Rhyscar

Don't rule out a screwed wheel bearing. They go pretty suddenly and have some strange symptoms I found when mine went (both went within 2000kms of each other and less than 500kms of being checked and being fine) They aren't a tapered seat bearing like most older cars so even when they are screwed they don't have any play in them. Only way to tell if they are gone is to take wheel off, do 2-3 nuts up to hold brake rotor in place then rotate rotor by hand with the other hand on the top control arm. If it's screwed you'll feel a rumbling vibration through the arm. This confused me for a while when they went all of a sudden (just outside te kuiti at 12 pm with snow falling) and had similar symptoms of rumbling noise when braking/cornering.

I'll talk to nick and see if he will tell me any numbers. Is relatively cryptic when it comes to these kind of things on occasion..

Front tyre wear is all about wheel alignment and setup. Hard to find someone who knows what they are doing on my BA it's wearing perfectly. Went to flip the tyres after 10000km of fairly hard driving the other day and hasn't shown any signs of wear inside or outside (soft 18" eagle f1s and quite low). The alignment has definately solved the problem on my car

But technically it wouldn't be a fuel? You could prove that it would be evaporated by the time it reaches combustion... Cool. Hope it works for ya.

That's pretty cool. Glad it worked and def worth the extra hps. Bigger intercooler to get the temp out of the intake charge? Worth trying some alcohol injection or similar post-supercharger?

The k/f series Honda motors are all putting out about 170 kw atw (bit more for the better built cars) and both of those cars will be fairly close to the 900 kg weight limit. You'd drop a second with good shocks I reckon your car and dad's are so evenlt matched at manfield which is a way smoother track. Pretty similar straight line speed and corner speed. Your chassis is waay better to set it up into the corner how you want. Ae82 has so much play in everything its a bit of a turn and hope kind of exercise

No its just like that all the time.. that is the least straight car there is in the field (although a few others come close) and I'm not talking about the driving or the panels. Gutted about the rim. Send to Warren Dickson to chuck a new band on it? Jarred ended up fixing that enkei of mine which was fairly similar. Didn't cost much either thunk it was around $200. Sweet racing. Shocks make massive difference to how the car rides the bumps at puke. Also feel sorry for the sweet datsun that gary madcock took the nose off. Once again a terrible display of driving from the gentlemen racers in stupidly fast cars in the middle of that pack. I presume ray brown pushed himself off the track again in one form or another? What's the championship points looking like?

I like this. Saw ya yesterday at the ashurst garage. Thought it was 4age, best sounding beams I've heard so far has slightly reduced my hatred of the 3sge engine bred. Good shit nice build

Sometimes when it's drizzly and drying it's incredibly grippy. Think it's a mix of low air temps but still plenty of heat in the track. Glad this thing has had a birthday. Has been needing it for the last couple of years. Needs new shocks next. Hope it goes fast this weekend. Guna get rally car together and bring it out for a a drive tomorrow. Oh also come drink beers at my place tonight.the old markku would of. Will txt.

Locked diffs are the work of the devil for handling. Always end up with corner entry push etc it's just yuck. Plate type if the way forward. Really it's not that much money in the bigger scheme of things/they last forever

Wow drunk posting - sounded a lot betterer/cleverer in my head sorry nick

What do you know 78lanicer? You're into old mistis

^^ That's not such a silly idea. Would have to install a external sump/resevoir/pump to spray oil around inside but other than that and how to lubricate the diff I don't see why not.. Nah mit or needs to be intake facing forward it's pretty much the whole reason I did this rather than building a serious 4age. I've got to talk to a very clever man about the size of the intake and airbox as this may determine if I can use a scoop or if it'll need to fit under the bonnet

Normally I'd like to say I agree with you Dave but the thing is btcc spec is reliant on the gearbox output shaft location being further up and also the option of having the output on the front would be super helpful. This is cause you either need to lean the engine back or forward to get trumpets to fit and axle location is always going to be the limiting factor. I really would love to have $25k sitting round to buy an xtracc gearbox that's not really realistic.

