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that trike ^, the massive castor angle, do people actually ride them?

like the bicycles everyone is currently building, they are terrible(awesome) to steer,

with only like half that angle.

in summary, replicate that picture

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

I thought the only cam available for k series was 'lumpy'

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?

13.7L round town seems like a lot? What does that comepare too?

That sucks about not being about too skid up in the dry! If my a12 auto sunny could get a wheel going in the dry iff you tried hard enough (ok really hard)

What about one of the vq25/30 stageas? They can look pretty freaking sweet. Start at about 6500 for 2.5 auto one though

seen pictures of a south african datsun 1200 ute (bakkie) with one of those in there, was 'only' rwd not 4wd. But apparently it went rather hard

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

I thought about turning the motor in a GTX around 90 deg with an mx5 box for a while.

GTXs with blown up gearboxes were just about giveaway cheap for a while.

Sorry off topic though.

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?

that datsun 1000 was my work computer background for years. Such a winning picture

need to reinvite all the girls for the next one for all those who missed out!

pretty keen to come along but will have to miss this one. Will definitely be there for the next one

its perfectly round except for the bit that has the perfect right angle imprint of the curb in it

I owned a few minis when I was a young fella, my last one I had for about 4 years, was a 1293 that I hotted to hell when I was 17. Drove it daily everywhere and blenheim to christchurch and back pretty much every other weekend for one of those years. I swapped seats to some modern seats (SW20 mr2 ones I think) that I mounted lower and further back and dropped the steering column withh a dropper bracket. Made it much more pleasant to drive. Also konis made it ride sweet and handle better too. In the end I only really got rid of it cause I cracked the shits as it was a lottery if it would start in minus degree weather and I never could get it sorted (student poverty spec budget) was probably the carb I was running on it.

My main complaint was the drum brakes where barely WOF spec when in perfect condition. If you have some mechanical knowledge and are prepared to do some pretty regular routine maintence they are perfectly reliable. I dont really recall it being too uncomfortable to drive long trips with the mr2 seats but that was nearly ten years ago. Also as stated, 3500rpm crusing at 100 km get old even with a standard exhaust

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