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Any updates? I went mad a week ago and bought a rough XA coupe, wont start work on mine for a bit but still excited about it, Jes

YAY, nice to see this coming together Ben! That new section under the back windscreen looks good, I can't wait to see it in one colour :) . Did you get the rust repair section from rare spares of fab it up yourself? Keep up the good work, Jes

Howdy did you go on Friday night mate, did you run this down the 1/4? Jes

Thanks mate, much appreciated for the reply. Sorry if I was unclear, re: keeping them captive. I mean tweaking the cut ends flat so the spring has a level surface to sit on at both ends. Nah I wont do it at 2 am and the daily is AWD and the Ke70 is too gutless so no skids for me :( . I love your rally car thread also, have read it several times! Jes

Ok cobbers, I'm planning to do the falcon springs in the ke70 trick. I'm aware of the legalities etc and I know spring rate changes when cut. I plan to bend the cut ends level to keep them captive and avoid them jumping out and spearing the tyres. I'm want it a little lower with a firmer ride which wont shake my fillings out, not dorifto spec - can anyone advise whether I should grab EB-AU King Springs or just Falcon stockies for this purpose. Can also do Kings rear, stockies front if its a better compromise? Will be upgrading to short stroke shocks also.

Very nice, sounds great, well done bro! What ended up being the drama with the adaptronic / wiring ? I'm going 3rz but havent decided whether to go basic mods and keep stock ecu or lash out on aftermarket. Wiring scares me but glad you overcame it! Jes

My made has one of those lift pumps in his ca18 datto 1200, mounted on rubber and its still bloody loud, definitely worse though when priming, settles down slightly after running a little. Hope you get it sorted, Jes

Good work matey, Keep it up! I keep looking for your updates all the time as its a great read. You must be excited to be this close, I'm very frustrated that my own projects arent progressing quickly at the moment but oh well, thats life :) cheers, Jes

Nice work everywhere! I especially like your diff jig and that you managed to fudge your motor and gearbox mounts until you were able to use a stock tailshaft, very clever :) . Keep it up, Jes

Any update? Ive been checking here everday and I think this is the longest time we've heard nothing :) , whens the dynotune happening? Hope everything is going well, Jes

Nice, go for a drive and enjoy it :) . Just examining the pricetag, could you share what were the several largest expenses in the build? Jes

Thanks for the reply Dave! ITB did cross my mind as another possible solution, Its just a little sad when you want to increase fuelling( or convert to ITB) in an efi system you need to buy so much stuff to do it (aftermarket ecu, usually bigger injectors and fuel pump/ reg) to run it all. Cheers Jes

Ok, I'm aware some people wont like this. I'm aware dept of transport also wouldnt like this.... But I'm interested anyway. Early 3rz's ran a distributor of sorts, i believe the later ones still have the hole in the head for the dizzy, just blanked off. I'm just wondering whether it would be a massive backwards step performance wise to convert an efi 3rz to carb and dizzy. My reasons are simple, I just really like webers/dellortos :) . They sound hot! By my way of thinking an efi 3rz is a 2.7L four which makes about 150hp (flywheel) at 4500-5000ish rpm. Lots of 2L 4 cyls can make that at high rpm with webers, so I'm guessing the carbs wouldnt know if they happen to be on a 2L 4cyl making 150hp at 7500-8000 rpm or a 2.7 making 150 at 4500 rpm? Anyway was just wondering what the general consensus was from other people, from a performance point, disregarding emissions and economy which would obviously suffer. Ive seen 4age's and sr20s running sidedraft carbs and was just thinking it could be cool. Aparently LCE in the states have built 2rz and 3rz NA carb motors for people in racing classes that specify carbs so it has been done anyway. Interested to hear some thoughts. Jes

Why no more quad carb? Oh well, good luck with the refurb, Jes

Looking good mate, air filters are sweet and you must be so close now, keep it up! Jes