worst salespitch ever" However, it isnt. I quite like these cars, the two tone looks great. For better or worse, they are definitely iconic of being one of the common 'boy racer' cars back in the day, before all of the mid/late 90s stuff came flooding through. Cheap cars, cheap gas, T'was a golden age of affordable hooning! (Or more to the point, dollar down finance-able hooning) Kinda feel sorry for kids now where just trying to fill your car to get to a part time job is probably running them broke. Hope you actually drive this and enjoy it rather than sell it.

Love your work Fels.

Because Roman fabrication In other news, this car is rather neat. As is your ability to smash through unique projects at an astonishing rate, haha.

Suuuuuurrreeee why not.

True that! Good luck, Good Sir. I wish you the best on your beamsy goodness fwd endeavours.

fffffuuuuuuuu such a waste of that gearbox pulling it to bits / sadface / dont miss working on an MR2. Have you considered using it as is, by converting to some type of upside down gear shift linkage system of pulleys and chains that mounts to the roof or something?

Buy everything you think you will need, *before* you start pulling your car apart, and put the turbo on etc while it's on an engine stand. Then try swap everything over in one big hit... You wont though as you'll have unexpected problems. The leading cause of project demotivation is having it sit there for months on end without being able to drive it. Even if your project is as straight forward as possible (even just gze swap) you're still going to be held up by various things and have the car off the road for a while, if it's the first time youv'e done something like this. Since it's likely that you would have to spend $$$ to get an engineer to check over your car and what not, have you considered just buying a factory supercharged AW11 if they're available where you are? Rather than swapping a grunty motor but still having a weaksauce gearbox etc it comes with all of the good stuff with zero hassle.

Aaahhhh so it looks as though with those coilovers the height is adjustable without preloading the springs? Pretty sweet, my life would be a lot easier if I had the same. What was the brand or model of coilover that was compatible with the GX71 etc strut diameter?

This car is damn cool! It's cool to see an older Mazda that's something a little different to the usual suspects.

I like, I like! One thing, I'm not sure if it's just because the pic was taken on a funny angle, but the car seems to have too many doors?

At a guess: Easier to keep road legal / easier to get in and out of seats / dont need harness & race seats etc / isnt a full blown race car / dont want to die in a roll over

Aaahhhhhhhhhh damn seeing threads like this I really wish I had a starlet again. So much fun.

When I read the first few posts in your thread, I thought you must be mad. As I progressed through it... I still think you're mad hahaha. As some others have said, your persistence is inspiring, I'd have shat my pants seeing that much rust. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out! Love Z cars so much.

Just read this whole thread, love it. Weird about being rear heavy, I'd have thought a stripped out car would always end up more biased towards the end with the motor.

^^What he said. Jeeeeaaaallllooouuussssss to the max.

It's better now.

I was feeling bad enough today being hung over from last night. Then I come see your thread and it's ruled my face right in half, which really hurts. Top work Sheepers!

I've got some engine books at home too... Bought them before I plunged in the deep end and bought a blown motor in parts to rebuild when I was in a similar situation. You're welcome to borrow them if you want to have a read. But yeah, I reckon best way is just throw yourself in the deep end. Buy a spare 7k and an engine stand, pull it all apart and clean it up etc. It's nice knowing the terms for what's what, but being able to visualise everything, knowing how big valves physically are, etc etc helps to no end in my opinion. Either way, the best possible advice I think I can give, is that if you are planning to rebuilt a motor.... Leave the one in your car, and buy a second one to play with. Keep your car running while you work on it, then swap them over and sell the other one, so it's cost neutral but much better than having a car off the road to 10 gazillion years when you inevitably find some complications etc. Also maybe dont read up too much on engines, it might dissuade you from the 7K

I think read about someone fitting a 2ZZ head to a K series, I think if you google ZZ top you should find it.