Popular Post sheepers Posted September 11, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 11, 2016 the temperature was climbing if it sat stationary and i wasn't happy with that. it would climb ever so slowly but it was still climbing, the 14" fan wasn't dropping the temperature, in fact it wasn't keeping up at all. the second the car was moving the temp dropped straight away but still it was no good in traffic. i figured if i made the radiator a cross flow with the tanks on the sides i could fit a bigger fan that would cover every tube. so thats what i did. Dave at real deal radiators made a new triple pass radiator and i mounted a 16" fan on it. problem solved. the fan now comes on and clicks off when its sitting stationary which means the fan is now able to pull 3 degrees out of the engine temp without any hassle. while the car is moving it has no issue at all but I'm sure the new radiator will be much more efficient on the track. old vs new, 2016-09-10_01-16-42 by sheepers, on Flickr 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted September 17, 2016 Author Share Posted September 17, 2016 finally, after sixeleventhousandbillion years my other seat turned up. long story but basically the mold for the seat i already had was damaged so i had to wait until they repaired the mold before i could get the other seat for the a passengers side. well I've got it now so i chucked it in. i made the mounts for it ages ago so it took all of about 1 minute to bolt it up. while i was at it i made some minor adjustments to the drivers seat position and now its fucking perfect. down sides, back seat in no longer accessible which is no surprise. there are no other down sides. 2016-09-17_04-05-34 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-09-17_04-05-22 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-09-17_04-04-55 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-09-17_04-04-38 by sheepers, on Flickr 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted October 28, 2016 Author Share Posted October 28, 2016 dyno day. i was given the wrong torque settings for the cam caps and as a result the cams are fucked and the head is fucked. its also getting way to hot way to quick and its got a trigger error at 5500. with the house renos due to start in a few weeks i don't know what I'm going to do about this new set of great things. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted October 30, 2016 Author Share Posted October 30, 2016 2016-10-30_12-33-05 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-10-30_12-32-55 by sheepers, on Flickr 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted November 5, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 5, 2016 this has been pretty shit on the whole and my two options were cry like a baby and throw all the toys out of the sandpit or just shrug and get the fuck on with rebuilding it. 2016-11-03_07-23-14 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-11-05_02-42-21 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-11-05_04-12-08 by sheepers, on Flickr so yea, new head is being worked on by the great people at Glendene engine reconditioners and i should have it back mid week. gonna change a few little things around to make life easier and this time it won't shit itself. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted November 14, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 14, 2016 back in business. few teething issues getting it started but its going well so far (have covered two Ks in it up to this point so not a huge test). ill put some more Ks on it and see what happens. 2016-11-14_07-55-07 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-11-14_07-54-56 by sheepers, on Flickr 28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted November 15, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 15, 2016 drove it around the motorways of auckland city and have clocked up about 120 ks in it so far. all seems well at this point……. 25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted November 20, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 20, 2016 done about 650ks in it now and its going really well. I've got a dyno day booked for this friday, keen. 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted November 24, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2016 great success. car ran really well and made good power, 375RWKS to be exact and 520lbft of torque. which is a lot. the poor little turbo just couldn't flow any more air. it tried its best but thats the absolute max it will do. I'm happy with that. the car is going really really well, not that i could give it the jandels in the rain, but its running faultlessly. 2016-11-25_12-31-05 by sheepers, on Flickr this is old 2.5L vs new 3L 2016-11-25_12-31-19 by sheepers, on Flickr 28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted November 30, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 30, 2016 i was going to keep this a secret until after drag day but im fizzing to much about how it came out so here it is. 2016-11-30_08-06-04 by sheepers, on Flickr 17x9.5 on the front running 245 40 17s and 17x10 on the back running 275 40 17s. ill post some more pix when i manage to take some that aren't garbage. 