I can push it back a little maybe 30-40mm but it is quite tight against the steering rack. Considering I've got to fit the extractors on the back of the engine and around the steering rack, I don't want to close the area up top much yet

Gearbox all sorted and bolted up. Plenty to re do properly but at least I can see how it will sit. The good; - It fits (ish) The bad; - sits too low. Will smash sump to. Pieces at current height - needs to be leant forward heaps to flatten out sump - looks like I will need cutout/hump in bonnet which I really want to avoid if I can (outboard injectors will sit out even further) Onwards and upwards. Plenty more to do after rallying is over for the season

I'm not so sure about that! Plan for the day was to take it easy since we aren't running notes and are complete beginners at this gravel stuff. Just tried to carry plenty of speed through the corner and try not to waste too much time going sideways. Worked in places but is a very fine line between understeer and chronic oversteer even with a mighty 87hp..

The Story of Daybreaker 2014 This is the one event which we essentially bought the car to compete in and finish after being involved in it for a while and loving the local manawatu roads. There was plenty of preparation coming up to the event, on wednesday night I took the car for a few drives and tried out the lights. After I got back and put it in the shed we had an issue with the charge light coming on. Sometimes it would be charging at 13.8V and others it wouldn't be charging. Since this was a freshly rebuilt alternator a week prior (juice it up to 85A to run the lights) after a bit of faffing around we dropped it back at the auto sparkies. There was some fault with the stator? apparently and the guy was a GC so put a brand new alternator on it for us for a box of piss. So anyway Hella Flash lights mounted (110% pun intended) We were seeded 40th as we didn't even finish our first rally and had engine problems the whole time. about half way through the first stage we caught the car in front and passed them in a flurry of style (i.e. completely sideways and throwing stones errywhere) The sun was just coming up at this time but there were a number of enclosed areas of the road through pine trees etc so we kept the lights running... approx 2km from the finish of the stage we had a wee bit of an electrical fire caused by the alternator charge wire glowing red hot from running the lights. It was an old wire and not the biggest so may have been overloaded or could have had a few cores broken etc. Got towed to the end of the stage where we called the service crew to come give us a hand. Found a friendly farmer who had a box full of wiring including some amp wiring. Grabbed this off him and Nick set about rewiring the alternator wiring on the side of the road. Within an hour or so we had the C*^t going again (with lights removed). We are lucky it didn't cause any more damage or catch the seat on fire (was very close) and we had good extinguishers on hand. Managed to rejoin the rally at stage 5 where we settled into the groove and took things easy. Stage 6 was a bitch of a road, real tight and twisty with massive drop offs and unpredictable surface. Nick did a good job making it through that one without incident. Stage 7 was 42km long but quite a good bit of road. Lots of very slippery places though, coming across 2 or 3 understeer-into-fence cars in the first 15km or so. Took things easy and kept a good pace, catching the BMW in front about 2/3rds of the way through. Was awesome seeing some OS'ers cheering us on in there and the always-looming Brett taking pics and egging us on to do a bigger skid. Unfortunately it didn't always come off.. Stage 8 was fairly uneventful from memory, just settled into the pace. Stage 9 was a mint bit of road, I was back in the drivers seat and made some good clean pace, catching the BMW in front again by the end of the 7km stage. Ended up placing 28th for this stage (our highest time of the day) beating a couple of BDA's surpisingly. It was a fast flat out stage which the mighty 4K struggles with a bit with two fat bastards in the car.. Stage 10 was a cool bit of road and Nick had really good pace Stage 11 was Ridge road. Quite a famous daybreaker stage that we always heard about. Didn't quite know what to expect but was good fun. Wasn't as tight and twisty as some of the other stages but was definately challenging - getting it wrong had pretty big consequences at times. So for this stage we started in front of the offending BMW from stage 7 & 9, placing us behind a WRX which we thought we wouldn't (shouldn't) catch in our 1300... about 5km into the 24km stage we came across his dust which was heavy and very difficult to see through. Slowed down a few times to wait for it to clear then caught up again. After a few times decided to just charge on up through the dust and get past. This was no problem but he obviously wasn't paying attention to his rallysafe saying that we were right behind him. Followed him like this for some 5mins before deciding to use some our IB cup winter series skills and give him the Tap and run. After this I was fairly furious and the driving was terrible, running wide everywhere, clipping a fence with a massive dropoff and generally just driving loose as anything. Made it to the end though in good time and made the trip back to palmy for the official finish. Love tap of fence; WRX shaped bumpering dent.. Had a wee issue with the oil cap coming off (my fault) not far from the official finish, rust-coating the inside of the engine bay for us.. that was nice. Fire extinguisher powder makes a bloody mess! Got to thank all these guys for getting behind us and helping us with the little things to get to daybreaker after blowing the engine at Tauranga. Every little bit helps! - Mag and Turbo Palmerston North - Wright Metals - Tigpro Engineering - Roskilda Autos (dyno time) - Broadway Auto Electrical (last minute fresh alternator) Here is a selection of air guitar action shots from Brett @ Pitcrew design and Nick's mum And finally, this pretty much sums up the event for us (taken after stage 11) Car is going in the shed and being ignored for some time now as I get into my ae101, go on holiday and relax a bit and Nick gets into his property and perhaps looks at the 1200 (don't hold your breath). Will aim to do a few gravelsprints around manawatu and hamilton area (girlfriend lives in Hamiltron so up there regularly) List of stuff to fix; - Guard - Bumper - horrible mess everywhere - Replace amp wiring with fit-for-purpose wiring - Get it retuned to get rid of the richness (averaged approx 30-40L/100km) during touring and stages, hopefully eliminating the massive hole in the power delivery between 3000-4500rpm and making it possible to get off the line without stalling it.. Thanks to everyone who came out and supported us, got involved and made it a fun day for us.

