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Been a while since an update but have been working away at the roll cage. Rear firewall is done, hoping to get the cage finished over my xmas break, will depend how much beer I drink. Also been ferreting away with these in the background while I been doing cage

Love your car dude (think ive said that already) hope mine can turn out half as nice!

i had my sedan lowered something like 3 or 4 inches with leaves. Had the spring makers make flip them and rearched them the other way so they were about three inches lower, meant instead of being flat they still had some arch in them so they actually work as leave springs

more toys! That will be the last of them for a while need to pay off the credit card now!! haha

You can make them steer fine, its all about setting up the trail. That said if you grabbed some front forks that came off a bike that originally had say 25deg of rake and leaned them out to say 30 or 35 or whatever the fck they run then yeah it will steer like shit Also I vote two stroke for max lols.

now the only hole in the thing is the gearshift hole. Stoked. Doing roll cage currently but need to wait for my replacement tube notcher after my shitty chinese tube notcher fcked itself after 5 hours. Turns out in this case it paid off to get shitty at supplier, im getting a better quality replacement, still made in china but an american brand

Oh and I bought these....

from this to this

dont add back half of car bodies to it (eg mx5).So many people seem to do that it looks fugly. Its a trike it shouldnt have a boot ^that one^ looks pretty sweet

yup TDC #1, so that will be fine to trigger with the G4, simply select nissan 360 opto job done. If it was me id change to the 12 trigger speed tech disc too, he reckons the signal is pretty borderline in factory trim. Not essential just gives you a bit more reliability/less likelihood of misfires

They have pretty much everything, they dont have a FJ20 specific one but the nissan 360 opto is what I descrbed in the above post about the 360 outer slots and 4 inner slots. If in doubt like said ring link. It just so happens the link development car is a FJ20et Chevette

fully worked 4k with lumpy cam and 3/4 race water pump ow

hahaha

I ran a mini with a single down draft weber and approx 270deg duration, was some kelford grind, cant rememebr which now but had around 210 @.050 about (about 260-270 adv duration) was good cam cam on about 3.5k and revd out to 7k. Nice Ropey idle but not a complete slut to drive. I just rang kelford at the time and asked for a fast road cam.

Does the CAS wheel have the 360 litttle slots around the outside and 4 bigger slots on the inside? If so you can probably change out the nissan one for one of those speedtech ones. It *may* even help with the misfire. Have you replaced the leads recently? Also what about coil condition. Its running the correct Spark plugs. Mis fires lick balls they can be such a pain to diagnose!

it would probably be a bit of a pig at idle with a cam that big and a single down draft. Would give you a good excuse to upgrade to sidies/bike carbs though

Pop open the cap and take a wee picture of the insides. Is it a standard Dizzy or does it have an optical cas in it like the later model nissan dizzys? If so you can probably get away with running the link off the standard nissn CAS/dizzy setup although some people swap out the nissan disc 360deg opto disc for a 24 trigger wheel for a more reliable signal (you can buy the trigger wheels from Speedtech though these are for sr/vg/ca/rb etc not sure if that covers FJs) Sorry dont know a great deal about FJs so there may be some easy way of doing it. There may even be a way of using the cas bits out of a sr20 dizzy and mixing matching. Though surely it must be simpler than that. Have you tried FJ20.com to see what they do? Anyway im rambling now i'll stop

surfab?

Some argue that panhard bars and leave springs fight each other because a panhaard bar moves in an arc it pushes the diff slightly sideways while the leaf springs are trying to locate it too. Definitely get some good quality shocks in the rear. Maybe added another leaf to the spring pack to stiffen it up a little. Wasnt there some models of mk2 escorts that came with a rear swaybar (im not a escort fiend, im going off memory) I reckon add a small rear swaybar and some good quality shocks and the two link would be a good idea too it your going to do drift days

Mates done this. Started with a early 80s front wheel drive 323 wagon. Now has turbo gtx motor turned rwd with mx5 box and narrowed skyline rear end with 17x8 and 17x10s. Defintiely off topic. Are all the mitsi v64wd boxes the wrong way? a la v6 vr4s. What about Those 4 motion vw V6's?

yeah I was going to say celica box. As far as i've heard the celica and evo boxes are the only east-west 4wd boxes that handle decent power

I approve. Will be fun once its got some decent suspension in it. Even with stock motor you'll have a blast someone needs to do a p10 with a sr20ve

pictureless update for now cause can't be bothered uploading photos, but adjustable panhard is made and the diff side mount is made so this weekend the plan is finish mounting panhard bar and install rear coil over springs (hopefully picking them up before the weekend, they are just getting powder coated at the moment) and thats the 4 link all fabricated. Then its some sheet metal to fill in all massive holes I cut and final weld all the brackets on the diff In hindsight I wish I just cut the whole rear out and made a rear clip and tubs a la beams mk1 corty. Would have turned out a bit neater etc, Should still turn out all right in the end, just a slower process cutting, fitting, fouling repeat.....

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cool, like. How did you go about centering the two bell housing halves to tack them up?