True.
True.
I might update this thread soon.
Long time, no see. How you getting on?
Aye has been a while.
Getting on with the car, making pretty good progress at the minute; in life generally Ok too.
I'll try to get some piccies uploaded tomorrow.
Recently had the engine bay painted, now putting stuff back into it.
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Pics of some of the engine shiny bits.
Pics of bellhousing to allow Toyota R154 to mate to the 4G63, and the gearbox mount.
Produced by a cool dude in the US, Bill Hincher whose help has been invaluable. He's done some great things to allow random gearboxes mount to various blocks, and a lot of work making the 4G63 work in a RWD config generally.
The project has been rumbling on for a few years on and off, hopefully it'll get finished* with one last push.
*finished meaning on the road in this sense, a project is never finished...
Dash...
Prop...
Engine mounts...
Ok, going to try to keep this updated and in some sort of logical order now.
First up a sort of timelapse of stuff going back in to this point.
The intercooler piping on the cold side has been a bit of a concern as there's so little room. The pipe does have a tight bend in it (135deg), but the good news is that it's only 10" from the outlet of the intercooler to throttle body.
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Fitted some GTR rear brakes.
The next biggish step was to get the box in so final positioning of everything could be established before any intercooler, coolant and exhaust pipework is made.
Stainless Steve has been instrumental in getting a lot of this done, and we spent another long day at Stef's place this week ad achieved a fair amount.
I love this shot, has something about it that make it look cool.
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None of this ever happened, you just swiped those pics off the internet...
We made a brake line, not very exciting but was a bit awkward to get the bend radius tight enough to miss the plenum but without flattening or kinking the pipe.
The sump is a project in it's own right, here's where it's at now.
It ay not look exciting, but it's a lot of work. Steve hates it, but he's going a sterling job.
I didn't want the bottom of the bowl below the crossmember, so it's been shallowed a bit and a wing added to compensate.
It's also been modified so the back of the bowl clears the crossmember.
The plan is to baffle it in a way such that surge is avoided, first step is to make a top plate, this will be set at a height to just clear the crank & bigends.
I promise it'll look more interesting that this soon.
Finally a full frontal, albeit on the piss a bit due to having one odd wheel with a flat tyre on it.
The intercooler is going behind the slam panel etc because the Silvia front end is so shallow it won't fit without major butchery; putting it behind the slam panel allows us to make some half decent ducting; and I think the flow will be better through the IC where it is.
Actually that's reasonably true, I keep forgetting to take pictures so don't have many; fortunately Steve takes loads and I'm robbing them from his facebook page.Originally Posted by Actual_Ben_Taylor
None of this ever happened, you just swiped those pics off the internet...
Quality car porn. That is all
p.s. That is the "right" place to put the intercooler IMO. Short pipework and still with ready access to a fresh cold airstream.
Thanks Jonny, I'd class it as dirty amateur car porn.
Here's a dirty home video, of the geeky sort, from when I was originally trying to get the DBW working; I've since done a better job of the calibration and am now using a Syvecs I/O expander with a full bridge driver to control the throttle body motor, rather than a half bridge driver module shown in the video.
Top build - looks like a huge amount of work!
I keep coming back to this thread just to look at the paintwork in the bay. One day soon I hope my bay will look that goodVery jealous.
Cheers Jez.
Jonny, it's easy, you take all the gubbins out, wheel it to a body shop and leave it there for a while.
While they paint it you clean aforementioned gubbins.
Wheel it back after paint and screw it all back together.
Having another day on it on Friday to get some odds and sods done, will try to remember to take some piccies as I go.
Spent a few hours on the car today, had a few little but reasonably time consuming jobs to do, I mainly didn't take any pics.
Fitted some rear brake hoses, took the covers off my bucket seats to give them a wash, fiddled with the loom a bit then spent about 2 hours just looking as stuff working out how it might work.
The gear lever is ok, but a little high and a bit forward; I reckon can get stock positioning and work with all the stock gaiters etc with a bit of cutting and shutting.
Have been trying to work out where and how to mount the ECU and I/O expander.
I'm fitting a Toyota MRS Roadster electric PAS unit, so was looking how I could mount that in the N/S wing.
Took a few bits off so I can clean them up and paint them.
The pics I did take were of the throttle body which has been modified to make the hose seat diameter 90mm, it was 86mm before and that's not a std silicon hose size. So the TB casting was machined round, then a sleeve with a bead/swage made and sweated on. Even if there was an 86mm hose, the original bead on he casting only went about 250 degrees around the circumference, which would never hold 2.5 bar boost.
I fitted the clutch line, took pics of that because it looks nice.
Then my brakes arrived a few weeks earlier than expected, 356mm. I might go and try them on in the morning.
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