Glad to hear you enjoyed the skids. There were some good bits but also made a meal of some corners. Haha It was all good fun though I'll fill you in on all the electrical fire dramas and ramming 4wd cars..

Have a chat to nick at mag and turbo palmy he will be able to tell you straight away. Ben has his number.

Those semi slicks look like a wet tyre.. essentially a grooved slick (worth checking if they are dot rated) and soft as Fuck. They will melt if not driven in torrential rain.. Looking good though. Vacuum chamber should turn out nice with brass lines

For those who are wanting to do some spectating.. http://www.rallywairarapa.co.nz/daybreaker-spectators.php

Rocker cover all todied up and back on, timing chain cover back on, 4age flywheel bolts shortened and flywheel fitted. Also replaced all visible bolts with stainless cap screws for prettyness Just waiting for gearbox to come back with new diff and bearings then I'll start looking at engine mounts Had an issue with the throttle linkage hitting the rocker cover on full throttle so modified the mounting for the throttle cam and shortened the linkage to suit. Looks like it's factory now.. And also.. Hello valves..

Daybreaker just around the corner. So it turns out we did an ok job of building the engine drunk as anything. Ended up essentially completely rebuilding the carbs. Got it running to run engine in and the fuel pump gave up. Also replaced the reg with a holley one, now we have mint fuel pressure all the time. Big thanks to Roskilda autos for the time spent on the Dyno and rebuilding the carbs and did a good job. Made some (not much) horses approx 87hp which wasn't altogether bad. Has heaps of torque for a 1300 and pulls through the gears well with the TRD ratios Apparently plenty more in it with more timing but goal is to keep it reliable and not have to rebuild the engine every year.. Found one of the wedges which hold the rear calipers in place was missing also so desperately in need of some ae86 rear calipers even if it's only to borrow for the daybreaker. Having a look at down at oldschool today hopefully. Just tidying up the final bits and pieces of wiring and having the alternator re kitted to make sure it can handle running the 4x hella spotlights we'll need for the first two stages (4am start Woohoo)

Have made a bit of progress lately. Mmmhh 6 gears.. Found some goodies inside, the gearbox had been rebuilt previously and found a TRD LSD in there as well. Didn't have any wear on the synchros or the diff and looked to be TRD oil in there so that's always a good sign. While the gearbox was apart I took some time at work to sandblast the casing before putting it back together with new diff bearings and a couple of new bearings inside the box and a seal kit Also blasted the timing chain cover to get rid of the green. Have clear coated the bottom part and the top will go the same color as the rocker cover. Intake manifold mk 2. Big thanks to jase for sorting this. Still some small adjustments to make for a perfect fit but almost there. Nothing that can't be sorted out with a file. Also struck a problem with the vvti solenoid plug being in the way. Need to work out how I can rotate the plug by 180deg but leave the solenoid in the same place. Got heaps to do at the moment with the pedal box needing finishing, seat mounts to do, sump to baffle, rocker cover to clean up and refit with cam timing cover, shorten 4age flywheel bolts and fit gearbox and clutch then I'll be ready to mount it in the car and fab up and engine mount. While all this is going on I'm in the process of designing some coilovers bodies for some 42mm inverted bilstein shocks. Should be good to get them sorted!