random little projects

[Skylar]

Bought this silvia at an auction for cheap to replace my daily driver corolla. It's SR manual, has a working vlsd some whatever lowered suspension, tig welded 2.25 or 2.5 304 (i think) exhaust with a 4" tip.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52396.jpg
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52397.jpg
Shitty paint on roof
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52398.jpg
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52399.jpg
Uncracked dash! ended up being more a picture of the wall and the trees than the dash.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52400.jpg

Motor's caked up inside and the bottom end, maybe top end too makes funny noises so I thought I'd buy another motor and rebuild it. Probably shoulda got another NA motor and left it at that but instead I'm turboing it.
Diesel oil's doing it's job and starting to clean the build up off.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52401.jpg
My "engine building room"
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52402.jpg
Don't worry, I have an engine stand, that's just for disassembly. Block will go up on stand when it's all machined up and ready to assemble.

Motor number(S14SR) one needed boring which I didn't want to do just yet so I found another in spec block(S13SR) and using that along with the piston I got from lewisengines.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52403.jpg

Went looking on ebay and a few forums for a cheap turbo/turbo suit rebuild but couldn't find anything. Me trying to cut costs on something that's meant to a daily driver and not cost me a lot, I decided to use the turbo that's been under my bed for close to a year. It's pretty big but whatever, couldn't find a t3/t4/t518z/td06/td05 for less than 500 bucks so using something I already have. Wasn't exactly 500 bucks but close enough. Only problem is it'll make more power than I wanted from this car.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52404.jpg

Since the turbo's too big to fit where an off-the-shelf turbo manifold would put it, seems like I'm making a manifold. So I made this incredibly accurate drawing of an SR exhaust flange.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52405.jpg
Turned that into a CAD file and sent it off to the watercutter. Should have a prototype flange tomorrow.

I'll get some pictures of the boost controllers for the turbo later.

Vertex knock-off front
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52406.jpg
Got m-sport sides as well, looking for a vertex/m-sport/chargespeed/maybe gp rear. Also got enough panels to do onevia as well but I'll see how it looks with silvia front with aero.

There's probably more stuff that I've forgotten about but that's all for now.

[Skylar]

Here's s'more.

boost controller
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52448.jpg
flange test-piece
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52449.jpg
test fit left side: spot on!
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52450.jpg
right side: off by 10mm because I mirrored the left ports from the wrong line : (
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52451.jpg
After that, made corrections and final flange to be cut
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52452.jpg

Manifold coming maybe soon. Water cutter goes on holidays today until 20th so I either find someone else to cut it or wait for them to get back. I should probably sort out an ECU before I make the manifold.

[hachi_dk]

nice work man.
and lol at the incredibly accurate drawing :D

[DOMESTIC DIME]

+2 I like the boost cont also

[biggo]

Whats that ADC tester thingo you got. I need one.

Cool project tho. These days we'd just about buy anything for cheap and build it. Bet this will turn out far better than what you planned.

[Skylar]

The ADC thing is a PIC chip taking an input from the potentiometer simulating a MAP. not really, but just making sure the ADC is working, I fried the ADC circuit in the old chip. The screen and LED are just for diagnostics, I hate working blind. The LED switches on when the 'MAP'/pot. goes into vacuum. since I couldn't get the LED working and the servo to move off a single lm7805 v-reg. I ended up rigging up the 4A power supply which powers the screen and servo. Yeah, so back to the screen, ADC is just the raw 8 bit value that the ADC sees on the MAP pin. The second value is where the servo is being told to go to. When it's all packed up and going that servo will controller the actuator arm on the turbo to control the boost ramp rate, but not the actual boost level. That's what its meant to do anyway, dunno if it will manage until its in testing. If the servo moves fast enough with enough torque WITHOUT melting, it'll be sweet.

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52780.jpg
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52777.jpg
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/52782.jpg

[biggo]

I think ill stick with the calculator for now.

[slide_style]

this will be interesting to see how it goes, your turbo looks like its off a cummins truck engine possibly a M11 EGR? not to sure as i dont see to many of these at work i like your set up to control the VGT.

[Skylar]

close but good guess, it's not that big though. It's a holset off an 07 dodge ram 3500(6.7 cummins). M11 runs a HE551VE?
The servo set up should control a internal gate flap fine but can't really get an area on the exhaust deflector to use in calculations so unsure of if it will be strong enough or not.

