LittleRedSpirit

Getting the shits with Toyota parts. 206 dollars for two seals, three tiny gaskets, two O-rings and some seal packing. L fucking O fucking L. Aftermarket here we come. I can get this stuff for about 100 bucks. Way to kill brand loyalty...

Thats great mate. What a love affair, rekindles and old flame. Its cool. Tell us your plans for it!

Well this thread just jumped into the future. Woolshed needs its own 3d printer! lol. Awesome.

Picked up a ring compressor, and also a pair of ring expanding pliers to get them on. Also some better feeler gauges and some T gauges to check the bore. Need the black Toyota goop for the crankcases and sump, and some assembly lube for the bearings. Waiting on CP to send some piston clearances. There's no info sheet in my piston box except for the ring gaps. Motor is so new Ill just pick up whatever seals I need while its apart. Hopefully I dont see the need to replace anything else. Im interested in fitting a water jacket spacer in the motor while its apart, its something they added for 2006 that the early engine doesn't have. Same with piston oil squirters .

Starting to think about ripping the engine out and going to 11:1 cr. Ive got a nice Micrometer on the way. I pretty much have everything else. The pistons and rings, the rod bolts and the head gasket. Ive been thinking about getting another 2azfe to throw in while the current one is out, but I think Id rather put the money into bigger itbs. Ill have to borrow an engine stand or maybe make one.

Its horse for courses. City folk that can embrace Public transport do. Tradespeople need independent transport options. So do many businesses. Our distances are too vast for electric mileage. Our power grid too frail, and our resources under utilised, in the name of progress. Basically, shits fucked up because we are trying to be futuristic and for some reason self loathe over coal. We need energy sources that work at a low cost, when the free market provides an alternative, we will embrace it. Until then we are just being forced into unproductive and unsustainable systems in the name of sustainability, which is massively stupid. What the renewable sector will really do is rob the third world of an industrial revolution.

So when I built this car I never put fresh brakes on it. The rotors were thick enough, and the pads meaty enough, but it looked like it had been pad slapped. I just let it wear the rust off and it worked well enough for a year or two now on the road. Recently the pedal has felt like its had a lot of rotor runout. A bit twitchy at speed. Ive had some rotors and pads on the shelf for ages so I decided today was the day. Im glad I did, this pad was cracked clear through the friction material in more than one place. Pedal is now butter.

I think batteries are just a plague of things with the current gen. We make so many, we cant dispose of the waste. Maybe the carbon nanocells will be the answer... not all this Lithium.

Yes exactly, given the chance to do good, they just fail. Then get paid off by developers and we all now get to live in a white Yuppie Dogbox and forget about a house a yard and a place to fix a car. So much for decentralisation.

I bought some once, memory dig, 70 and 50mm x 2 of each, I could be wrong. Its been a while.

Can you order new rotors un drilled and have a brake shop drill them correctly? Have you done a control F check on the DBA catalogue to see if theres other slightly sweeter options? Maybe something has the right pcd?

I think political expediency for renewable energy policy is a secondary priority, with priority one being to get the taxpayer to meet the cost of developing and instituting renewable energy for them to sell back to us. If the media can fall enough to the left, the taxpayers might even vote for it, but either way that's the goal. With our fucked up privatised energy in QLD were all getting screwed, and we own more fucking coal than anyone. We need more KW in the grid for all these EVs and it certainly isn't going to be from Solar power, or you'd forgo the grid and have solar cars. What we really need is some more electrical infrastructure first. Our power grid is simply a blank canvas for the Scum that run it to leech funds. My father worked for the Capelec board for decades, hes seen it all. Top down shenanigans for the benefit of themselves.

I had to laugh at you city boys. This is Australia anywhere west of Roma its still about 50 50 horse/ice vehicle when to comes to agricultural transport and mustering stock. No electric car has the mileage to get there through that country. Welcome to AUS and the long distance driving hobby it entails. Seriously though if cars kill 20000 people a year with people in control of them, then all the autonomous vehicles would need to do is to kill 19000 of them instead and its a win for humanity. My concern is which 19000 will go, with the machines being controlled by the kind of evil bastards running google and the government, I can see some Stalinesque shit happening. I certainly wont be putting myself in the hands of something as potentially fatal to dissenters. I love some dissent. I prefer anonymity to convenience.

