Any real tuners?

Tuners Rock · Post by **Tuners Rock** » 23 Dec 2006, 22:13

I know your not, its just kinda weird you were calling me TunerFreak.

HashiriyaGDB · Post by **HashiriyaGDB** » 27 Dec 2006, 05:35

Who here went to the filiming of Best Motoring's American Touge 3 at Willow Springs Raceway on the 20th? Mine's was there with their R34.

vellu · Post by **vellu** » 23 Feb 2007, 20:31

There are some post about this elsewhere on the forum, but this seems like the appropriate place to round things up...

The thing being my pet project an 'el-cheapo' fix-up of a 1977 Toyota 1000 pickup (aka the smallest pickup in the world). It all started back in 2001 when I got my hands on one, though in a pretty bad shape (see picture 1). At that time I wasn't going for a full-on repair, just to clean it up and road-worthy. This however changed over the years, and eventually lead to full disassembly and total refurbishing. At the moment I'm on reassembly phase with the interior almost done and moving on to mechanical.

Picture 1:
The original state, pretty horrible particularly the interior.

Picture 2:
Disassembled, stripped and painted. I got a lot of praise for my choice of color, it really makes the car pop.

Picture 3:
All done, the first time around. I forget who it was, but someone immediately dubbed the car "Tweety" so I figured what the heck....make it so, and added decals.

Picture 4:
What really pushed me to fully fix the ride was the fact that I found another one. Though that one was beyond repair I could get a lot of spare parts from it. So of to work it was, and a lot of work. Some of the chassis parts were so badly rusted that I literally had to tear them off. Look at the end of one the rear leaf springs, a good bit of the floor panel had to come off with it... After I got it down to nothing it was time for metal work.

Picture 5:
Without a doubt the most labour intensive phase, the undercarriage. Took me three months to clean away the old crud manually, with lots and lots of sandpaper and an angle grinder. Took about three hours to get it re-coated though...(on the rightside).
Oh, safety first, wouldn't you agree

Picture 6:
Back from the painter, a thing I lack the skills (or tools) to do myself. The color looks a bit pale here, but it actually is the same as before (my phonecam doesn't do colors well...) Tipi is Tweety in Finnish, btw, in case someone wonders.

Picture 7:
New interior going in. This time around I threw some money at it and got seats matching the colorscheme and refurbished the dashboard to yellow aswell. Quite an improvement compared to the original or even to the one I did before.

To be continued...

darknight788 · Post by **darknight788** » 23 Feb 2007, 20:42

DUDE ! nice little truck you have there is that a 4 spd ? or 5 ? post some pics of the engine

vellu · Post by **vellu** » 23 Feb 2007, 20:54

I will, when I get it back together again...

It's 4-speed, though I would prefer 5-speed. I already have upgraded the engine the first time around (from the stock 1.0 litre to 1.1 litre...whoo) with bigger carbs and what not. Which meant the gear ratios were all wrong... fourth gear in at around 65 km/h....top speed at about 160 km/h, you get the idea of how loud and how high the revs at that point.

I have adjusted the ratios to as long as they go this time around. I consider putting in a 5-speed box but that would've required me to move the shfit and the e-brake back about 10-15 cms. Which would've been enourmous work (you can see from one the stripped pics, there's a support beam exactly 10-15 cm back from where the shift is now, I would've had to cut in to that....not a good idea).

I'm also refurbishing the engine some more, some of the parts are being cleaned and repainted. I've got new pistons and a cylinder head ready along with a lighter cam shaft and new crankshaft. That should give me some more muscle.

darknight788 · Post by **darknight788** » 23 Feb 2007, 20:56

a 1.1 L ? damn thats small how much fuel economy does it get ? is that a 4cyl. or 3 ?

vellu · Post by **vellu** » 23 Feb 2007, 21:09

4-cyl, and yes it's economical considering the car doesn't weigh anything, about 750kg. And it's TURBOCHARGED, yes I was able to fit that in there (doesn't look pretty, but who cares).

This is how it used to look like. I haven't dynod it but I'd estimate it put out somewhere around 65-70HP, which ain't bad considering the original stock 1.0 was rated at 40HP. We'll see what the new parts will do.

Oops, forgot the attachment...EDIT

EDIT2: Dunno if I'm going to put the turbo back...I believe that's what ruined the pistons in the first place...The block just ain't built for that much pressure

darknight788 · Post by **darknight788** » 23 Feb 2007, 21:14

dude thats sweet lol how much boost were you running about ?

vellu · Post by **vellu** » 23 Feb 2007, 21:26

As little as I could...

