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haha yeah man i get ya, i was gona do the same thing,but ended up with the sr20, sorry to burst your bubble but i think the 13b isnt allowed,pretty sure its only 12a,but have a search on here and talk to kangaroosa hes got a 12a in a corolla ,if you ask nicely I'm sure he will give you some good advice as hes been thru the whole process,heres a link to his thread on his car,mite gett a bit more info on there ,but definatley ask him about it ,I'm sure theres a few others on here with rotors,but hes the only one i know in vic thats done it http://www.rollaclub.com/board/index.php?showtopic=36663

sick mate, good to hear that the strut brace actualy work and is noticable ,i woundered if myne was gona do anything ,good work

hay there mate ,sure feel free to ask me anything ,no problems there,what sort of engine are you taking about? my totaly honest opinion on the whole thing, is don't do it,the head aches ive had so far and wasted money and wasted time have some what put a damper on the whole experience,ive been at it for just over 12 months ,that includes working after work hours and all week end long ,even taking the odd day off work to sqeease some more work in where i could ,now that being said , I'm doing a complete restoration and engine conversion ,pretty much rebuilding the entire car ,but if yourve got a good basis for a project ,ie nice tidy body bugger all rust,you don't intend to paint it or do much in the way of that sort of thing, then it would be alot easyier for you,as for the the club permit thing ,at the moment thats all so my plan b,but i want this as a daily , not a just drive once in a while car, I'm building it to drive,not sit in a shed, fingers crossed i wont get forced to take that path,but its been a bit of a struggle, my advice to you if you realy want to do it ,is be very prepared to be f%#$ked around,as they have recently just changed and tighten up on the engine coversion laws here in vic,, basicly they don't want to know about them ,get a copy of the vass list and ring as many as you can and tell them what youve preposed to do,before you start!!! try and find some one who will listen to what you have to say and seems interested in helping ,(this is the hard part as ive found out)there are several people on the list that don't even want to know about modded cars,also there are several that only do hv (heavy vehicles,trucks and the like,) so yeah try find some one that will take you seriously and isnt biasis to what your doing, youll find that engineers in general are C@#$ ,they all have there funny opions on certain things,once you found one that seems interested i sugest making an apointment with them and have a consultation,while your there sus them out,by that i mean figure out if there dick heads or generaly decent and are going to help,make sure when you go in there for that consultation you are fully armed with knoledge of what your going to do cause they will as you alot of questions and you need to know what they mean ,have a list of all intended mods and going in to great detail with each one on how you entend to carry them out ,what materials youll use for doing the mods ,etc this is where you need to pay attention, or youll end up doing things over and over, so do your home work before you go in, know eactly what you are going to do and how your going to do it, find a decent engineer that will actualy listen ,if possible drive the car to them,some will come out but you will have to pay for it, good luck with it any thing else just ask hope that points you in the general direction....

well pretty pissed off right now, i kinda thought that after talking to this new engineer and sorting everything out with him that things were going to be abit more straight forward and all the rediculous carry on was behind me, not to be however, :jamie: so the story goes, i heard back from him re my torque test result of 0.27 and aparently its impossible to get that result????????? even tho i had a picture to prove it he told me that no car could get that result ,it was far to strong, well i was told to do it again , so tonight i done the test again this time i had to hang the wieght out side of the car on a steel pole attached to the othe side re pic, this was a pain in the ass to set up trust me, this test gave me new numbers between 0.62 and 0.66 still way under 1 mm, so again have sent the info to the man and have to wait back till he tells me to do it again no doubt, its rediculous realy i did what he told me to ,to the letter, got a result, he wasnt happy about ,basicly he didnt believe me, and so now ive done it again , and still the result is very small not even one mm , that tells me the chassis is very strong and shouldnt need extra chassis rails put in , how ever its not up to me , and will be waiting to see what the out come is .............. so meanwhile redoing my mounts since they look dodgey ,aparently , so ive welded new platforms onto the xmember and made up 2 new mounts out of 3mm steel plate, heavy duty a bit thicker than the corolla mounts that are on there now, so these have to be strong enuf now shurely???????????? hoping to get these finished in the weekend,so i can move along to something else ,gettng very frustrated and just want to make some progress instead of repeating my self over and over and over again :blush: :bash: :bash: :bash:

haha yeah i ended up doing that,i think in the end it read as 0.27 but he hasnt got back to me yet so don't know what the go is ,hope hes not another one of these ball breaker types......