If not gonna have to go pneumatic and ball and spring valve.

[slide_style]

"The servo set up should control a internal gate flap fine but can't really get an area on the exhaust deflector to use in calculations so unsure of if it will be strong enough or not."

are you talking about the sliding nozzle ring inside the exhaust housing do you need measments of it?

[Skylar]

Is that the technical name for it?

I can measure it but I don't really know what I need to measure to figure out the pressure/force exerted on the ring then the reduction through to the actuator arm. Could figure it out but I know you can control it with a pneumatic actuator and the servo can mimic the actuator up to ~7psi. Just gonna try it and hope for the best.

[slide_style]

yeah thats the technical name for it, i work for cummins myself, these style turbochargers (much bigger) found on the new cummins egr Signatures have being giving alot of trouble as of late we have found that the locator plate for the nozzle ring which is pressed into the exhaust housing have being coming lose and causing the nozzle ring to jam up, which in turn causing low power and excessive black smoke etc.. but from reports your type turbo seems to be holding up fine. i recoken your servo should work fine

[Skylar]

My locator ring spins in the exhaust housing. This isn't normal? Should I jb-weld it down or just plain tig it or is there another way around it?

[Skylar]

Got some ganador knock-offs.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/53614.jpg
Dipshit before me didn't know how tight to tighten a screw into plastic and sheared off a mounting hole. Didn't realise until I bought them and tried to put them on the next day.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/53615.jpg

Engine and stuff!
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/53616.jpg
The reader sucks but it's handy having it outside. Much better than an iPod touch to look at.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/53617.jpg

I can have the engine apart forever without forgetting where everything goes. <3
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/53618.jpg

Cordless drill... with a cord now. Battery lasts forever now and it's 'portable' still.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/53619.jpg

Got the crank in today so tomorrow's either piston ring gaps and get the rods and pistons in or finish off CAD and get flanges cut. Got 12 90 deg sched. 40 1.5" elbows and a metre of the pipe in the same size. In hindsight, I may have bought too many but shit's ridiculously cheap. Didn't realise it would be so cheap to make a manifold.

Oh and 5 lug gear too with R33 brakes.

PROGRESS!!!

[joeschmo_57]

when you are a kid you have monsters under your bed. when you get older, the monster gets replqced by monster turbos.

not a bady transition

[Skylar]

Not that big man, it's only a little bigger than gt35. :)

This weekend's project was making a jig to hold me pipe while I cut it on angles. not quite finished yet but you get the idea.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/53981.jpg
Does anyone else do all their work without a bench?
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/53982.jpg
manifold stuff
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/53983.jpg
Love my little white board, 'bout the size of an iPad so handy for little calcs.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/53984.jpg
arrived today
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/53984.jpg
testing/watching the soundwaves as they come out of the radio
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/53986.jpg

Water cutter should be done with the test flanges for head and turbo by the end of the week. Need to go buy a piston ring compressor and finish assembling the short motor.

[tuff te-72]

huge turBRO! hahaha loving the calculations, pythagoras would be proud!

[Nikkojoe]

Do you still need my drop saw? Ready for immediate delivery!

[Skylar]

Let's begin with damage to the S14SR (first motor)
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/54566.jpg

Never realised an old piston worked so good as a rod stand. Makes putting rings on so easy.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/54567.jpg

Head no.2 was warped :( and since I decided to keep the S14SR to rebuild with good stuff, I went and and picked up another motor, this time for free...
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/54568.jpg

Motor was free for a reason. Two pistons came out like below. Another had a crack and abrasion on one side of the skirt and the other side had a chunk missing.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/54569.jpg

I thought this was funny. The piece that flung off the piston get hammered into the underside of the block, maybe by rods? and left some marks there. On the right cylinder in this picture.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/54569.jpg

What's wrong, with this picture.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/54571.jpg

I need an ECU!! and wheels. and a body kit... for now.

[Skylar]

Other random shit I been up to.
fan shroud for corolla:
Template
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/64408.jpg
Template wrapped in old shirt being modeled by a brazilian guy.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/64409.jpg
First layer of cloth done and drying
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/64410.jpg

Trying to get more layers + cutout for where cooler pipe runs tomorrow.

