Trevstar

4 hours ago, Bean said:

not worth half what hes after for it.

The guy says he's sold bare engines for £650, well I bought one back in 2016 for £250 (that I regrettably sold the bottom end) but I seriously doubt prices have crept up that high since then. 

Maybe someone desperate with more money than sense would buy it, but I'm not that guy and hopefully no one else from this forum is either

2 hours ago, Gainzy said:

Bought stuff off this guy before he is all for himself wasn't happy with what I got.

I'm not surprised! I honestly thought about messaging saying 'lol good luck with that', everything he's selling is just mental,

All I need is the FHE rods, and a 5E block and crank, someone somewhere must just have them laying around and forgotten about

Yeah I realised once I saw them, I wonder too, chances are that the block was previously boosted and bent one of the rods. Only reason I can think of why there's only 3 pistons & rods and a block 🤷🏼‍♂️

I get how rare they are but I just do not get why some people then feel that gives them the right to add 275-500% of 'JDM rarity tax' on top of its actual worth. There's taking the piss and then there's that. 

I will keep looking though as I'm determined to see this build/project through, one will turn up for a reasonable price at eventually at some point! 😁

I've been looking for a 5EFHE lately and I have been searching and searching. Then I came across this complete 5efhe and auto box:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/202998728717

I know these are rare as fuck now but really? So unless this is an ultra rare 500hp engine that he has forgot to mention, I think I will give it a pass... 

Seller is also selling 3 5efhe rods and pistons for £45 EACH! Didn't realise there was a 3 cylinder version 5e 🤔

Or am I missing something? 

Found, please lock/delete

Thanks! 

Right of course, just getting back into the swing of things, thanks mate 

Ohhhh okay right I see, it wasn't so much as a group buy though, not wanting anyones money, it was just to see what kind of interest there was for them so that I could have them made up to make them available to others. 

But no worries, cheers for cleaning that up for me. Is it because of this that I now can't post in the for sales section? 

Thanks,

Trev

I've been trying to post a topic to gauge interest to have some 5efhe cams reproduced, but a few hours after I post it, it disappears? 

I also cannot seem to start a new post in the market place either? 

Tried to message socks but he hasn't been on to read it lately 

You still got any of these? 

3 hours ago, Sam44 said:

Good to see your back. I hope you and family have been well. 

Can't wait to see any and all progress on this ep, I'd be interested in the cams. 

Do you know the lift and duration I can't find much info on them at all. 

Cheers mate, the same to you! 👍

The 5efhe cams have a 8.5% increased lift on the inlet and a 4% increase on the exhaust, theres a good post here you could check out HERE

As for the durations im not too sure, although I believe they are slightly less than the 4E cams

Right then, here we are, 2020! After a long absence the time is soon approaching to get back to it, the project wasn't forgotten or abandoned! 

I hope all of you are doing well and have been able to swerve the virus! As some of you will know the car has been very kindly looked after by Pikey009 (the previous owner), but it will be soon returned to continue with its improvements!

A couple of changes have been decided on after Jase convinced me to go full hog and go 5E, since I'm putting all this effort into an N/A. I'd like to find another 5EFHE if I can bloody find another one! Anyone got any 5EFHE rods at least? 

Also decided that I am going to get some new valves, get a 3 angle valve job done, reshim (again) and make a slight modification in the inlet porting on the 5efhe head. Will make some modifications to the intake manifold, and I still got to finish the gearbox lol

I have also been considering having a look into having some parts reproduced/made up or making to sell such as the 5efhe cams, an adjustable short shifter, N/A headlight covers, and possibly an N/A exhaust manifold 

Any thoughts? 

Sorry to hear about your smash

Sadly starlets are very structurally weak so sadly it won't be returning to the road which is sad. But you shouldn't have much problem finding a new one to swap everything over to

Insurance companies are mostly arseholes by nature, happy to take your money but will do their best to wiggle out of paying for anything and they will long it out as long as they can, but you have dashcam footage which should be indisputable. I hope someone more knowledgeable can chime in. 

