bsp Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 When i purchased the car it had reset springs with koni yellows,extractors and 14" globes. Unfortunatly while using it as a daily I decided to turbo the old pinto the engine already had acl std replacement pistons inside,all else standard After finding a t25 off a silvia i noticed the manifold kinda lined up with the ports,a slab of 25mm plate and a day of learning how to use a mill I had this heres the prototype Because I had room and it was easy I decided to put the fuel pump in the bay you can also see the water injection running into the plenum,not the nicest engine bay ive seen..... Once the car was running I played with the jets almost daily until it would run as good as possible.I found a dissy with twin vac canisters,and hooked on up for boost retard.I was running 14psi fuel pressure and 7 psi boost at this stage. Once the inevitable happened - a massively melted piston,I put a spare standard pinto in to see what it would do.When that motor blew - (cracked the std cast pistons) I had almost finished building the original motor back up to suit boost acl pistons at +40 over unknown lumpy cam high volume pump arp rod bolts and a 2mm copper headgasket finished it off,also had the head recoed and machined I found an electronic ignition setup so had a play with that got it working with a high output coil shit photo but thats what it ended up looking like I guesstimate it was making around 100rwkw on a good day.It never ran properly thru all the gears,no matter what i did with jets etc.It was sweet 1st thru 3rd but once into 4th it would lean out like crazy even had the main jet out to 2mm! at one stage. I reckon the needle valve just coudnt keep the bowl full,even at 14psi fuel pressure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsp Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 I was pretty much over wasting time with the carby setup so I took it off before killing another engine. I raced the car in a couple of autocrosses and then a 4age turbo package came up for sale with box,driveshaft,fuel system and rad all out of a mk1 I snaped that up and got to work preparing the car welding up all the spare holes in the bay trimed out alot of the radiator panel to fit this cooler.It has shaped end tanks to match the inner guards painted the engine bay black,i had black avalible and it was easier than trying to match the paint made the gearbox crossmember(now has extra webs) got to work making an exhaust,3inch all the way baby engine ready to drop in for the FINAL time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsp Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 this is the original fuel system,I got this with the engine package,not really happy with the way it looks but its a start.Runs a holley blue lift pump and a walbro pressure pump,surge tank must be 10liters! I started to think about how I was goin to stop this thing The car had slotted rotors when I got(std size) and were ok at the time My mate Huw happened to offer a set of ba xr8 calipers and discs to me so I said awesome why not!? I decided to purchase new discs to go with them They worked out a treat.Having the disc floating,sitting over the esky hub gave me the perfect offset to make up a mounting bracket out of 350 8mm plate. I got the hubs re driled for 5 stud and a spigot made to suit the rims At the same time I got hold of an old hilux diff.These old ones are the perfect width for an esky.Even the spring platforms lined up,drill out the spring spigot? on the paltform and it bolts in I dont know why but I left the open centre as is the first time it went in I dont have any pics of the diff conversion,must have been too excited Now I needed to find a way to make these brakes work.I had to get rid of the ugly remote booster from the engine bay for room so I sussed out how to make a pedal box clutch master to replace cable clutch one of the two tilton masters,7/8 for the front brakes and 3/4 to power the hilux drums balance bar box to suit reverse mounted masters(just to make it easier)! pedal modified to take the balance bar sleeve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsp Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 had been driving the car around a fair bit until one day was cruising at 100 or so a an chopped it down and gave it a squirt fark knows what the go was with that?? had to find a clutch and figured it would be rude to put the old heavy std flywheel in so grabbed this 4kg one I had the shits with still having oil leaks in the esky even after changing the engine,g/box and diff so I made a new sump,features include holding more oil,and not leaking bling bling zinc plating more bling while off the road i wanted to fix the front suspension Found a coilover kit for 200us with springs of my spec so ordered that and got to work stoked to find koni yellow adjustibles inside! machined up a sleeve to hold the thread sleeve,also takes up the difference in diameter machined up a sleeve to fit the top hat to the shock springs are 350lb/inch,which was my best guess,pretty close,could go slightly stiffer later on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsp Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 car was finally ready to hit the track got some toyo r888's for it had some issues at the track after a couple of runs car got hot and started to run bad and the oil pressure dropped this is some of the damage,pistons had cracked lands,crank is stuffed,blocks appears to be dead aswell I parked the car up for a year while I collected parts to build a solid 4agte t3 camgears spool h-beam rods alloy rad lightened and wedged crank 600g less than factory This engine now has: Lightened crank (600g saving) H beam rods (250g total saving) acl race series pistons (300g total saving) arp head studs arp rod bolts arp main studs 1mm oversize exhaust valves (camry) toda valve springs acl race bearings toda cambelt gt28rs turbo custom plenum microtech mtx8 In total I have saved 1150g of reciprocating weight plus 4kg off the flywheel hoping to spin this to 8k with cams and 30psi+ with a larger turbo while the engine was out I made up a shortshifter similar to this one engine back in once again I ran this engine in with a light tune.I only had a 5psi actuator on the car so it was tuned to that.Made 110rwkw at 5-6psi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsp Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 Managed to get the car tuned once again although we had some trouble with the light pressure actuator.The boost was all over the place and would only hold 12psi to redline even thou it peaked at 14 earlier in the run.Made 150rwkw,looks like I need cams to get anymore revs out of it I knocked up an air box the other day,once I find another actuator it will be getting tuned to 20psi.Hoping to race at the next track day 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsp Posted March 16, 2009 Author Share Posted March 16, 2009 I got the car tuned again after changing the wastegate actuator,its a rb25 turbo one modified to fit,runs 12psi off the tap,on the tap it an 20 but tapered off towards redline to about 18psi seems that the turbo is maxed out at this power(185rwkw with wheelspin) back on the 7th I raced at taupo with the toyota club,it was wet so the car was pretty loose it was a good day to learn the car,everything happens at a slower pace had a bit of trouble with the fuel system not keeping up with the engine so we changed the fuel return from the engine to go back to the surge tank instead of the fuel tank.we were hitting 24 pound in the morning so had to wind it back abit! this is my bro having a blat (toyabusa) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsp Posted March 16, 2009 Author Share Posted March 16, 2009 As most of you probaly know I had the esky at the o/s trackday 13th Had a mean time,got some awsome shots of the car and a bit of video cheers to toyabusa only had a couple of problems at the track although they kept me away from socialising for most of the day overfilled the oil cause i was nervous after my bros car shat itself(toyabusa) the engine didnt like it and spat it out tyres wore out I had made these double swaybar mounts and decided to use the nolathane generic saddles they obviously could not handle the strain from such hard braking this is the reason my wheels were rubbing hardout and kinked my guards also was causing some crazy wheel shakes under braking I will have to fit some castor rods like these to fix this properly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsp Posted March 16, 2009 Author Share Posted March 16, 2009 did some hungover maintainence on sunday to get ready for the ngonglodesh hillclimb in rotos next weeeknd also decided to see what whitewalled semi slicks would look like after seeing old n rusty's ute Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsp Posted May 16, 2011 Author Share Posted May 16, 2011 dont trust your mechanic with your car...... 09QWI8LCPNw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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