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I think that is it Evan, so the problem is that the ECU is giving far too much advance and it runs badly on petrol. Gas will take more advance so it runs better on CNG. Of course it could be that the 4E ECU is just providing anough fuel to run a 1300cc 4E motor not a 1800cc 7K motor! So it runs smoothly but pitifully slowly on CNG! Fawad these computers can't be just swapped around, as they have maps for each motor and they can be quite different. You might have to buy an aftermarket ECU that you can program, or get a 7K ECU from overseas. I assume you're not in Aussie!

Aww... who locked his thread about his speedway car?? I was going to be "very helpful" to a young man in a hurry... took him 20minutes to get impatient because no-one had answered his question! http://www.rollaclub.com/board/topic/46267-jet-sizes/page__p__479163__fromsearch__1#entry479163 So, Friday this Indian dude phones up, tells me my computer is terribly slow and slowing down the internet and "we" can help. If I'd just sit at my computer he would talk me through how to get into their website and they would fix it. I said "Come on around and do it and I can pay you", which flummoxed him as he probably wasn't even in Aussie! In the end I just had to tell him to find some little old lady sucker as I'd read about him in the local paper. He was the final straw in destroying any credibility Indians have, as he phoned less than an hour after another Indian dude phoned for the second time trying to sell me better internet and saying he was from Telstra. I reminded him he had phoned the day before and that he was an 'area manager' and promised to have my dirty line fixed, but he was sure it wasn't him and the man I wanted would surely get onto it... We might as well have been speaking two different languages!

Oh- good work in your KE70... well, my Altezza weighs 1370kg and your KE70 weighs 900kg, the motor puts out just over 200bhp, so yes, it should work good in your car!

The Altezza 3SG-E with the 6speed fits, there are a couple of guys with it. You need to make the transmission tunnel bigger for the 'box. Save up $10grand and go for it.

Well.. is it a little rock and how did it get past the airfilter?? If it is, then you have a problem... you must not let the rock get into a cylinder! How about finding a length of hose that will fit down the carb, maybe 5 or 6mm diam, and tape it to a vacuum cleaner- it will hopefully suck the rock onto it an lift it out. Another one would be to hook a compressor up to the spark plug hole of whichever cylinder has the inlet valve wide open and see if you can blow the rock back out. If not, take the carb off and do it. If it is a rock, I'm amazed it hasn't dropped down into the intake manifold as you drove the car and opened/closed the throttle.

Beautiful condition! Nice work- but what a barge! It must be hard getting up a driveway without airbags with all that rear overhang! Those were the days! Acres of sheetmetal and plenty of room!

Unfortunately I don't, but I can see someone in the club should carry a few sets to sell! Quite a few guys are looking for them at the moment. I've only seen the 4-into-1 sets being made these days, they end up in a 2" pipe. I ran inch & 3/4 from the resonator to the back and it works great.

Best for starting are old dirt rally tyres on the rear!! They slide in a beautifully predictable manner, last quite a while and can be picked up dirt-cheap from rally guys who want sharp edges on their tyres. Used 'em on fun racing days just to look spectacular in the days before 'drifting' was invented....

That's probably the best bang for buck if the motor is good, and cheap. Being old it might need a complete rebuild. A couple of guys in Altezzaclub use the Beams 3SGE in other cars, AE86 or Celicas or KE70.. The 8000rpm straight out of the factory is quite an attaction... :rolls:

These Golfs were immensely popular in South Africa, where they were made from when I was living there in 1974 until 2009!! So some guys have spent their whole working life on the assembly line in Port Elizabeth just making Mk1 Golfs! They kept making them as a dirt-cheap new car alongside the Mk2 and later Golfs, just as Nissan made Datsun 1200 bakkies (utes) until a year or two back. Naturally there is stacks of info and aftermarket parts to make them fly over there, so if you want to wind it up chase the South African websites.

greenmac is right, modern motors put out so much power straight from the factory it takes quite a lot of work to better them. My Altezza puts out over 100bhp/litre, which was racing car stuff in the 1980s. A WRC 2.4L Ford works Escort put out 240bhp in the days or Tony Pond and Hannu Mikkola. ..and that's why Twinky is also right, if you want to muck around on cars and improve on the stock item, then you'll need a 30year old project car, just like the rest of us... If you're stuck on improving the Rolla you have, you could make up/buy a magnehelic and chase intake restrictions as detailed here- http://autospeed.com.au/cms/A_0663/article.html and- http://autospeed.com.au/cms/search/index.html?keywords=intake+&x=23&y=10 and you could modify the exhaust system or just change the muffler as noted here- http://autospeed.com.au/cms/article.html?&A=0383&P=1

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..and there is rallying up there, at least once a year... Chase these guys- http://www.rallyqueensland.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16

