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Thread: 4AGE Team Toyota Australia dyno runs

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    Someone will have the provenance. Just keep looking.

    My friend bought a 3 series beamer with a hot low comped stroked motor in it with sc fitted. When he pulled it out, it had some initials engraved near the engine number. Upon some research he found that it was a racing motor built in the 80s, that was stroked to 2.6 by using a combination of different 4 cylinder blocks and cranks, with a lot of porting and race spec internals. The initials led him to a German guy that was living in Australia in the 1980s and building race engines. Somehow, my friend found his contact info. He is now pushing 80 years old and living back in Germany. He remembered it and was happy to share some of the secrets of the engine (but not all)

    Its a high revving low comp engine designed to have a big sc fitted. Makes sense as it was on a running sced car when the car was crashed and my mate bought the wreck. By measurement it hasn't been rebuilt since the 1980s it seems, and its still extremely good order. I dare say it is either bulletproof and well maintained or its just not been used.






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    i saw this car at wtac, loved it to bits

    me checking out setup, what LCA are they? cusco?




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    Matt, I love hearing those 'old timer' stories, it's a shame that sometimes their knowledge is lost
    Hachiroku since 1994

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    When i grow up I wanna be just like Uncle Frak Frak.

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    The LCA's are TRD, all the components in this car are TRD as per the TRD AE86 Bible.
    Q: How's this, when the TRD parts are no longer available?
    A: This is an original Group A race car built by TRD in 1986 before the TRD Bible was even produced.



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    Glad you found your radiator cap :p

    If I had of known who you were I would have had a chat

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    oooh im getting all misty eyed jamie...
    at my previous job i had the oppotunity to attend many of the historic events and reguarly had a chat to the drivers and had a good look at all the cars. i think where i worked helped, but all were very friendly and loved having a chat about racing.

    this didnt happen to be a red E30 323 coupe or something did it?
    i remember a looooong time ago (over 10 years) there was a SC'd E30 323 coupe that was owned by an old guy who had died or moved away and left the car with his daughter (she said he left it with her, and didnt want to pry as to what happened) to sell.
    the thing was a fucking rocketship, it was $13k to buy and no matter what i did i couldnt get the money for it. disappeared shortly after that...


    we were looking for you to have a chat chris, but you might have been on the can or eating or something at the time. we were gawking for a long time at the Grp A celica and its awesome slide throttles

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    you mean the group C celica of beach thomas aka chickadee chicken car

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    yeah that one glenn. ive always known it as the chickadee chickens car not which class unfortunately...

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    so does the tta 4age still use the IACV? im having issues with mine and would like to know what TRD chose to do

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    I know it is all there and connected, but I have not checked the operation to ensure it is fully open at 5K. I will run it on the weekend and go through the test. Mind you, this is all in-effective below 6K anyhow due to the size of the 320 duration cams.

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