Got an overflow made
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/64411.jpg

Stuff for silvia... yes, I'm using parts off a tractor
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/64412.jpg

Rad empty headgasket packet.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/64413.jpg

Solid lifters and MOPAR!!!
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/64414.jpg

I wanna put solids in tomorrow if I have time, if not, later this week.

[Gunner]

I think the tractor parts suit the SR hahaha.


You are one clever cookie dude. Good stuff.

[Skylar]

Thanks dude, means a lot to me coming from you.

http://mbauction.com/Gallery/68e047fc-8d9d-4651-b1c6-4cc338e74a87/jd8330right.jpg
Sweet ride huh?

I also got a merge collector lookin thing I made up laying around that I need to cut and weld the turbo flange onto. Then comes the making of the turbo manifold.

Onto another matter. The corolla has a shortened tarago F-series in it. The re-splining job was good and fit perfect into stock diff with no play. The same axle put into an IS200 cusco LSD is loose. There's about 7 or 8 degrees of play. Is this normal for cusco?

[biggo]

thats weird. Is it loose in the slpines or in the center?

[Skylar]

The splines. :(

[Skylar]

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/551869.jpg

Collector's cut, CAD is down at water cutter. Manifold starts when I get flanges.

Accidentally dropped a ziptie in the timing chain area of the SR. I bid it farewell, put the motor back together and drove it. Guess I should take the oil pan off some time and see what happened to it.

[Nikkojoe]

Ziptie is nothing. Found a bolt in a 4ac sump and it wasn't because the motor let go :)

[Skylar]

Update, sort of.

Made this:
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/178752.jpg
SR20 Valve height measuring tool. Saved a supposed 800 bucks in not buying the Nissan SST.

Made half a collector... with an angle grinder. I need a band saw. and a belt sander.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/178753.jpg

Ordered an ECU too. Should be here next week and running within a month or something.

I put a layer of matte on the shroud to strengthen it as it was floppy like a flexible side skirt. Test fit it and clipped a corner out of and re-glassed it. Mate has it now and should be bogged and smooth by now.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/178754.jpg

Swapped front housing on a Nissan 5 speed.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/178755.jpg

[Skylar]

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/554396.jpg

Bad idea? Maybe, maybe not.

Got the ECU to read a bunch of pulses coming from the CAS after trouble shooting for a good day. In the end there was nothing wrong, wasn't my fault, just the software telling me to do crazy shit. Running tomorrow??? Then weld the bung into the downpipe and finish off the collector while I got the welder out.

[Skylar]

and now it runs.

I should probably elaborate. That silver thing with the DC37 connector is a Megasquirt V3 ECU. It's a build it yourself mainboard with plug in chips(MS1) or daughter boards(MS2 or MS3). I've got an MS3 which supports USB communications, SD card datalogging and with the other board connected to it with ribbon cables is the expansion board for 8 injector drive and 8 spark outputs(need ignitors or coils with built in ignitors) and a second crank/cam input.
Supports boost control, nitrous, water injection, air con, stepper motor or PWM idle valve, table switching, flex fuel, launch control, datalog off a button on dash, progressive retard limiter with hard fuel or ign cut. Spare channels become extra outputs for whatever. Has CANbus to talk to trans controller, display devices or external in/out boards. Datalog everything you want.

All for under 500USD. I made a patch loom so everything is full plug in.

Also, that beer in the above pic ain't mine.

[Skylar]

Oil cooler crap:
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/191478.jpg
I got one of these too but not for silvia. I'll probably make something that interfaces with the megasquirt rather than fitting a stand-alone system.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/psm%20EVDM/lucky_shot66/PS13/IMAG0030-1.jpg

[OniKyan]

Nice project. Much respect for the true DIY attitude.

[Skylar]

Update?!

Not really, done nothing to the car. Still drives, engine makes noises but still living cheerfully.

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/251541.jpg
Bought wheels for this car. No fitment pics yet as car is still 4 stud, will swap over to 5 stud when I get tires on the wheels.

The XR4's are off the corolla, pulled the diff out, took it to machinist to inspect the sidegears which the diff guy was upset about. Machinist says the cusco's sidegears' splines are looser than what he'd make but not as bad as what holden/ford(mass production) diffs are and things will be fine even though it is looser than a factory centre's fit.

