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    Default Ken's N/A AE86 Trueno "Saphira" Page 11 updates - Return from hibernation!

    ADM delivered 1983 Levin converted to Kouki Trueno "Saphira"
    Weighs in at about 815kg. I'm still thinking of ways to get it down lower.

    A bit of background history, it was my first car when I was about 12, I learnt to drive in it, I learnt to drift in it, I learnt to love it, I learnt how to stupidly spend money. I'm 19 now

    The worked motor was the very last mod I gave to this car, before that was all suspension/chassis work to be perfectly tuned with a stock bigport 4AGE, which was pretty much on it's way out.

    It sees a lot of track time and occasionally a few laps after work.

    For videos, check out my Youtube -

    Exterior

    J-blood type-2 carbon bonnet
    J-blood fibreglass doors
    J-blood rear pods on kouki rear bumper
    J-blood fibreglass bumper mounts
    Dolphin Aero fibreglass hatch
    Perspex rear quarter windows
    Perspex driver and passenger windows
    Perspex rear hatch window
    GOODLINE front bumper
    OEM Kouki front bumper with Zenki lip
    Vertex sideskirts
    Custom fixed light conversion
    OEM Kouki Redline tail-lights
    Origin fibreglass front guards
    Hand-flared rear guards
    Full restoration and respray with graphics

    Interior (whatever is left of it!)

    Kouki black replacement panels
    Momo JDM steering wheel
    DEFI DIN gauge
    TRD leather gear knob
    A'PEXI RSM
    OMORI 10,000 rpm tachometer
    Bride 'Blitz' fixed bucket seat
    HPI racing harness
    Drycell battery relocation
    Custom wheel well fuel cell

    Wheels/tyres

    x10 Watanabe RS8 14x7 +1 offset
    x4 Volk Racing TE37 14x7 0 offset
    Project MU racing lug wheelnuts
    Bridgestone Potenza RE-11 and RE-01R tyres

    Suspension/Chassis

    Custom front coilovers with Tokico HTS102 inserts
    Tokico HTS102 rear absorbers
    Greddy rear spring height adjusters
    Cusco cambertops
    Custom NRCA 35mm
    Cusco front and rear swaybars
    Cusco castor rods and mount
    Cusco castor rod brace
    Rose-jointed tie-rod ends
    TEC-ART'S lower control arms
    HEY-MAN steering knuckles
    Rose-jointed 4 link
    Tune-agent rose-jointed panhard rod
    Custom panhard to body brace
    Custom traction brackets
    Nagisa-Auto shakkito plates
    ULTRA RACING crossmember to body brace
    ULTRA RACING fender brace
    ULTRA RACING rear tower brace (modified)
    Custom 10-point rollcage
    Full restoration and respray, full body seam welded

    Engine/drivetrain

    JDM T-50 gearbox
    Kouki T-series axle
    5.3 ratio
    AE92 based motor
    AE101 Silvertop quad throttles
    RS-CHITA upright manifold
    Powercraft N2 4-1 extractors
    TODA flywheel
    Stainless steel straight through exhaust system w/titanium cannon
    Wiseco forged pistons
    AE111 Crank
    AE111 rods
    304, 8.5mm lift Toda camshafts
    HKS adjustable cam gear pulley
    Lightened underdrive water pump pulley
    Lightened underdrive alternator pulley
    Oversized valves
    Ported and bench-flowed for maximum air flow “medium port” (larger than smallport, smaller than bigport) A LOT of work went into this!
    GZE injectors
    Individual LS1 coils
    TRUST 13-row oil cooler
    HALTECH E8 ECU
    Brake booster removal
    Koyo copper twin core radiator
    x2 Supercheap thermo fans
    TEC-ART'S engine mounts (20mm lower)








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    love this so much! one of my faves goin round.

    i want the extractors!

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    what power did you make again man?

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    155hp at the wheels... It's a crap one though, I have no response at all.. It's what you would call a laggy N/A atm.
    Everytime I give the throttle a stab to rev match, or even off throttle and back on, it dies and gives a empty puff of air, lame as.
    Working on some shit to get it running right.
    From the videos, you will hear that it's pretty lazy.

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    sounds like you should have gone turbo

    Taking this to the practise on the 30th?
    1983 AE86 ADM rust spec goodness track car build - end of the road
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    Interesting what you say about response. I am not really the one to know, but I recon the speed at which the engine returns to idle off throttle would be due to your light flywheel. Go back to a more standard flywheel if you want to retain some torque on and off throttle.

    If it dies with throttle imput, then that would be the accelerator pump settings in the ECU? Maybe.

    The cams are very big. You would expect low torque if setup for max power, which maybe a 100 / 100 setting. Try lobe centres closer to 110 or 105 for a more even torque spread. Just a guess.

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    Hey Johnny,

    It's definately not a flywheel issue, I think the amount of lightened flywheels with japs and their crazy motors, and the obvious response they are getting, that it shouldn't be the problem (crap theory I know), but the problem isn't it dropping in revs faster, but the fact that when I give the throttle a blip, it's as if the engine dies for a few seconds, and then gets going after I've held the throttle open for a bit.

    I think your right on the money with the accelerator pump settings, that's what I'm trying to play around with at the moment to get it running right. I believe this is what's causing all the issues.

    I will probably decide to play with lobe settings after I've sorted this out, so that I have a good base to know what to do, cause at this rate, I can't say whether or not I'm happy with it's midrange torque or high end etc, as it really hasn't given me much of a good impression all over the rev range. It's really crap to drive! Imagine not being able to rev match!

    I think the problem atm is that, being full TPS, it doesn't have another map for it to refer to once it's off throttle, I'm not a veteran at this either! Quite the n00b infact, but still learning what to do. Another thing I'm trying is to get some vaccuum to use a MAP sensor, but it's proving pretty difficult given the overlap on the large camshafts, should I be succesful it should aid in ease of tuning.
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    Bleh, turbo is for the weak, I'll sort this out and make sure it does circles around all you forced induction fools. HAHA

    Might do, I need to play around with this so that I can take it somewhere for a good tune, it's proving to be quite the challenge, will take it slow this time and not rush for events. No point going back out if it's not running 100%.

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    great work ken the cars an absolute marvel, hope you can sort your issues for a battle soon

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    Cheers man! I hope so as well, you'd think after all this time and money that you'd get a decent performer, but instead you have to sink more money and time to get it going right Looking forward to some twin action.

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