What Should I Do?

[nate86]

Hi I'm new and trying to work out what to do, I will give you the back story

 

My dad is doing a project on his TA22 and he got a someone project car for the motor he had in it 3tgeu (I Think)

 

Now he has everything for his car, I have now been given the rest. I have a running T18 liftback full of rust and it has no plates (out of rego for months and months) I also have a rolling shell also a t18 liftback with no rust alos no plates (same reason) I have many parts to complete a car out of the two with also two of everything. Now with my dad doing the TA22 he has old motor and another (he did two cars into one). So this come to a couple of 3t's and a couple of 2t's with odd parts lying around including a few gearboxes from my other projects. If I didn't have a hobby with cars and did not drink so much, i would be rich.

 

Now with my questions

T 18 liftback, should i bother?

Just get one together and sell it to fund a project

I have heard and read about these 3T and 2T being good?

2T block bored, 3T crank etc.

I would like to run a side draught blow through supercharged setup?

Can this work with side draughts? not to much pressure and know about the regulator thingy,

Would like a Twincharge setup but sounds like a headache

If to go with another car, what would give less headaches?

Got plenty of parts from other t18's, can i use them on anthing else

Or should i sell the lot and start from begining with proceeds

 

Sorry about all the questions but i am stuck in the middle and half says work the t18 and the other says do up older corolla, some of you might push me to do something else, any help would be good, thanks

 

Edited because it did not make sence

Edited October 7, 2008 by nate86

[white_sandshoe]

Have a look through your t series engines... are any of the heads twin cam??? That's the 2T-G heads you can nicely bolt onto the 3T (larger capacity) blocks... slap some side draught webers on that and a blow through/draw through supercharger running about 7 pound of boost (more than that and you'll be wanting to fill the block with forged gear first...)

 

even a turbo charger... a 3TGTEU turbo manifold can be sourced relatively easily from the US.

 

The twin charge setup might be relatively easy to set up also, considering and there's the emmissions control system on the 3T-C (which i guess will get ripped off.) that has a nice bracket that looks like it might do good for mounting a SC-14...

 

Or, send all your T-18 stuff over to me... I'm building two atm... actually, i'm in an almost identical situation as you are now, except my rusty T-18 is licenced...

 

It depends on what you want at the end of it all... You could work with what you've got, and end up with a good car that still might not suit your taste or style, or you could, as you said, fix up one and sell it off to fund another... In my situation, i love the shape of the T-18's, so i'm going to end up with two cars I love.

 

Really comes down to your personal tastes though, so work out what you'd like first...

[nate86]

I pretty sure they are all single cam but i will double check when i get back home. I going to rebuild her with forged stuff and port & polished the head and stuff. Twincharge would be something a little bit different and guess it should not be to hard to do. T 18 look ok and i have a good imagination and time make mods to change the style of the car, i have always like classic looking cars but then again i have alway owned newer cars. If i decided to make one car into two i will pass on all the parts to you and fellow rollaclub people