Took 45mins to get the engine in last night and hooked up, everything except for the exhaust and starter.
That was because i bought one of these previously:
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Its a firewall lug for the starter and alternator and should speed up the removal and reinstallation of the engine even more than i could before.
So after 30mins work this morning fitting the new starter cables and then the exhaust manifold over the top of the starter it looks like this:
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Starts and runs quite nicely, so the new crank seems to be doing its job well. Saturday seems possible now. Just have to tidy up some minor stuff on the car, and finish fitting the brake controller to the Hilux.
Just a tiny update. Ive been redoing the wiring in the car. Pulled out the old stuff:
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All back from when i only had red wire to play with. But now ive set about getting the new Ez-Wiring kit into the car. Stripped out all the unneeded wires and its pretty much ready to go:
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Just needs a bunch of zipties and then laying out in the car and finally soldering it all up. Not too many wires though, only about 50 or so 😛
In bigger news though i picked up a rather sweet set of wheels for the car too:
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Set of Lineasport Utmosty, which are Compomotive licenced wheels but made in Japan. Pretty hot, and fit perfectly over the brakes. Beautiful size and offset too, its like they are just made for the car 🙂
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Minor update. Finished off the wiring tonight:
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Still a bit messy, but at least everything is labelled now, and i shouldnt have too many issues with figuring out what goes where etc if i need to modify it. Plus the switches are now decent quality and amperage ones rather than the little microswitches i was using before.
Last night i pulled the crank out of a spare engine and popped it into the engine which busted the flywheel:
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That should keep me going until TK finishes off the head for the new engine.
White plus a bit of halogen yellow from the heat lamps.
And decided to put a bit of bling on the headlights as the only heat-resistant covering i could get for the headlights (to comply with Sched.B) was yellow:
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Need to put the dash and engine in tomorrow night, and get tyres swapped onto the Lineasports. Hopefully all will be fine for a practice day on the weekend, provided its not pissing down with rain.
Surprisingly it sounds even better with the cat in. Removes a lot of the raspiness that it has without it. The Trutrac adds muchly to the sideways nature of it on power. Had a couple of moments this morning which i wouldnt have had with the old diff.
Regardless, this was the last picture i took of the old girl this morning:
Heh, half cages are legal if you get the car modplated as a 2 seater. You have to remove the rear seats too. I just hadnt got around to doing that at that point.
Car performed pretty flawlessly today at the Khana, apart from fogging up on the inside. Oh and the stupid centering thing on the handbrake balance bar popped out of the center and was all kinked, so we had no handbrake for the day 🙁 And the stock LSD is definitely more Slip than Limited now….
Pics and vids from the Khana to come, but for now here is one of Gav driving and stuffing up the course and getting his static on:
Well thought i should update this as the car has been sold, and to give a bit of closure to the thread.
Im doing one last event in the Supra, tomorrow. ToyoShow motorkhana, which should be a good bit of fun. Was hoping to have the trutrac in the car by then, but ive been screwed over by the diff shop who was supposed to put the trutrac into the spare housing. Ohwell, its still got a LSD….
Anyway, the new owner wanted a half cage in it, so i organised with Kirby to have a bolt in half cage installed to the NCOP specifications, and picked the car up again last night, gave it a brief clean and prepped it for the Khana on Saturday.
Rolled it out this morning and took a few shots before i left for work. Here are the first few:
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Im sure the new owner will be on to post about the car, i think he is a member of most of the forums im on as well.
Took the Supra up through the Heysen tunnels today for a bit of fun, and aural pleasure. Unfortunately the GoPro stuffed up the first two times around and then on the second time up i had a cop blat past me. Second time on the way down i got this:
Got out of the acceleration run though because i thought i saw a cop in my rear vision mirror and it would be annoying to get it defected for the entire reason i have the variable exhaust.
[QUOTE=nash;841028336]Needs something to break up all the white in the doors and side panels. Might I suggest some flames ala the Mirth Mobile in Wayne’s World? Perhaps a red dragon to show your strength and virility…[/QUOTE]
Tonight i machined down the spacer rings a poofteenth so i could fit the 17″ meshies. They need new tyres, because having retarded stretched 185/50/17s on a 7.5″ rim is just stupid, but they look ok. Oddly the sticker on them says 16×7, when i measure them as roughly 7.5″ wide and they are fitted with 17″ tyres.
It would be ideal if they had a touch less offset, but as it is now at least they wont scrub.
Have to get tyres fitted to the rear before i can put them on though.
Also the elbow rest thing was really rooted when i got the car, so i got some new foam and retrimmed it:
In between being annoyed by the door lock and the hatch glass assploding on me i did a bit of tidying up in the engine bay.
Installed a radiator flow panel thingy that i picked up ages ago:
Have i ever said how much i hate interior? I spent a few hours each day this weekend putting it all back together again, after being apart for the dash and the ECU shenanigans.
Plus i had to replace the roof lining after the cat got to it last year, although thankfully i found one in good nick on a car i was pulling the hatch from anyway.
Put the dash all back together:
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Only to find that the speedo pushes against the back of the steering column support. Arrgh. Ill have to space it out from the fascia, but its in there for now.
Fitted my Aerocatches too, which really wasnt as hard as everyone has made it out to be:
Now im just charging the battery after i left the door slightly ajar for half a week.
Engine bay is tidied up now though;
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Going to dump the water in the rad on Tuesday and put proper Toyota Red in it when i get some.
Biggest hiccup now is that the barn doors which lead out from the carport/garage area through to the street have swollen so much with all the wet weather that we are having that i cant get them open, despite much kicking and shoving. Just gonna have to wait.
Not much to report really. Been driving it on and off for a while. In that time ive cleaned up the dash and interior:
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Installed a fire extinguisher:
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And had Kirby redo the exhaust and install a Varex:
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Sounds like this:
Also got my speedo all working. So its down to just tidying things up now.
That said over the summer we are looking after a friends car as well, so i figure its as good a time as any to repaint the car. The problem is deciding on a colour scheme. Im thinking either the same as it is now, or pure white.
Thoughts?
