Quote from: Gaz2405 on March  7, 2020, 20:49Well decision made on pistons, just picked some up on ebay wiesco 82mm 3k done on them for £210..that'll do donkey that'll doo!

Stock comp or 8:1?

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Quote from: Gaz2405 on March  7, 2020, 20:49Well decision made on pistons, just picked some up on ebay wiesco 82mm 3k done on them for £210..that'll do donkey that'll doo!

Stock comp or 8:1?

8.8:1

Great couple of hours out in the car today on dry roads, haven't had to touch the map for a while all seems spot on.

Pistons now here and cleaned up.

Suppose I'll have to pull my finger out and get an engine picked up soon.

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So the car has obviously not being getting much use during lock down!

Although the two days I've had to go into work, I've decided to take it instead of my company car as I have a two hour commute so was good to open her up on some quiet country roads.

I've picked up a block since my last installment too, so I'll start stripping that then send everything off to Future Motorsport for a short engine build.

Got bored yesterday so ended up playing around with a bumper cut.. And new exhaust exit. Not sure if I'ma fan yet.

Idea was that this would leave enough space for a rear diffuser.

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So after getting one of my spare engines pre lock down, after stripping it down it had a hair line crack on the bottom, it might have been fine but not worth risking it.

So I've got another one waiting for collection once all this is over.

I ordered one of the mishimoto copy radiators, after reading some reviews they seemed up to the job.

All seems very well made with neat welds, but the drivers side inlet is at a different angle to stock. I'd spotted it before ordering and was prepared to have to do a bit of hose juggling.

Went to fit it today, complete straight swap, apart from the final hose.

Try as I might couldn't get a decent fit on the hose, so I've ordered a few silicone bits and joiners to make it work, still plenty cheaper than mishimoto and perfectly adequate for what I need it for.

Hoses came this morning fron Ash, a 135°, a 90° and a joiner.

Got them on this evening after work, 10 minutes tops.

Quickly bled tha radiator back up, (I'd clamped the hoses and parked up hill on the drive)

So didn't need much bleeding.

Back in work tomorrow, so I'm goinf to take the car with me, 2 hour commute should give me chance to get the map dialed for cruising etc.

I'll try and get some pictures this weekend and upload, but definitely an alternative to mishimoto.

Quote from: Gaz2405 on January 18, 2020, 16:58Did some experimenting with losing the TTE back box today and using some 2.5" bends to create a cat back system to free up some flow.

It doesn't look pretty, but first test drive out it seems to do the job.

I'll probably test it on track before having a one piece system bent with no joints.

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First impressions of the size of of fake omp wheel was good as well, although it does create a blind spot at the businesses end of rev counter...

Where did you get the exhaust flange to mate upto the cat pipe ?

Quote from: Gaz2405 on January 18, 2020, 16:58First impressions of the size of of fake omp wheel was good as well, although it does create a blind spot at the businesses end of rev counter...

What a shame you are propogating such a dangerous and potentially life threatening counterfeit industry.

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Quote from: Gaz2405 on January 18, 2020, 16:58Did some experimenting with losing the TTE back box today and using some 2.5" bends to create a cat back system to free up some flow.

It doesn't look pretty, but first test drive out it seems to do the job.

I'll probably test it on track before having a one piece system bent with no joints.

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First impressions of the size of of fake omp wheel was good as well, although it does create a blind spot at the businesses end of rev counter...

Where did you get the exhaust flange to mate upto the cat pipe ?

A £20 ebay decat pipe for an astra vxr.

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Quote from: Gaz2405 on January 18, 2020, 16:58First impressions of the size of of fake omp wheel was good as well, although it does create a blind spot at the businesses end of rev counter...

What a shame you are propogating such a dangerous and potentially life threatening counterfeit industry.

Pretty sure I've said in my thread afterwards that I've replaced it with a motamec one from rally nuts, and said I'd bought it just to check size and replace with real deal if required.

But thanks for getting on your high horse, much appreciated. 👍

Commute didn't go as planned, radiator wasn't bled up properly so temp gauge was off the chart within a mile or two. So limped back home and took the Ford Ranger instead.

Got the coolant fully bled, yesterday night and test run to the shops this evening proved everything working correctly.

I'd been having some problems with the powder coating on my roll cage for a while, it had started to crack and peel/shatter.

Bought it second hand so can't go back to the vendor.

So after tonight's run I whipped the roll cage out and started stripping the powder coating off.

Deciding on colour for new paint, thinking about going for a textured matt black to keep it stealth.

Couple of pictures at the start of stripping.

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Roll cage is now back in after a coat of whatever paint I had laying around in the garage luckily it was some high temp matte black style paint. So looks fitting with the rest of the car.


Bored in bed last night and browsing ebay I hit the button on a few items.


Frunk and bonnet gas strut kit.


Spare set of yellow stuff pds front and back.


Yaris front wishbones.


Piece of T45 tube to make a harness bar that mounts to the original seat belt mounts, undecided still might make it part of the cage.


I think I may have a misfire on one cylinder, I've got a spare set of coils so I'll switch them out at some point tonight see if it helps.


Noticed while under the car the other day that one of the M6 bolts that holds the cross brace on had had the top of it knocked off, luckily I could get to it quite easy to replace.

