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lol Willis -everything!! Spuds are under the house now, all stored with the garlics for winter, but we are picking zuchinnis, carrots, peppers, cucumbers, beetroot, onions, chillis, tomatoes, (just! Very late this year), beans (peas finished), Gem squash we are eating but other pumpkins are still growing. The rhubarb & the silver beet I don't worry about! We've had the blackberries/loganberries/raspberries & some other berry.. they all end up as jams! Peaches are ripening, apricots finished, plum tree is too young and the walnuts I have to shoot the bloody cockatoos out of every day! Seedlings now are the cabbage/broccoli sort of stuff coming on. Its a retirement hobby! We give stuff away to the neighbours, there's always an excess of something. But yeah, get into it while you're young, I wish I had learned more from my old man that just how to dig. He grew everything for the family when I was young. Now I've tasted real veges again I realise the stuff in supermarkets is pretty artificial.

However it is still unstable... so onto today's project.... A smoke throttle! I was looking for a 50mm diameter cone to drop over a bit of exhaust pipe, but could only fnd this steel ball. That will get suspended on the bike brake cable wire which is drilled through the alloy bar, so I can wind it up and down 50mm. The smoke will come up the exhaust pipe and the ball will let it out to mix with the air going in the chimney cut. The cross-drilled brake line is going back in through the side of the chimney AND the soldering iron, so I hope they keep each other burning. I was planning on cutting the chimney off again above the vent, then splitting it wide down its length and adding a 40mm strip of steel to make its diameter bigger. Then re-fitting it so I had a draught going in all around the edge, but all that seemed like too much work! It also worried me that the velocity in the larger chimney might be too slow to mix well... Any combustion engineers on here?

However, by carefully throttling the air entry (one brick in hte hole) and the gas velocity in the chimney (another brick for the top) you can get the smoke down to a civilised level!

Ok, the brake line is too pissy, so you swipe an old gas soldering iron off a mate and hook that up. Unfortunately the daught still blows it out, and there is a problem of the flame not setting fire to the amazing amount of smoke you find in the chimney.

When that particular neighbour is away you do another run, a good thing as the draught of air blows the flame out all the time... However, this time you get charcoal, fine soft grassy charcoal and gritty little twigs. Note how full the drum is.... remember how full it is to start?

Counting that as a fail, you pay $20 for a crappy piece of tin tube and flare the base. You cut a hole in the drum lid and fit a fine "anti-flashback" mesh to it, then rivet on the chimney base, subtly modified so you can slide the rest of the chimney on and off. A hole drilled in it takes a length of Corolla brake pipe that is cross-drilled and hooked up to a rubber hose on a gas line.

Away it goes.... Then the neighbour but one comes over complaining about the very strong tarry stinking smoke! So you put it out. At 10pm he's back, because it didn't go right out, even though you hosed the shit out of it... so you go out & tip the drum out on the grass & hose it again!

You pack all the shrubbery in the drum, stick the lid on and start a fire underneath. Note how full it is...

Well, seeing as I'm working on this project again I thought I'd egimicate you youngsters for your old age when you start growing a vege garden. Most soils are low in carbon, pure activated charcoal type carbon, as it only gets put there in forest fires and these damm fieries keep putting them out. The carbon binds a large number of ionic minerals and organics so the plants can use them. So... you take all the woody/shrubby/ hedgey cuttings and dry them for a week or two. They're too woody to compost and it costs money to dump them anyway. You get a $10 drum with a lid from the local apple juice factory & cut a hole in the bottom. Throw in 3 bricks and a coarse steel mesh cut to the circle. You get this- Its been used becasue I never took photgraphs to start with... :bash:

So.. you must have the deep-dish "D" pistons with a tiny combustion chamber in the head. The shallow-dish "O" pistons you're thinking of buying will go with your 4K head. The ports can afford to be bigger as they are flowing 1500cc instead of 1300. The 4K will port out if needed. Check the valve diameters. I think the valve springs are interchangeable. Philbey or Evan will know for sure.

You have black in the wrong places!! White the doors and black the bum! Don't forget the wheels!

That would be good if you can Jordy- Get a 4K and both 5Ks so we can put it up in the Wiki.

Probably solenoid in that case, but if its non-repairable like I think it is, then a new starter was the answer. All good-

It'll pink on 98 you know... I hope SOMEBODY worked out what 60thou would do!

Lol! Excellent! Go well Mitch, you've got years of racing ahead of you!

How much money have you got to spend, and how fast do you want it to go?

Probably the best pick. I hate to suggest a Ford, but does that stubby Ford Focus get down that low? They seem to be very drivable, and to my amazment a mate's one has given him no trouble when living in Gisbourne and working in Wanganui on the other side of the North Island. I myself would stick to Corolla or Pulsar, but that's my experiences.

I use 20W-50 in the KE70 & the '88 Pintara. They're pretty low-tech engines that don't see high revs.

Ah- so people need to measure a few different 5K pistons with the plastic sheet/pipette and publish some actual measurements. 1500cc at 12:1 would be a flyer!

Steering wheel is on the wrong side... :laff: Look out for rust, especially low in the body. The 3T is a fine conversion, take it for a drive and see what you think. The price of gas in the USA is dirt cheap, so the carbs don't matter, but are there air filters for them?? A 4AGE would be the only option. Its probably worth the same money over here.

Did you check the brushes in the starter while it was out?? Sounds like they may be burnt too short... Can you hear the solenoid go "click" when you turn the key & it doesn't start??

hmm.. Rob83ke70 showed me a set of brand-new spark plug tubes he'd just bought last Saturday. Made in China, but I don't know where he got them. Look him up in the 'members' file & email him.

A compression skim will always make it more thermally efficient, so I do it. The porting just depends on the factory product, and I don't know enough about 4As to tell you if that's a weakness or not. I took my 4K ports out to match the manifolds & gasket, but that was fitting twin SUs and extractors. The ports narrowed down to stock diameter by the time they got to the valve stems as I never expected to use over 6000rpm & it gets there very well. The advantage in doing it now is to clear the crap out of the water channels in the block, but if you don't have time it will wait. Certainly you have solved your over-heating problem!

Mitch-12 built a wattts for his Corolla. PM him about it. http://www.rollaclub.com/board/user/10453-mitch-12/

OMG! That is great! JordyKE here's your inspiration! PM Stuart for all the "how-to" questons! http://www.rollaclub.com/board/topic/19886-my-ke-11/page__st__195