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wouldn't bother with balance pipe if you are going into a single. i would look at running a custom collector or modifying those coby ones(if they are normal coby ones that is) . put a pyramid in the center, so it doesn't have the dead area in the center of the collector.

done a bit more, was a bit of a cunt to cut the holes, as couldn't holesaw them like i done on kp. as drill wouldn't fit. had to rape it with the angle grinder. plus it actually is made from metal not tin foil like the kp. final height should be close to this, need to cut the bumpstops down. managed to chop the drives side hole a bit big somehow, so gotta fill the gap.

awesome, vids please

sold my ep82, and finished working on other peoples shitters so time to get back to the trueno. now i don't have to work on it in the garden, time to cut some holes! heres whats funding the ae85 build. robbed some of the choice parts off it for the ae85, before i sold it.

i would go with the metal spacer idea on the black x member. or cut the mounts off the other one, shorten them. then weld in the correct location. maybe easyer than the spacer option actually. will look factory if your do a nice job too.

heres the fronts finished. car actually turns now, but still handles shit, since the back is shit

yeh he usually drops his prices if you ask for a deal. or pm him via ts as above. have got some pretty good deals off him in the past.

mostly for the rear, the ae86 ones come with separate shock and coil like stock setup. going to do similar to kp and go proper coil over. plus i like cutting shit up and it would be too easy to bolt ae86 stuff on. its allways good to cut up nissan stuff, when you own a toyota as well. front is finished. other than forgetting to weld the brake line brackets on. cheers for the comments.

haha. can't take credit for the strut idea, kinda stole it off mr dori ^ if i can do a mint weld on it it should still look like an off the shelf coil over. would have cost me alot more if i was to build a coil over setup from scratch, with bits frrom stocks or the likes. plus this was everything is matched up sweet to start with and no issues with uncaptive springs. Truenotch: yeh got it for a ok price, its pretty rust free. witch was the main thing i was worried about. wasnt too worried about anything else, as it will pretty much all be replaced

ready for test fit top mount holes needed to be slotted a little to fit the nissan camber plates. on lowest setting. sitting on some blocks of wood and jack stuck underneath, sweet just need to remove and weld properly. then onto the rear.

out with the old shitters, still had the factory shocks. no wonder it handled so bad cut the struts down. leaving just enough to aline the threaded tube, from the bc's. had to make a sleeve (middle in pic below) as the threaded tube id was 2-3mm larger than the outside of the strut. the nissan mounting points were chopped off as well. pressing the lot together

this dude does them: http://www.fortyone.co.nz/

most likely a 4age. definitely turbo this time though! must have lots of power without wrecking the handling. so no heavy engines yeh the old 3a is pretty rooted. smells like the exhaust is plumbed into the radiator when ya open the cap. but think most of the stuff in the engine bay was from the previous owner paddock bashing it. took a few days to get all the cow shit off and collect a few dozen empty beer/rtd bottles out of it.

picked these up yesterday nissan s13 bc coil overs. i didn't tell the guy i was going to cut them up and put them in a toyota

discussion: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=16590 was on the look out for another project since the kp is basically finished. after missing out on a few old toyota's. the ae85 popped up. yeah, kinda jumping on the band wagon with the ae85/6 thing, but fits my "requirements" heres a few pics the day we picked it up: powerhouse 3a-u and sweet fusion speaker wire battery clamp. panda paint job is on the list to go. but way down the list. have robbed some choice parts off my starlet(not the kp!) and are currently trying to sell it to fund the ae85 project.

kinda boring update, new engine has been in awhile and clocked up 1500k's or so. running sweet with a choice lumpy idle. goes a bit better than the old engine. isnt as guttless under 5000rpm thanks to the higher compression. still need to play with the cam timing to get the most out of it. its dialed into the recommended settings from kelfords at the moment.

donuts are annoying as they aren't drop saw friendly. i usually grab a pile of 90's or 180 deg. then just start cutting and tacking the suckers together. or can tape them to start with. if you cut one wrong, you sure to use it later on somewhere anyway. the length of straight on the 90's/180's is allways helpfull as well. saves cutting and welding small sections of straight alot of the time. construction wise, i find it easiest to roughly figure out were your pipes are going to run. then build you first pipe right down to your collector, tack it all together, then use that pipe for a guide to make the rest of them. rather than trying to make all them bit by bit

from end of output shaft to diff flange face is usually what they are after. not from seal

through toyota, yeh they are the 1sz ones. crazy expensive unless they ask for special price. cams are spose to be ok without them, but did it for piece of mind, plus old buckets were pretty worn,

so head went to the rebuilders along with block. sweet valve grind shimless buckets trd head gasket, arp studs, toda pistons. head back on. engine dude still has my crank pulley, flywheel and clutch. so thats about it for now

old engine kinda died a week before it was about to come out.

that's pretty cheap. yeh whole thing is made from 90deg mandrel bends i have a collector here same as mine, if you didn't want to make one. it has 2.25" outlet though.

pretty expensive aye, $19 plus gst each from memory. possibly go back up to 2.25" after the collector. check out this page for some more ideas http://www.popularhotrodding.com/tech/0 ... to_06.html

yup the two .38's on the inlet. probably best to change that .15 on the exhaust as well. .25 in .30ex is what kelfords recomened on my cams (4age) but they are tighter than that factory for memory

looking good. may want to go down a size on the collector not up. 2" should be good. better scavenging. and as far as i know those calcs are done on your average v8 firing order witch requires bigger collector size.