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There's a guy selling a light flywheel AND clutch for $300 on this facebook group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/321802421262226/

It's a little bit dicey to do. These companies are probably realising that and don't get back to you due to legal implications. You are a bit better off jumping on all the 4k assosciated groups and waiting for a genuine light one to pop up. I've seen the effects of lightened stock flywheels letting go, it's not pretty, guess where it all ends up!

Engine progress! I impulse bought some headers which gave me a bit of motivation to do other things. Waiting on cams mostly, still need some seals/gaskets but it's all medial stuff. head is on, manifolds only fitted for mock up Headers are Kaizen garage, ceramic coated.

Just to keep inline with the Toymods thread, here's an update to keep the Rollaclub fans at bay. I've been doing a bit more on my front end bits after I found a head for my power brush that I thought I lost in a box full of paint cans. No idea how it got there but oh well it's always exciting when I break out that sucker! Makes mince meat of parts cleaning and yourself if you don't have a firm hand though haha. You can get an idea from these steering arms of what I was talking about when saying that the centre balljoint is offset . Here's a video also of the offensive too I use for cleaning this stuff up. It's a GREAT tool but man it is dangerous. It is very scetchy to use with one hand like I do in the video. I am putting almost no pressure on the part with the tool just so there is no drama. I've actually had this tool catch and grab a few times and taken damage because of it so if you do rush out and buy one wear safety gear and be vigilant about how you use the thing I cannot stress that enough. My headers arrived today ! Still wrapped up so images will come later. I bought some Kaizen Garage headers, which was what I was originally going to buy but I came across these ones that had already been ceramic coated in the exact same way I was intending to do so and it made sense to just buy them.

odd. When I do the conversion on this I was going to use a TRD short shifter as they seems to be reasonably easy enough to get with everybody shifting to W boxes now.

haha, shifter bushes worn out? I seem to have lots of issues with my W58 (corolla) even with new OEM bushes. I have better shifting with the Trust short shifter (more direct) but it's not like I can just slip it into a gear like a nice modern car.

Yeah haha the old K50 is a bit sloppy and does that sometimes !

Oh yeah, here's a video ! "Closed road scenario, please do not try this at or inside your home"

i think they all look pretty similar nowdays, they tend to be a bit rough with some signs of surface rust. Luckily the shock body is really thick and the power brush gets rid of everything on the surface. I'm not sure if they have any more but here is their facepage : https://www.facebook.com/pages/AE86-parts-and-performance/132166423532444 I also bought a Toda flywheel from them at the same time, $70 ex shipping hah! In saying that, I have located a few 4age parts lately for my motor I am slowly putting together. I found some HKS 264 cams and have some Kaizen garage headers enroute :) All I pretty much need now is a clutch plate and cover (the next challenge) and I should have enough bits to get the motor ready......

the blues? I bought them from AE86 parts and performance, they had them on the shelf for a few weeks and I got them as they did a price drop ($100 ex shipping)

Hi guys! It's been a while. I have been gathering parts from all over the place for this. It's finally suspension time... The rear is a bit of a no brainer, I have bought some "TRD Blues" suspension originally from AE86 to go in the rear with my lowered springs. I have since refurbished the outside of these and they look like brand new. The front gets a bit more interesting. Given that my brakes are pretty much complete dog shit (they are almost identical disc dimensions to stock KE70 but with a smaller piston) and I get two good pushes out of them before it turns to mud and I smell pads I really put upgrading the brakes to a priority. I didn't want to go the whole route of upgrading to AE86 gear as it pushes the track out and also affects the steering geometry. More technical information on this to come. After a lot of thinking and pondering, looking at images and talking to people about cross compatability of components I have ended up going for a combination that nobody was sure would work, because it's not been done before to anybody's knowledge. I am using RA65 power steering arms ($60) (specifically) with T3 KP61 to AE86 balljoint conical adapters ($65) , MA61 struts (brakes included) ( free) , SW20 FRONT AGX dampers ($300/pair) and AE86 camber hats ($100), $525. The RA65 steering arms share the same characteristics of the KP arms, where the balljoint is offset from the centre. This will make the car retain it's great turn radius characteristics aswell as it's wheel track. The MA61 struts have been shortened by 50mm to fit the AGX dampers for SW20 in. I went with SW20 front specifically for their valving, as I am using 2.8kg springs. Keep in mind that it's not a circuit car, it's a daily driver. The original spring perches will be cut off of the original struts and transfered over to the MA61 struts so that I am basically building a whole strut assembly that retains all of the original fitment and steering characteristics of the original and it will be a no chassis mod fitment. I'm about halfway with converting the struts themselves, then I have to clean everything up. I am still waiting on the balljoint adapters so I won't go pulling the car apart until they rock up. I did a dummy fit of it all last night on one side and it's pretty sweet ! The brakes fill out my entire wheel and should be a bit better than the current stuff!

