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Cheers... jondee86

I'd suggest that to take a step back and re-evaluate your budget versus what you hope to achieve. First you have to figure the cost of buying the car or shell that you want to build. See what is available in your area, and in what kind of cost/condition. A non-runner or unfinished project might be a...

Are you talking just getting a modern car with turbo already? Yes... all the cars I referred to are factory turbo, and there will be other USDM cars as well. A turbo upgrade and some larger injectors can produce good results, and all the necessary oil, water and air plumbing is already in place fro...

You could research 3SGTE into AE86 conversions, but that would be a crap load of work compared to just getting a 4AGZE engine, tossing the supercharger and fitting a turbo. Yoshi has all the info you need for the GZE conversion. I would prefer it over a 4AGE (bluetop/bigport) turbo conversion, as it...

OK... should have checked for updates before I clicked SUBMIT

You obviously have given the question more thought than your first post
indicated, so what I said is not for you. But it might be helpful to someone
else who is just starting out, so I'll leave it be.

Cheers... jondee86

I'm kinda new to the car scene and would like some input/advice on building my car. Hiya... as you know, this site is dedicated to the 4AG engine series, and in particular, the earlier AE86 and AW11 MR2 series cars. These are both great cars, but they do have a drawback in that they are now more th...

Basically, the engine temperature is controlled by the thermostat. The radiator just loses heat when the thermostat allows hot water to flow out of the engine and into the radiator (or more correctly, allows cool water to flow into the engine from the radiator). As the gauge temperature sensor is mo...

Looks like you have the basics well covered :) One of the other issues with older cars is that most have done big miles, and as a result a lot of the moving parts will be worn. These may become obvious once you start driving the car every day. For example... - factory rubber suspension bushings may ...

Drifting is one particular aspect of car control that has been isolated and developed into a niche sport. It is related to the 4-wheel drift that was once part of GP racing, and driver induced oversteer was the standard cornering technique for RWD rally cars. In both cases the "drift" was ...

Hiya... welcome to club4AG :) Just remember that your car is 25 years old, so don't beat on it too hard. Check that the fluids are good (brake, clutch, oil and water). The water should have a corrosion inhibitor added... if it is brown, drain and refill with distilled water and corrosion inhibitor/a...

I haven't done this conversion, but there is some pretty legit looking info in this thread... http://forums.club4ag.com/zerothread?id=35079 Pinouts can be found here... http://club4ag.com/technical_main.htm For the MAP sensor, you can tap/tee into any line that connects the the common vacuum rail. T...

Seems that only certain types of mice are liable to carry the virus. What animals can give people hantaviruses? Only some kinds of mice and rats can give people hantaviruses that can cause HPS. In North America, they are the deer mouse, the white-footed mouse, the rice rat, and the cotton rat. Howev...

Hiya... it will stay in your outbox until it is read by the recipient.
Then it will show in your sent items.

Cheers... jondee86

As said above, if you are running factory cams on a factory stock engine, you won't do any better than the factory cam timing. Toyota engineers went to a lot of trouble to find the best timing for the engine. If you start messing with the cam timing, chances are that the engine will not run as good ...

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The market sets the price, so your car is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it . It's a bargaining process... a lower asking price will generate more interest and should result is a faster sale. An asking price that is too high (even though you think the car is worth it) will get less views ...

Something for the I need moar POWAH!!! guys


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2ubrRYxcCBY

Cheers... jondee86

This.... ? http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee343/Boze_photo/IMG_0842.jpg http://forums.club4ag.com/zerothread?id=56536 Or this.... ? http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s218/munkey_bucket/mates%20cars/P1840_04-05-10.jpg http://www.toymods.org.au/forums/tech-conversions/28800-how-remove-4age-cranks...

And another one with detailed pics...
http://betwixtfantasyandreality.weebly.com/blog/ae86-front-strut-cartridge

Note that you don't have to take the hubs off the stub axles

Cheers... jondee86

Coolant gauge should be at cold when you first start the engine, and then move to somewhere around halfway (and stay there) when the engine is fully warmed up. If the gauge moves towards HOT while you are stuck in traffic, or drops towards cold when cruising at night (or when it is cool out), the th...

There is a good writeup here... http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/2009/07/02/jnc-wagon-tokico-shocks-install/ Not an AE86 but close enough :) Only comment I would add is that you might find it easier to crack the main spindle nut loose while the weight of the car is still on the strut. Don't move it m...

I think you need a registered copy to access that calculation from Megalog Viewer. But if I enter the log data into VirtualDyno I can obtain this graph which derives the torque and power curves. http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae328/jondee1/VD01-3rdGear-s_zps27ae53bd.jpg With level 1 smoothing ap...

For the benefit of our younger viewers (LOL always wanted to say that), the Triumph Spitfire is a rather stylish English sportscar... http://www.triumphexp.com/registry/pictures/89898/1973_Triumph_Spitfire_1500_Red_Tom_E_000.jpg Congratulations on keeping a piece of history alive :) Cheers... jondee86

Congratulations !!! Runs pretty good for a first start

Cheers... jondee86

Since dyno time costs a lot and log files are free, I have been looking at this graph, and trying to interpret what insight the red RPM line can offer. http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae328/jondee1/sample01_zpscd21ccbf.png This line graphs RPM against time. So if I remember correctly... dV/dt = a...

I actually set an iron block up in the milling machine and machined away the bores with the hope of fitting wet sleeves but there simply wasn't enough material left. In doing so I noticed the the bore wall thickness was incredibly thin in places. The new wet sleeves are just under 6mm thick and Dar...

While talking to the operator of a Dynapack hub dynomometer yesterday, he confirmed that the dyno measures torque and rpm at the hub/s. The runs are always done in 4th gear (1:1 ratio) and once the diff ratio is entered, the dyno outputs the wheel torque and wheel power graphs. http://www.dynapackus...

Pulsed IGt signal from ECU to igniter will likely be a 5V square wave. Pulsed IGf signal from igniter to ECU will likely be a 5V sawtooth wave. These signals will be of quite short duration and you may not be able to pick them up with DMM. You may need a LED "noid light" or similar. Howeve...

shagymc wrote:When I stopped the car after going through the gears, the
car started hunting from about 800-1500 RPMs.

Does it hunt cold and hot, or only when hot ? If it only hunts after
warming up, check your water temp sensor is connected and working.

Cheers... jondee86