Honestly most engines rattle and rasp and carry on, especially 4 cylinders which are by design, unbalanced. I think most modern engines have insulators all overt them just to shut them up and add refinement with no mechanical changes. That's about all that's changed. T engine has a nice note wide open with those carbs Im sure, its one of the pornest retro motors on sound I think. There used to be a rally vid on youtube called the sound of rallying and there's a clip of a 2tg powered celica going apeshit and it sounds just incredible.

Yeah I think dash cam is the way to go. I have one here that someone gave me, might look into fitting it.

Prime that raw metal under that battery tray or its gonna rot man! Looks good!

Haha maybe, if she can pry it from my cold dead hands. Anywho, I went for a long drive up over Mt Mee to Woodford. A nice drive that. A Fat six chinned motherfucker took exception to me for some reason and tailgated me in a threatening manner all the way near to Dayboro, then when the first chance was there, I overtook the car in front hoping to leave him behind, and he followed, buzzed really close to the 86 and shot around me, and kept accelerating, and then pulled out to pass 2 more cars without looking in the oncoming lane at 140 plus and came at full lock up within 50m of a combined 240klm/hr impact. What a fucking psycho, literally ran a family off the road, then just went for it again a moment later. White late 90s v6 camry. Be warned. Once that drama was done it was a lovely cruise. I stopped at Woodford and had a coffee, and analysed my logs, then I got back on the road and logged and did some more analysis. I can drive the car at any tps at 900rpm now. I found a few lean maps and fixed those. Economy is also the best its ever been. It brought up 160klm before it hit 1 quarter gone. Then after returning to the city, I had a guy in a ae92sx waving to me with some real interest in the car on Newmarket road. It gets a few weird looks. A guy at Coles the other day I swear got wood looking at it.

Theres a little difference in the corner light, but it all goes together pretty well.

Standard ecu requires the distributor to work, and that requires cutting of the firewall, rendering the car unregisterable with firewall modifications. Best to use an aftermarket ecu, if you can find an adaptronic e420c or e420d I can give you a map to use. Check the microtech software and find the limits first, if you can just hook up vvt and its running ok, why change? Hows it feel when you smash the throttle for the first second or so?

With the top cover sealing, the Toyota manual usually recommends some of their grey or black sealant to be installed in those corners by the cam ends. Cylinder pressure is very low at 60 psi but not on all cylinders...Only on one phase of the firing order. Do you have a reading from before the head was rebuilt? Why was it rebuilt? Just wondering if its rings, because if your engine builder did a good job on the head, and the valves seal then its gotta be the rings? Cam timing error might cause even lack of compression, carrying the same misalignment to each cylinder equally, so possibly eliminate that. Just double check your marks to be safe.

Thanks Chad.

Today i got sick of the exhaust tip pointing at the ground, starting grass fires and blowing dust all over the back of the car on any dirt road. Particularly my gravel driveway. Ta Da! 50 bucks later Macs Mufflers had me hooked up!

Microtech is unfortunately the worst possible choice for a 20v 4age, they never run especially well. It may well have just not had enough outputs to control vvt, or no way to map its on and off rpm. Also I think they come up a bit short on transient enrichment, and on a car with itbs where response is key, its the equivalent of fitting FCR carbs and then removing the accelerator pump, if you cant transient enrich.

Yeah Brendan is near me on the North side (corolla heartland, lol), I actually met him face to face at the local independent auto parts store, Auto Power Parts. The guy there, Scott I think, is one of the most thorough parts interpreter you will ever meet. Hes like a pharmacist for car stuff. He once sold me some carby cleaner and gave it a description a sommelier would be proud of.

If you have standard cams you will see low down torque increases if you use it. I might even have an old solenoid here that I removed working, if so you can have it cheap, and if I can find the wiring connector you can have that too, so all you would need is 2 wires to connect and you can use it. Where you would integrate it, you would retard the timing 1 degree and add 5 percent more fuel, and then tune back from there. When you use cam advance you generally need less timing and more fuel.