brett_qld

Thanks for the feedback fellas, I'll chase up an engineer that is willing to mod plate a 4 link.

Key part is I'll be using coils to control height and spring rate, with added bonus of dampner control. Not just running mono leaf.

I bought the headers 2nd hand, apparently the manifold flange had been 'modified for clearance' for what I don't know. I chopped the outlet flange off and welded a V band on. I had to massage the floor pan for clearance. Modified my gbox xmember to allow a 2.5" pipe to pass through it. Trying to keep the exhaust tucked up high. Also, my rolla is RHD so no steering shaft or box. But since obx are US market, that shouldnt be a problem. And yeah the rolla is a fun little rig, will be better with good suspension

Put it on the rollers today went about as good as I expected...

Not sure mate, I have heard of it being done on other cars. My understanding is the leaves are only used to locate the diff. By twist are you meaning looking down at the car, with the centre of the diff as the pivot, the wheels moving toward/away from the front wheels? Or are you meaning the pinion shaft nosing down/up?

I'm looking at taking all but the locating leaf out of the spring pack and replacing the shocks with a set of coilovers. Need to firm up the rear suspension, reduce body roll and the more adjustable the better. The Rolla is used for drift events and occasional road use. It already has an RX2 LSD fitted and mod plated, it is also seam welded and has a 6 point cage fitted and mod plated. The towers will be braced and the diff mounts are already overkill to support the weight at the shock mounts. I would like to go a full 4 link rear eventually but I would need to find an engineer in QLD happy to sign it off first. So I think for now this will be a good upgrade. I'm thinking a speedyway / drag universal anti rollbar would be the easiest option for the rear swaybar. Anybody gone down the leaf / coil hybrid path?

http://www.gumtree.c...a28-/1074634123 Ta22 diff with r31 disc conversion $350

Hey mate mine just turned up today, while trawling the net today I read that you wrap the pin in teflon tape and smear the rest with silicone grease...

Superpro bushes all round just turned up along with new ball joints. Good time to measure up and machine up some roll centre adjusters. Next big upgrade will be weld on coilover front, and thinking of removing all but a locating leaf in the rear and throwing some coilovers all round. Not sure if anyones gone down that path on the arse end?

Took it to proserpine and had my first crack at drifting. Had an awesome day, lots of fun throwing the death trap sideways! The old girl has heaps of body roll, I havent had a chance to make some roll centre adjusters yet so the steering is out too. The only dramas I had all day where a snapped accelerator cable, stretched clutch cable and the brake pedal pin came out. My gopro battery died early in the day, well before i got a feel for the car and drifting, but I put a crude chop job together of some not entirely shit bits: https://www.youtube....bed/s_oi6PVRhz0

Banged an ebay aluminium radiator and new hoses in. Fitted a set of OBX tuned length extractors, built a stainless 2.5" exhaust. Resonator in the mid pipe, a magnaflow at the rear.

I replaced the whole steering setup with KE70 rack and pinion KE70 rack, KE20 crossmember: KE70 rack mounts grafted onto ke20 crossmember: Finished: KE70 rack mated to KE20 outter tierods and sleeves: KE20 Ignition housing and steering shaft top bearing housing mated to ke70 column: Grafted the 70s firewall mount to the 20, standard 70 column mounted directly to the 20s dash. It does sit too much to tye left by about 1 - 1.5"

I recently aquired a 74 KE20 to use as my primary track car while I finish a few other projects. It has already been extensively modified and mod plated for everything which is the reason I bought this particular car. The build specs as I bought it were: 3TC Bored and Stroked close to 2L TRD cam, twin webers, fixed timing dizzy T50 with trd close ratio gearset RX2 with mazworks LSD, 4 wheel discs, hydraulic handbrake 6 Point cage, seam welding, buckets and harnesses Rays 3pc meshies Mod plated for all of the above in QLD in '95 The bloke I bought it off was a dodgey prick though, and despite my only condition on buying the car that it be a 'nothing to work on' deal, I've already had to do a fair bit of work. The whole steering system was shagged, worn steering box, flogged bushes and dangerously sloppy tierods etc. Zipties instead of brake clips, leaking brake fittings, leaking coolant, exhaust had more weld than tube etc etc.