Bluterus's Ke70

[bluterus]

The last 2 days I've done a bit more work. I got my new pistons onto the connecting rods and painted all the pulleys, cam gears and fuel rail in anodised blue.

The cam covers I did anodised blue writing but I am still yet to paint them wrinkled black.

 

Some pics....

[bluterus]

Got my engine bay rubbed down on the weekend. I sprayed it too but I ran out of paint when I was almost finished.

[bluterus]

Ok so got a little bit more done last night I started putting the 4AGE back together. Also had all polyurethane bushes and Boge shocks rock up from AJPS.

[bluterus]

Did a bit more to the motor last night. Got the rear oil plate, oil pump, baffle plate and sump on. I fitted the head just loosely for now but I'll tighten it down tonight.

 

One of the threads in the oil pump where the sump bolts to at the front is stuffed the bolt goes in but just turns.

 

Also the two guide pins on the sump have been trashed and the nuts wont screw on anymore. I'll recut the thread in them and will have to see if I can tap the oil pump hole bigger.

[bluterus]

Just some more pics of a little bit more I did last night. I gave the engine bay another coat as I ran out of paint the other day and some spots weren't totally covered like in the gearbox tunnel, chassis rails radiator support.

Sorry for the darkness was about 7PM.

Just one of the car in the booth. Can you tell we spray a lot of blue?

[bluterus]

Didn't get as much done as I'd hoped over the weekend as I had heaps of family shit between the missus's and mine. Anyways got the cam gears and covers finished and done most of the final assembly. Just gotta fit waterpump, water outlet, timing belt covers, spark plug cover, dizzy and intake and exhaust manifold.

 

The longest part of the motor so far has been the cam covers it took me about 3 hours to tape up the letters so I could paint the covers black. Then the paint chipped off one of the 0's and I had to recoat it so you can see it looks darker.

I'm pretty happy with how its looking but think I should paint the spark plug cover a different colour from black as it maybe too much black. I have blue NGK leads so it will break up the black a bit.

[Dropz]

HOT! thats looking good.

 

i think if the sparky cover is blue, then it would be weird with blue leads.

 

if you use the blue leads id stick with it being black. that way the blue is a secondary colour (apart from the block) and the black is the background colour on everything.

[bluterus]

HOT! thats looking good.

 

i think if the sparky cover is blue, then it would be weird with blue leads.

 

if you use the blue leads id stick with it being black. that way the blue is a secondary colour (apart from the block) and the black is the background colour on everything.

 

Cheers man yeah I decided to paint the cover gloss black. I thought exactly what you were thinking. It will look much better with the blue leads.

 

My headers are black and I was thinking of painting the intake manifold wrinkled black with anodised blue throttle body. I'm thinking It might all be too much black though since the engine bay is black too.

 

 

Just paid for a selbys 24mm front and 18mm rear swaybars, adjustable panhard rod and T50 shifter rebuild kit.

[camcam]

Cheers man yeah I decided to paint the cover gloss black. I thought exactly what you were thinking. It will look much better with the blue leads.

 

My headers are black and I was thinking of painting the intake manifold wrinkled black with anodised blue throttle body. I'm thinking It might all be too much black though since the engine bay is black too.

 

 

Just paid for a selbys 24mm front and 18mm rear swaybars, adjustable panhard rod and T50 shifter rebuild kit.

 

wow hope my conversion comes out half this good :(

[Dropz]

repaint the bay, itll be fine. go with a light colour so you can see where your zorst is shooting flames and when oil pisses out lol.

[bluterus]

wow hope my conversion comes out half this good :(

 

Cheers man I've spent a lot of time on the motor but I want it to be good when its in. Spent about $2000 on the motor very cheap build I reckon. I just didn't want a flogged out 4AGE will be great having a fresh motor.

 

repaint the bay, itll be fine. go with a light colour so you can see where your zorst is shooting flames and when oil pisses out lol.

I've already painted it black. I'll do a trial fitting and see how it looks. Do you mean shooting flames and pissing oil out near the engine? lol.

 

I hope oil doesn't piss out in the engine bay that would suck but it is going to get a very hard time once its run in.

[bluterus]

Over the last couple of days put the dizzy, rotor, dizzy cap, covers, water pump, mounts and everything on. Only things left is to paint the intake manifold and throttle body and fit them. Also got to get some stainless cap screws for the clear cover and spark plug cover and buy a lightweight flywheel and fit it.

 

I'll start on the car tomorrow night removing all the running gear. I don't want to do the paint until very last as the car is sitting at my work and gets covered in sand, metal, overspray and whatever else comes out of our metalfab joint. It feels like sandpaper at the moment lol.

 

Any idea's on how to remove the rear window as I've never done one in a corolla before. I'm assuming just feet on the inside of the glass someone supporting outside and just push it out or does the seal need to come out first?

[bluterus]

So I was being lazy and haven't started pulling the front apart but will today cause I finished 1:30 and the rest of my bushes rocked up today and so did my Adjustable swaybars! 24mm front and 18mm rear.

 

Also bought a little present for my birthday.

 

I got pretty much all the bits just need to make a dump pipe and buy some GZE injectors and an adaptronic.

[Taz_Rx]

You might find that the T25G (Thats what that turbo is) is a bit too low-mid RPM range oriented for a 4age. Having that mid range response is great yes, but the .49 rear housing really does restrict top end flow.

For a 4AGE I think you'd be better off with a T28 or bigger (GT28R 2871R etc), then the efficiency range of the turbo will match up a lot better with the GE's revvie nature.

 

I'm actually 4/5 of the way through swapping my T25G out for an S14 T28 which I had on my car last year. Put it this way - I haven't touched my shift light since going EFI etc. When I'm running the T25G I would only ever see the shift light with wheel spin. There was no point revving the motor out, you just better off cracking another gear and using that mid range power again. With the T28 and the same "spirited driving" I would see the shift light every gear change as it would just keep pulling harder and harder the more you revved it. The T28 obviously had about 1000rpm extra lag though.

 

Just some food for though.

Si. :laff:

[bluterus]

You might find that the T25G (Thats what that turbo is) is a bit too low-mid RPM range oriented for a 4age. Having that mid range response is great yes, but the .49 rear housing really does restrict top end flow.

For a 4AGE I think you'd be better off with a T28 or bigger (GT28R 2871R etc), then the efficiency range of the turbo will match up a lot better with the GE's revvie nature.

 

I'm actually 4/5 of the way through swapping my T25G out for an S14 T28 which I had on my car last year. Put it this way - I haven't touched my shift light since going EFI etc. When I'm running the T25G I would only ever see the shift light with wheel spin. There was no point revving the motor out, you just better off cracking another gear and using that mid range power again. With the T28 and the same "spirited driving" I would see the shift light every gear change as it would just keep pulling harder and harder the more you revved it. The T28 obviously had about 1000rpm extra lag though.

 

Just some food for though.

Si. :wink:

Yeah I was actually thinking the exact same thing. Been speaking to a bloke on AE86DC and he had a T25 from his experience it sounded like he was hitting max boost at 4500rpm which does suck for a 4AGE looking into prices of T28's and stuff at the moment.

 

The 1000rpm extra lag wouldn't matter as when I've driven a 4AGE spirited I've always kept it between 5000-7000.

 

My mates gen5 rex is the same deal with the stock turbo between 3500-5000rpm its great but then from 5-6500 its just crap.