LittleRedSpirit

Basically you are relying on your manifold design to evenly distribute fuel air mixture. It probably wont.

I'm more of a fan of old autos than these guys, I have an 85 Auto celica and if the box is in good order its a nice drive for a daily. Just go for it, nobody telling you not to do it has done it, use the ae71 box. 4age has more grunt than ae71 and would do more with the 3 gears than a 4ac would. U need an 8 bolt flex plate, and that might best be sourced from an ae92 or ae82 if you can find an auto. Might be a bit of messing around to find a couple of nits and a gearbox with low enough miles, but when you do find it it will be cheap as nobody will want the auto gear in general.

It would only yield and improvement at high rpm to move the injectors up the air stream into the manifold, ideally you'd place them atop each runner, and let the longer time it takes from injection to combustion at higher rpms do a better job atomising fuel. Not applicable to stock efi anyhow, and you would still need the original injectors to make it drive. It would turn into a hella dog with only upstream injection.

Replaced the efi hose on my idle manifold with more suitable vacuum hoses. Was able to remount it and relocate it to below the brake booster, and cleaned the idle control air intake filter and also re-routed the brake booster hose slightly so its less involved with clearing the trumpets and filters. I bent the booster nipple forwards to connect it to the vacuum source, by putting some old heater actuator cable inside it so it didn't pinch, then I bent it down with a spanner to brace the base and a socket as a lever. The idle manifold used to rest on the coolant diversion pipe by the engine mount and absorb needless heat. Now its mounted more in the fresh air away from the block.

Been road tuning low tps with the big trumpets. Its way better. Smoother, even torque. Its really enjoyable, still been retarding some cells and finding a lot of smoothness and torque going hand in hand, and a few cells went so lean they were a bit jittery under load, so I enriched up those areas and revealed yet more torque. I'm really excited to see what it might do on the dyno now.

Are we doing this? It better be soon I got a baby due in 8 weeks.

Oh yes a lot more torque I think. Ill confirm on the dyno soon.

So after a pretty slack work day I decided to make the trumpets fit. Sam Q had sent me some unfinished base plates ages ago to modify into spacers but I had forgotten about them. I now have them fitted, it was a matter of filing the holes slotted, and then interference fitting the 150mm trumpets, which just took some rubbing down of the inside openings. An hour and a half well spent,and I'm about to go and drive and see if it helps torque, which I assume it will, but, science, right. Plenty of room for them, if I hook up the brakes to the clutch remote bottle I can probably run 175mm or 180mm. Filters are squishing up against the air holes in the bonnet there too.

Thanks Big G.

Takumi tax was still a factor, but so was the fact that most people wont buy a car sight unseen, and most people wont drive to Boonah to look at one on ebay. The AE86 and the Celica were both sight unseen purchases, and both lived up to the hype luckily. Plus people set reserve higher than that on a bare shell these days, but old mate was a good old fashioned ebayer and just threw it up and off it went.

2650 I think, it was good deal for the parts, I sold about 6 grand worth of bits off it. I ended up selling 2 motors, the complete 2 way diff, the wheels, the front suspension that was trd when I pulled it apart, the seat, the fuel cell and just about everything else you see minus the body and 2 litre surge tank which I now use as a catch can.

Its not a rollaclub cruise unless someone breaks down...

That's a pretty fair copper I guess. Leave you a few bucks to get some mod plates and not a grand worth of bullshit fines.

Or maybe how the lift pump had 2 big hoses teed in and how they fed one pump, and how it fed the pump before the filter. If you study the photos it must have been built by someone either stupid or suicidal.

Do you like the tractor fuel system it had? The way it stuck outside the rear of the car, and the way it came out of the heater hole? What a weapon.

A trip back to the day I picked up the car, sight unseen from Boonah. 8/9/2010. Ive never shared these before.

Its possible. Fix it! ha ha.

Been polishing.

My information regarding the cluster was only regarding the cluster. The ecu will have temperature sensors for air and water, control the ignition, and fuel levels, its a complete separate system to what would traditionally make the dash work, with the one model specific exception above about the speed sensor.

I got Trump towers in the mail today, 4 x 150mm trumpets. Just waiting on mounting clamps.

Searching for unicorns. Just extrapolating the things I know about the inlet. It made a couple more KW with 94mm trumpets than 74mm and torque was flatter and it closed some torque holes. It made more power everywhere and significantly more midrange with 8mm spacers added to the 94mm and filters off. Plus the power kept on another 700rpm and peaked higher. Makes me think it would like a longer inlet still. It made 6kw more without the socks on, and that's more than I expect from just socks. Don't want to stop short of what could be a better result if I can achieve one. Plus beams engines have seen incredible results from just itb inlet length tuning so I wonder what's there if I look.

Just organised a 150mm trumpet setup for this.

Day out with 2az ae86