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I've not visited here for over 2 years!!!! The news of Pete's passing on Facebook brought me pack, that was the power of Big Pete. Such a great bloke and a sad loss to society. RIP Big Guy. Thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and of course his work colleagues he loved and often spoke about in high regard, and who I'm sure will all miss him greatly.

disturbing, but thanks... I think I gave Daniboy a hand to do the swap on his rolla. He did the knock sensor side of things, so will have to check with him what he did. I've been thinking about running the older sensor also, I've got it, just need to wire it in. you just snip the plug off the two wires you have there and only connect the black wire the other wire just tape it up in the loom not connected to anything, it can stay there incase for some reason later down the track you need another wire there, a couple of helpfull threads....just remembering celica pinouts are slightly different also. but my wire was black.......:) http://www.newcelica.org/forums/showthread.php?t=118117 http://www.newcelica.org/forums/showthread.php?t=205701 cheers guys, that's awesome, will take a look tomorrow and hopefully get the engine loom all connected again.

you guys? Oh how I wish there were more than one of me at times....

just purchased oil filter sandwich plate and fittings to connect the oil cooler and an oil catch can going over the diagrams last night I worked out the routing for the cooling system and heater core and teh fuel lines, though still trying to work out a swap from the AW11 charcoal canister to the newer Corolla one. Anyone know off the top of their head the flow direction through the filter so I can route the cooler in the right direction? Also need to know the drection of flow through the AW11 heater core... or is this unimportant and can flow both ways? ... now to sus out the wiring... I need to change the knock sensor from the later model 2ZZ type to the early model one used in the Celica for it to be compatible with the Apexi. The late model one has 2 wires where as the early model one has one wire... need to determine with wire from the late model sensor to connect the early model sensor to...

not tight at all, there's heaps of space. The only tight section was for the headers and with the redesign that's been sorted easy, there is oodles of room in there now. remember that I don't need to fit a radiator in there ;)

with the mounts made up... engine is back in the engine bay, hopefuly for a more extended period this time. It's still not sitting on the front torque mount the way I want but I'll play with the mounts tomorrow to balance it all up a bit better. Clearance around the headers is brilliant. I can fit my hand all the way around it though I will need to be tricky with connecting the exhaust as it looks like the suspension arm mount will get in the way. So I will need some shielding there to protect the bushings. Pics as always You can see my mount adapter plate in the top right corner Also note the ZZW30 spec (MWR version) side mounted oil level

if you want to stick with the stock cams I still have my set here.

you don't need a wind tunnel or CFD, you can test vortex generators by doing some old school thread tuft testing.

Join Toymods Car Club. http://www.toymods.org.au They are a NSW registered and incorporated car club and recognised by the RTA as a Toyota enthusient club. You'll have much better chance dealing with the RTA then... as for your 'anyone, any car' crap in your last post. If a car is over 15 years old they are not automatically placed on the register... I'd also equire down this path as, depending on when the 1st registration of your car was, it would also be close to 15 years.

Mid engine shifter linkage system installed. still need to get some custom cables made up but much more tidy solution to running the cables all the way around the engine bay.

without knowing your personal situation it's hard to give suggestions, but years ago when I sold my sportivo and bought the MR2 for cash I cleared all my depts and never looked back. We also rent, though we have no kids, but expecting our first in a few weeks. It comes down to dicipline. We both work full time (at least we did until recently) and with a bit of dicipline we managed to live off of one income and save the other into a high interest account, both of us are on 'average' incomes bringing home approx $1000 a week. We have been doing this for about 3 years. Last year we bought our X-Trail (second hand 2005 model) for $16,000 cash and it hardly put a dent on our savings.

... which in turn was loosely modeled on an audi...

the difference is the interest you pay... at the end of the day a loan costs you about half the purchase value of the car again in loan costs. New cars are great on a hire-purchase or lease arrangement if you can.

