GARDRB
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On 01/05/2024 at 20:01, Bearded Baldy said:
Xa to xe series falcon might work, very similar to trailer ones but cannot remember which is shorter.
Oooh, that one is interesting, the cylinder being shorter than the res might help too, coz the main interference is the end of the cylinder vs the rocker cover (now I'm questioning if I can modify the rocker cover)
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On 29/04/2024 at 09:36, Adoom said:
Local cert man, Julian, said much the same. "as long as it doesn't rub".
Don't drive with the handbrake on and you'll be fine
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I've got the factory BBS nuts on there now and they fit the 33 GTR wheels I got too which coincidentally are made by BBS too. Might grab some spline drive nuts just to be a bit of a pain to the average thug with a wheel brace
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5 minutes ago, Mop Head said:
Heck scrolled a bit further and I see what you mean. Aside from the polarising stuff I lost interest at him getting wound up by negative comments on his videos. Thats like being upset that you smell like shit after rolling in a pile of it. Par for the course.
In his defence (not that I know him from a bar of soap) he had a decent sized head injury just after he first built the car when he put it backwards into the pit entry at Hampton Downs. But the way he conducts himself is quite abrasive
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Are locknuts still a thing? Have we got to a stage where we don't bother like car alarms coz someone is just gonna destroy/remove them anyway? I've just bought the most expensive wheels I've ever had (coz inflation) and am used to spline drive nuts and normal wheel nuts, but remember locknuts being an absolute shit show from working at tyre shops when I was younger. The nicest set I've found so far appears to just be spline drive nuts.
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21 minutes ago, Mop Head said:
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=754078740041441
^1000HP AWD K12 in New Zealand. Possibly posted before.
Found owners yarn:VQ35DEIDX1300cc injectors @ 3.5bar base fuel pressureZ1 motorsports valve springsWiseco pistons customized by The LabEagle rodsACL race bearingsBillet crank girdleARP L19 head and main studsHKS head gasketsBlock guardsBespoke inlet and exh manifoldsTwin three inch exhAluminium flywheel with triple plate clutchLink G5 Voodoo ECUPulsar GTX2871R series two turbosVK45DE throttleStock crankshaft, stock valves, stock cams, stock portsThe "WOW!" is only really the fact it's all in a K12 March mid mounted with 4WDHGT Precision five speed sequential running through a prop shaft to our bespoke The Lab/KTD reversing transfer box and then through a pair of customized 350Z differentials.Yeah that car's a bit nutty, was at the street sprint up here a couple of weeks ago. The driver/builder is a bit of a polarising chap, but the car is pretty insane nonetheless
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On 26/04/2024 at 13:20, morkster said:
15s may as well be 19s
Fixed that for you
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7 hours ago, yoeddynz said:
Those speeduinos offered by kiwi efi are a bloody bargain for a built up ecu with a decent plug.
Yeah, good plug, good case. I was originally looking at building one, but didn’t think I could build one for the price
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What about 3D printed adapters with flexible hose between them?
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How it started ^^^
vs how it's goingSo I mentioned to Dad that we needed to get the leg off to see if the driveshaft was rusted. I didn't mean now. Dad decided now was a great time. So we've spent however long it's been between that post and this post pulling it apart. We've split the top of one flat head machine screw, broken a bolt, scooped out a couple of cups of this weird shell/grease mix, poured the driveshaft out as a fine powder of iron oxide, and now we're trying to work out how to remove the machine screw with the broken head to release what I'm gonna call the pinion gear.
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7 minutes ago, bigfoot said:
I have some VR4/Evo coils if you wanted to run them
Those could fit the bill, are they run individually or in a wasted spark config and what are you wanting for them? Maxy is a bit of a hoarder/hotrodder/tight ass so I'm pretty sure he will scrape something out of somewhere, but good to have a backup plan.
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Ok soooo, I have a v8 Corolla project that's been off the road since 2010, a Lifan go-kart project, and a couple of later model Corollas sitting in the driveway to tidy up and sell among many other things so I decided that grown-up thing to do would be to buy another project. This one is 2-stroke, something I know a whole lot less about, and as old as my Mum. Dad is a boatbuilder, so it was much easier to get him on board for this project, and he's even let me store it in the woodworking shed.
The guy selling it priced it based on what he'd seen a fuel tank listed for on TradeMe. The motor turns over by hand, but the prop doesn't turn, and it sounds like it's a shaft rust issue. I'll dig into it at some stage, but for now creating a thread on here was much more exciting than actually working today.
I see the Seagull Barrys race them, so it might be a good chance to buy a silly little boat to put it on.
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The ECU has arrived, consider me impressed. The micro USB is a bit janky, but that's neither here nor there.
It's been fitted with a VR conditioner and configured to suit the Toyota 24+1 trigger setup. It connects to TunerStudio which I'm quite happy to see has Mac support. Now I just need to resuscitate a laptop, as I don't think my Mac Mini will work very well in the car.
I went and saw Max on Sunday and we stood and stared at the two disassembled dizzies for a while. The guts of the 4AGE dizzy are too big to fit in the 2TG dizzy, so it sounds like there is going to be some sort of choppy choppy sleevey sleevey action going on.
We're looking at potentially cutting the 2TG dizzy off at the red line, turning the blue section down and turning the base of the 4age dizzy down to be joined with a sleeve and joining the two dizzy shafts somewhere in the mix. Max also pointed out the oil port on the side of the 4age dizzy for lubrication and told me he was gonna lie awake at night designing something in his head.
I guess my next step is to start stripping the 2TG loom down and working out what I'm keeping, what I'm removing and what I'm adding, along with what is already in there that can be reused.
