demuire Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 I love this project. You'd be doing pretty well to break those CV's :P And oh yeah, re: the gearshift mod, I probably should have said "spacer box" more than a "spacer plate" because I think it was a few inches tall! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiGGy Posted June 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 I love this project. You'd be doing pretty well to break those CV's :P And oh yeah, re: the gearshift mod, I probably should have said "spacer box" more than a "spacer plate" because I think it was a few inches tall! Yeah i figured, I'm thinking of attaching it to the dash with a custom shifter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webers4x48 Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 and how much to shave off the head to get it? We are limited to bowser fuels so I think 11:1 would be to much for 98 octane I think 10-10.5:1 would be ideal, anyone think the same? I love this thread. I've always wanted to build a race/rally car and you have given me the inspiration to get my butt into gear. Thanks :P About the compression. I've got a 308 V8 thats running approx. 11.2- 11.3 :1 comp. and I use BP ultimate 98 and haven't had any pinging yet so I think you should be right. A good person to have a chat with about this stuff would be kickn5k. I'll show him this thread and try and get him to help you out. Good luck with it and keep up the good work, Leigh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiGGy Posted June 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 (edited) I love this thread. I've always wanted to build a race/rally car and you have given me the inspiration to get my butt into gear. Thanks :P About the compression. I've got a 308 V8 thats running approx. 11.2- 11.3 :1 comp. and I use BP ultimate 98 and haven't had any pinging yet so I think you should be right. A good person to have a chat with about this stuff would be kickn5k. I'll show him this thread and try and get him to help you out. Good luck with it and keep up the good work, Leigh Ok cheers, we have already finalised the compresion at an estimated 10.5 to 1. Still would like to hear what I can get to on 98ron, thanks for your help. Today... Cleaned up the block a bit more and painted black. heres a final shot of the polished chambers. Faced the block with a file and a wire brush. Got the carbon off the pistons and polished them up a abit, got all the lumbs out of the cast metal. As i was cleaning the pistons up I noticed very clear crosshatching down the bores, this combined with the new gasket goo around the sump is a sign that its been completely reconditioned since new. New bearings and seals etc. This is a very good sign and give us comfidence in the block handling the high revs of the head. New gasket on. Head on, cams removed to tighten head bolts. We used a toque wrench at the right torsion. Cams back in. guides on. Correct torsion. crank pulley removed to get to the timing belt, tension pulley pulled back cam gears set to the stock positioning (we are getting the cams adjusted professionally on a dyno later next week). New timing belt on at the correct tension with the crank still at top dead center. 100mm steering wheel extension consists of a turned alloy pipe welded to the stock steering plate, at the top bolted to the boss which is bolted to the wheel. This should give me a much better steering wheel position for optimal arm movement. One of the axel bearings is rat****, we poped it off using the press. We have another one in the shop, we may have to make a casing for it. Chucked the flywheel on the lathe. surface ground as much metal as I felt comfortable, 1kg a steel removed making it 6.5kg. We ordered a rally spec clutch today, I didnt make the order so I don't know any details but it cost $280 and is made to order. We also bought a new standard clutch for $60 to mess around with tuning etc until the race one arrives. We already have the pressure plate. A shot of the dedicated rally car work bench. Not very clean atm. Edited June 6, 2007 by BiGGy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiGGy Posted June 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 Today Intergrated a vacuum chamber onto the manifold. Consists of some alli plate and 25mm square hollow section. vac pipes from each inlet to the chamber then vac pipes to the brake booster and to the haltech chip. Forgot pix of the vac fittings. Fully welded the steering wheel extension to the base plate. Machined aluminum insert geting taped and bolted to the boss and in around the pipe. This way we can change the length if needed. Gave a center hole to allow a socket in to fasten the spline nut. We decided to buy new mounts, we picked them up from Toyota. We ordered the axle bearing, we don't have one that matches, be hear tomorow. We should have the engine in the car by tomorow with it running by Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiGGy Posted June 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 Should be fitting and running the engine tomorow. If not Sunday. Standard clutch arrived today, fit the spline perfect. Shot of the vac fittings. In car shot of the steering wheel extension. The handbrake extension too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiGGy Posted June 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2007 Old starter hole taped up. Synthetic gearbox oil, cold 1 spark plugs, oil hosing