Gearbox out sometime this week to fix the leaking rear main, make some fuel lines, put it back together and hopefully driving some time soon.

[Nikkojoe]

Wheels look cool :)

Will the box be out before i get back on tuesday?

[Skylar]

Maybe, maybe not. Probably not.

shoulda got 18's though.

[Skylar]

Been a while, probably should mean things got done to the car but no, nothing exciting happened. Over making this one fast. On the other hand, valve stem seals are dieing so gotta put new motor in, new motor needs manifold before GT35 can go on. Putting new motor in means down time. need something else to drive.

SO, back to working on the other car. Here's a bunch of pictures of unrelated stuff.
Making new fuel lines. Steel lines suck, al is so much easier to do.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/319867.jpg

Super quick jack tool.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/319868.jpg
Milwaukee 1/2 impact driver driving a M8 bolt which I welded to another M8 bolt with a stick welder. So awesome.

Powered by max EVDM
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/319869.jpg

Innovate MTX-L for silvia, but might use it for corolla, might sell it.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/319870.jpg That's on my mate's 180, at idle. 264/264 cams.

Put a knock off recaro into the silvia using a genuine recaro rail with an adaptor plate I made up.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/319871.jpg

Making toe arms for silvia
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/319872.jpg

Grids on another mate's 180 with 20/30 overs. Needs an 8mm to fit out 30mm overs. No way those wheels fit stock fenders.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/319873.jpg
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/319874.jpg

Put a fuse panel in the boot of the corolla so I took everything off the handy storage shelf.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/319875.jpg

Almost walked into this guy. Good thing I wear an LED light on my head for when I'm working on cars at night.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/319876.jpg

Random picture of someone's coupe
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/319877.jpg

I love nutserts
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/319878.jpg

-12 oil lines for corolla
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/319879.jpg

T28 I got the other day for corolla.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/319880.jpg

Manifold that came with turbo. Might go on silvia for time being, might sell it.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/319881.jpg

Pulled engine out yesterday
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/319882.jpg

No. 4 main. what the hell does that indicate.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/319883.jpg

Just doing a quick freshen up on the CA at the moment, just doing bearing since the engine was almost out anyway doing other stuff. Trying to get engine back in car next weekend. Got an oil restrictor thingo coming from lewis engines. Slugged me like 30 bucks for postage and it wasn't even next day! Head's coming off to do oil restrictor so I might pop a piston out and check ring gaps and re-ring if necessary. In the mean time, I gotta finish mounting new fuel lines so I can connect up the brake lines and bleed (diff is dropped down low to get fuel lines over). Got like 3 or 4 week nights this week to do that stuff. On a pretty tight schedule for no reason aside from I want this car done and driving I guess. After engine's in, gonna figure out the nicest place to put the wideband sensor in.

Sometime after that is to buy another DIYBOB from diyautotune and hook the megasquirt that's for the SR to this one and start tuning and upping boost. (it's still running stock ecu so don't wanna push it on t28). Hopefully be done before end of next month and running by end of this month but unlikely at my pace.

Updates soon hopefully.

[Skylar]

Been forever since last post. Did some stuff but not really. The lines in the previous post are bent and now mounted in car. Engine's now ready to go back in and was going to today but last check revealed that I needed to make a bracket to support the oil filter. So motor in next weekend hopefully. Gotta pull CA18 loom out and redo wiring and make it neater/more compatible to aftermarket ECU. Got rid of the grids for some 17x9 +19 sterns, pic soon.

Some stuff I done:

Made a bracket for the tail light on my bike. Cheap junk snapped when I went to tighten it.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/400815.jpg

Too lazy to put a belt on so did this all day:
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/400817.jpg

had welder out making a turbo oil filter bracket and I been meaning to this so I did:
mocking up turbo location.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/400819.jpg
GT35 is so small these days.

What I ended up with at end of work:
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/400821.jpg

[Skylar]

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/538446.jpg

Rears are on. In reality I need to put a 215 on those, roll the lip up on the quarters and pull out some camber but it'll do for now.

Roof's in primer because it was starting to rust. Got all the dents out of it while we were working on it. Patched up the spoiler holes properly. Dude just put masking tape on the holes, tapped the area down and bogged over it. Goddamn muppets. Gonna primer the bonnet and boot this week maybe and the rest of the car will follow soon.