how about an engine specific thread ,in the conversions section , where people could post there projects specific to the engine there installing ,for instance if it was some kind of a rotar,there could be a rotary section ,if it was sr20s same there or beams or what ever it mite be,they had there own section regardless of what car they were going into, that way when you go looking for info on specific conversions you could go to one section that had the motor in question,would save hours and hours trawling thru thread after thread looking for some answer to a random question , just a thought from experience

Any updates mate? love to see some fresh pics!

well i figured out that the little dial is mms 1=1 2=2 etc etc one full turn of the big needle will turn the little needle to one ,then another turn will take it to 2mm etc, just can't figure out how to write the measurement i got ??? confusing

well started to fix my engine mounts to day, found another xmember and started to hack it up ,ended up choping the old mounts off and making a new platform out of 3mm plate welded that on ,looks a bit better than what i had on the other xmember, ill finish the mounts next weekend hopfuly, also done the torque test the engineer told me to do,had to set the car up on jack stands, and remove one jack stand ,adding 20kgs at the point i removed the jack stand and measure the amount the chassis moved down, the result wasnt quite what i expected, thought maybe it would move say 3 or 4 mm you know nothing to huge,but the number on the dial indicator read 27 there abouts pretty sure it is 0.0027 since it didnt even move 1mm and 1 mm = 0.01 can any one confirm this??? this the first time ive used one of these things so not sure what the exact way to write down the reading....

WGMG vic roads plus engineers

Name : Ryan cars : ke55 daily ,rust ,dents,poo brown colour,back fires hard ,completly stock,bent bars,runns like a bag of ass ke55 sr20det project ,1/4 way thru job : car painter location: victoria

Yes mate they need it running before they can pass it here too , how ever i wanted to check that what i had done so far was up to scratch before doing more work and then making more mistakes that at the end of it all id end up with a lot of stuff needing fixed instead of geting it right the first time,make any sence? and we have alot of tests here that needs to be done before they will pass you , wellllllll interesting things today, not sure what to think but heres the story of todays events::: had an apointment with an engineer, to discus my car,drove for an hour to get there and arived 15 minutes early, went inside introduced my self and the guy told me the engineer i was there to see wasnt even there!!!! " he may be back soon """ thought to myself jesus h christ what is wrong with these people!!!! any way he never returned and i was left sitting there waiting untill another engineer came out to see what was going on, so we got to talking and he said he could look at my pics and discuss the car, out of that discussion i got good news and bad news, the bad is semi bad and the good is rather good first the bad, 3 main things , 1) the air box i made can not be used,apparantly it has to be a plastic box like a factory one out of a 180sx but he said i can use one out of any car as long as it has a paper type filter and its a plastic box 2) the engine mounts have to be done again,he didnt like the look of the welding 3) and this is the hardest one to fix,he wants some sort of chaasis rails welded to the floor to join the front chassis to the rear, something to do with the torque could possibley twist the chassis, don't think the sr20 would do that , he brought up the specs for the engine,160 kws at 6000 rpm, 202 hp, but none the less this is what he wants , the only way that i can get out of doing that is a torque test on the car, this requires me to set the car up on jack stands one in each corner with the car wieght down so it wont rock or tilt,then one of the stands at the rear has to be removed and 20 kgs added to that point,then i have to measure the amount that the chasis moves??? in thereoy sounds easy to do but in practice could be quite the tricky exercise, but i think i will attempt it and see what i can come up with otherwise will be in for some tricky work to the underneath! other things that will have to be tested include noise test,emissions test and braking test. now the good news:::: the engine is legal to fit to the corolla the drive shaft loop is ok the strenghting work is ok the gear box xmemeber is ok the engine position and clearances are ok diff and mounting are ok the intercooler mounting and front panel are ok the booster and master are ok the gear box hole is ok the clutch master is ok even the wheels maybe ok??? not sure on this one yet,got specs to look at seat mounts and new seats are ok strut brace and engine brace are ok front brake upgrade and coil overs and camber plates ok a few other things that can't think of right now too on the hole most of what i done seems to be ok just those 3 main things need sorted first be fore i can move on, but have sorted out alot in the way of what i can do next too ,and more importantly how they want them done,which was half the battle! fuel system, exhuast,battery in boot,seats,pipe work, electricals,brakes etc i now have a good idea of how things are to be done and how to attack them so things are slightly looking up,how ever not to get to excited yet..... alot hinges on this test and what sort of result i get in the way of movement,fingers crossed or could be in for at least amonths worth of stuffing around be fore can do any thing else,I'm hoping to pick up a dial gauge thingo tomorrow so can use to measure the change , who thinks the corrolla chassis will twist with the extra wieght in it???????????