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted December 13, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 13, 2016 oldschool.co.nz 2016 drag day. always such a fun day with a huge variety of cars and bikes. this year didn't go so well for me. i was hoping for more speeds and lower times but it wasn't to be. my first run was eventful to say the least. i was the second car down the strip in the morning after the track crew had been drying the track and getting things ready. it was also my first pass with the new motor and wider tyres. i was slow off the line as always and spun through first and second, it gripped in third and pushed hard then i grabbed forth and gave it the jandals. at that exact moment the windscreen got all wet and the back wheels lost all grip and started spinning, then car came round pointing me at the wall doing about 180kmph. everything went very slowly from that point on and i spent a LONG time looking at the wall and thinking how they would be removing my corpse from the wall with a wash down hose. i remember trying to be very gentle with steering inputs and hoping for the best. i was sure that if it did grip it would just flick round the other way and chuck me into the other wall but it didn't. the car gripped again and wobbled back into a straight line and i hit the brakes hard. i was shaking so much i couldn't undo my helmet until i got back to the pits. needless to say i was pretty cautious on my next few runs but the car just didn't feel right. every time the speed got up around the 170 mark it just felt awful, like it had a large wheel right in the middle of the car that it was pivoting on. so i spent the rest of the day just doing skids and practicing getting off the line better, then lifting at half track. i did do some skids though so the day wasnt a waste. last year i was doing about 180 through the traps with no issue at all, i would have gone faster if the car would have but that was my limit last year. its now got wider tyres and its higher off the ground and it feels like shit so ill need to do some fixing before i go fast in it again. anywho Dorian and Andrew took some great photos of the car and Richard got some videos of skids so ill chuck them up here and think about what to do to stop the car feeling so yucky. 15369183_454106578046763_3413997068154013641_o by sheepers, on Flickr 15384628_454106138046807_4109710252954637796_o by sheepers, on Flickr 15369263_454106371380117_8157333445341447496_o by sheepers, on Flickr 15370176_454107804713307_3494654350294981551_o by sheepers, on Flickr 15326064_454106274713460_6269429424893272166_o by sheepers, on Flickr 15385432_454106141380140_5786078971728905938_o by sheepers, on Flickr 15325269_454108598046561_85776852376956230_o by sheepers, on Flickr 15392883_656484801200854_1966123044814446971_o by sheepers, on Flickr 15440508_656484434534224_8137288917001130306_o by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-12-10_04-54-33 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-12-10_04-54-22 by sheepers, on Flickr 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post sheepers Posted January 7, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 7, 2017 I've done a bit of fucking around with the front end to get it to handle better. i had about a 15mm gap between the rim and the strut on the inside so i decided it would be good to decrease the scrub radius as much as i could to stop it feeling all twitchy at speed. by a combo of different length LCA's, narrower spacer and a couple of other things i managed to get the wheel within 3mm of the strut. the difference is night and day. the caster, camber and toe are all over the show and basically set up by eye but its millions better than it was. ill get the front end setup properly next week but its already a massive win. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted February 25, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 25, 2017 one of the reasons i put 17s on it was so i could run bigger brakes. i had to make some brackets (well, Neil at Whiters made them for me because he's a super GC) to get them to fit and it all went together perfectly. they are a Yellow Speed kit designed for a V spec R33 GTR - 330 dia x 32 thick with a 6 piston caliper. they arent bedded in properly yet but sweet baby jebus do they stop you in a hurry. i used a G meter to calibrate the difference between before and after and the calculations came out at 2 billion percent better. pictures of things. 2017-02-25_05-17-32 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-02-25_04-36-53 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-02-25_04-36-41 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-02-25_04-36-28 by sheepers, on Flickr 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted February 25, 2017 Author Share Posted February 25, 2017 and also i forgot about this. here is some footage of the drag day that was shown on TV. we're the first feature in the program. i talk and look stupid. which is pretty much standard for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt5wLpzjCJQ 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted May 9, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 9, 2017 i drive this to work every day and its the only car i have access to at the moment. no issues to report other than an idle issue that needs some tweaking in the program to sort out and it nearly went up in flames. 