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So, yeah, when I said GTX2867 I actually meant G25... Which does mean the Starlet will get an upgrade sooner rather than later. At the moment the 86 still has the T50 in it but I have a J160 ready to go but will worry about all that once its actually on the road.

Me too! If KPR's Hilux is anything to go by it should be fun especially in a light car. Ive got a GTX2867 series 2 turbo sitting on the shelf which is the next size up from whats on the Hilux. I havent quite decided if it will make it onto the 86 or upgrade to the starlet then buy something else. It will depend a bit on the budget at the time I guess.

Yep! More on that to follow

Well, Ive done exactly nothing with 86 in well over a year, but life has been pretty full on so it only seems like a few months. The car itself is still under its cover, but things have been ticking away in the background on a new engine for it. Sooo I can't actually remember if it was peer pressure from @kpr or from me peer pressuring him (probably this option), but a couple of years ago the idea of a building a dream engine was born. From memory the now somewhat famous Garage4age Turd short stroke engine was being punished to all the rpm on the dyno with great results, so the new build is based on that concept but with a hair dryer bolted to the side for max rpm and max boost lols. Base of the recipe was a 7a block so found one eventually: This was stripped down and pistons, rods and crank etc were junked: A brand new crank from Toyota made its way into the mix: Along with some 81.5mm 9.0:1 Carillo forged pistons: Some custom length Garage4age designed rods: All the usual ARP bolts etc were aquired, and a MPR crank girdle, and this went off to the machine shop where it sat in a corner for a year or so. The block was washed and resufaced, torque plate honed and bored, the tops of the main bearing caps were machined, the MRP never again girdle was remachined as it wasn't flat which was a major piss off, refaced sump surface, bored main bearing tunnels, rewashed, everything was balanced and polished etc. Here it is being picked up: New oil pump which got Toda gears, some relief porting and matching to the 7a block: KPR then applied his wizardry and put the whole thing together using ARP main studs, ACL race main bearings, King XP big end brearings, the balanced rods and pistions which were skimmed to 0 deck, SS works oil pickup, oil restrictor mod in head feed, and a TRD 0.8mm headgasket. So thats the bottom end done and I can't thank KPR enough for all his r&d and time put into this engine. The head is next level again and I will post on this soon as its actually 99% done bar a few small things. Till next time...

Can you lay the engine over and take a photo of the sump? Shouldnt be hard to recut a flange then fab a new sump as required? Or make an adapter for a differnt front sump pan like @Roman did?

All was going well, untill it wasn't... @kpr to the rescue - one 20v towing another... With the tune 99% done oil pressure started to leave the chat so the pin was pulled before the thing grenaded. Im not surprised and not all that worried, will drop its pants at sometime soon and see whats surprises lurk within but I suspect a bearing is a bit sad. Ive got a couple of spare cranks but am looking around for a donor bottom end to throw in so I can get back on the road for a wof - if anyone out there has something let me know! Or may sell it as is if someone was interested. Being the worst 4age made it didnt quite crack the 100kw mark but it sure made good noises! But sadly that ends the chances of making OS drags for another year. Good news though is that the new engine for the 86 is coming along nicely so am aiming to have that car running by the end of summer!

Just minor bits and pieces to make it tidy - its not bad as is but I tend to get a bit carried away. Then it might be for sale after that.

Haha nah not on this thing - no amount of beer will make it ok for him to work on a silvertop 20v Its got a stainless 2.5inch system feed by factory headers which have the factory squish - Ive been trying to convince him to grovel under the car but I'll likely end up doing it

Thread dredge. I ignored this thing for most of the year but recently got a bit of spare time so ticked a few jobs off. DaveScienceTM @Roman kindly printed me some trumpets to replace all of the airbox - this may make it slower but it will look better! The more I looked at it the more I didnt like how the engine was wired - infact how the whole car was wired. Engine wise things were a bit "interesting" and rather than using the factory fuse box that Mr Toyota had kindly fitted with charge circult controls and relays for the coils and ignitor etc, they decided to ignore all that and use a NZEFI easywire board which wasn't so bad, but then they decided to use really random shit like having a completely seperate circuit open relay just sitting on the gearbox. So, out it all came. This is just the engine loom... Due to all the fuckery I also ripped out all the body wiring and swapped in all the factory wiring from the Si Limited mentioned earlier which was much neater and added a few body features not normally had. The original dash had a few bonus holes in it so that got changed over, and also fitted the facelift dash cluster. The facelift dash cluster had one of those super awesome ding dong speed warnings so I've modified the 12v feed to this so its on a switch if I want to drive myself insane while fanging around a track. Anyway engine wise I got rid of the NZEFI board and reverted back to using all the stock relays for injector power, coil power, radiator fan and the normal circuit open relay for the fuel pump etc. I didnt really take any photos of this but it became a straight plug and play deal nicely wrapped and out of the way. I wired in the extra dash gauges for oil pressure, water temp and volts, and also had some scope creep care of DaveScience and fitted some 1NZ coils for sequential ignition. Plugged it all in and it started first pop. Fitted a cheapy android head unit and upgraded the front speakers, plus ran wiring through to the back for some parcel tray sounds. Bought a few small items to tidy things up like a interior light cover etc The radiator didnt have a fan on it previously so made some mounts and front mounted it as there isn't enough space behind. It has 4 mounts, just didnt take a photo of it finished. My brother blasted the cam cover for me and I welded on a dash fitting for a decent catch can setup I will sort sometime in the future Also made up a front strut brace, a radiator overflow bottle bracket, and painted a few bits and pieces. Still needs heaps of tidying but its getting closer to being good enough. So with it driving again I towed it to @kpr to blow the cobwebs out knowing how much he loves 20v's and fwd's It made good noises but this happened: Which was actually just a loose radiator hose so easily fixed. Then injector duty cycle went through the roof and the fuel pump left the chat. I had a spare EFI tank so swapped in a new pump just in case then returned to kpr's to fit it. This is what was found when I opened up the original tank after swapping it over... The original builders had jammed an EFI pump onto the end of the carby pickup line and left it dangling loose in the bottom of the tank. The hose had split which was causing the lacklustre fuel pressure. After swapping to the new pump the idle AFR dropped into the 10s! So it works now and Ive left the car with kpr for a thrash when he gets a chance, but it makes good noise now even if it makes less than 100kw haha. Thats it for now, will likely update in another year.

Thats only a short list... go DaveScience go!

Yes! So glad you are getting this back on the road! Trickle down effect is Im motivated to get mine going too now!

Man this is awesome, such a tale!

Nice work on using Victron too - Ive been using their gear for a few years now and they are excellent!

Yell out if you need a plate cut etc

Could attempt to throw it on the CNC and skim it flat?

Airjacks to lift the rear axle at the lights so the drive train can keep turning to keep it charging /logic

Yes they are

Ive used 4efte injectors in a heap of 4ages over the years and they seem to work pretty good and are plentiful/cheap. Ive probably got a couple of sets with plugs if you needed some.

Ive got a set of 17inch Evo R's if you were interested? Old photos as they are in storage but you get the idea. Have centre caps, nuts and lock pins.

That should be printed and on the wall in Oldschool reception!

I can't recommend a free software but I use Rhino everyday all day which is fantastic for simple 2d right through to large 3d textured models etc. We also use Rhinocam for CNC programming.

Awesome work! How much boost can those engines handle?

We sell 4m x 2m sheets so will check stock and let you know

I might be able to help - let me know some sizes you need and colour required. One of the businesses brings in ACM, acrylic and ali etc so will try wrangle you a deal if you would like?