Recent content by Ghazzah

Yep, see several replies ago "We simply used a red 2-pak on the bodies". Painted. Not sure about powder coating temps....hang on... ...To obtain the final solid, tough, abrasion resistant coating the powder coated items are placed in an oven and heated to temperatures that range from 160...

Just a simple chemical clean, not sure what they used, but nothing special and nothing harmful to seals etc. We didn't use too much heat, I think the spray booth was around its normal 60 degrees or so, your engine bay gets hotte than this. Do it.

We simply used a red 2-pak on the bodies, and while we did remove the butterflies, it would be possible to leave your butterflies in place, do some very careful masking, and get the bodies painted and baked in a heat box. Very difficult/impossible to remove those pesty little butterfly...

Good question. 1. Didn't think of it. 2. Other people are doing it. 3. Too easy. 4. I think they are a bit ugly. 5. Didn't think of it. ;-) G.

Wicked. Will look awesome when finished, Bro. My ITBs are just about finished. Working on laser cutting mounting brackets for the Summit fuel rails at present, but apart from that all set to go. The calculations for the throttle linkages were a nightmare, but got it sorted. Difficult to get...

4mpg. Yep. Achieved. Couldn't believe it myself so rechecked all figures twice. Remember that this is on a tight 3km race circuit with full-throttle around 75% of the lap (and several rather stupid long revlimit-bouncing smokin donuts in the pits. 750m back straight with indicated speed of...

Fuel economy has never been a consideration.... I have a 4:1 differential and a poor 5th gear ratio in the 'box, which gives AWESOME acceleration but places the revs at around 3500rpm at 100kmph... Best economy to date has been around 20mpg (Imperial gallons) on the open road at steady...

Microtech Man tells me to vent the MAP vacuum line to the engine bay and forget it. he states that 'When you move to TPS based mapping you won't believe the difference in response over MAP-based mapping. Anticipation.....

Thanks for the advice, Guys. Re-reading my Microtech manual for the 10th time in preparation. Gaz.

I've heard of people using electric vacuum pumps to feed the brake booster. Don't know much about these but they make sense. What ECU are you using? I'm using a Microtech LTX8 and we'll be swicthing to TPS when the time comes.

4mm o/d, not sure about i/d, prolly around 3mm. Supra master cylinder. Fabricating an ali vacuum chamber with x8 4mm o/d fittings and master cylinder fitting (changing to TPS from MAP when the ITBs go on so don't need a vac fitting for the Microtech). x8 vac feeds from the TBs. It will be...

Yep, they are Tony Miller's manifolds. Many many hours have gone in to get them into this state (port matching to 1UZ etc). http://www.a1turbos.co.nz/ 280USD? Fook, that is WAY expensive. I'll have a chat with my man and see if he is interested in producing you a set and get a quote. What...

Took a few more pics of the 4AGE ITB project (better quality than the last posting). Detail of the zero-backlash helix couplings after a spate of Emails asking about them. Goto www.tea.net.au products couplings helix couplings We made our own trumpets, fashioned up a former and squeezed...

...1/2 of 1 of 2 (confused?) adjustable scissor gear set and ...adjustable front cam-belt-driven gear (not shown). About to spend $1M+ on dyno services....about to try and mess with Toyota's immence R&D efforts and see if we can improve on it....go the Humble Kiwi Garage/ Shed/ Outhouse/...

Yup. Chocolate fish for the 1st person to identify the purpose of the custom gear sitting atop the stock scissor gears in the 4th pic. No prizes for the 5th. GazMan.