You need to add teh Lotus Exige with 2GR-FZE into this as well :D http://www.autoblog.com/2011/09/13/2012-lotus-exige-s-frankfurt-2011/ and the Lotus WRC Tarmac Special Rally car.... http://www.autoblog.com/2011/09/13/lotus-exige-r-gt-rally-frankfurt-2011/

the best finance is CASH... having a loan on a depreciating asset is stupid. I learnt that the hard way. adding to this, don't EVER finance through GE Money... EVER

bad news... shifter linkage components I need to convert the 6 speed box to MR2 spec will take about 3 more weeks. 2 parts Amayama can't get until the 30th Sept. Why did Toyota have to only sell sequential box ZZW30s in Australia :( would have been so much easier to scrounge bits from a wrecker. no way this thing is going to be done before the baby :( in brighter news, it gives me more time to get the mount sorted. I might buy some off-cut bits from EZI metal tomorrow and do some playing with power tools on the weekend. Fabricators want to charge an arm and a leg for doing the simplest things it seems. Should make a start on the wiring as well. ... and the drive shafts... ... and installing the solid mounts and replacing the rear bushings... ... and removing the rest fo the aircon stuffs and installing the battery relocation and isolator... ... and sorting out the intake route, though a temporary setup can be made easy enough, but in the longrun I will re-route the intake to the boot space. ... and get the flange welded to the temporary exhaust to bolt up. ... that should just about do it... ... except for getting the cage welded, and the harnesses installed. Bolts and mounting plates are on their way for the harnesses so can be running those without the cage if need be anyway.

before vs after is all that you can compare and in that regard it's a good result it's useless to try and compare car vs car, day vs day, etc. too many variables to contend with.

insert **** YEAH! pic here ---------------> **** YEAH..... now to find someone to make up the mount for me

Headers arrived today... lets just say they were a bit of a squeeze... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm shiny :) yes, that's hard up against the firewall... :( collector sits a little bit lot but not too bad. 'resting' on the cross beam another 90 degree bend would go nicely here... good clearance to the drive shaft at least. Sent a message back to PPE to see if they will make another for me with the required modifications, and I'll see if I can sell this one on to someone wanting to do the conversion into a ZZW30.

Here are pics of the dummy mount... also, the exhaust headers cleared customs this arvo :D

Pics from Vito Gearbox mounts lined up perfectly Timing side mount needs a little work, not a huge amount though Job done for the day Shouldnt be long before this thing is doing 1:10s at wakefield :D

Harreh's pics from today... Sexy clutch time Dylan riding the 2ZZ Engine in Scott supervising How many adubbers does it take to line up a gearbox mount?

Productive day, 2ZZ now sits in the engine bay. Template for the timing side mount adapter plate has been designed and will have a mock up made this week before the final mount adapter gets fabricated. Things that don't work... most things from teh C52 swap straight across to the C64, the mounts lined up perfectly, what was not so much... The gearbox side mount doesn't fit if the shifter mechanism is in place, so some of the metal of the shifter plate has to be taken out so I can put that all back in place. The clutch fork on the C64 is about 50 mm lower than the C52 so I couldn't swap over the brake lines and the bleed line bracket which will make bleeding a pain. I'm still entertaining the idea of swapping over the shifter mechanism to the other side for the gearbox. I have everything I need, I just need to drill a hole in the gearbox housing to fit it. I'm going to have some fun getting the heater hoses connected, the outlet hose in particular points directly the wrong direction off the block. Working out how to connect the oil cooler, both in terms of the oil lines and the coolant flow. I'm sure there's more... I need to take a note bookm down and make a list. ... but the engine is in the bay... pics to come. Vito and Harreh took heaps. Thanks to Vito, Harreh, Gun Metal, and Wiso for helping out today.

With some help from Vito and not a lot of help from the timing belt mount, the front chassis mount and the A/C lines... the 4A-GE now sits on the garage floor. :D This is also a largish diffuser I purchased Tried to mock it up today but it seems that the exhaust is not going to allow it to work but we shall see. I may just end up selling it. It would work better on a Front engines car I think... unfortunately.

Looking good Jason. A radiator, intercooler and fans will take up that nice big space out front pretty quickly.