Hi Steve ! I have been following progress of your car where I can or where pics have leaked out. I've been friends with Russ for a long time, we've talked about your car a lot hehe. I tried to make it out the other week to see yours race, I also had about 50 different people MMS me images of your car on the day haha. I will be doing my best to make it up there to see the car run, hopefully you have more luck with it than last time. I will make sure to introduce myself.

Yeah it's all integrated into the column, the car retains all the factory characteristics but with lighter feel. Cheers

I adapted the standard top part of the KP column to key in via female spline to the Yaris motor (just like the Yaris does) and then built a shaft and uni joint assembly to adapt the drive to the rack. It sounds pretty simple when I put it like that but it was a bit of a battle and took a lot of thinking and adhoc tools to get it running true and working properly.

Also coming; It's now 2" lower on Watanabe rims, partial tint and I bought Recaro's :D

A novel idea for some but a necessity for me. The car now has power steering thanks to a 2007 Yaris and my brain.

Hi guys, I am all good now and I have the headers installed on the car. It was a pretty tricky operation due to the EFI gear but it has made a very noticeable positive improvement to the top end breathing as I had hoped :) I've been doing some stuff on the side so hopefully will have tyres for my Watanabe's in the next week, as well as finishing painting my body bits and finally install them !

Well he's all registered now ! I went for another visit to the DPI on Friday afternoon and it went through without any dramas :) It is quickly getting the nickname of " the egg " given the size, shape and colour of the car and the plates start with " 1 EGE " haha. I got my headers all wrapped the other night, that was until I realised that I need to put an oxygen sensor flange into the collector, I had to do a double take because I've never even touched a 4k with EFI on it so it was a bit of a weird concept. I have to get my supra cleaned up and ready to sell so if I don't get the headers on by tuesday it will be a while as I probably won't be well enough to be able to swap them out and weld the exhaust for a few weeks I suspect.

haha nice!

I am actually very impressed with the 4KE, so much so that I had reconsidered my 4age swap... It has heaps of torque down low but not much top end. I was dubious about the rear ratio being so low (it's 3.59:1 ) but its also very good and suits the low end torque of the motor. After it's rego'd I am putting extractors on it to see if it will breather a bit better up top but had also hoped of finding an easy throttle body and AFM upgrade. The throttle body on it is 41mm ID, pretty pathetic ! I have a pretty close to complete conversion set, including several gearboxes that won't require mounts or mods to fit, I have conversion mounts and a couple of 4age's laying around with an already rwd converted wiring harness..... Aside from some niggly bits and fluids I almost have a complete bolt in kit. I'm actually not too well at the moment and have to have an operation next week so if I do anything it will be a while off after I can recover physically and in the hip pocket.

The coils are very similar, the top winding doesn't meet the previous coil like that though (coils are upside down in that image) . I will put some images up tonight when I get home. The kerb weight for the KP is 710kg if that helps, I have no idea what the weight split is. I suppose though, using the spring rate and backward calculating it , the weight split could be found. I also forgot to count the number of active coils with the car at rest, which I can also do later on.

I decided that upon fitting the front struts this afternoon and the dampening balance being stupidly out I fitted the new rear shocks. In doing so I slipped the springs out for you. spring free height : 320mm spring OD : 115mm spring ID 95mm Coil thickness : 10mm windings : 7 complete loading : when loaded with 10kg of weight the spring compressed 30mm. I did the same load test to an 8kg spring and it compressed 15mm. also have images with the coil alongside a measuring rule if you desire.

LOL @ the response there !