I knew it wasn't going to be able to take much. Barely 1PSI max, could've been more but I wasn't about to blow out just to find out how much...

steelsnake00 · Post by **steelsnake00** » 23 Feb 2007, 23:10

1psi or 1bar?
Task for tonight? Finding a cylinder head for my ****************** which can take 2 BAR of boost AND a stroker kit without eating itself.

Grez~Supra_RZ-S · Post by **Grez~Supra_RZ-S** » 26 Feb 2007, 10:43

Dont go too thick on the head gasket when you replace the head. We tried a 2mm on a Stage 3 SX and it was awful, the 1.6mm was just as safe and a lot nicer.

steelsnake00 · Post by **steelsnake00** » 26 Feb 2007, 12:26

I've already got 1.6mm gasket ready

Ajex · Post by **Ajex** » 21 Mar 2007, 20:28

Let me get a car and sure I'm a tuner.

vellu · Post by **vellu** » 13 Apr 2007, 19:20

Progress report:

Engine compartment cleaned and painted, open for business. Engine block (and tranny) are out for refurbishing, since I don't have proper tools myself to do it well enough.

RSZETEC · Post by **RSZETEC** » 13 Apr 2007, 21:22

Nice project, ive always like muckin about with smaller engines i.e 1.1s to see what you can get from them, im actually quite tempted to buy a spare engine for my gfs car(1.3) and build it up witha turbo cos ive got a spare turbo sitting around here. makes a nice change from everyone saying just get a bigger engine

ZOMBE · Post by **ZOMBE** » 01 May 2007, 12:09

I mod my car, all parts on my car along with pictures can be found at http://www.dodgestealthautomotive.com , not into the whole rice with the body kits, wings and shiznit, to me anybody who does that just dont deserve a car.

steelsnake00 · Post by **steelsnake00** » 01 May 2007, 16:18

I just had a look
You've got bugger all mods which actually make any difference, and what's the point in building a drag car with ICE?
Also, if you want performance why dont you dump the 3.0TT from the UKDM 3KGT in, instead of spending money on filters, plugs and a custom exhaust?

ZOMBE · Post by **ZOMBE** » 01 May 2007, 18:06

lol cause im doing a single cam on puprose, could of bought a vr4 or rt tt but choose to go with the 3.0 sohc. what ive done worked so far, spent less then 100 bucks on a custom exhaust thats just as good has a 800 dollar borla system, hell if the borla has cats mines better cause I got no resonators or cat converters. I could of used some backpressure from the cats but I noticed a bigger difference without them in the 1/4 mile then I did with them.

steelsnake00 · Post by **steelsnake00** » 01 May 2007, 19:00

So it's illegal, then?
You could have probably bought a second hand TT engine for not much more than what you spent on ICE. I don't see the purpose in doing the lowest, bog-standard version when it's going to cost thousands to get it anywhere near the performance of a quicker one, unless your doing an engine transplant, but then why would you modify (abeit lightly) the stock engine?

Post by **TheStig** » 02 May 2007, 01:44

According to your website the car is planned as a Road legal car. as far as I know replacing athe exhaust with a custom (open) exhaust without a CAT it's no longer a roadlegal car.

MasterGT · Post by **MasterGT** » 02 May 2007, 02:57

I'd like to have a silver Skyline with black rims. CF hood and spoiler,and last but not
least some awsome performce!

ZOMBE · Post by **ZOMBE** » 02 May 2007, 03:39

I have no emission tests in Alabama, so any illegal mods that wont be noticeable to police wont be a problem. My headlights also have an illegal mod done to them, but I want the sohc engine cause its the underdog engine, which is capable of producing as much power as the dohc engines can which has been proven by a guy with a sohc single turbo stealth running 10s.

darknight788 · Post by **darknight788** » 02 May 2007, 06:01

you can always get a high flow cat. it is still straight through but when cops look under your car it looks like a cat

ZOMBE · Post by **ZOMBE** » 02 May 2007, 07:31

Still get better performance cat less then with a high flow cat. Cops where I live dont check, I even know a cop car here with kicker amps and everything installed in it. I know they can fine the hell out of you and make you get it fixed but until that happens then im not gonna even worry about it. If its not noticeable then ill do it, but obviously I wont drive around with only headers or nothin. I'm just curious to see the full potentional of the 3.0 sohc engine, not into the whole rice shiznit with the body kits, spoilers and etc, to me their just funny to laugh at and look horrible.

boganbusman · Post by **boganbusman** » 02 May 2007, 10:05

darknight788 wrote:you can always get a high flow cat. it is still straight through but when cops look under your car it looks like a cat

A high-flow cat is not an empty shell, darknight