WOW! just WOW! Got some tallents in you, making exhaust mani's is frustrating until you do work out exactly how you need it. But those you've made are great! Good work! Will have to upload another vid soon, when its comming together. Cant wait till the next installment.
hey mate good stuff on the build up...cant wait till this thing is out n about. have a look at this, someone on SAU went with ITB on his RB20 rally car... he used the throttle bodies from a 20v 4AGE corrolla, had a custom plenum/runners made up all tuned length for his big cams. http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8361/itbs001al2.jpg that all of them lined up... 42mm internal diameter DO IT! please
Haha, I know all about 20V 4AGE's, one of the best 4 pots ever. Still a hell of a lot of mucking around and those ITB's go for about $500 a set, so still big $$
really... far out, would have thought you could get an old clapped out rolla for around that lol. still, food for thought, definatly cheaper then that other us mob that has those awesome looking kits
I think there's a term for that, it's called 'Takumi Tax', lol! Because they've developed such a cult following, like Supra's, it's allowed sellers to jack up prices on their parts/cars because the demand is there, people want these parts and are willing to pay a little bit more than what they should be!
Not only the Takumi tax, there is also a fair bit of demand for Corolla parts in general. If it's rare it's big dollars. If you want a C160 6 speeder then that will go for $1000+ and you will have people at your door within 2 hours to pick it up. For some reason these people buy crappy little hatchbacks then spend more than the purchase price on seats or wheels. The ITB's off the silver/black tops are rare as most are attached to motors that just don't die (even though they rev to 8200+RPM) Not as bad as the other night, he said I had 57 cam shafts
haha... i think its more about the love of the car rather then the age/price just like a zed, you can pick one up pretty cheap nowadays but even then... it dosnt mean its cheap to bring it back to life and make something out of it.
Update time! I'm going to try and pull my finger out and get this done. Sick of having it sit in the shed do nothing! Dropped some plans, my old sump and a jig off at the Ally fabrication place today to get the new sump made. Should be done in 3 weeks or so. Changed my front lower control arm bushes too! Fire makes everything better Got a braided line made up to go from the clutch master to the manifold block thing. I've converted to a banjo fitting to give me that extra 10mm or so to clear the cam covers. And it looks sexy! I've also put the interior back in minus the cluster as I will have to recalibrate the tacho once the engine is back in again. Cage is staying out for the time being, stupid QLD transport rules may require me to cut it to bits and add in 6mm thick base plates! Stupidity! I've had another good look at the throw out bearing and it's location in relation to the flywheel. The flywheel isn't as well located as I thought it was. It is only just engaging with the starter. I'm going to have to space the fly out another 4-5mm, so I have to find my spare VH spacer and get some slightly longer bolts Can't find the little prick, it's in the shed somewhere.... So my list of stuff to get done now: Fix fly/throwout bearing issues Get rad modded Get upper thermostat housing modded, just a quick cut and shut Make exhaust Front bar, guards and bonnet to be done. So not too much longer now! Oh yeah, new plates too!
Nothing, it's sitting engine keeping the dust out If you reckon you can fix all the leaks you can have it when my new sump is done. Picking one up today The instructions that came with those bushes specifically said to use 'heat' to remove the old bushes while leaving the shells in place.
