4AGEMAD Posted June 8, 2014 Author Share Posted June 8, 2014 Not too much has happened as of late. At the moment i'm in the agonizing process of waiting for a load of parts from everywhere Never the less I polished up another rim and bought a 175/60R14 for test fitting, Seems to look a bit better than the 175/65 Also shaped the flares as best as I could with a dolly & hammer. Following that I Started cutting out the bog....needless to say it extended a bit further than I was expecting Borrowed a d.a. (thanks again Kurt) and started on the roof but need to get more sandpaper, a beartex stripping wheel and will spray the bare metal with an epoxy sealer primer so can start with the filler. Random shot Test fitted my front lip, was as if it was made for my kp! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted June 15, 2014 Author Share Posted June 15, 2014 CP Pistons & Rods arrived from straya. Acted like a little kid on x-mas morning opening this up.. Also scored one axle from "drft86" to replace ol twisty. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted June 27, 2014 Author Share Posted June 27, 2014 Cams and valve springs arrived today, slowly ticking off the ever growing list. Been stressing about setting up my diff with tooth pick axles, figured it will be more work getting a bigger diff plus it being heavier than my t series. Best of both = 28mm axles 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted July 27, 2014 Author Share Posted July 27, 2014 Been awhile now, but nothings really happened just saving up for more parts to get the engine completed. i'm not going to worry to much about the body until the engine/drivelines done. so what I did today. Found some 2.5" exhaust piping from old warranty claim scrap, cut off the old poo box and welded up this blast pipe thing. Finalized the ports with a 320 grit flap wheel on a dremel, gave the intake ports a different finish to help with air/fuel mixture. Now a question for those of you with some engine know how, I lapped a couple of the exhaust valves but with further checks I'm not too happy with how theyre looking. Theres quite a bit of pitting but most came out with a lap but the contact surfaces aren't consistant and some sit higher/lower than others. Question is, does it look like it will need a re-grind/new valves + regrind or could I get away with lapping the rest? Lapped exhaust port (you can just see the difference between the two ports): Non-lapped exhaust port: Non-lapped intake port: Lapped Vs Non lapped Exhaust valves: Non-lapped intake valve: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted August 24, 2014 Author Share Posted August 24, 2014 Its almost been a month of, sanding, buffing and polishing, i'm beginning to worry what kind of social life I have now.. The past month has been a bit of a waiting game, one of my friends was kind enough to lend me his air powered die grinder and I went on the hunt for some cartridge sanding rolls. Quickly found nz is too cabbage in the way of port polishing kits and sourced one from muurica. That arrived today so got stuck in Some may usually stop here but I'm far from done! I used the two stages of cross buffs to give it the shiny finish, still waiting on a set of Dremel abrasive finishing buffs to get into the smaller nooks & crannies. Once thats done i'll finalize the ports with a polishing wheel for that extra bling Some more shnazzy shots As for the intake ports here is my current plan: After some research/advice/youtube I found this to method to result with good figures for the job that I am doing which is nothing serious. First of all 'raising the roof' rather than taking more away from the 'floor' of the ports is more effective so that has to be taken into account whilst carrying out the job. The 'floor' of the intake ports will be left slightly rough where as the sides and roof will be polished essentially making the short radius the long radius & the long radius the short radius to create a tumbling effect when the air enters the ports. (feel free to correct my ideas if they seem whack) Besides the head work, nothing else will be happening till the engines done and fitted. TRD Big end bearings, Main bearings & 0.8mm Headgasket are on its way from our friends in Japland. Only need to send head away to engineers, purchase cam pulleys, cambelt, High flow oil pump gear and Sam-q's rwd cooling kit then assembly can begin!! On another note, found this gem from when I did my first ever engine job at work. Moral of that story, Dont buy an holden/izusu that has oil pressure fuel injection.. