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What about 3D printed adapters with flexible hose between them?

How it started ^^^

vs how it's going

So 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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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

How good is Mike's kid at Christmas level of stoke in this video

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.

It would be a fun CNC project to make up MDF forms

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

Glue a piece of ice cream container lid in here, shut it up with no ac unit in it and call it a day??

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

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?

Judge me and tell me how far over my head I am here

St215 3sgte with all the bits you already have, and drive it

The CRV with Landrover Discovery viscous to pinned CRV diff setup seems to be capable of 7s in a civic, but then they are all cars that would run 8s without the rear assist probably.

It's all pointing to the 2AR/2AZ being a better option in a Toyota

Have a look here https://www.woodsport.org/forum/forum.php

Paul Woods from Woodsport pioneered the 2gr MR2 swap I believe. He built a 2gr AWD first gen Rav4. I seem to recall him using a smaller transfer case from a later model Rav4 due to it being smaller than the GT4 one. Also google 2gr Alltrac, the US Celica guys have done it a couple of times which may help with finding bits that give more clearance. 

It was Hux racing that told me the Toyota transfer wouldn't fit with the K24 block. It was a comment on one of his Facebook posts somewhere I believe. 

11 hours ago, NickJ said:

Trailer brake master cylinder?

Funny you should say that. I just measured one at the parts place. Sadly too long.

At the moment Mr Tilton is in the lead, followed closely by Mr RomanDave

So the most important question is....

What are you gonna make the controls on the right hand side do?

It's looking like I'm gonna need a 3/4" Clutch master to work with my hydraulic throwout bearing. It's going into my 1uz Ce71/Ke70 Wagon. The factory CE71 cylinder is 5/8" and roughly 85mm long with a vertical bolt pattern. 

I've found a Tilton cylinder that appears to be the best option so far, but if anyone has any ideas for something that's OEM and more OEM-priced I'm all ears. The factory one is very cosy with my driver's side head, so I can't go any longer realistically. I'm not keen to go to reverse swing. 

This is the Tilton option. https://www.cardwells.co.nz/product/tilton-master-cylinder-76-series/ 

I've been watching them for about 10 years, 2k seems about where they've always stayed. A Runx or Feilder might be a good way to get one and then part out the whole car.

I've always wanted a 2ZZ but never been able to get over the buy-in on one. When I got my 1uz for my Corolla a 2ZZ was more expensive. 

Also agree with ditching the S13 stuff. It's trash in a Corolla

13 hours ago, Roman said:

2ZRFE / 2ZRFXE 

This is a similar era engine to the above, but a smaller 1.8 litre 4 cyl motor. 
When the 2ZZGE stopped production, Lotus used a supercharged 2ZR engine instead in the Lotus Elise.
So there's some alright aftermarket goodies.
This was also the 1.8 litre engine used in the 1.8 litre prius, hybrid and non hybrid versions in corollas. So they're fairly common.
There's a prius version on trademe for $700. 

Perhaps most notably though, this engine was used in "Yaris Hilton" by Mighty Car mods as their cheap and cheerful turbo car.
They eventually blew the motor up, it was shitloads of fun and zero fucks were given. 

It's pretty awesome that this engine spans all the way from being in a $$$ Lotus, to the basis for an absolute shitbox car minimum spend build for max lolz.
 

The 2zr also benefits from sharing an exhaust manifold pattern with the outgoing 1ZZ and a bell housing pattern with the 1NZ.