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LED's look great and the voltage readout on the charger has to be the easiest way to get a volt gauge installed! Don't forget that editing old posts doesn't move the thread up the list so we don't know you've been updating 😉 Looking more modern every time

Good stuff. Welcome back

Thanks mate, Saw your bracket and its nearly there, just needs the humps tapping in to it and a bit of reinforcement at the fold at the bottom. You've done the hard work. Congrats on getting the gt driving, she's looking like a great project.

Thanks mate

Fitting to engine bay. Needed to drill the mounting holes to attach the bracket. So constructed this contraption to add a bit of necessary peril to the proceedings . The holes need to be very close up behind the headlamp so the body of the drill was too large to locate with a regular bit. The bonus of using a step drill is it only penetrates the metal by the depth of the step rather than getting pulled in all the way like a regular bit does. 2 very wobbly hole drillings later...... Fastened down with sheet metal screws, clipped bottle on. Fits well, the mounting holes are

Time to make the bracket. Started with a piece of scrap alu that was already folded to an L shape. Correct thickness to fit into the pocket on the back of the bottle. Tin snipped, linished and filed to shape. The bottle has 2 rectangular pockets moulded into it to clip onto the bracket. Using a trusty old blunt screwdriver I formed two humps in the plate for this purpose. First on a soft surface and made them deeper by opening the jaws of the vice and tapping the features deeper in the vice gap. Drilled holes for lightness and swaged them for strength. Tes

Glanza coolant overflow bottle bracket. Need to relocate the current overflow bottle to the passenger side of the engine bay to free up room for air filters etc. So bought a glanza overflow bottle (they never seem to be advertised with the bracket!) which locates there. First job was to move the battery back, the starlet tray has 2 positions available (A / B ) the posts on the underside of the plastic tray locate in the holes. When using the rear position the drivers side hook has to locate in the rear location to clamp at the correct angle.

I'm trying to figure out the smallest size intercooler I can get away with for my sleeper build. I've got a copy of Corky bell's book and Jeff Hartmans book. Using their method of calculating gives similar results (the hartman book has 2 different equations however which yield different results!?). They also don't specify the length the tubes need to be without some serious thermodynamic calculations to work out the heat removal which needs alot of parameters I can't get without a laboratory. I've done a fair amount of googling which comes up with several different methods of calcula

That's the plan. Seemed to match the smaller turbo / quicker spool characteristics of the ct9 with short runner exhaust manifold. Prefer to rev a petrol engine for power rather than low down torque and breathless top end (great for a daily though).

Thanks mate.

4efte inlet manifold throttle body plate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnosFMkKSOk The throttle body mounting surface of the 4efte and 4efe / corolla manifold differ in shape to correspond to the shape of the throttle body. So to fit a 4efe throttle body to a fte manifold requires an adapter plate making. Essentially it is the same outer size as the gasket with holes as required. Linished to 81mm square, I drew round the gasket for the lower edge detail and linished the corner features and also rounded the edges to approx. 3mm. Mounting holes drilled to 8.5mm

No problem . Sounds like a good build, feel free to start a thread in the owners progress section.

As far as I can research, the bearing shells are thinner at the parting line (where you are measuring) and should be measured at 90 degrees to the parting line with a ball anvil in the micrometer to get their true thickness. I also thought that oil clearances are measured by installing the bearing shells in the main journals and caps, adding the caps and torqueing them down. Then measuring the the central bore with a bore gauge at 90 degrees to the parting line? This gives the size of the bore with bearing installed to check against the crank main journal size to check the oil clearance?

Looking good. 😎

Don't know the car, but glad to hear you found one. Don't forget to start a build thread to show of your new toy.

Taken from 96/97 European EP91 Toyota Electrical Manual. Speakers: RR+ = Red, RR- = white, RL+ = Black, RL- = Yellow. FR+ = Light green, FR- = blue, FL+ = Pink, FL- = Violet. Power: Constant 12v = blue with yellow stripe, acc 12v = grey, gnd = brown. Constant 12v from 10A Dome fuse (engine bay fuse box), acc 12v from 15A Rad & cig fuse (fuse box under steering column). *Can't find reference to the dark green wire though?

I added more baffles...... Treated myself to a new toy for the workshop. It's the generic Chinese disc / belt sander combo that is for sale under many different brands. Deffo not industrial strength but more than capable for hobby level machining. 370w motor, 150mm disc and 100mm wide belt with a usable 100 x 300mm area. (tilts too). Will be a great replacement for the man powered files I've been using for the past 20 odd years! So with the new capabilities bolted to the bench and the Claymore industries patented dangle poise lamp temporarily installed, I set about making some

Sounds complicated and expensive. Stick with the original plan in my opinion. Please remember this is a starlet forum, people here have helped the best they can and spent lots of time guiding you (and on the other forum as well). Its your choice and your money, but starting again seems like all the previous 8 pages of this thread are now a waste of time? We all have these fantasy moments but please, remember your budget, time allowance and fabrication skills. The 4efte corolla 2wd will be awesome anyway. Keep it simple mate.

Now that's a turbo! Should spool well with the smaller back housing. What size is it HX?? Great fabrication /machining as always.

Not too difficult. Just don't scratch the crankshaft, oil pump or sealing collar or it will leak oil. The front seal comes off with the oil pump when you change the pump so is easy to install after the new pump is on. There are special tools to remove crankshaft / camshaft seals with the shaft still in place. Much easier / cleaner and safer than the old "sheet metal screw and pull technique"

Any time

Glad to see you got the 5e mate. Looking forward to the updates. Top class build

Great to hear mate, looking forward to the updates

Most of the "official" workshop manuals say to take the valve cover off. But most of the guides I've seen on the forums / internet the cover stays on and you only need to work from the side. With the 4e-fte out of the car on an engine stand it will be very easy to change compared to when it is installed in the engine bay. Don't forget to change water pump and most likely oil pump as well as the crank seals etc.... You might want to check under the valve cover anyway when you get the engine, you can check the shim clearances to the cams and also check that the camshaft lobes aren't ch

Catch can baffle As the can was completely devoid of any baffling I decided to separate the can in half with a central divider baffle, with some lower horizontal baffles. Didn't fancy using stainless scourers (too much chance of shrapnel) and as the flow through the can will have to change direction it needs to be able to flow both ways. Also needs to produce as little pressure drop along the way as possible. Off boost, clean air is drawn from the intake pipe pre turbo, through the can and into the the crankcase and onto the intake manifold; on boost the PCV shuts and crankcase vapou