My Drift project - 83' Trueno coupe

[Spitfire]

Awesome car, I always had a thing for these beaten up drift cars. Hope you'll stick to the Trueno front, looks great just the way it is right now.

[doggy]

Shes ALIVE!!!

Started the engine today - and one thing that i NOTICED instantly - RPM's on the idle - 3500-3900 always Jumping Hmm... Either this means trouble - or means i have som stupidly agresive cams???




Its hard to hear anything - cuz the cars was running in huge hangar - so echo was all around + phone camera... But idle is crazy high

Another thing - my bodywork guy - did the hood for me Did it perfectly, all the metal edges are rolled, the the opening is in exact place as i wanted Will be good for my V-mount setup

[Allexz]

GOOOD GOING MAN!!!

[BOOMEX]

Great Work

[Gtsi-R]

hood 's looking good!!

[banpei]

Hood looks great!
Most idle problems with too high (jumping) idle can be traced back to coolant problems: either you don't have coolant in the radiator or your lines are clogged up.

[doggy]

banpei Wrote:Hood looks great!
Most idle problems with too high (jumping) idle can be traced back to coolant problems: either you don't have coolant in the radiator or your lines are clogged up.

Thanks for advice! Will check tomorow - but it seems that after radiator removal - coolant was refiled in it... so hmmm... anyway - will have to check to be 100% sure

[Ivan141]

Also remember that all 4AGE's run at high idle rpm while they are cold.

[doggy]

Finally - manage to write up update in English too (lol project write up has been going on one local Lithuanian site in my Lith language - and i could not force my self to write everything in english )

Well - everything moved A LOT in front these past days - and there is A LOT done to the car / engine

here goes:




First test drive RHD + me beeing 197cm / 105kg + japanese guy beeing smaller then me = extrem driving I could barly fit in it lol

Oh well - as im totaly F/I guy - and i always said that N/A is expensive way to go slow - this aint give me any good impresions I drove few Hachis before - and this one was fastest of all - but still - im not going to leave it N/A You can hear in this video the jumping RPM's that i had...

Atleast few things that i was worried where ok - Gearbox + Diff These are for sale if anyone need a good solid gearbox - and TRD rear diff + LSD

Well - the next day (as i left my Hachi at my friends garage - cuz my workshop is a bit busy as ussual ) my friend aint had much to do - so he started to take the engine out As my friend is RB26 guy - 4AGE compared to RB26 was piece of cake In 1 hour - he managed to have engine on the ground I was a bit shocked - cuz he was working alone





We took all the wiring out, and started to rip the motor into parts to see whats inside





Here goes the head





Going upside down - and lets see what we got here...




And here goes nothing... 1-2 rods bearings - almost ALMOST dead... well - basicly the problem was in the oilpump / oi pressure - and THANKS god i aint too the car for another test drive - cuz i would now need a new crank...






Works done
To take everything apart it took us around 1.30hour working we did this with my friend - so it was kinda fast



Took all the parts to my friend into machine shop - and we will see how it goes

[doggy]

After few days - got a call from Machine shop with some good news - that everything is still fit into Standart norms - and can be used without any problems this means Standart bearings on the crank, block just need some honing - and we will be done

While in a garage - we started on LHD conversion As far as i will not be using any header core, neither stock pedals - conversion will be SUPER EASY Actually - after looking and the firewalls - and seeing that they are almost identical - we just took one part from LHD firewall - and used it

Not much pictures from the process - cuz i forgot to take some







While resting in between the jobs - and took a good look around in my friends garage - and had a thought about maybe i should put one of these inside?



Oh - and here is why i can not work in my own garage




Thanks god both of these are gone to the customers right now And finally my garage is clean