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4 hours ago, yoeddynz said:
You'll be fine using the dizzy triggers. So many Japanese cars did just that with no worries.
Are you going to run full sequential injection?
That will depend on what coils we find kicking around I think. We may end up with wasted spark purely based on there being free coils in the shed somewhere. Max comes from the days of importing series 1 RX7s from Japan cut in half and welding them back together again, so there is a bunch of amassed stuff between his various sheds.
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5 minutes ago, RXFORD said:
I find it odd/interesting that you hardly see early mazdas with old 3pc jap wheels built out like the old Toyota scene.
I’d much prefer to see small 3 piece wheels on a car of that vintage and would never put 17s or 18s on an old car, but the way that car sits made me stop and look as I was scrolling.
Pretty good fitment for a rotary-
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How good is Mike's kid at Christmas level of stoke in this video
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1 hour ago, Hyperblade said:
Good idea, I have seen something similar done with 3d printed molds.
I've done a 3d printed dimple die. We pressed panel steel with just a nut and bolt through the die. Alloy should be much easier than panel steel to work too.
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Two questions,
One, does the larger aperture on the plate help if you're still only using the same-sized tube to get the air there? Could you achieve the same with a hole the size of the pipe and then vanes coming off the orange plate to distribute the air around the inside of the area?
Two, have you considered/can you go to a thicker disk to give yourself more material to dissipate the heat
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Glue a piece of ice cream container lid in here, shut it up with no ac unit in it and call it a day??
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5 minutes ago, AE25 said:
Interested to see how this goes. Haven't personally seen speeduino used as an engine ecu etc. Usually megasquirt or mainstream ecus. Id just make sure the ecu can work with the particular sensors and the trigger wheel lobe count.
I have a few 2tgeu spares if required.I’ve got Max putting the guts of a blacktop 4age dizzy into the 2tg dizzy at the moment so that should sort triggers, 2tg injectors run a resistor box so need to find some injectors that don’t need that. It looks like the Speeduino is similar to a megasquirt. I’ve been watching tuner studio videos to get my head around that
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40 minutes ago, ul9601 said:
a while back spotted an orange-on-black k11, then the same colour scheme on k12. yesterday saw a juke with the same colours.
Sounds like a gang, NISBRO?
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So because I have a big job to finish at the moment and am under immense time pressure, I got distracted and had a fiddle in the shed after staying up late last night doing research.
This is my 2TG pile.
First I had a fiddle with throttle bodies and TPSs.
On the left is a TVIS Redtop 4age throttle body and on the right is the 2tg one. The 4age has a potentiometer TPS vs the switch type of the 2TG
The 4age inlet manifold is on the left, and the 2TG one is on the right. The bolts are the same width apart, but the 2TG ones have a smaller spacing vertically. There is also a 10mm difference in size between the two TB holes. The nerd that can't weld alloy in me has been working out how to design a bolt-on adapter plate to bolt the 4age throttle to the 2TG inlet, but the logical option is probably to make a weld-on plate that the 4age throttle bolts to. We looked into switching the TPS over, but swapping the whole throttle seems to be less fiddly and results in a bigger throttle, and bigger is better right?
The next little mission was trigger wheels. We searched through the shed for old Toyota distributors and found an AE101 5AFE one and a Blacktop 4AGE one. I pulled them both apart and decided the 4AGE one on the right was a simpler setup, but will take them both to Max and see what he thinks. I've read about how ideally you want to run your trigger on the crank due to distributor slop etc, but this seems a whole lot less ugly.
Hopefully, we can drop these guts into the 2TG distributor and get a cam and crank signal off it. It will be easy right? (This is what people say when they come to me for website things that don't turn out to be easy).
I've found this discussion https://speeduino.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=495&start=100 that relates to a 3SGTE that seems to use the same style of trigger wheels.
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Judge me and tell me how far over my head I am here
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Dad's cousin married Max, who has always been our family mechanic and panel beater. He's somewhere north of 70 and a full-time menace and tinkerer.
This is his Ke70 wagon that he bought off @Dudley (also a fill-time menace) and proceeded to rebuild half the body of before painting it and tidying allll the things.
He got bored one day and had a 2TGEU sitting around that he'd got in exchange for putting a 4age into someone's wagon years ago. The loom had been chopped in half, and being older than fuel injection he thought it was a great idea to replace the injection with twin carbs.
Yesterday my brother called me and said "Max has been talking to Pete's friend who built himself an ECU for his car and tuned it himself. He reckons you should be able to do it."
Approximately 24 hours later I have all of the EFI gear from the Corolla sitting on the floor in the shed and have read half of the information on the internet about the Speeduino. I've been given a generous (for a Speediuno build) budget to work with and told to get ordering.
I've printed out the 2T wiring diagram which is comical after dealing with 1UZ diagrams and am starting to make a plan.
So far the shopping list (other than the ECU) includes:
IAT sensor (probably a Toyota one)
Map sensor (also probably a Toyota one) (so I don't have to run a vacuum line all the way to the ECU and can just run it off the AFM wiring)
TPS (maybe 4age as we have a couple of motors sitting around)
A wideband, probably Spartan 3I'm leaning toward either one of these
https://www.everythingfuelinjection.com/store/The-Micro-p161480124
https://kiwiefi.nz/index.php?route=product/product&path=20&product_id=54
Feel free to tell me in the discussion how far over my head I am. I've wired a 4age, a B16a, an SR20VE, a 1uz and a 3uz and used to do car alarms, so pretending I know what I'm doing.
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