LittleRedSpirit

You need a wideband, simple as that. Wanna borrow mine for a few weeks to test it and datalog it?

Narrowbands don't tell you anything, I didn't even know you could get one with a gauge. If its a narrow band sensor like a regular factory 02 sensor it will only read between 14 and 15.5:1. This might give you a false ndication of leanness. You should achieve those afrs while cruising at light throttle or when you back off. Cars routinely run that lean, but only under low load conditions. Do you have an 02 sensor in your wiring loom? It should allow your ecu to cruise quite lean and economically if its working right.

Ill see how it comes out I guess. Be around stock weight when its on the road. The back seat is staying out, there is no sound deadening, but I might add some. Will be running carpet, plus cage, and extra diff and gearbox weight also. Take off a few for glass panels. The hatch is extremely light, until the glass goes in. Engine is 113 kgs, mounts are heavier than stock also. Radiator and cooling system is lighter, plus no big cast manifolds. Recaros are a little bit lighter than stock seats I think. Battery will be in the car somewhere, wherever it fits and balances out.

OK, baby has a pulse again. New waterpump. Its a Jap made GMB too. Was going to freshen up the front oil seal on the crank but whoever had this car before me got the bolt on so tight most likely with loctite, it is impossible to remove without heating the bolt, so we left it. Mechanic said there was only a couple of drops there. Its never lost a meaningful amount of oil, I was just being anal. This car really needs ac, so I might fit the working pump to it and see if I can go get it gassed next week and have it stay gassed. That would be ideal! Getting pretty tempted to remove emissions junk and the smog pump. Still on the hunt for a used set of king springs for it. Its sag towm 2013.

Sweet ride dide, and I like your garage ornaments. :kewlpics:

All the good bits aside from panels are gone. The auto one is 4k powered. There are some nice interior pieces in the wagon.

You should have booked and paid for it, then he just needs to leave it out for collection.

Use E-go its cheaper and decent service.

Its been booked to go this Monday for: Exhaust system Some sheet metal repairs in the floor Pre fit cage Fit the diff bush spacers Possibly tail shaft shortening Will be looked over with a view to Blue plating it Couple other minor welding repairs Just want to get as much done as possible while its there so I can have as small a list as possible to organise when it comes back. A bit more about the roll cage. Its 44.5 tubing diameter. Seems to be steel. Seems to come inside the dash and not through, but does it with straighter lengths than a lot of bolt in jobs. Seems to satisfy cams specs. Has a spare pair of bottom plates with it that I need the fabricator to trim and fit to the rear end wherever we decide to locate them.

Dunno about the nissan stuff but tunnel mods will be required to fit anything much bigger than a t50.

Body colour and tonnes of clear coat!

Ten Eyewitness news, the only news broadcast that counts spoiling the plot of TV series as news. Talk about sour grapes ʞ©$ɟing over other networks. They pass off so much crap as news that isnt. I bet there were a bunch of people that died overseas, but they do a 5 minute piece about how they kill off a character in Breaking Bad. Whats next, do reports on movie plots the day they open? Its a slippery slope. News, is by nature a large collection of spoilers, but they should be informing you of interesting newsworthy things you otherwise might miss, important things, not spoiling the plot of highly acclaimed TV series the day it airs.

Thanks for doing this Ben, youre crushing it!

Had a white one just like it that i inherited from my grandfather when I was 14. Was awesome, but a bit frosty. If you could put modern frost free cooling into it it would be absolutely priceless. Looks like something that fell on wiley Coyote.

You can have balanced wheels that still shake. Usually if they are too old the rubber deforms under centrifugal force and then becomes out of round once spinning fast enough. Can be a problem with tyres that are too old or that were left flat for ages.

Do you have all mine yet? Ready when you are, you haven't provided me payment info yet btw.

