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they sierra shocks are f@$king short. like, reallly short, i think too short. unless the guy whos car i was playing with was running the wrong ones. but he had chopped falcon springs, and the car sat with the wheel just on the height of the wheel arch and the shock was giving about 3mm travel considered getting decent springs and shocks? koni make a nice adjustable....

thankyou.

thats 2 years in matts possession. how many years did nick have it for before then? this thing wont wanna do any work, its too used to sitting around :)

take your shocks out and do some turns then. they do alot more than you seem to think.

maybe its sticky linkages somewhere? gearbox off is probably an engine out job?

can u get it in gear with car off? may have done the clutch... possible cooked the fluid, but i doubt it. bent linkages is a maybe if you were changing crazy man style, or something stuck in them.

bit dry mate? lol maybe the cones should be green :D looks like a good bit of fun ;)

good shocks will limit most body roll.

just captivate the spring. ie, run a bar across the bottom, flat, coil and either U-bolt it or if theres a hole in the centre of the seat bolt it down to that. bumpstop should guide it back into place. this is whats done on 4wd's when we go to a shock longer than the full extension of the spring to get even more articulation. works quite well :D on note of rear falcon springs, the sierra shocks alot of people pair them with are so bloody short its ridiculous.

hehe, so classic :locked: :D

its ok, the car has its on tent :locked:

think it was something like that... heavy diff, w57, heavy wheels, heavy seats it all ads up

6boost, and also ron with the red gemini are both up around 450 hp. ron is running more boost, around 30 and forgies and revving to 8000 or so, and 6boost(kyle) is running standard pistons, crank, and rod and ran 9.71, 25 psi, 9000+ rpm. the motor he is currently building will be peak powering at 10500 apparantly, and I'm pretty sure it will have more boost too. hes going all out :D oil flow to big ends is an issue and a search on toymods will show alot, usually as issue on 1 and 6, hence the spun bearings people might often hear about. car weighed in approx 1100 kg. not bad considering its cut thick steel wheels, 15x7 front, and 15x8 rear. theyre kinda the same structure as sunraysias, so you can understand the weight in them... people call me lover boy all the time, i have no issue with it. i didnt talk down to you apart from the little boy comment, which was not done to get to you. if you still have issue and want to talk more with me, please pm me. ive tried to make my point that the 1g is a tough motor, but its often hard for some people to accept that concept. it seems you have done some research, rather than just gone off what some drifters have been saying. and fwiw, 1g doesnt make sense as a drift motor, in a toyota, go a 1j/2j or 4a depending on car, in a nissan go sr20 or rb20/25/30. the 1g is rare, is hard to get parts for, is the little whipping boy, but is actually a tough motor. the rods are virtually a half H beam. the crank is tough, and the pistons are more or less of the same caliber the 4a ones are ;) cheers, andrew

well, i did some research, and it seems to "cuss" is to curse, and as such you were offended that i swore. not at you, but in my post about a statement you made. i apologise for offending your precious eyes, its just tradesman habit. on that note, i wouldnt try and get involved in a pissing contest with me, as i will no doubt win. i won the other day at work, we were trying to fill beer bottles. alas, i was the only one to completely fill the bottle, and as such i have no need to get in a intahwebzzz pissing contest, cause I'm great at them in real life. i was interested in who has been having such issues with a 1g, as a fellow 1g owner, as, not only do i wish to learn about their problems and maybe lend some light to the issue, but also to avoid the pitfalls they are suffering myself. soo...who was it? what were they doing? sure your not thinking 7m? ;) apart from calling you spirit boy, was my post in anyway belittling or written in a way that would make you feel as if you were being addressed the way a child may be? if you felt i was speaking to you like i would a boy, i apologise, just as people call me lover boy, and lovey, i too like to play with other users names, but not intend to make my post seem that i was addressing you in anyway other than as a fellow car enthusiastic keen to help and eager to learn. i don't know why you carefully plan you choice of language either. just let it roll on out, you seem to use sentences and punctuation which is very appreciated across the board, but planning your language? bollucks to that, most of the people on this board are HEKTIK 16 year olds, like i was when i signed up. on the note of headgaskets, often motors sit around for a year or 2 in the land of the rising sun, then sit around on boats, then sit around in importers yards. all in all this equates to a lot of sitting. and can perish the head gasket and when given some stick when re-started the seals and head gasket sometimes protest. stradlater from another forum was running a stock motor on LPG and 25 pound boost for 2 years before its did a headgasket. un-opened, ex japan motor. and many other guys have similar stories. a fresh 1g will make good, reliable power i have no doubt.

what was from the horses mouth? no i didnt move it into the firewall. i have no interest in drift and the handling is not bad the way it is. moving it back 200mm, ahh, i see, i think what you were getting at is how its gonna totally f@$k shifter position? yes, probably, if you go motor back 200, shifter will be a good 250mm further back than standard. so...about the back of the handbrake....prob not ideal haha. anyway, as i was saying, i wouldnt drift it the way it is, its not nimble, but its not an understeer monster. its also fecking quick :D slides well, is great on long sweepers, but the tight stuff, thats where it will let you down drifting. who are DA racers? and which of them are running 1g's? they throw big ends running big power, and also blow pistons 1 and 6 if its on a shitty tune. but theyre actually a bloody strong motor. what is cussing, and how did i do that? is it coz i called you little red spirit boy? don't take it to heart, ive never met you, so i don't know if your little or a boy or not. I'm just an abrasive prick. thats why the ladies love me ;)

ben, closer to 2grand machining costs when i did mine ;) and you, red spirit boy. yes, very optimistic. going 8-10 would be my guess. ever seen a 1g spasticate a head gasket? can't get metal ones anymore, have to use stock. theyre a tough item though. 2 headgaskets a year. your f@$king kidding. box fits, cut shifter hole further back. about 2 -3 inches put a 1j in it. 1g arnt girdled

i was talking about painting the sound deadening on the firewall :o

I'm surprised they didnt do the sound deadening :o

id give it a shot

the 1g isnt very heavy, its just got 2 cylinders in front of the wheels. if you have the power its very easy to make a car tail happy. as des says mine does quite well, and thats with wider rear than front tyres which encourages it to understeer. it really could be made to handle quite well, not the best, but who cares it looks, sounds, and is a tough car

don't see why people find the need to dump the clutch on launches, pick up the slack and a solid feed out will inevitably result in a quicker launch as you don't lose rpm or traction

been to your library to get an owners manual on something that came with a 5k?

just go the same as a 4k, she'll be right.

why do you really need one? theyre pretty simple motors from what i can tell....

hehe, just bring your revs up for a little while at the lights before lighting it up, i caught myself a couple of times getting used to a bigger turbo where i would just smoke the tyres. this was from holding the revs around 2500 at a busy roundabout or something, and then given it a gut full to get into a gap, and the turbo was already spinning quicker than normal. taught me a fair bit on launching a car. if you really wanna launch hard, don't just get the revs up and go, hold the revs up for a few seconds so the spool already is happening