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted September 21, 2014 Author Share Posted September 21, 2014 Port work is doodiddlydone...I hope.. Sending engine bits to engineers tomorrow for acid dip, valve shim adjustment for new cams & head/block skim. Dont mind the old poos cams Left it with a rough but smooth finish to help with reducing pooling, increasing airflow. Not sure where I got my other idea from, perhaps some late night/half asleep researching.. Scored another pair of tyres and popped on another ada Yeah..thats about it, been slow going mostly tied up with rebuilding a friends w58/work etc. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 4AGEMAD Posted October 4, 2014 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 4, 2014 Went for a boys weekend up to Auckland last weekend and did a Car wreckers crawl. I came across an NZ new KE70 with an 'auto roof' sunroof at Zebra, $45 later she was in my car! Some of you may dis-like sunroofs, I somewhat have a fetish for them although I was concerned as to how it would effect the cars structural integrity. Since I had a spare shell I test fitted the sunroof to see how well it fit, turned out to be a bit of a fail cutting the hole to big. On the upside I used the piece i cut out as a template after trimming to suit. With the help of the old man & 4 tin snips I nervously cut the hole out in the good shell. Took another good hour carefully trimming/filing the hole till the sunroof frame slotted in perfectly. 4 hours later.. Really happy with the way it turned out & really enjoyed fitting it, quite a cool feeling knowing that this would have been one of the jobs to be done at Toyota 30 years ago, similar to what I do today. Structurally the roof Is actually more rigid due to the fact the bottom half clamps the sunroof down from the inside. I also like this design better as the glass is sealed from underneath rather than on the sides & whether the glass is in or out there is always a frame securing the roof. TRD Big end bearings, main bearings & 0.8mm Headgasket literally arrived overnight from Japan! +1 for the 'JDM' newspaper. My wheel collection so far 4 x Advan ADA's 14 x 6" +15 4 x Advan A3A's 14 x 6" +6 4 x Toyota Cressida factory wheels 15 x ? 2 X SSR MKIII 14 x 6.5" +9.5 Can never have enough wheels 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted November 2, 2014 Author Share Posted November 2, 2014 Depression post.. 50% of this build is on waiting for either parts/work to be done or pay day. Getting pritty tired of this but thats life. On the flip side in our easy 30degree weather in the bay I decided to polish my rim... for my car of course. Before After I got lazy and bought a set of T3 engine conversion mounts, got them cheap so thought why not. Mated a set of landrover rubber mounts (heres the end of my Toyota pureism) to complete the setup. My main set backs atm is just waiting for the engineer to readjust the valve clearances, 3 angle valve jobbie etc and the 2 month back order on the Toda oil pump gear! Getting my Coil overs organized next week and should have my J160 on its way by then too, Ditching my W57 for more ideal N/A ratios. EDIT: Oil pump gear is on its way! not sure what happened there but im not complaining. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted November 9, 2014 Author Share Posted November 9, 2014 Got a few things done today, Decided to put in my Toda billet pump gear. No change in design, just stronger to withstand high rpm's Block as it stands now, decked and honed. Will clean it, paint it black and fit new brass frost plugs. Passengers gutter drain still had anti-rust coating still left on it, good enough foundation so boged over the weld patch and added a smooth incline for the water to drain out. Bit hard to feather it out in a confined space but turned out ok. I'll coat it all with cavity wax when finished. Have a set of TE71 electric chrome fender mirrors to replace the ebay speshes, Waiting on availability for the factory kp mirror switch *fingers & everything crossed* Will post pictures next weekend once its fitted up. Bottom end can go together now, just waiting on a set of thrust washers......dam lucky i'm a patient person! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted November 10, 2014 Author Share Posted November 10, 2014 Quick shot of what is ment to be 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 Finally got rid of those dam eBay specials in place for some (I believe) TE71 electric fender mirrors. They were originally chrome but wanted them black, at the same time the thought of sanding back the original chrome was killing me. So best of both, Plasti-dip! Not sure how long it'll last but works for now. Both motors work which is a bonus so when the time comes i'll rig up a switch inside. J160 arrived a few weeks ago, but had no shifter bracket. bit the bullet and bought a new one. Still ended up being cheaper than a complete box off tardme. Thrust washers arrived today so can assemble the bottom end, still waiting on head work to be done. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 Things have been a bit quiet at 'garage wai ting', things shall be picking up majorly next week so til then I decided to keep my electronic speed sensor rather than the cable one, but this ment I needed to change my speedo. I ended up using dials from an AE111 BZG as it had a similar design & mated the faces with the kp light reflector boards. Messed around for quite awhile cutting/trimming the housing till the dials fit as best as they could. wound the odo back, scarily easy to do! Not sure if to keep at original vehicle km's or to start over? Theres not much left of the original parts but will effect the vehicle history. I'm on annual leave so more interesting stuff to come next week. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted January 3, 2015 Author Share Posted January 3, 2015 Cleaned up and sprayed the diff housing in matte black so doesn't look to tacky & whipped in another sump baffle 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 Been a little while since anything solid has happened, cleaned down all my engine parts and started assembling. Painted block and fitted new brass frost plugs for more bling. Cleaned with white spirits, hence the rust looking colour. Mucked around for a few hours customizing the factory brackets to fit my new Momo Corse, will dye it black at some stage. Head needs 8 new valve shims to suit the cams & block needs stripping again to re-bore for what i found to be oversized pistons.... stupid mistake, real f!@#ed off about it but ahwell, theres about a month and a half lead time on the rwd cooling kit and g-box adapter plate anyways. Heres hoping that my suspension arrives next week!! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Suspension arrived today Straight after work got stuck in fitting a set of bug eye steering arms along with the front coilovers. Comparison pic, bug eye arm left, Slant front arm right. As you can see the kingpin inclination angle is set differently. Barry at MRP did an amazing job with these, custom camber adjustable top hats, adaptor sleeves fillet welded to original hubs then sent away for magnetic crack testing. Car looks in a bit of a mess at the moment since work has been on a major halt due to the lack of front suspension. More interesting stuff tomorrow. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 Some more solid progress T series diff in along with AE86 rear adjustable suspension. All fitted up a treat. Arches need a bit more pumping but will sort that tomorrow. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 Got the old motor and box out today, managed to sell the motor to my work! Didnt get to pump the guards out today but stripped the other motor back down to send it away for honing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted February 8, 2015 Author Share Posted February 8, 2015 Made use of the long weekend to get lingering jobs done. Fitted an AE86 Clutch master cylinder, used the modded clutch pedal from the spare kp but had to shoulder the bolt so the clutch rod will fit and drilled a small hole in the end for a split pin to thread through. I added another plate behind the master cylinder for support and to reduce flex, might add gussets to the pedal but will see how it goes for now. Upgraded the front brakes to AE101 calipers with 260mm rotors and made up a pair of adapters, thanks Kris for the ideas. Cut out the inner skin and pumped out the guards some more Also found the sweet og tag from behind the heater box. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted February 9, 2015 Author Share Posted February 9, 2015 Threw in an AJPS 25mm lock spacer and 6mm spacer ring on the opposite side. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4AGEMAD Posted March 15, 2015 Author Share Posted March 15, 2015 TRD 2-way LSD arrived from Japan yesterday thanks to Alex at MLRacing. Set about stripping it apart then reassembling/fitting with new bearings etc & TRD solid pinion spacer. Thankfully the items description was right as she was in near perfect condition. Bit of a laugh, found some real, "she'll be right" stuff under the pinion bearing haha. Few hours later had the backlash set correctly just a bit iffy with the tooth contact, will have to grab some engineers blue next week to double check. Other than that she's mint! So anyone after a Locked small spline diff? Mint condition, one lady owner. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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