LittleRedSpirit

Could be a modified r31 diff couldnt it?

Ive since bought some polishing wheels and shinyed up the itbs and a few of the alloy items in the bay. I'm considering buying a different timing cover from a USDM 2azfe that is smoother looking and doesn't have the engine mount threads on it. Its probably a lot lighter without all the alloy you need to hold the weight of the motor. Plus it would polish up like chrome. Ive also removed the seats from an rx-8 to go into this car. The drivers is electric adjustable. Super comfy and retro looking too. Kinda styled after Porsche seats. There isnt a whole lot of other stuff I can use from the rx-8, although I love how the rear suspension just drops out of cars these days as a unit, it makes it ever so tempting to try and graft it into another vehicle.

You can try installing a 1kohm resistor in the tacho wire and see if that helps needle stability.

You can get them for about $180 a corner

They are junk, just slightly better versions of the blue monroes, designed to trick laypeople into believing they have performance suspension. Buy something from Koni if you want performance. GT gas are just slightly firmer versions of stock shocks.

Until you bump it some day and you realise how easy all the leverage made it to snap off. Maybe cooler with a stumpy.

Thats what I'm thinking too, but ultimately he should just do all the 1% plays and it will add up to a serviceable system.

Hello again. Just make sure the cooling system is at its best. You may want to invest in an aftermarket temperature gauge so that you can know if half temp is even hot. These old standard gauges do not indicate actual temperature, and after 30 years the sender unit in the engine can become slow to react or ineffective, or misread all together. Perhaps you can fit an inline temperature sensor in the side of the hotter top radiator hose and see exactly how hot the water gets at its hottest. Anything under 90 degrees Celsius could be considered normal, generally it should stay around the same temperature as your thermostat opens, give or take 5 degrees. There really is no accurate way of assessing any issue unless you have an accurate temperature reading.

You should always change the waterpump when re-using an old engine. Internally the difference between fwd and rwd waterpumps is that the rwd one is a bit longer with an extra bearing designed to carry the load of the clutch fan. If you put a clutch fan on a fwd pump it will definately fail at some point. In your application Id say that you should start with the basics. Look at toyodiy and make sure your water kit is routed the same way as its supposed to be from factory. Make sure the thermostat is healthy, the hoses are in good condition and not pinched or damaged where the clamps do up. Perhaps flush the block with a cooling system flush, or just disconnect and blast it back and forth with high pressure water to remove any loose contaminants and grime.

Shits getting wierd. I love it. Someone did a t18 ute once, was boss. ;)

Have a look in the radiator. Drain the oil into a clean container and inspect it. Sounds like your mixing water and oil somewhere.

Its quite possible someone has mixed and matched. What was the part number of the original shocks you replaced?

Nah sold it.

Thanks for the praise. I just cannot wait to do it all again with more capacity and a car that handles essentially the same if not better. Thinking about making a video to promote the sale of it with my friends help. Could be a viral sensation, lol.

Yeah I detailed it today pretty well, changed oil n filter yesterday. Its going to be hard to let go of. But the time is right. Spent the last 45 minutes just cruising my suburb looking at council cleanup piles with my missus, its running really well. Did some more refinement of the idle the other day and its a bit more smooth and torquey right off idle. Also brought vvt on 500 revs later, gives a more linear rush of power rather than a couple of waves.

Soda blasted the itbs so they look half decent.

Nowhere, I love how original your car is and this would ruin it for me.

Sooo much space foam.

With the name SR70, to a Toyota person, your describing a LiteAce van with a 3sge. Its kind of confusing. If you want to follow Toyota conventions and name it something we can quickly understand, name it an sre-70. E meaning Corolla chassis.

Absolutely no reason to have 2 piece side intrusion bars in a roll cage, especially with pointed ends. A side hit would see your insides removed.

It was more thickness that was the issue for me, with the std fans which are bulky and the extra thick core it was too thick by a mile. This aw11 unit is a bit thinner.

They have a lot of stuff.

Its great that it still works after all these years. Well done. I am in Brisbane, Australia.