Mitch.W

talking thread - //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/51653-mitchs-kp60-starlet-build-thingy/

so got this thing started up yesterday, got it running for about 2 minutes and it will then die, every other time it starts its for about 30 seconds then dies. 

Any suggestions? i was thinknig or slapping a new wiring loom in it as this one is a bit iffy.

EDIT: Problems solved thanks to pbaines for lending me a bunch of parts, i slapped an ae86 (EDIT: ae82) ecu in and it fired right up and ran perfect! starts first pop every time. now to fix everything else

give me some rad advice on what to do.

so yeah, this thing got mentioned to me by a friend (seen88 on here) he told me its a kp starlet with full ae86 running gear for a vert reasonable price. 

I went and checked it out, and it happend to have everything that i was told, Blue top 4age, t50 box, t series rear end (unshortend sadly) adjustable front suspension, adjustable lca's adjustable caster arms, heaps of other random stuff. 

the story goes the guy that built it had a starlet rally car that he had but the shell was fucked, he brought this shell and slapped everything into it, then gave up? i guess...

When i picked it up i was told it was running but it no longer does so i will hopefully sort that all out today!

plans are

-slam

-paint

-wheels

-cert

-do drifts

all the bad stuff is annoying though.

-yuck flared guards

-Chinese fender mirrors

-really bad bright yellow paint

-genreal rally spec stuff that i have to rip out and redo to get legal

-non matching seats (different bases to backs) 

I have already ripped out the monster tacho, installed my nardi and random little gear knob.

I will modify my seat rails to suit my fixed back bride and i really want a tidyer interior with no screw holes in the dash. 

daymn, this is rad. 

Living the dream!

dayyymnnn genuine Toyota bubble wrap, thats the good stuff.

seriously though, i'm much jelly those louvers are quite rare aren't they?. 

sad news, Was a good old boy. 

is his place still staying how it is or are they going to clear it out?

how warm will this place be? warm enough to pitch a lean to off a car and sleep under it/the stars?

At about this point i decided to stop dailying it and buy a sensible daily/to car to tow this thing to tracks. 

This ment things couls start to get more wild on this car!

Got all that stuff on and the car started looking nice for once!

Packed the rig up and headed to taupo for the weekend, but not without any drama. 

Went up a night early so nothing was rushed, went to pull the car off the trailer at the motel to do a little bit of work and the battery was flat, after going to buy a new battery and putting it in it still wouldn't start. i diagnosed it down to the fuel pump wiring.. again why does this alway happen right at/before track days. Turns out somwhere in the loom the power wire has broken.

after some asking around we got some local taupo boys around and they helped us wire up direct power straight to one of the tail lights, so when i turn my park lights on my fuel pump turns on. It held out for the entire day without blowing any fuses which surprised me!

Apart from putting brand new brake pads in and still having no handbrake it was a lush day.

At about 3pm i got loose with some manjis and tapped the pit wall with my front right wheel bending my steering rack and tie rod which put me out for the rest of the day. miraculously  no pannel damage at all which i was super stoked about as it was quite a bit hit.

Heres some footage from that day.

I then brought afew bride brix seats and this cool Bride Pro-R out of japan

Then brought a pair of 15x8 -15 ssr formula mesh locally

Then another pair of 15x8.5 -9 out of japan

Then i went and got me a cert and all that legal jazz 

Then went and brought a factory aero kit that cost me far too much

At this point it was still my daily and only car, 

I went and did a drift day on the back track at manfield and had problems from the get go, 2nd corner i went to drift the car cut out... I had driven to the track in the morning fine so i had no clue, turns out my fuel pump had decided to die, quick trip to the local Repco had me a new one the the hassle of putting of these in the cae was super annoying since the last owner somehow cut stuff up/removed stuff i needed to mount the pump in the tank with. Long story short i spent half the day mucking around making this new fuel pump work and all that boring shit. was still good learning though.

so about a year ago i decided i wanted to do silly things in cars, so i sold my daily and brought this s14 and decided to make a nice daily that i can take to tracks and have a good time in too.

After serching for awhile and decided silvias prices are stupid this popped up reasonably cheap so i snapped it up. it was from whanguani so nothing was good it on, the interior was half apart and most of it missing. 

this is what it looked like when i picked it up, stock apart from cut/lowering springs and a loud exhaust

I brought some cheap fucked adjustible suspension and put it in along with some Renoma Paris that i had been hoarding and it looks not bad.

I spent up and brought some bc golds and Parts shop max adjustable arms and other stuff and slammed it in

oi ritchie, is your slide all the way in? it can sit in there but not drop down if its not located properly.

so rad, saw you guys cruising back south on monday while i was on my way up, A+

Do yours then come do mine Mitch

if you build me an oil cooler setup i will

i have heard about this too with my izuzu bighorn (4JG2) how diffcult is this shit to do?

yeah my old one had those bumpers, they work good as seats.

you going to be up again roger? 

i will be there, daily meet spec again/i don't even own an old car anymore.

It usually depends on how busy they are but mine have only taken ~2 weeks so far.

6 weeks seems an awfully long wait.

there is more than likely afew of them out there, can't say i have ever looked for them when i have gone exploring there.

its in foxton, behind a 4x4 shop.

take your intercooler off and see if its full of oil, a seal in your turbo is probably just gone and leaking oil everywhere. but burning oil is still blue smoke.

black smoke will be it running rich as fuck, maybe on 5 cyls, white smoke pouring out would be turbo.

what happened to all these wheels coming from japan?

sorry mate, but the threaded rod for steering links won't last 5 mins......... been there, failed !!

get some thick walled tube and thread inside

threaded rod will be fiiiiiinnnne unless you crash it into a wall or something, in our racing karts we use aluminium ones and use they as a bending point in a crash to save damaging more expensive parts. 

just buy my kz2 and win at life/be the king of grass skids/