my toy, old toy new setup

[Grega]

its overwhelming how overpriced some exhaust places can be isn't it...

[ian]

great stuff
what bellhousing /clutch setup did you use ?
as i am getting all the bits together for my 1uz ra 28 conv
cheers
ian

[rob]

this engine gives me a fat chubb i cannot get rid of

[Draven]

I'm feeling your pleasure Rob



*fondle*

[mr2drift]

the bellhousing and flywheel setup are from the guys at A1 turbo in NZ as well. bell was a very nice piece of kit, and the flywheel was a work of art. is all custom made and available off the shelf from them, and uses a 3sgte mr2 clutch setup. any mr2 clutch and pressure plate you like can go on, i went with a standard full face plate with high torque pressure plate.

works very well..

[pisso001]

Sounds nice.. What you got for engine management?

[mr2drift]

car runs an adaptronic ecu, installed and tuned by ant and the guys at kaizen garage in brisbane. was a work of art , first crank it fired and ran. all we have to do is properly balance the 8 butterflys with a vac guage thing, there are close, but when we had to get it done in a hurry, we simply ran outta time..

[shaggin_wagon]

just subscribing. that thing looks damn horn!!!

[pisso001]

Sweet.. How much did it cost for the Wiring and tuning of the ECU?

[mr2drift]

cough cough, well, it was kinda a favour that was returned and owed and well long story. friends helped as much as possible.. they have put these computers on almost any car, ant has one running his beams 3sge with BOTH constantly variable cams, and he also recently put one into a very luxurious looking late model mercedes benz as the other option for the owner was a VERY costly factory replacement ecu... there seems to be no application thet he cant do..

[mr2drift]

ok so once the engine and box were mounted a few other issues were glaring us in the face....

first up, actually we sorted this before we did the engine mounts, but anyways, was the fact that the stock steering rack setup was simply in the wroung place, as it ran right in front of an exhaust port....



that pic was taken early on, but you can get the idea. the actual position of the rack was fine, but the knuckle and shaft ran right across in front of the exhaust port...

we tried various soloutions for this, including using a rack from a rt141 ? corona, as it was 40mm longer and was thought to space the rack far enough away so the exhaust would clear.. this did in fact work, but then the shaft was smack bang in the center of the gap between the motor and the rail, and the headers would then be a nightmare. back to square 1........

after sitting looking at the problem some more, the soloution was so simple, yet so strange it had not come to me previously.

unfortunately i dodnt have pics of this conversion, so all i can do is explain it the best i can..

a standard rack has a locator rubber at both ends, on the passenger side its a rubber that has stoppers on the rack that prevent the rack moving left to right, on the drivers end where the output shaft is? ( maybe its called input shaft) it has a rubber stopper that in fact has a flat bottom on it, this prevents the rack rotating forwards and back..

seeing as we really only had to move the shaft about 2-3 inches back to clear the exhaust port, i grabbed a spare old rack from in the shed and did some experimenting...

i ground the square section of alloy back to perfectly round, so the rack effectively had no forward and reverse stopper. then mounting it in place and TWISTED it backwards approximately 45 degrees. this in turn moved the output shaft away from the port. instead of the steering colomn coming in and the universal taking a 45 degree bend as stock, it now basically come straight into the rack.

this gave me the 2-3 inches clearance i needed.

we then simply mounted the rack as per normal, and to stop it twisting forward and back, welded a piece of steel between the body of the rack and the engine crossmember, effectively solid mounting the rack.

this kept the shaft nice and close to the motor and gave us maximum clearance for the exhaust, and also keeps the standard sprinter steering geometry, without having to substitute other parts into the car...

in this pic, which actually shows the 4-1 collector dummied in place when we were starting the extractors, you can see the steering shaft goes virtually straight into the rack, yet leaves enough room for the exhaust... just....



next time round, the exhaust...

[MR 1JZ]

love your work joshy...I expect a ride in it when im up for stadium drift this year haha

[mr2drift]

guess i'll have to install that passenger seat matty... hehehehehe

[MR 1JZ]

good boy...and if it sounds as good as it looks you better scotch guard the crotch/ass area...becuase there is a good chance ill seminate my pantaloons

[mr2drift]

lol weirdo!....heheheheh it does soun d good, if a little outta place...