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Yeah surge tank was from ebay. I was originally going to use a box mounted where the back seat was but the way did it was a neater solution (but not real rally friendly!). It would of been aluminium as lexan wouldn't be suitable for a "firewall" from the passenger compartment. I've got som...

To get 135 bhp at the wheels out of a 4G54 it will need mods that will make it crap for towing. 110-120 would be about the limit and that will take CAM, valve springs, compression, carb/inlet, exhaust and possibly more. It won't be happy on anything but 98 fuel as well, not good for the outback.

Electric water pump is a bad idea. Reliability of the universal ones is not there yet, are you going to $400 worth of spare pump and controller? There are two different gearbox patterns, different flywheel diameters, different style of starter motors (some FWD fit RWD, but not all) two different tim...

I drove the Scorpion for a couple of years and I don't recall it being as souless as the Commodores, although I do agree they have fairly solid power throughout the range. My daughter has blown her VS transmission so I've just been going through classifieds chasing a box. Complete crashed VS Commod...

Go and find yourself a TS Magna and see if you think the 4G54 has any character. It doesn't. In fact, it's like a smaller, older, less powerful, more expensive version of the 3.8. I've got a VS V6 rally car, buying the car with a good running engine was about the same price as modifying the Magna in...

I have a modified 4G454 in one of my race cars, but there is no way I could recomend you use one in this situation. Firstly, finding rear wheel drive second hand parts is starting to get difficult, it could be very difficult out in the middle of nowhere. Same for the bike carbs, have a problem and i...

Couple of pics from Oran Park:

gaz914 wrote:Finally getting some "motorvation" to do some car stuff thanks to Hoonboy who let me drive his LC Lancer at Oran Park on the 20th

Pity I broke it...

You owe me a headgasket and some pistons!

Couple of the cars pictured are here http://www.hoonboy.com/articles.html

The dodgy ones are not cheap! Gaz will be changing over all of my dodgy ones to proper ones once I get the car running again.

The good old Nissan H190 diff has been used in many drag cars, heaps of cars running 9's and a few with 8's. Common in 720 utes and Series 3 bluebird's here (amongst other stuff) You do realise a kilowatt is more then a horsepower...?? Softening up is not the only downside, it also leads to binding ...

You want the shocks to be vertical, any angle on them will reduce the effectiveness.

Woohoo, made it to Oran Park!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57lHh7pEh8E

Got a few things to fix after the day, namely a noisy diff and blown up engine! Handling is good, power was way too low and will need to be rectified when the engine is rebuilt.

You need Sigma struts for the Hoppers upgrade...

This is what the engine bay currently looks like:



thanks to these:



36 hours until scrutineering...

So a busy few days, not all productive, but busy... Firstly, when it was first started an inlet manifold leak was found and fixed which made it behave a bit better. Then with it running on the hoist with the wheels dangling down, the sway bar rubbed on the fanbelt and it snapped. There is about 2mm ...

There was talk of the ute being revived in time, guess it's not going to happen!

Clutch and tune are the big things I am waiting on, got a heap of little things as well. Got 9 days so it should be fine....

It's got two full leaves and a half leaf, three and a half was too stiff on the LA so am trying a little softer for more cornering traction. Shocks mounts are all stock.

I haven't seen an entry list with cars, so I'm taking a few guesses, more then one is a bonus Is Andrew going to be in the ute or the LA?

Some updated pics: Aluminium panels over the fuel system, still need some cleaning up: http://www.hoonboy.com/lclancer/37.fuelpanels.jpg 99% complete engine bay, just needs a radiator overflow bottle, clutch cable sorted (when the new clutch goes in) and radiator cap. http://www.hoonboy.com/lclancer...

Good to see you have an entry, for some reason I thought you were already confirmed.. should be a few mitsu's there having some fun.

It's the gold thing on the firewall partially hidden by the big red battery cable, part of the standard Magna setup: http://www.hoonboy.com/lclancer/32.ecumounted.jpg I'm just want mine in a condition that it will pass scrutineering on the 12th and be race ready on the 21st! Booked in for the dyno o...

Do you have the fuel pump relay? It will turn them off and on properly. A seperate switch can get nasty in an accident.

The proportioning valve effectively limits the amount of rear brake bias, so it will do exactly what you want it to. In an ideal world you would increase the bias to the front with a staggered master cylinder setup, but that's going to be much harder.

Having hooked up the loom on the weekend (or I should say having an auto-electrician mate hook it up whilst I was doing other stuff...) showed that it is easy enough, except for one problem, we couldn't find an ignition switched power source that was on when the ignition was in the "start"...

Few pics of yesterdays work: ECU and fuel pump realy mounted behind the passenger footrest, the two wires hanging down need to be attached to the trans tunnel. http://www.hoonboy.com/lclancer/32.ecumounted.jpg The surge tank has been mounted in the side of the car, it will be covered by an aluminium...

EFI Conversion is well underway...

Tachymetric relay, it's designed for what you want and used in LPG setups. Either an auto electrician or LPG installer will have one.