The police themselves won't do much, so I wouldn't expect much from them unfortunately but I won't comment any further about the police... 

It is sad what you have gone through with your beloved and your injuries. But unfortunately with today's unjust world I doubt anything will materialize from the insurance or police. If anything does its a bonus. It's very upsetting to have someone destroy something you love and get away with it (and I wish them nothing but the worst, especially for not even checking if your ok) but try not to dwell on it too much.

The starlets journey may be over, but yours isn't. I wish you a speedy recovery mate 

She's beautiful! 

This will be resumed sometime next year while pikey009 is kindly looking after the beauty for a bit, and when it does things will get interesting! thanks guys for your patience 

Cheers mate! 

Paseo dials finally sold - Boot tray left to be sold!

@maddox710 Thanks mate, appreciate it, look forward to getting back on with things at the pace I was going at before, hopefully just after christmas

Breakers yard is your best bet

Get pics up ASAP!! 

29/11/17

Again not much has been going on lately, just slowly making progress, but should pick up again after Christmas.

However I have bought myself a TRD fuel cap 

And a few weeks ago I was thinking about my gearbox, if I didn't happen to reach my target bhp then I can imagine an N/A with a turbo gearbox would be a bit sluggish and lose acceleration, but you'd get more speed, what to do?

Answer, increase the final drive gear ratio

I checked the final drive of the glanza gearbox (which is 3.722), and a TRD final drive was out the question because it was too expensive and too high final drive, so started checking gearboxes with interchangeable parts, and as some of you already know, the Toyota Levin shares a number of things, and the gearbox internals is one of them

The later AE111 Levins use a C56 gearbox with a final drive ratio of 4.312 which should bump up the acceleration nicely even for a turbo'd starlet

So £200 odd later:

A lot has been spent in this gearbox now, so much so I probably can't really justify to the Mrs but I want it to last, and while it's apart I want to get it right, because I don't want to have to take it out again once it's finally in

Next thing I've been up too was preparing something that will be required in future, a good old Greddy Emanage Ultimate

I have actually spent a lot of time on this figuring out where what wires go where since there isn't a diagram for 4E-FE

so thought I'd finally give it a try (also had to buy myself a old laptop with Windows XP on it specifically to use the software), test fitted it and the car started up, revs, ignition cut works for the launch control and everything appears to be registering and working! Only thing I have noticed is that the car idles higher than usual when the Emanage is plugged in and I'm not sure why, but I'm going to leave this for a later stage.

For the turbo models you can get a plug and play field harness, but not for the N/A's. I considered permanently soldering everything in place, but I was thinking what if I needed to remove the Emanage from the equation and just run the oem ecu for whatever reason like if the Emanage failed while I was out and about for example. So instead I adapted the wiring harness for the Emanage and the original ECU so it could be removed

Next thing I did might be a bit marmite for some people but I'm actually really chuffed about it, a shift indicator!

I figured as the Emanage has an auxiliary output that you can activate at certain RPM, I thought this would be perfect to use to activate the light and was inspired by how the subaru's have a little LED in the rev counter to indicate gear change

So I bought a little LED, filed it flat with the holder and drilled a hole for it and this is what I ended up with

Just subtle enough to pass as oem to the unknowing, sorted out the wiring, nice and tidy and this is the end result

It's not so in your face but is bright enough to grab your attention

Next thing I need to do is modify the Emanage so that I can make it work with my little mode switch I want to install that I bought a while ago, instead of using the dip switch on the front panel of the Emanage, and strip the Levin box, steal the output shaft, and put my box back together

Thanks mate! Was nice chatting with you too, hope to meet up at some stage in the future 

Totally worth it, these should sell easy!

Just the optional boot tray and the Paseo dials left to go!

Lol can't believe it's taken this Long to sell these bits 

Paseo dials, boot tray and '98 spec rear lights still available!

No problem mate! Cheers