and vacuum hosing. The race clutch arrived early. See the difference here. This clutch is supposed to really lock in and not slip at all. can't wait to test it out. Leads off the spare car, they match the rocker covers. Flywheel bolted up, clutch plate on and clutch aligned. Gearbox on, starter on. Synthetic engine oil and filter in, 98ron fuel in. Water piping, the thick one was custom redirected around the starter. I cut out the driver upper mounting holes in prep for the engine shift. We need to overplate it to get the strength back. Vac hosing on. This is the bearing carrier that the e58 must have to support the axel on one side. Some 8mm mild steel plate bolted to the block, with this pipe cutoff welded on. Bearing carrier machined down to fit the bearing into the pipe. We should have the engine in and idling by tomorow or Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiGGy Posted June 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 (edited) Bearing carrier machined to fit. Then gusseted, welded, cleaned up and painted. New cam mount to the rear. Engine in. Putting the CVs in we dropped out all the bearing inernals by mistake, it took us like 3 hours to put it back together. We finally fix it but ran out of daylight. Should have everyone in and going tomorow. Edited June 10, 2007 by BiGGy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demuire Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Wow, I love those quads :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dxaqta Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 what computer are u going to run??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corolla Test Pilot Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Bloody awesome man, keep it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiGGy Posted June 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 (edited) Thanks guys, ECU is going to be a Haltech E6X. ... Today. This is the tire rod ends now. The extension is from a Subaru Leoni. We spend awhile getting the engine placment perfect. Allot of fiddling, measuring and crow bar levering but we finally go it to where we want, this is the play we we were talking about that we need. about 15mm each side. Front mount just redrilled the crossmember, was pretty easy job. Passenger mount welded onto the mount plate on the gearbox. driver side mount, cut lip out, replated and fully welded. We hooked up all the electrics, allot of looms not hooked up but we expected it with custom vacuum etc. We made a mistake and hooked up the ground cable from the negative terminal to the positive on the solenoid on the starter instead of the chassis. When we flicked the isolator switch smoke was everywhere lol. We fixed it up and tried again. The engine is cranking but not starting, we checked with different plugs and nothing, we checked the stock coil wiring and bypassed by hooking a wire from the battery right to the coil... and still no spark. We are thinking its an electric connection we haven't hooked up somewhere or maybe a blown fuse from the smoky short circuit. Either way this is the part that me or dad nows nothing about, we are going to get a professional auto elecy we know to come out and fix it for us. Mid week is the plan to tune the cams and haltech. Bonnet primed and sanded. Edited June 11, 2007 by BiGGy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dxaqta Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 (edited) nice choice of ecu.... i have an ae82 motorkhana car, i was just wondering if you could take a pic of how u setup the hand brake extension on the hand brake cheers buddy ;) Edited June 11, 2007 by Dxaqta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiGGy Posted June 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 nice choice of ecu.... i have an ae82 motorkhana car, i was just wondering if you could take a pic of how u setup the hand brake extension on the hand brakecheers buddy ;) No probs, ill get some more pics and a description for you to do it, its not that hard to do. ... Didn't do much today but ring around and ask questions. We were going to do a compression test but we will do it tomorow. Checked the fuses, one was shot and we replaced it. Hooked up the alternator cranked it and still no spark. Rang up Haltech they said don't even bother trying to start it, the e6x replaces most of the loom anyway they said they will sort all the electrics out. They are booked 20 cars ahead, so we have to wait next week to go further with the engine. Before Haltech we need to get the wheels aligned and balanced professionally. Were going to winch it onto the trailer and take it to a local wheel alignment guy we know pretty well. While we are there we will get his advice on camber/caster setup, get that as best we can and then fully weld the control arm extensions. Its going to go slow for a while so my next update will be when she is up and running with vids and quarter mile times. Stay tuned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ancullen Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 (edited) Just realised that your intake manifold would be almost perfect for my 4A-GZE when I fit my quad throttles. I don't suppose you're interested in taking on a paying customer for a similar manifold to this and a plenum chamber??? Love the progress by the way! Edited June 12, 2007 by ancullen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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