Thanks for that but i have being doing right by the rules in the first place,i didnt start this project with out consulting if my engine would be legal or not,every one i spoke to said its fine under the power to weight ratio ruling,i was even working with an engineer at the start, how ever engineers in victoria are off there heads,they all have there little things they don't like etc due to the fact that they can interperate the rules as they see it making any middle ground between the different ones very hard to find,also to any one having a laugh at my problem, GET F@#$K#$ come to victoria and try building a car with all the rediculous crap we have to deal with down here and see if your laughing then c**ts

it makes me wonder how he even got his degree!but rather i think he was deliberatly stuffing round as there was no intention of passing me ,well thats how it seemed to me,

would you sell it?

nice mate how do you find the 4 age?what sorta power does it put out?

yeah that could help a bit ,but its not quite up to drive stage yet, i got the engine in mounts done, gearbox in mounts done, drive shaft in drive shaft loop done shortened diff fitted airbox set up done, hydro clutch done strengthing done ,intercooler stuff done plus heaps a ltittle things but yeah drive line is basicly ready just need the mounts checked from an other engineer, hopefully it wont be a drama but hasnt been the best week so far so don't hold much confidence intomorows visit

Yeah thats what they say , but even so just trying to get some one to have a look is a night mare, heres how this week is going so far,sunday i called a guy, he actualy sounded half interested in having a look, he even aske me if he could come out and check it out, sounds good to me yeah?, so he siad give you a call back tuesday,tuesday comes no call,so i call back ,"sorry hes busy right now take a message" yeah left a message, no call back,call again next day ,"sorry hes busy right now take a mesage?"yeah left a message" no call back again, called back again 3rd time "sorry hes on the phone can you hold on?" yess ill hold," umm sorry hes going to be a few mintues ,get him to call you back in a few minutes what your number"gives number again and hangs up no call back.... this is what I'm dealing with,these sort of c**ts,have no interest in helping out or geting back to you,welcom to victoria, tomorrow being thursday i have a appoinment to go talk to a engineer at his work which is an hour and a half drive away ,taking pics and crap to show and tell , will tell yous what happens there....................

Nah man but hes on my list, he works pretty dam far from where i live ,so trying a few more that are a bit closer first. got 2 to ring tomoroow and going to see a guy on thursday with a bunch of pictures to show a guy,trying my hardest not to give up!!!!! just this is rediculous what i have to go thru just to get a bit of paper!!!!ill see where we at at the end of the week ,then may try your guy ,

no worrys its there if you get desperate,

aww nah its for s13 sr20 , has filler at top center,inlet top left,out let bottom right, could dodgey it up to work with some piping???

Jesus to easy awe,i have a 180 radi if u need one brand new alloy,can't use it

undo the nuts holding the axel in place ,get a slide hammer and attach it to the axel stud and pull.... some times there stuck or stuborn, if you don't have a slide hammer could try a chain attached to a car ,to give it a yank ,bit dodgy, id try the slide hammer option first,

yeah definatley, i see flat batterys in cars every day and they always click click click if its flat, a jumper pack usualy gets them going,but since your geting power on everything else just not the starter, it could be your ignition barrel like greenmac80 said, or the solinoid on the starter has gone completely?? a way you can test is turn the car ign on and run a wire straight from the battery to the solinoid,if you get nothing then most likely the starter solinoid,replace with another,if its clicking then its the battery,if it turns the starter then most likely the ign barrel or the wires in between there and the starter, ??? thats my thoughts just a ruff guess,but give it a go run a wire to the solinoid and see what happens.....

nice may have to look into that, they got many panel shops up there? whats rent like? another thing thats out of control here is rent ,you could be paying 190-270 for a 2 bedroom box , any where up to 400 for a 3 bedroom with a one car garage,pretty exspensive stuff