vivaspeed

4 hours ago, Nominal said:

@vivaspeed

Dunno about the R badge 

That’s a really nice car. I think it was built by Adrian Rimmer (?) in Tauranga about 10 years ago. Has got an MX5 driveline in it. Not sure if B6 or BP.

Spotted today. Not an AU but check out the door.

Right, what they said.  Keep it on topic and take the spam to the spam thread.

This thread should be sharns about turds you've sold which have then blown up.

My opinion only. Feel free to shoot down.

I’ve had multiple RWD 4AGE things including a genuine AE86 (and still have a shed full of 4AGE bits and things and I am a big fan).

They are cool cars but have really attracted Toyota fan tax (like Datsun fan tax etc).

Nowadays I’d probably spend the 20-25k on something more modern and faster.

If you really want an AE86/85 then awesome, save up and buy one, but if you want fast and fun RWD then there might be better options.

#ripdoordent

@BlownCorona there should be plenty of castor adjustment in the standard Viva subframe set up.  The lower arm is on a rubber bush so will happily move back and forth on adjustment (and if the bushes are flogged out it will move back and forth while driving too!) and the top arm is fixed by it's two mounting points.

Just undo the big nuts on the castor arm and wind it out.  Maybe also replace the bushes on the castor arm too.  You can get a Nolathane part for it (Torana).

Looking in some of my reference manuals they recommend 2.5 to 4 degrees.  I'd wind heaps into it for sporty driving.

The upside of using a Viva front end is the whole thing is self contained.  The body/chassis mounting points don't make any difference to any of it, they only hold the body to the suspension.  Of course would pay to make sure the subframe is mounted square to the chassis.

They're all rusty turds now, generally speaking.

Had my eye on a J bedford down south but they wanted silly money.

A tidy TK with decent power plant would be cool though.  Maybe big Cummins for max lols.

I've often thought about a Bedford tow wagon.  It then also realised I want to make it to the track...

Pft

Looks rad. Good job.

Is graffiti a problem in your hood?

Well I'm out.

COVID-19 has thwarted my travel plans so I won't be in town for this.  Dumb.

3 hours ago, Mourning Cupcake said:

That sounds like a mighty fine idea! @vivaspeed what general vicinity will be easiest for you to access?

City side. Staying centrally.  Anything south of Ngauranga would work.

It would be rad to see Wellington folks again. I miss Wellington meets.

Is the March meet on the 19th?

If so I'm in town for that.

Oh yeah incredible machine game.

Those conveyor belts always went the wrong way first time around, flip the belt over.

Kids today need more 'build shit' games to learn mechanical theory.

On 19/11/2019 at 17:22, ~Slideways~ said:

installed windows 3.11 lol

This thread is relevant to my interests.

A few years ago I installed DOS 6.2 and Win 3.1 or 3.11 on an mid 2000s Pentium laptop I had for shits and giggles. It must have been a rainy day or something.

OMG all the speed and it booted up in about 7 seconds.

Tried to install Netscape Navigator and see what the internet did but couldn't make the LAN connection work on old Windows.

Didn't realise you could buy coil overs for these things. Shiny and new.

You going to cert it, or just smash out a plate at work one day

These have the potential to be cool if they're not white/silver and being your Uber.

Was seriously looking at a Prius C / Aqua as a small roundabout and for my 500km/week commute. Don't need actual power in Auckland traffic and to minimise fuel consumption.

These are the later 1.8 motor right?

I'm pretty sure they are interchangeable.

What's the jetting in the 32/36 because they were used on much larger engines. I ran a 28/36 DCD with too large jets and it was terrible but tune it down smaller and it was fine.

You can also take a SPI injection unit off a Falcon and it pretty much bolts up too (with some slight slotting) In case you want to run EFI with massive injectors at 0.05% duty cycle

1 hour ago, Seedy Al said:

@vivaspeed

Whats your thoughts on this lol

Having gone down both paths. Modern Japanese on injection is the way of the future.

You can spend a lot of money making an old engine only half as good as a modern twin cam.

Also 4AGEs are an old engine now. Basic 16v design is 35 years old now.

MX5 engine in rwd is the go.

Keen to see how this turns out.  Chassis fabrication looks good.