flyingbrick

honestly. go get a quote from the muffler shop.

The muffler shop. the big yellow muffler shop. Down by the railway on killarney road. I had some resonators added once and it was surprisingly cheap. Was very happy.

yeah i vote lay shaft(s). I think thats the only way this is ever going to work.

Man, you are an animal! How long did it take you to strip all that paint off? Pics of you covered in dust + mess made?! edit: how did you remove the lead?

very cool. People make auto transmissions out to be much more complex than than they really are. When you break it down and look at how they work its all actually very simple. The biggest hurdle would be working out which solenoid does what- and which combination of clutch pack solenoid energizing will give which gear. I'm guessing a 5 speed will have one extra solenoid to control the selected gear than your more common 4 speed (which has just two usually) I'm rambling, sorry. Kinda passionate about these things.. dunno why.

putting the line pressure at 100% full time does not stop the clutch packs disengaging. The other solenoids divert this line pressure to engage or disengage your clutch packs. You are right, would be a bit rougher to drive- but easy to feed a manual throttle dependant signal to this solenoid if you want to make it more cushy... You may find that in order to stop clutch slip with those turbos you will need full line pressure as soon as you come on boost (but even at low throttle positions) Line pressure is entirely dependent on engine load usually- line pressure only reduces at partial throttle to make shifts more comfortable and line pressure is increased as throttle is applied to stop the clutch packs from slipping. Gears change at WOT with full and constant line pressure. They have to otherwise the clutch packs would smoke themselfs. That is unless the new 5 speed boxes operate in an entirely different way to the older toyota boxes as found on mk4 supras etc.. which is possible. Have you considered one of the older toyota 4spd boxes? they may have manual valve bodies available and more information around about their modification - i know there is DIY info on raising the line pressure via drilling restrictor holes and shimming accumulators to help them handle more power in drag racing situations etc etc. Hopefully not telling you how to suck eggs, just trying to be helpful in showing that there are ways without spending huge money on a controller.

I bet thats sooooo smooth and quiet.

Could just use it as a manually shifted auto? Find out which solenoid bleeds off line pressure and leave that one alone ( so its at max pressure all the time.. good) and then wire the inhibitor switch and OD button on the shifter to operate the solenoids directly. Different kettle of fish entirely i know- and only a 4speed auto box- but i did this to my nissan safari and it worked very well. It would not take a genius to then build a circuit to switch the solenoids through the correct sequence using just two buttons (paddle shifter or buttons on steering wheel). You'd just have to move the shifter manually to enter park and reverse. Just throwing ideas around.

Thanks for the help, : SNAP! I did read your post, saw the pic and thought you were confused. Looks like a bolt thats had the head machined and the thread turned down to fit into the spindle?

Hopefully nobody has said this yet. Your issue is that this is not a die grinder. Its a cut off saw. http://www.trademe.co.nz/building-renov ... 326707.htm Die grinders will not have enough tq and will probably spin too fast for one of those disks. I have that same saw in the link and its great, has had tons of use. Also, the very cheap trademe air tools (from my experience) are not as good as brand name big dollar stuff.... but they are more than good enough- especially after some tickling. My $15 trademe die grinder went from 19,000rpm to 27,000 RPM after some porting. Certain flap wheels explode. but needs a FARKLOAD of air. Still nowhere near as much TQ as my other die grinder *can t remember brand*

or bamboo! Where would someone find this bike parts store?

what does double butted mean?

wow wow wow wow. how did you get those brackets made? Very impressive.

Its not hard. The most commonly suggested method of bush removal that i have seen is to burn them out. If you need instruction there are like 10 vids on youtube of people doing it. I've done an SW20, an aw11 and a nissan safari truck and had no problems at all with this method. I don't recall the AW11 or SW20 having steel sleeves in the bushes- but if they did i would have knocked them out as I did with the trucks radius arms- with a punch after first cutting the sleeve with a hacksaw. It takes about 30 seconds of cutting to get through it. I assumed (maybe wrongly) that the 86 would not have this type of bush?

Nope- a bbq will not affect the temper of the steel Its a wonderful feeling when you come back to your arms and all thats left is a pile of steel with no bushes and a bit of dust. effortless !

ebay. NZ crowds seem to charge far too much. I put a set into my MR2 and the difference was HUGE. Do you have an old BBQ a-ling? they work great for burning out the old bushes- just sit the arm in the heat and let the rubber burn out by itself. Alternatively you can squeeze most bushes out using a 3 jaw puller and some imagination... but this is tricky and hard work. OR just take all arms to an engineer and get them pushed out using a press. Just warn them that if they bend any of your arms you'll get the asian mafia onto them. Installing the new nolithane bushes is EASY as they are usually all in two halfs a bench vice makes some of them go in easier. keep paint handy as the bbq will burn all the paint off. I am unsure how adjusting pinion angle increases traction........................... you dont adjust antisquat by doing this.

beep beep beep boner alert, boner alert. More info is needed for sure. Very very very cool. Andy- there are quite a few 86's in the world with 2jzgte's. None like this tho that ive seen!

You should chat with that fulla on here in auck who was wanting to do fab work for cash- get him to make you up a stainless heat shield. I'd help you out if you were down here- dont have a 4age near me unfortunately.

This is the best thread on OS.

Man that two door looks nice! Such a shame you are pulling it to bits to get the van going! Sweet project tho! I'd love to find one with a v8 in it* -Nathan *that requires no work and which i can afford.

this is such a gorgeous car. Looks good lowered but I like it equally as much at stock height with the hubcaps. It must be hard finding one of these this straight! -Nathan

Someone should start writing the DIY tutorial for fixing a 4age head gasket now.

It may just need some gentle persuasion to un-stick the pump housing as you said they used liquid gasket. Try levering it gently with a screwdriver

I concur. Hope you get the issues sorted soon!

this is because you keep either pulling them to pieces or selling them. just incase you were wondering.