2017-05-10_06-31-41 by sheepers, on Flickr stock toyota headlight wiring. toyota have a relay for the power feeds to the headlights from factory. BUT they switch the negative for high and low beam so the full current still goes through the switch. i would recommend fitting a relay to switch the negative if you're still running stock toyota wiring. the factory wiring will let you down eventually and it ain't pretty when it happens. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted September 8, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 8, 2017 just fitted a one piece driveshaft. old two piece had an original celica center bearing in it. as you can well imagine after 16 odd years of massive abuse it was fucked. you cant get a replacement that isint garbage so i decided to go to a one piece. ages ago i tried to use a much stronger center bearing but because of many issues including weird gearbox and diff angles and an inability to get it sitting in the right place it never really worked very well. so, one piece shaft. its a 75mm diameter tube and its max RPM is about 8000, or 255KPH. i can live with that. fitted it tonight and took it for a test hoon. christ what a difference. its probably about 50% how fucked the old shaft was and 50% how stunningly smooth the new shaft is. its like a new car. 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted September 30, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 30, 2017 experiments with scrub radius. so the front end is less than perfect with the 245s on the front and a really positive scrub radius its pretty twitchy. i couldn't get the wheel any closer to the strut, its basically touching now. i started thinking about the clevis type mounting of the strut that lots of modern stuff has. that design would allow me to move the wheel inboard and decrease the scrub radius right? so, choose one that has lots of parts available and is really well supported by aftermarket shit. S15. parts for days. so i bought some S15 front hub carriers and LCAs and had a bit of a measure. straight away its clear that the Nissan design moves the ball joint 30mm closer to the centre line of the tire. whilst all other things remain basically the same. win. on first inspection it looked like it could work. there were a couple of things that might throw a spanner in the works but i rang the guys at Techno Toy Tuning and they could supply me with a fabricated lower control arm that would bolt into the AE86 crossmember and have the right balljoint taper for the S15 hub. good. so with a bit of fucking around i amassed the following parts that in theory would all come together seamlessly to make it work, S15 hubs S15 Tein coilovers MX70 cresseda inner tie rods TTT LCA's made to adapt S15 to celica/AE86 (ring them, they make heaps of them apparently) complete with castor arms stock S15 tie rod ends bolt it all together then attach it to a celica and it all fits. bump steer measured at +2mm from ride height to full bump and + 2mm from ride height to full droop. a total travel of 140mm and a total toe change of 2mm positive. that will do me just fine. have i fixed the scrub radius? well its all theory at this point because i only trialed it today. i need to get the struts rebuilt and find the bracket that came with my front brakes that will bolt my calipers to the S15 hubs. but, the ball joint is 30mm closer to the centreline of the tire. at 2 degrees camber the strut top is much closer to the center of the car that it was before. when you draw it all that change in line angle makes a big difference. also there is now a 20mm gap between the strut and the wheel so i could move the wheel in by 20mm and decrease the scrub radius even further if i need to. im calling it a win. im going to get the struts rebuilt and find the brackets then bolt it all in and see what happens. here are some random pictures of things. 2017-09-30_04-59-07 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-09-30_04-58-57 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-09-30_04-58-39 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-09-30_04-58-30 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-09-30_04-58-21 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-09-30_04-58-05 by sheepers, on Flickr 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted October 21, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 21, 2017 today i bolted it all together and set it up as best i could with a tape measure and a straight edge and then i drove it. the car is transformed. no more diving when the road has undulations and the steering is heaps lighter too. tomorrow im going to try and get the settings better but its pretty good now. im definitely calling this a win. i didn't take any pictures because im useless. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted October 26, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 26, 2017 wheel alignment. it was close but needed more camber and more caster. it feels great. front end problem solved tbh. there is about 25mm between the strut and the rim so I could decrease the scrub radius even further (by buying new rims....) but I don't think I need to. 2017-10-26_03-41-51 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-10-26_03-40-59 by sheepers, on Flickr 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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