Hiro Protagonist

E-series engines take C-series gearboxes in FWD format. Might they share same bolt pattern as a 4A then? Or do they have a different bellhousing on the C-box.

Most I've seen is 267kw at the wheels on 30psi in FLYNSX, but that was with Martini race fuel. You won't get anywhere near that without some serious, and I mean serious money.

Definitely different plastic to the AE102 one, but in the same place as the resonator. Can you see anything connected to it through that hole? Taken the intake piping out yet to see if there is that hole there (will only be a couple of bolts on the fuse boxes, moving the battery + some screws on the intake)?

4x100 actually :P Sorry, had to point it out.

They are still a crap car, no matter what people are doing with them on the drag strip. Notice you don't see too many of them on tracks though, or anywhere with corners for that matter apart from the you-turn bay at the end of the 1/4. And the Pinto engine itself is actually a pretty good thing, sees plenty of service in MkII Escorts and Cortinas for instance. I know a guy in QLD that does 11 second quarters in an XT130 Corona (one of Toyota's worst cars ever). There's a point where you've spent so much money that it doesn't matter what the original car is.

Do you really want coilovers? Unless you're seeing the track on a very regular basis, a good matched set of shocks and springs would suit just fine. And cheap coilovers usually means that they're not that good (compared to expensive coilovers), adjustablility is over-rated if you don't actually need it. Even so, I can't remember if they are _identical_ but they are similar. AE92, AE101/102 and AE111/112 non-superstrut share very similar suspension/brake packages, so I wouldn't be surprised if 92 coilovers fit into a 112.

It was black on the 102, assumed it'd be the same colour for the 112. And the reason you probably didn't see where it comes off is because it connects to the underside of the intake piping, so you can't see it from the engine bay until you take the piping + snorkel off

Kingswood???? It's a Mustang II. You don't want to own it, trust me. Mustang IIs are one of the biggest piles of crap to ever come out of FoMoCo (basically just a slightly bigger Pinto)

Generally people refer to the W50 as the "Celica" box, usually because that is what is used for 5-on-the-floor conversions for old Holden straight sixes (many aftermarket bellhousings exist for this). W58s are usually called the "Supra" box for the same reason, although that sometimes covers R154s as well ("Supra Turbo" box)

AE102 and AE112 (not sure about the late AE92 RVs) 7AFEs don't have idle adjustment screws, it's automatic.

Is that massive bottle black plastic? If so, that's the resonator. That's what I told you to remove. It connects to the intake pipe between the battery and the guard through a hole. It's there to reduce noise in the intake by introducing out-of-phase resonating pulses to cancel out the standard resonance. Think of it as blowing across the top of an empty glass bottle. TPS = Throttle Positioning Sensor. It'll be a black sensor block on the firewall-side of the throttle body, it tells the ECU how open the throttle body is. One of the many ways that the ECU tells how much air is going into the engine (along with MAP and air-temp sensors)

You can have a cannon on a KE and it still look cool though......you just have to do it right.

Post up a picture of your engine bay again. From what I've seen of AE112 bays, the overflow bottle is in the exact same spot as the 102s. In fact, almost everything is EXACTLY the same, in EXACTLY the same spot. And the guy who made my intake had made an identical one for his AE112 (Poggy), so I know it fits... As for the extractors, I bought the whole exhaust off a mate who was stripping his 102 back to stock to sell it, so can't help there. They're HPC ceramic coated, which is why they're that funny colour.

Not bad, still pales compared to the Hunter Valley/Central Coast storms/floods/Pasha Bulker incident at last

Yeah, unfortunately you have to move the battery slightly for the pipe to fit in, which means the holes no longer line up. Got a bracket now that at least bolts to one of the holes, so half the cable-ties have been removed. Will get around to drilling another hole for the front one sometime before rego is due.

There's a hole, you just can't see it. Underneath the fuse-boxes, tucked in behind/under the battery where the intake piping runs to the airbox, there's a hole to a resonator which sits in the front guard, separate from the engine bay. Remove intake piping/fuse boxes/battery, take the splashguard out from underneath, and drop the resontator out. Now, run a tube from your TB through that hole to a pod in the space left by the resonator, and keep the splashguard hanging down to act as a little scoop. It'll look like this (I know thats my 102 engine bay, but they're almost identical to 112 engine bays) Haven't got any photos showing under the guard, but you should get the idea

And you wonder why you have heart problems :jamie:

But do those factory manuals also cover TE31/37 etc models, which would have the 2TC or 2TG? Thus explaining the obvious inclusion of a T50

Which is why you put the pod behind the front bumper where the resonator normally goes, and fashion up (ie cable tie the spashguard open) a scoop for cold air

You lose more in the drivetrain in a RWD car remember....plus a lot of 4AGEs are getting rooted these days, especially bigports. I've seen a bunch of AE82 TCs pull between 50 and 60kw at the front wheels all on the same dyno, on the same day.

Well, after Davo did some rummaging through his garage, he found his old 102 cam cover....since I always liked the look of it over mine (my one was done rather haphazardly and on the cheap), I acquired it (cheers). Sat in the boot for a couple of weeks leaking oil into the carpet, before I got some spare time on the weekend and fitted it. Almost made a fatal error putting the new one on, forgot to switch the gasket over :jamie: Would have made a right mess, that one. Engine bay now looks disturbingly similar to Davo's old one, except with white paint instead of Inca silver. Old New Now just need to take the plenum off and paint that to match...thinking black with silver on the ribs like the cam cover.

Ok then, _most_ EFI cars don't have one. It'd probably only be the older transition EFI cars that do, no need for them these days

Ahh, wouldn't they be K50s? KE35s seem to be a lot more common than T50s with a K-T bellhousing.

They look like 323 Protege wheels to me, the last 323 before they went to the Mazda3

The KE55 is basically a facelifted/upgraded KE30 anyway....