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I've got an FXGT wheel for my Corolla wagon. I was looking closely at it the other day and realised that they have orange stitching, so we're gonna do my interior black with orange stitching. I'm trying to talk my brother into reupholstering it so I can repaint it too

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Just now, GARDRB said:

I've got an FXGT wheel for my Corolla wagon. I was looking closely at it the other day and realised that they have orange stitching, so we're gonna do my interior black with orange stitching. I'm trying to talk my brother into reupholstering it so I can repaint it too

Send me a photo once its done, Id be keen to see the final product. Mine has remnants of orange stitching. Following on the theme everywhere on the interior would be nice! 

Im trying to figure out what colour to eventually go with myself. 

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Re: shifters, K40 and K50 are definitely different.

In an AE86, a 4AGE is canted slightly, so if you've mounted it flat in the car then your shifter is going to angle to the right a little. It'd be easy as to heat and bend it slightly, it won't take much to do.

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Just now, GARDRB said:

These are some door cards I've recently helped my brother with. Thinking about doing the same indented stitching but with the orange

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I do like that!!

 

Just now, Snoozin said:

Re: shifters, K40 and K50 are definitely different.

In an AE86, a 4AGE is canted to the left slightly, so if you've mounted it flat in the car then your shifter is going to angle to the right a little. It'd be easy as to heat and bend it slightly, it won't take much to do.

Cheers mate! I think that may be the way to go, was avoiding it but needs must. Currently hits your leg in 5th. 

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8 minutes ago, GARDRB said:

These are some door cards I've recently helped my brother with. Thinking about doing the same indented stitching but with the orange

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That look flippin' awesome. Orange stitching would be next level.

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I really like the idea of this, but you have to drill a hole in your brake res, and so if there wasn't enough fall to the clutch cylinder you might be in for a bad time

https://www.chasebays.com/collections/universal-chase-bays/products/chase-bays-clutch-feed-adapter-for-brake-booster-eliminator

 

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On 18/09/2024 at 11:47, DirtyThirty said:

Clutch res, I've ordered a 45mL motorbike one to make it as compact as possible as the current setup is a bit bulky. Also the master to res connection is still leaking,  not badly but something Ill eventually get to. Ideally something like what the E30s had with the dual brake/clutch master res would solve my problems.

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On 30/09/2024 at 15:22, GARDRB said:

I really like the idea of this, but you have to drill a hole in your brake res, and so if there wasn't enough fall to the clutch cylinder you might be in for a bad time

https://www.chasebays.com/collections/universal-chase-bays/products/chase-bays-clutch-feed-adapter-for-brake-booster-eliminator

 

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It doesn't have enough fall to work unfortunately! E30s have a similar factory setup but the res has 2 chambers rather than just the one. 

 

The motorbike ones I have is perfect EXCEPT the barb isn't big enough so that needs some work

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Looks like that plug is the one that has the reverse light switch, oil pressure switch (for oil light on cluster), water temp (for cluster) and the switch for the fan to turn on at a certain temp. Although your pins are in a different order to the picture I have here of mine

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13 hours ago, kseries.rookie said:

Looks like that plug is the one that has the reverse light switch, oil pressure switch (for oil light on cluster), water temp (for cluster) and the switch for the fan to turn on at a certain temp. Although your pins are in a different order to the picture I have here of mine

Cheers man! Thats odd because the reverse light switch wiring seems to be already 2 plugs near the gear stick for the 2x bullet connectors on the gearbox and my cluster has all the connectors in with no wires matching any of these colours. I've yet to find a good diagram so hard to compare. 

Mind sending me through a photo? 

 

Also to add, if its for the fans thats no issue as mine are now thermo controlled via ECU. Si if I can eliminate needing a few wires that would make life easier. 

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Would check your gearbox mount with certifier, when I did my version 1 mount which was offset forwards from the mount on the gearbox and picked up the factory mounts in the floor, @cletus informed me that if it was offset like that it needed to use 4 bolts in the floor but if in line with the mount on the box, then 2 was fine. I ended up welding new pickup points into the floor.

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38 minutes ago, Snoozin said:

Would check your gearbox mount with certifier, when I did my version 1 mount which was offset forwards from the mount on the gearbox and picked up the factory mounts in the floor, @cletus informed me that if it was offset like that it needed to use 4 bolts in the floor but if in line with the mount on the box, then 2 was fine. I ended up welding new pickup points into the floor.

Yeah just had that same advice from kseries.rookie. I'll have to get 2 more points welded in and get the extra bolts in, worth doing I think.

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2 hours ago, kseries.rookie said:

Lucky bastard is already certified, so he may get away with it

I do plan to have the least things to poke at even with the cert! The more things I can do properly the less people will poke at it haha

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