Rhyscar

Wicked stuff man, been thinking about j-pipes a lot lately, good to see they work! Definitively an option for the future - particularly to get through cert tests...

Holy fireballs that’s a cool angle of your car. Shows all the sketchiness too. Interesting comparison. Does that mean all of the aero on the city is actually effective? Mid corner speed difference is quite a lot considering your car corners pretty well.. Man that track looks fun. Would love to doort it.

Thats a great range of upcoming events! How did it compare to the city? Did you have them both on track at Teretonga?

Yeah Dave still races the Lancer and various other mitsi turbo concoctions regularly at Manfield. I think still fwd turbo even. @SLIDEWAYZ sounds like you are at the time in the middle of your life when you need to buy a Lexus daily driver

Thanks heaps for the heads up! Went to have a look this morning and it was free to a good home. Needs a bit of a tidy up but at least it won't rust. Will chuck it in the stash of parts..

Rally prep is well underway. Spent another weekend in palmy helping Nick put the last of it together. Car is running now and off to Dyno, scrutineering and WOF shop today. Made the switch to Av gas too. There's a good chance we'll find something else that needs doing, hence why we are doing it all 3wks out.. Inside is looking tidy. Belts from Levin are in there, other set will come from Nicks civic. Helmet bag hung up, fire extinguishers replaced, first aid kit checked etc. All the small things take time. Picked up a fresh set of Zestino rally tyres. Only hard was available so have been doped to soften up a bit. Might be mediums by the time we get to the event . We got some help with them so were very affordable. Logic being new budget tyres that will last the whole rally are better than our average selection 10+yr old dunlop tyres. Gives us a few options to groove the Zestino's and mix and match what works best for the weather conditions. This is definitely a budget-conscious but maximum fun approach to rallying! We weren't too worried about lights initially as it's a 4am start for the front runners, but we'll be car 55-60 to leave with a 1hr tour to first stage. First light is around 6:30am so we've probably only got 1 stage in the dark. Plan was to just drive through cautiously. But anyway we found some old Cibie Oscar lights that someone gifted us many moons ago (maybe from OS even?) so decided why not chuck them on. Made some brackets and connected to the switch we already had. We must have thought about this back when we rebuilt the car. This years Daybreaker has a retro theme and the lights suit the period of the car perfectly. If anyone has any Cibie covers we could buy/borrow we'd be so grateful!? Would top off the look 100%

Some new stickers. Keeping the Castrol theme but they never gave us anything, and Nicks put soo much effort in he should get what advertising benefit there is to have.

No I didn’t see that. Might give him a ring thanks

Back in the car and now running. I made a day trip to help out for a day last week, back there again this weekend. Daybreaker is one month away now! Bolted exhaust back on. Man what a prick of a job! New gaskets, gearbox and diff oil. Nick decided to take on a carb rebuild. Required a few cups of coffee... They had been rebuilt a few times too many and needed a bunch of parts replaced. Lots of little things missing/not right, no wonder it ran like a bag of balls (compression issues aside). Thank god parts were all available through Palmside. Now they look brand new again! Getting some km's on it this week then off to the dyno. Same dyno as previous so will be interesting to compare. I'm back down in palmy this weekend to do final prep and pickup some new rally tyres etc.

Thanks man that’s super helpful!

Cool thanks @shrike and @mjrstar , consensus is it's good to go. I found a 5w-30 Penrite mineral oil that I'm running it on currently. A little unsure what spec to go with next, may just default to Motul 300v because it literally works with everything racecar related. Although I'd be interested in what oil the TRS cars ran in these engines? Surely a Castrol being toyota?

Oh man what a ride this has been. After running it for above vid and a few other times that day to tidy up fueling at idle, I got out to see it had dumped all it's oil on the driveway. Turns out it blew the remote oil filter adapter right off... Luckily, I think I caught this in time to not run the engine dry (fingers crossed!). So as always, there's a bit of a back story where some time ago, I couldn't figure out fittings for the 2zz filter thread to adapt to the aftermarket (whole knows what brand/origin) oil filter adapter. And then in a seemingly genius 'EUREKA' moment late one night I thought I got it sorted and slapped everything together. Fast forward to current day and yeah well, it wasn't sorted, and it was completely the wrong thread. Didn't even damage the thread when it blew off that's how loose it was! Almost brought me to tears after the amount of effort and energy I've put into this car. Had to take a few days off to try forget about it and start to think about it a little more rationally. So after not being able to find the right adapter, with the help of @Geophy, we bastardised a m20x1.25 truck brake fitting and welded it to the 2zzge bit like so. Was going to do with the grinder, but better judgement got the better of me and decided it would be best if we did it on the lathe so I can be 100% confident it's square and won't cause any issues. So it works now, has good thread engagement and doesn't leak. Win! only issue was it tightened up in the wrong spot meaning my short hose to oil filter wouldn't reach. Had to change fittings and re-make the line so it loops around. This is a much nicer solution so happy with it, just more effort required. So managed to run car again during my lunchbreak after a few more liters of oil... Doesn't sound like its done any bearing damage, has good oil pressure too. I'll probably drop the oil now and cut open to filter to double check nothing went amiss. Also here's a quick 3-4000rpm sound check for rasp the rasp-meter. Isn't as bad as I initially expected to be fair, but yeah its def got some rasp. Headers are starting to get a little colouring on them The other day I also completed the mind-numbing task of swapping the clutch and rear brake master cylinders over. Turns out I'd installed these the wrong way around years ago, then kept them like that.. Massive PITA due to a spacer between masters and pedal box but got there in the end. Many, many curse words were issued while lying upside down in the footwell, doing tiny spanner movements many many times over (25mm of thread), with a brake pedal in my grill. Not fun. Does anyone have any good guidelines for engine run-in? Engine has been sitting for 11-12yrs. Has fresh bearings (didn't touch crank), valves (oversized) and Headgasket but from memory we didn't touch the rings and we left the factory liner alone.

@shrike not mine, but was an interesting fabrication job nonetheless! The manifold I welded up turned to poo's and I think they re-did it in steel later on. I wonder where the car is now. So the story goes that we were doing some spirited driving in the south Waikato and there was a moment where I had to choose between maybe not making a corner, a powerpole, letterbox and a fence. Somehow managed to park it somewhere between all those with the aid of the handbrake, but did a little sill damage in the process. And since I had more time than money back then, and always want to do what's right for friends, I helped Murray out with all the fabrication for the supercharger. It was also a pretty interesting project which was great to be involved in. God it went like stink.

Can confirm this is hard work. But results are amazing!

Oh man, so educational thanks @Roman and @Truenotch. My brain is suitably sated. The smaller perforations on the vibrant muffler makes sense in creating a 'boundary' layer of air at lower velocities, while the Adrenalin R is more actively creating the boundary layer by grabbing them out of the exhaust stream and stuffing them into the packing.. and being a different shape (physically as well as if you were an exhaust gas partical travelling through), it will likely absorb different parts of the noise. I think both are equally as good in terms of performance, but could offer complementary benefits in the noise department. Another interesting scenario I'd love to test is a small step down section to 2.5" (potentially even with a very free-flowing muffler) then back up. Oh man, tuning is another world, but thanks for your explanation, makes more sense now. I just want all the Doorts and not doing things by half measures is a curse sometimes!