OK, did a bunch more. I fitted the remote brake fluid reservoir from a spacia van to hold clutch fluid. it fits really neatly under the bonnet, I wanted it to sit as high as it could to gravity feed. Pretty happy with it. Finished the idle control manifold and mounted it. Also mounted the idle controller to an engine mount. Fitted the stock ae86 coolant overflow bottle to the drivers strut tower. Dropped it off the stands and got it rolling again, to see how high I have the coilovers sitting. Bit high but fine to work on. I might put the radiator brackets in with a couple of self tapper screws for now, and then I can look at what needs doing for the top mount threads. I'm not happy with the coolant overflow bottle, I'm thinking I will change to a metal one with a proper radiator cap fitment, so it will bleed at the right pressure into the overflow bottle like a stock vehicle. I noticed there are no metal lines in the car right now for the fuel/supply/return and breather. I think I might just upgrade them to 5/16th supply return and remake the lines as I don't think the stock lines are the correct size, not from the adm car anyhow. I think that is a job for once the car comes back from getting the exhaust done. Now that I'm happy with the idle controller location, and the other bits are in place, I can consider wiring it also. I'm ringing Medicine man right now...

Hopefully the wiring will not be too hard. Its really just a matter of wiring the engine like any other minimal standalone system. In reality it will be no more of a job than a 20v with cop ignition, except you have to factor in the different triggering and having a CAS factory. Also the VVTI will need to be programmed as opposed to the vvt on off simplicity. I'm hoping to drive a stock Toyota 2azfe engine in a rav 4 (most powerful stock tune) with the ecu data scan hooked up so I can datalog the tuning and learn what I can about how Toyota manages the engine. I can build from there with my tuning. Obviously the intake is vastly different and should require more transient throttle enrichment to maximise, and the stock VVTI settings will be all about torque with minimal emissions. Torque is really the aim so I don't want to get too far into chasing top end numbers on stock cams and pistons. Maybe later on when I fit the 11:1 pistons to the engine. At that time it would be prudent to at least clean up the intake and exhaust ports properly and consider camshafts. I still want to run vvti though and have as much low down as possible, so I don't think there are any options out there for that. The body wiring isnt too complicated, and I think I have enough here to connect it all up adm style, I have zenki lotus tail lights with their own new wiring, and just regular adm levin headlights, I'm unsure of the front bar to use, I have a roughish zenki bar with a beat up lip, and a kouki bar with slight damage from when timbo got clipped on the Motorway in his kouki panda levin. I have lights for both bars, so i could put either on. I'm leaning towards kouki but don't really know how different the headlights are.

You asked, I answered. Google what KPI is before you ask any more questions. Asking twice wont change the answer.

I love Ebay. Just was able to purchase a bonds cage for ae86, bolt in type, for $365 brand new. Woot.

Dave I would be grateful for any help. I have some sock filters here to get it running with initially, but I may as well get right into it and do the airbox I need to pass rego and perform best. If you wanna come over and exchange ideas while actually looking at the thing, you're more than welcome. I need to mount the last few electrical items (idle controller, thermo fan, and then Ill have to send out some tyre smoke signals to the Medicine Man to get some electrons flowing through her veins. I have a bunch of wiring in boxes I will need to sort through and organise. There's the 2az loom, the ecu blank loom, an ae82 big port engine and front of body loom, an adm ae86 front loom and dash looms, a trueno front of body and under dash loom. I need to lay them out, id them, and work out the ideal combination of factory look and simplicity, and hopefully amongst all the madness I have something that will work and let me wire the whole car. I have a couple of oversize and ultra loud horns I'm going to wire in also. They came from an ae86 half cut I bought years ago, I'm wondering if they are as loud as they look like they would be. Good for scaring the wildlife out of the way on those long country drives. I'm also wondering about installing a couple of spotlights for better night vis. How do levin lights usually look for brightness and beam coverage? It would also make night time Go Pro filming more meaningful at the track and whatnot.

The kpi is wrong, don't do it. It will never work as well as ra40 struts or xt130 if you want bigger rolling gear and brakes.

Been going mental looking for the right fittings to connect shit up, Fitted the radiator filler tank today on a bracket I knocked up from plumbing saddles and an odd steel bunnings bracket. Also was able to mock mount the lower radiator brackets and test fit, all works great. They are just stud grippers from Bunnings that will be spot welded in. Perfect size! Fabricated my own fitting for the clutch bottle relocation. Also was working on the idle control chamber. Its just going to have the PCV and the 4 inlet ports hooked up to it. The 4 linlet ports are at one end, the PCV in the side, and the idle control will plug in at the other end of the chamber opposite the port connections, so they are all equidistant from the idle control air source. That was the simplest way i could come up with to ensure all 4 ports are able to get the exact same amount of air.