[Skylar]

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/538449.jpg

Need camber tops.

On another note I found out that the car has short stroke tokicos.

[Skylar]

Wee little update.
Car has 4 of the same wheel on it as of today and looks like the below.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/507933.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kenPro3/media/35B8D339-6068-4598-95B6-13A4186D80FD-3634-00000588BB27C02D_zpsb79b49af.jpg.html)
310mm R34 brakes stops car way better than tiny stock NA brakes but it's probably more to do with tires that are cost more than 70 bucks. and eventually I'll put the stock brakes onto the corolla as a test model and then switch to z32 280mm pots or something later on.

Looks alright in that picture but not great. Sits at 115mm off the ground so I need to buy some coilovers now and reduce that number closer to 100mm.

In other news, I picked this up off the side of the road.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/507934.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kenPro3/media/25907097-4E7E-411F-B147-2E082F56666A-3634-00000588E525EF9A_zpsb3f44bce.jpg.html)
Cut this out.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/507935.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kenPro3/media/FD0B4FC2-E002-4DC2-B3A4-B28498C8E1A7-3634-0000058910552F1F_zpsdc7a0b07.jpg.html)
From here.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/507936.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kenPro3/media/0DCBD96C-DEA8-486D-960D-383B1339E46C-3634-00000589250FC56D_zps778b4ce1.jpg.html)

Cut the back half off it for test fit.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/507937.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kenPro3/media/F15EBBFE-AEA9-422B-8066-50E963B583AC-3634-000005893232114E_zpsa012d3db.jpg.html)

and final install.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/507938.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kenPro3/media/A5E95A08-06D7-468B-ACE7-7B4B66D82972-3634-000005893B9504B3_zpsb3a741a8.jpg.html)
yes it's dodgey as all hell but it works sweet. Just gotta straighten up the wheel so it doesn't rub.

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/507939.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kenPro3/media/96B03571-CBDB-459E-8FA0-18FEC53226CD-3634-000005896436693D_zps1b585e52.jpg.html)
Swapped cranks out of that bike as well since I thought my bike kept throwing the chain off because the front gears were so worn. Turns out the problem was stretched chain. So I put a new chain on it too. Also got some tires at the tip for 2 bucks each. So good. They're probably rock hard from being in the sun for so long but it makes for sweet backwards facing skids into the driveway. The last tire I got for the bike was one I found on the side of the road in an empty lot and was in the same condition too. Now I can do skids without having to worry about tire costs.

Non-bike stuff, pulled the loom off, moved some stuff, put some, new connectors and seals on, re-wrapped and labelled it.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/507940.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kenPro3/media/5614FDF7-C901-4BDD-91C1-C867E47B7768-3634-00000589463D43FC_zps3139127c.jpg.html)

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/507941.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kenPro3/media/C7F47A45-18F1-42B2-BF1A-EBEAEB38B484-1506-0000021733B2C915_zps1dac9474.jpg.html)
Put a egt probe and wideband in the down/front pipe.

Cool looking shot, for no reason.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/507942.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kenPro3/media/B64A5DE3-3268-438C-8197-34E48F370830-1506-0000021663889130_zps81da308d.jpg.html)

There's probably more but I either haven't taken a photo of it or uploaded it to photobucket yet.

[Nikkojoe]

Cool looking shot, for no reason.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/507942.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kenPro3/media/B64A5DE3-3268-438C-8197-34E48F370830-1506-0000021663889130_zps81da308d.jpg.html)....

Lol so is that what It looked like...

The trd kit looks a totally different shade of white in that pic :/

[Skylar]

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/539187.jpg

Bought this. For no reason, other than it was cheap. Always wanted to try one of these. Anyone got a base tune for CA/SR?

Corolla runs all sweet with a partial rebuild. Ran it up onto boost for the first time after upgrading to t28 and 12psi actuator and maxed the AFM aaaaaand "boost cut". Makes the car useless to drive so got to putting the megasquirt and the heap of shit doesn't receive a trigger signal. Got a few more ideas to try but it seemed easier to use something that works so punched vipec into ebay, found a v44, told a mate about it and he bought it from under me and then decided he maybe didn't want it so we went halfsies.