I've had some slight water ingress, since deleting the softop, its coming in from the step in the seal on the B pillar.

When its dry I'll just get some clear silicone in there for peice of mind.

Quote from: Gaz2405 on April 30, 2020, 09:17Roll cage is now back in after a coat of whatever paint I had laying around in the garage luckily it was some high temp matte black style paint. So looks fitting with the rest of the car.


Bored in bed last night and browsing ebay I hit the button on a few items.


Frunk and bonnet gas strut kit.


Spare set of yellow stuff pds front and back.


Yaris front wishbones.


Piece of T45 tube to make a harness bar that mounts to the original seat belt mounts, undecided still might make it part of the cage.


I think I may have a misfire on one cylinder, I've got a spare set of coils so I'll switch them out at some point tonight see if it helps.


Noticed while under the car the other day that one of the M6 bolts that holds the cross brace on had had the top of it knocked off, luckily I could get to it quite easy to replace.

I've had some slight water ingress, since deleting the softop, its coming in from the step in the seal on the B pillar.

When its dry I'll just get some clear silicone in there for peice of mind.

Can you tell me what wishbones you ordered please what year Yaris as my build needs a set to thanks

Bought these ones.... But haven't fitted then yet. A



https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233274751503

Summer wheels swapped on today, with R888r rubber.

Hopefully booking onto Blyton end of the month as they say they're opening.

There's a few of us booking on, a track prepped 911, £80k mk2 Escort, track prepped M3 and a 172 an ecleptic line up!

Quick little job today.

Fitted hydraulic lifters/rams to the boot and bonnet.

Has to roll the rear arches a little more today as the R888r's are a little meatier than the ns2r's.

Note I'm also running spacers front and rear for a slightly wider track. (a marmite thing I know!)

I've pressed the button of a couple of different sets of fender flares to have a play about with.

Also got my side scoops done in satin black today, still on the look out for a ducktail to go with them.

Do dome may have seen the Facebook group that I've had a play around with some arch extensions.

I don't think I'm going to go ahead with them.

I've asked Dick to let me know when he gets some sable rear quarters in and I'll swap out my spacers and put standard non rolled arches back in.

I've also added a small red turbo badge to the rear grille to act as bait/trolling on track.

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Fitted my eBay bargain tonight 

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Congratulations!!!!

Would look better on mine though  ;-)

Managed to get an hour on the car this morning.

The shut lines weren't quite perfect on the carbon bonnet, so after some elongated holes in the bumper mounts and apply gently pressure to form the bonnet down near the headlights. We were sorted a much better fit.

This afternoon I sat with the laptop in the kitchen playing with one of my maps offline.

I was getting close to the load limit of the current map to so needed to rescale it.

Map rescaled, I headed out in the car I was going to drive to my mapping road load up the new map and see how it went.

The car however had other plans, I wasn't getting boost, max I was getting was 5psi.

'i must have a boost leak I thought'

Back home and all chargecooler pipes off and refitted.

Back out again, no boost.... Hmmm.

Took the air feed pipe off, and churbo is still spinning freely.....


Then I spotted it, somehow (go knows how) the actuator had slackened off.

Tightened up and out we go!

Wow wow, wow, too much boost 15psi from nearly the get go.

I slackened it off half a turn, and it was perfect at 12.5psi.

So two hours later I finally get out in the car, load my new rescaled map a few timing tweaks.

Logged a 4-5 runs all the way to third and AFR's are much more stable than before.

Spent some time on the drive back tweaking the cruising map and pottering around town  fuelling.

A few updated photo's from last night's drive.

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Car is performing well at the moment and I'm pretty happy with it.

Although always wanting more!

Blyton booked for 12th July.

Started collecting parts for the fuel system for when the engine is built now.

Sticking to my keeping it cheap and nasty gone for the stuff from ebay!!

After going through pages of reviews of Fpr regs and pumps, I've plumbed for a £35 jobby along with a kemso 340lph fuel pump.

Along with modifying my spare fuel rail to make a return system.

Potentially building two engines up, one sleeved with 82.5mm pistons and rods and one with 79.5mm with just pistons and rods done.

Anyone know the limits to an un sleeved block, with rods and pistons done?

Quote from: Gaz2405 on June 29, 2020, 21:00Anyone know the limits to an un sleeved block, with rods and pistons done?

Ive had a search on this but not been able to find the info so guessing once rods are done the rest holds together pretty well despite being open deck, i think a lot of time its belt and braces prevention when sleeving etc so people building for big numbers just do it and dont find the limit of stock block, its certainly not common that ive seen on net.

The following thread i was hoping would yeild a result but sounds like rod/crank/oiling issue where his cause of failure at just over 300 usa hp on totally stock internals with turbo - https://www.spyderchat.com/threads/report-1zz-block-limits.8229/

Ah bollocks, out in the car tonight getting to grips with R888r's in the wet.

Everything ok, apart from I've got a slightly sticky NSR caliper, with Blyton booked for Sunday, it might be a rush job on Saturday a quick strip and rebuild. Hopefully its just the slider that's become stuck after sitting ont h drive with the hand brake on.