Romans 2005 Toyota Echo

[Roman]

GET SOME!
 

 

[mjrstar]

Looks and sounds fast!

[Roman]

It was bloody awesome! 

Best lap time was 1.14.0, (no chicane) and top speed was 196.9kph. 

Only just yesterday did I finish getting the e-throttle revmatch working. 

So if I have clutch and brake pressed at the same time, it assume's I'm shifting down to the next gear, and holds it at the right rpm for that gear. 

I didnt rev match a single shift in that video, it worked exceptionally well. Very helpful through turn 2-3 to be able to just focus on braking not mashing two pedals at once! 

Was an awesome day out, I drove there, did hoons, and made it home on a single tank of gas. (just) 

 

[shrike]

How did the brakes go? was good to see you passing cars that you would expect to be quicker :p not sure if driver skill plays a part in it though!

What tires did you run for the day?

[Roman]

I've just been driving around on 185/60/14 R888R for the last... ages. 
This is the first time they have been used for what they're supposed to be doing! haha. 
No tools out or tyre swaps or anything, just hoon and home! Was awesome. 
Yeah I had a few good drag races down the straight with some cars. 
Will spam some other footage a bit later.

The brakes were great, I didnt have any fade, even though it's still got the drums on the back still. 
I wasnt really pushing the braking as hard as I could, as I was just incredibly surprised at how short the braking distances were. 

[xsspeed]

very cool

42 minutes ago, mjrstar said:

Looks and sounds fast!

echo this, so hot

[~Slideways~]

So good! Looks like awesome fun on the track.

[VitesseEFI]

Outstanding  

Goes really hard for what it is. 122 mph…….  Looks like a real hoot to drive too.  Toyota build a solid bottom end and Roman extracts the max from it! 

Nick

[Willdat?]

I love how much this sounds like some Italian exotica.

Who knew an Aqua had such hidden potential, CVT plus this engine would be weirrrrrrrd.

[mjrstar]

I was expecting the gearing to be a bit meh with the small capacity na engine, but it's getting along pretty nicely, definitely more pull in the next gear than I anticipated. 

 

Just need to work on your video data overlay skills. 

 

 

EDIT: I use race render, it seems happy to accept most .csv files and will take the data from the factory Honda ecu in my civic, it'd be fine with link ecu data no doubt too.

 

https://racerender.com/Products/index.html

[Roman]

Yeah I had race chrono recording on the phone, I think it can spit out a data overlay to plonk onto a vid. But havent had a look yet. 

Yeah I was short shifting a bit too, usually a little under 8500 as I was worried about blowing the motor up and not making it home. 

But so far so good haha. 

Dyno man says he's free soon-ish as well, so I didnt want to nuke the motor before I get back to that. 

[Roman]

[Roman]

Here's my fastest lap, I managed to get the RaceChrono overlay working. 

There are a few spots where the GPS takes a little while to catch up, as I think I had my phone just stuffed down into the door card or something haha.
 

Also, I thought I'd end up running quite hot. So I set up my buzzer to start bleeping at me if it crossed 110 deg coolant temp. 
Because I'm using a standard radiator that's got lots of bent fins and bugs jammed in it. 
Maximum temp was 108 degrees near the end of a run. Happy with that.
I think a good condition standard radiator would be plenty. With some better ducting towards it if needed.

[Roman]

Actually, no I'm a dumb dumb. 

I forgot I have an engine temp ignition trim table. 
It was pulling up to 6 degreees of timing out, as the temp crept up past 100. So at 8000rpm it only had 16 degrees advance. Woops. 
It was also running very rich, at 12:1 AFR. 
Keeping in mind that the 6 horsepower I gained from going to the dyno last time, all came from making it run leaner! 

So I would very likely hit 200kph on the straight if I get a better radiator! Exciting.

I'll hopefully try get to the dyno first, then sort the cooling and come back for another go I reckon.

[Roman]

A few pics came through! 

Looks pretty slammed during cornering haha

















 

[deankdx]

5 hours ago, Roman said:

Looks pretty slammed during cornering haha

how does it survive the ripple strips on the corners? sounds like a suspension torture test in the videos. 

does it need a better radiator or just a new one or are there any air flow/ducting improvements possible?

[tortron]

This shit reminds me of cctv for some reason

 

 

 

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*for some reason my autocorrect went from pic to shit, but il leave it for posterity 

[Roman]

On 10/10/2022 at 03:20, deankdx said:

how does it survive the ripple strips on the corners? sounds like a suspension torture test in the videos. 

does it need a better radiator or just a new one or are there any air flow/ducting improvements possible?

Yeah my radiator is pretty crappy, its got lots of bugs stuck in it and bent fins. So just a better radiator would help, but also there's normally a blanking plate beside it to block airflow, which I've left open to let air get to the throttles. 

Some ducting + replacement standard radiator will probably be fine enough.

Dunno about the suspension, yeah I tried not to run the ripple strips too much but I guess the tyre sidewall takes care of it haha.

Also, had a few places do a repost of some of my relentless spamming. I feel like I've reached some special milestone of being an internet troll, by making regular people read about toyota echos

[shrike]

Do the standard rads have plastic tops etc?

if your replacing I would probably be looking at something full alloy to remove the issue of cracking plastic later, even if its standard size (may even be cheaper then a genuine rad as well)

Keen to see what ducting you come up with

[Roman]

I've never had issue with plastic top tank radiators in the carina, I think they only go bad once they have zillions of KM on them and maybe with shitty coolant perhaps? 

Yeah I'll have a look around, I think some people have said that radiator for Scion XA or XB on Ebay is very cheap and fits.