Ah, OK- If you haven't found a motorsports car club yet, phone any engine builder that advertises racing/rallying preparation. They should know which clubs are local. Contact the two organisations who oversee motorsport in Aussie, CAMS and AMSAG I think they are, they will have a list of 'approved' clubs. Hopefully anyone on here involved in any motorsport up that way can post details of their club for you, and that will lead on to someone who organises dirt events... hillclimbs, gymkhanas, khanacross or rallysprints. They are much easier to run than rallying, which is a massive organisation. BMSC is here- http://www.bmsc.com.au/ and their calendar here doesn't mention QLD at all, so you might have to move down this way! http://www.bmsc.com.au/index-rallycalendar.html

Join Brindebella Motorsport online- I think its the biggest rally club forum, its based in Canberra. Also join Bathurst Light Car Club and get into their rallysprints and khanacrosses. ..and if you can't succeed in Google and you're not near Bathurst or Canberra, try telling us WHERE your're trying to get into rallying... Perth??

In theory this shouldn't have any effect, as the thermostat does that work. Once it has warmned up and the thermostat has opened then the cardboard wil run the motor hotter than usual if the radiator is struggling to cope. Coil would be a suspect for sure, that would link into the electrical misfire. Can you pull out the choke when its missing to richen the mixture and that will sort out if it is too lean.

Egad! Another strange country's Tax Dept trying to give me a refund! :laff:

You'd have to make sure its not clutch drag from the clutch not releasing properly. If you wait 5seconds with the clutch held down, does it still crunch?? If it doesn't its just residualy spin in the layshaft, but if it does its clutch drag. I assume they're hydraulic, and if either cylinder is not holding pressure properly they will not pull the pressure plate right off the clutch plate so it will keep the gearbox spinning a little. As first is a synchro gear you won't notice a little clutch drag, but reverse is straigh-cut and it crunches easily. I can't think of any car of the many I've owned that crunched into reverse unless there was a problem with the clutch... Another one was lack of grease on the splines at the clutch plate- it stopped the clutch freeing completely on an old Skyline I had.

Nope- a hone is just to clean the surface off without removing any material really, like sanding down undercoat before you apint over it. It gives the new rings a fresh surface to wear to. You only get the next size rings when you bore the cylinders out and get oversize pistons. Is there anything wrong with the bottom end? If I was going to do it, Id pull it down and spread it all over the garage floor on newspaper. Block/crank/pistons/rods go off to a motor man to be cleaned and measured. That tells me if I need a re-bore (new pistons and rings) and/or a crank grind. (new smaller diameter bearings) If not they hone the block and I get new rings ane depending on how worn the bearing are I might replace those. They also skimmed the flywheel for me, took a couple of Kg off. After that most of those parts go off to get balanced- crank, flywheel, clutch, rods, pistons. I never took the pistons out of the block, so I never honed it or fitted new rings or had it balanced. I had the crank cleaned and fitted new standard size bearings. Head goes off to a head man who cleans it up, checks for straight and machines valves and seats. If it needs a skim he does that, and last time we took 15thou off to raise the compression a bit. Meanwhile at home I've sat down with all the cam cover bits and manifolds to clean everything with petrol and wire brushes. Disgusting job, and if you can sweet-talk someone into borrowing their cleaning bath it is much better. When it all gets home lay it all out and put it back together.

C'mon Anastasios, whip the head off and slap a tray of beers on the bonnet and ask anyone in Sydney to come and help!! You've come so far surely it just needs a bit of a sort-out & Sydney clubmembers are big-hearted when it comes to dropping around to help.

Check the RTA for a temporary rego. All you need it for is a week to get it interstate. What sort of car & how are you going to find out what the problem is?

man! I wuz ripped! Crow charged me $170 for a grind and lifters faced & mailed back to me, and that was the cheapest quote I got, including Wade! So if you assemble it a tooth out that is 20deg?? I'm thinking of twinspinna's problem of the 5K not starting with a new ground cam. 20deg would stop it running I'm sure.

Sounds like dizzy. If not, it might be cam timing, although I'd expect it to run badly a tooth out. If its not the distributor, can you check the cam timing against the manufacturer's notes. They should tell you when the valves open and close, and you might have to put a protractor on the crank pulley. You're only looking for a handful of degrees here if its a tooth out.

Billions! Ask a car carrier.. I bought a VW Beetle with a blown clutch in Sydney years ago, hitched up there, changed the clutch in a corner of a workshop then drove it back to Canberra. You'd be best to ask if someone on here could rent you a couch and a bit of garage space for a few days and do the same.

...snaps stub axles off too! Too much leverage. Wheel, brakes, everything vanishes into the distance leaving you with a 3-wheeler! Some 1980s model of Honda Civic was quite prone to that- This is why there are laws as to how much you can widen wheels outside stock.