POWER..

Saturday has been and gone.
Head gasket is on and cam gears are all adjusted...
And i have more power. woot!

There is heaps more down low and it screams allot better up top.!

So Saturday i mad a trip down to Wellington to meet up with a fella who knows a bit more about 4AGES than me, and has worked on alot them for most of his life..

Firstly We took the head off, and cleaned it all.

We then chucked the gasket on and put the head back on, Torqued it all up and then went on to tune the cams up.
I run standard cams but we changed the cam lob centres to 106 degrees instead of the factory 111 degrees. (They run the 111 deg factory for lower emissions)
So the cam gears were on and all tuned up after some patience.

Everything went back on and we started her up, it was running reasonably well, but when trying to adjust the timing with the dizzy it would never stay still. We then remembered the diagnosis box has two points E1 and T that need to be shorted when adjusting the timing.

With that shorted it was easier to time.












So the end result is a slightly tweaked inlet cam that opens earlier, lets more fuel and air in for longer giving it a little bit more of a "bang".

But wait.. that's not all.
Turns out that the wreckers have a lightened flywheel with a TRD semi heavy duty clutch attached to it.
Ooo.
Just might have to grab that..
Also might have a Clear Cam Cover on its way too, that is why there is no photos with the cams on.
Want to saver it for when the covers on. :)

So stay tuned!!!!

Head Work!

Well got all the parts now.
TRD head gasket turned up today from MRP Ltd and got the cam gears all set.

Bring on saturday when they all get married together.!

Decisions...

Well since I'm going to install some nice Red Cam Gears I'm thinking maybe that needs to be covered by a nice clear cam cover..
Not sure if can justify the price just for a piece of plastic.

Hmm, I think it would look pretty SICK though!!

Anyone got one laying around they just happen to want to get rid of!??

Next upgrades ?

Well the next upgrades are happening already!

The next plans are for a Lightened Flywheel, Planed head and adjustable cam gears.
Today i ordered a TRD head gasket, which will improve the compression and then ive got some adjustable cam gears that i hope to get dialled in on saturday.

With these two pretty basic mods i should be able to squeeze a little more power out the Rolla.

Manfeild Track-Day

TRACK-DAY.!

So the day came and it was time to travel down south and take the Rolla to the track.

There was a track day organized with a bunch of friends that had all sorts of rides.

Was a great day out, no problems came up and the Rolla performed well all day!!

Induction

So a track day was coming up. And i thought that i would make a better way of forcing air into the intake of the Rolla.
I decided to use an old light that was broken. I removed the glass and internal pieces.
I then used a piece of chicken mesh to make a false headlight, then glued that on the now plastic light.

Here's what it came out like!

Rim upgrade.

Will browsing around at the Wreckers i found a Toyota starlet with some half decent wheels on it.

So they had to be mine, the wheels i was running were not the nicest and definitely not my taste.
These wheels are a huge improvement!
Enjoy

Cold Air Box

Next in the pipeline was to make a cold air box.
To do this i needed to get rid of the battery.

So i decided to run some thick gauge wire to the boot and mount the battery in the boot.

With the battery moved out of the way, i could go ahead and craft the Cold Air Box.

Ah RUST

So the next project was the rust that started to grow under the rear windows.
I cut the rust out and used some rust killer then used some bog that has fibreglass in it to fill the holes. Then bogged it again and sanded it back.

Painted it all up and people are nun the wiser.!

Brake's!!

The next reason for shed time is the brakes!

I had been reading up on people swapping brakes from ae101 levin's onto ae82's and ae92's.
So i thought what the heck and sourced some twin pot brakes from a ae101 levin.

The rear ones bolted up with no issues.
The fronts were a different story.

Firstly the rotor that the Levin uses are to big to fit on the hub of the Rolla. So just swap hubs you say. Thats not possible either as they are super strut.
People usually get the standard Levin rotors machined down to suit. BUT the rotors were going to cost over $500 for 2.
So we sourced some smaller rotors off another corolla that would fit.

Secondly the callipers had been sitting in the rain a fair bit so they were seized/rusted.
We popped them out with the thanks to CRC and a air compressor. Once popped out we could tidy them up and get rid of the burs.
Back together they went and then installed onto the car..

Original Rear set to be sold on trade-me.

The difference in size, original Ae92 rotor, and new rotor.





















Brakes were still sticking a bit.. :/

What a difference!
These brakes fell so much better than the standard 1 pots.

Here's the link to more information on the different brake upgrades possible.

http://www.twincam.org/topic/1063-ae92-ae82-brake-upgrade-options/

New lease of Life!

With the Rolla being driven daily it started to clock up the km's.
With a reading of 311,540km's i thought it was time to do something.

Ideas of swapping in a 20v Blacktop or Turboing the standard engine came up, but were a little far fetched. Money was a bit limiting so decided to do a full rebuild instead.
Although the other ideas could pop up somewhere down the track..

So seeing as i still had a 4age sitting in the shed originally from this car i took it into the engine Rebuilders and within a few days it was all ready to go.
Picked up the engine on a Thursday afternoon and spent the evening and Friday dropping the old engine out of the Rolla and bolting up all the bits and pieces to the freshly rebuilt engine.






















































Saturday morning came along and we had the engine in and running.!
A few minor issues came along like the Dizzy leaking oil as the seal was broken. Once these issues were fixed it was good to go.
Run in time!!

Ran the engine a few trips to town, and it was already feeling like it just wanted to rev!




















Once all run in, the rocker covers were taken off and given a powder coat of Red, and i also got the lettering machined back.

New oil and filter and good to go.