Insane

By the way to anyone interested. this car is for sale. going pretty cheap too. I'll do up a proper add tonight. John, I have tried to call you many times but i only get message b ank. john or anyone else interested in the old girl my number is 0400070644.

I got hit by another car a couple of weeks ago. the insurance company said they won't fix it. It's not a "write off" and is still totaly leagal but can't afford to do much other than the quick job iv'e done untill i get some money from them. thenI"ll fix her propper and give it all some new paint... again. Here's what it looks like now.

Here's what it looks like now in the engine bay.

No carbs anymore... It runs straight gas. I now have on a single throttle body using the original manifold cut and shunt with the holes blocked off... Single point gas injection. I'll add photos later. By the way it's way smoother on gas.

It's on gas! I converted it to run straight LPG... also dyno'd at 80kw atw!

Matt, don't worry about the diff. No hard feelings. I'm also planing on putiing a cusco center in the 4.11 gears and housing i have here and selling the other set and housing in the car at the moment... so if anyone want's a set of 4.3 gears in a housing with a TRD center let me know...

This is only my daily driver... I'm getting the aircon fixed again and all the paint fixed including the spirit stripe... I even had the original spirit decals made up for after painting. Also gonna do rear shocks, sport seats, swaybars and stiffen the chasis in the usual ways. that's about it. Just a very clean quick reliable little car. Unless I get bored with the other car of course... I didn't clean the engine bay because i was lazy and the aircon and stuff was till hooked up, I only broke it attaching the alternator. I used my angry words when it started hissing at me.

Finally got the exhaust quietened today. Was WAY to loud... Scot's rods in ipswich set me up with a nice legal system for a pretty good price. I originally took it too ipswich muffler shop to get the exaust hooked up and it came out sounding like it had no exaust at all... (I told them to do what was needed) I took it back to them a week ago to make it quiet or at least legal and do what ever they thought was nessary... Virtually no difference at all. So I went to scots rods and they did a sound test. 12db over... That's like 3 time legal noise level? Got it back today and with the added back pressure it's faster too. It goes in for a tune friday so we'll see what happens after that.

Conversion is done and running smooth. Very quick.... No power down the bottom end though. I think it's because the exaust isn't restricted enough. it only has one lukey muffler on it at the moment and it's also as noisy as hell. I am thinking I'll put a cat and a resonator on it and see where that get's me. maybe a dyno after that. The dizzy is controlled by an ignition computer called a hyperpak, available fron NZ for around $300. Same computer trev is using incidentally. Mega easy to wire up really recomed it. pics of it now

Any time dude. you know where i am. Slim is welcome to any of the gear i have too. But you guys already know that. Hope you get all the bugs ironed out soon.

Why are you taking photo's of my driveway that don't include my selfindulgent car? You know it'll chuck a tanty now...

Update time... Diff center turned up and was covered in rust and crap... So I took it to the diff specialists and had it rebuilt. So Now I run a mega tight TRD LSD with 4.3's... Finally collected all I needed to do the front end conversion. Had the calipers rebuilt and everything. So now I'm running low springs all round, Tokio fron shocks, JDM front brakes with slotted rotars and celica drums on the back... I have also started my twincam conversion. I used the original V belt system converted onto the small port... Delorto twincarbs are my weapon of chice at the moment... This is as far as I have gotten...

Good to hear it's coming along trev... I'm catching up though...

My little sex machine is gonna have so many pedal credits.... I'll zoom past you like you are on a pushbike... Lay off the booze... You know me... When has that ever happened?

OK... Update time. Diff was getting verry loud... So I bought a RA40 diff and did the conversion. I ended up using the celica springs, welded on swaybar mounts, JDM sprinter driveshaft and modified my own panard rod to center the diff. Drove well for around 200k, then BANG! That was followed by lots of crunching and grinding. It seems the center had a massive failure. So.. I chased after a 4.1 center and it eluded me. So i chased after a 4.1 factory JDM LSD and it eluded me... Only to now end up with a cusco LSD on it's way to me as we speak on a courier truck. If that dosen't fix it I give up. I have also installed an electric fuel pump and blocked off the hole in the head of the 4ac. It's nearly ready for my twincab twinkey to go in!!!