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Yeah, I'm gonna clean back an respray the engine bay anyways so it'll get sorted then. If I'm feeling motivated, I might even weld a bit of plate over it to neaten it all up an make it less noticeable at the same time. Over the weekend I pulled the n.a exhaust and put the original back in, checked the link bushes (which seem in good shape) and installed the rear sway bar. Happened to forget that I need to scavenge the passenger support mount that it bolts up to from the wreckers or somethin because the old one sheared when the wombat ripped it out. Also pulled out the springs and shocks for a cleanup, looks like they've been cut and not the type shockworks supplies. They looked to have the same free height but when I removed them the adjustable seats were set to different heights and after re-installing everything level the passenger side is sitting a inch or so lower so I'm guessing that theres an issue there. Further, with the shocks wound all the way in, the springs are only barely captive at full droop so I'll be raising the seats a little more as well as offsetting them again to level the rear. Will order some rear springs from shockworks down the track and hopefully that'll fix the issues. I finally got around to painting my rocket covers today as well, not sure whether I'm going to paint the letters white or sand them back to the metal and then hit it with high temp clear. My housemates weren't overly impressed when I baked them either haha Here they are fresh outta the oven Finally, I removed the engine loom from the car today as well, romoved some other wiring which was attached hodgepodge and planning to re-route it so that it's not so close to the turbo. Noticed that some of it was a little crispy from the heat and needed some new fittings here an there. Hopefully the end result will be a much neater setup, if I don't manage to bugger somethin up in the meantime and result in it not working lol

LOL Cheers guys. I somehow just found an old post here on rollaclub with the answer after spending all day looking on every Toyota board for the answer. Good memory LittleRed https://www.rollaclub.com/board/topic/55301-t50-bellhousing-bolts/

Richened up 2 & 4 until they stopped spitting and now it runs grouse. Right on my self-imposed 9pm rev curfew too.

I once walked into Keebles (legendary bolt shop in the city) and said to the guy, "I need the water pump bolts for an 1100 Escort", guy walks off before I even finished speaking. Hmm, that's a bit rude I think to myself. 5 mins later he's back with the exact bolts, and from memory, at least 3 of them were different sizes. And if you try telling the children of today that, they wouldn't believe you. "Unfortunately", the future Mrs Parrot subsequently wrote off her poxy Escort and replaced it with a KE20. If you don't get an answer by tomorrow, I'll go out and measure them.

I bought some once, memory dig, 70 and 50mm x 2 of each, I could be wrong. Its been a while.

Honestly most engines rattle and rasp and carry on, especially 4 cylinders which are by design, unbalanced. I think most modern engines have insulators all overt them just to shut them up and add refinement with no mechanical changes. That's about all that's changed. T engine has a nice note wide open with those carbs Im sure, its one of the pornest retro motors on sound I think. There used to be a rally vid on youtube called the sound of rallying and there's a clip of a 2tg powered celica going apeshit and it sounds just incredible.

As my new Zealand mate always used to say, If in doubt - Rev it out. I don't think it was related but he blew up 2 engines in quite quick succession when he was living in Aus.