[Skylar]

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/539188.jpg

Finished welding and painting the knuckle side brackets today so I threw them on the car. Aligned it by eye and the car has less rear grip at 0 toe than 8mm toe out (per side). ???

They cost me like 50 bucks each to make, which is cool.

[Skylar]

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/539189.jpg

Cut the plug off an na ecu. Still need to get a tuning cable but patch harness should be done pretty soon.

[Skylar]

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/539191.jpg

Vipec's reading a crank signal now(helps if you wire it to the right set of pins, lol).

Megasquirt's seeing stuff on the triggers but it ain't translating it successfully into an rpm signal.

Both have working injector and coil drives.

[Skylar]

Got the engine running using the vipec with a little help from Tom. Got a little problem with it though. I moved the ignitor into the cabin thinking it'd be a sweet idea having it in a place easy to get to and all but it's making the lap top freak out and bluescreen when I give it a rev. and that's with the laptop on the (driver's side) roof of the car, not even in the car.

Ugh, in the mean time, I guess I'll do logs onto the onboard memory and tune using that. I'm gonna buy more denso coils off Mr. Kellam in the long run and adapt them to CA. That'll fix it.

[Skylar]

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/516291.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kenPro3/media/ED85B5FD-41F7-4192-8B27-6AA53754D275-3599-000003F8B19E2210_zpsb614d3f1.jpg.html)
Almost 3 months later, I put the coils on.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/516292.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kenPro3/media/F30DD5A6-AC9F-4BF0-8D49-6F424EE2C7B4-3599-000003F8C3F93B8F_zps4fdfcf7a.jpg.html)
Made a little ignitor delete harness. Would have preferred that it was full plug in but ended up having to depin the 4 pin connector and use 6 pins since the shop didn't have 4 pins in stock.

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/516293.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kenPro3/media/76067426-FB18-4906-A360-7CF658B1DD5D-3599-000003F8CC837D9E_zpsd7ebed49.jpg.html)
And now it happily idles at whatever AFR I feel like making it run at. Runs smooth enough at that AFR even though the engine doesn't run idle control(because it's broken).

I got some modular bosch injectors for the CA. 900cc single cone spray pattern things. They've been sitting in a box for a few months now.

In other news, almost bought a blacktop S13SR out of a 180. Gonna go swap some parts around off a redtop S13SR because of salt damage. Probably gonna pick up a 2560 the guy has laying around as well. Should be able to drop it in over the christmas break. Then get onto wiring the megasquirt into it. No, wait, I made a patch harness for the SR loom 3 years ago. So I guess I'm going to just plug the megasquirt in.

[Skylar]

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/539326.jpg
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/523086.jpg
Exedy stage 2 for SR with "thick" disc.

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/523087.jpg
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/523088.jpg
Freshly machined JUN lightweight flywheel !

Got ARP flywheel and pressure plate bolts coming too.

In other news, thanks to Anthony at Kaizen garage, I got some new coils for the CA and Nikkojoe's 4A. Didn't take a picture but here's a picture of SR coils I mounted up on the CA.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/523089.jpg

Started tuning the corolla up and down the street on the vipec. It's got this sweet feature called a "mixture map" which plots your logged afr's for against the fuel map cells and tells you the variance from your target afr map. It also shows how bad it's out by colour coding the cells. Makes tuning way quicker than with adaptronic when we were tuning Nikkojoe's car a few years back. I'll post up some pics when I'm on the laptop next. Although it took a little getting used to I'm pretty happy with the impulse (bargain) buy that was the vipec v44.

[ae8zn6]

I'll only believe this thing moves when I see it ;)

[Skylar]

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/523114.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kenPro3/media/datalog_zpsc94f35df.png.html)
Datalog from this morning's drive. Enough proof for ya? :P

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/523115.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kenPro3/media/mixturemap_zpsbf300d94.png.html)
Mixture map !

[Skylar]

More stuff came.
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/2/0/2/5/523386.jpg

All I need now is a dump pipe and front pipe. I still need to pick up the motor too.

[ae8zn6]

I've got that silicon for you mate, I have been focusing on wiring all day today, I might just finalise the bits I am working on and then finish dummy-ing up my inlet piping tomorrow. Then I could bring your silicon hoses and my inlet pipes around to yours some time over the weekend. Thoughts?