Custom Built 4k Upright Motor Fitting

[camerondownunder88]

Justin the TRD upright K motor had a gear box with a 30 degree off set bell housing cast on it in my TRD book. So gear box still sat flat.

[Medicine_Man]

Cool, so that is obviously a custom made crossmember in the pic..

[SLO-030]

one of those custom cross members could be made very easily, so easy even i could do it :D 2 30deg wedges and a piece with the appropriate holes welded together then the complete wedge welded to a cross member= easy.

 

CHEERS

Ryan

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a custome made bell housing for the box is a lot more complex than 2 30 degree wedges weldedon to the x membar or even finding a TRD 1.

so have many people done this oh and I'm not doing this for the side draft crap, that shit is a head f@$k, every time you want to tune it you have to pay through the ass to get it done + the cost of the system. i know it increases power and all, no shit, but i just don't think its worth it. i could set up an sc14 for less. not having a go or nothing just clarifying what my intentions are so this dosnt turn in to a post just on twin carbs.

 

as i was saying what kind of numbers of people would have this done, TRD or home made just curious on that?

[Medicine_Man]

I only know of 2 genuine upright kits and they are both from NZ.

 

Other setups I have seen are peoples own fabrications..

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so all and all this is not a verry comon thing to do, that just makes it more fun. iv been reading through some of the old posts about this, none of them as detailed as this, and 1 says it has a power increas of 10-15hp and another says 20-30hp. as if id think 5hp at the most.

 

what do use think about this part of the conversion??? this should be good to see...

[Medicine_Man]

It is an excellent idea to get more clearance between the motor and the strut tower, I know my motor with twincarbs leaves bugger all room to get in even with the baby filters I have now..

 

In your case where you want to fit a turbo it will give you plenty more room to play with to set it up.

 

It would be interesting to see on a stock motor how much of a power increase it may actually give..

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well just for giggles il just do that. il dyno a 4k stosk slant 30, than il do the 0 degree mods than dyno that without doing anything to the motor and il post that info up along with all the steps that i will take to make it stand upright. might be valuable info to some others in the future...

 

il be starting all this work in about 4 weeks from now...

[Medicine_Man]

Here are some pictures of the solid engine mounts

[SLO-030]

yea do a step by step on how u do it id be interested for sure. g/l with it all.

are those mounst fully soild with no rubber dampers at all?

 

CHEERS

Ryan

Edited May 11, 2008 by KE25 KID

[Medicine_Man]

They go on with rubber mounts too, those ones mount to the block and the rubber mount goes between them and the crossmember..

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this is really sng do draw atention to you la ay. so tell me a little more about these engine mounts.

 

are these the ones il need to coppy?

do they use a rubber on it?

why is one differant to the other?

 

my plan was to make total custom mounts left and right and keep the engine as low as posible but 1/2" gap between the sump and the brace under it so as i don't damage something under reving upand down. my mounts will be simple and adgustable, just a little...

[Medicine_Man]

Yep, Those are genuine TRD uprite engine mounts, You will need to get a rubber mount to suit the ones you make up..

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like i said pice of piss even if i have to carve the rubber...

[SLO-030]

if you look at the original mounts they're different anyway, the drivers side mount has a flat mount to block surface and the passenger side has the bottom mount boss further out than the top mount boss. as Medicine Man said above theres a rubber block thats bloted between the engine mount and the mount on the cross member.

 

CHEERS

Ryan