It's back! surprised your not on club reg

F*cking beautiful, that is all

Cheers everyone!
 
With a somewhat shortage of description.. due to it being late.. tired.. adventuretimeison.. workinthemorning.. etc; I'll just post a sequence of pics of the airbox setup. Sorry about the phone quality..
The box was from EFIHardware here in melbourne. Its fibreglass, has a 4" inlet, includes the two halves, some rubber trim/seal, 3 screws and nutserts. It is a tight fit between the throttles and the firewall (particularly the bonnet catch, as well as the loom and water resevoir). I ran it into a 4-3" PVC reducer, into a generic 3" wrinkle hose, and into the factory piping. Looks neat, quietens drastically, and appears more legit for rego.. but..
..the factory piping just can't breathe enough! I pulled it off straight away - it noticably choked the engine - hitting a vitrual brick wall above ~4k...
 
Pics.




2" holesaw and some drillbits. Original 20V airbox gasket used as a perfect template.

testfit #5029059425058209850

Drilled holes for screws. Drilled holes in mounting tabs for the nutserts and pressed them in. Drilled drainage hole on the underside, and another for a brass nipple on the top.

Rubber trim/seal glued around the lid, and all done.
 
Like I said - its a tight fit! I just couldnt get the 20V airbox to fit no matter how I pictured dicing it up in my mind. It hits the alternator.. it hits the water line.. it hits the firewall. Too much fkn about, and this worked.
 
Box off.. but kept the rad ducting in place!








Couple marks on the underside of the right exhaust tip there, where It hit the ramps last weekend after an oilchange. Bummer..

Hilariously overfuelly. Loves a rev, but 100% solid 10-11L/100km.. and a constant burble/backfire on overrun if i rest my foot on the throttle! Obviously not great for it (or my poor once-blue headers..), but sounds so mad..
 
 
Didnt go club reg simply out of lazyness. They all seemed to want a RWC.. and once I had that.. it was just easy to go full reg. I can always cancel/transfer it later if I want.. but have been using this car every day...
..more on that later anyway.. including whinging about how hard filthy rushhour traffic is on poor old cars..

Awesome!

Thanks for that air box setup, I may be looking into it shortly :P

No worries. I had meant to link you to my reply here, but forgot..!
 
To update this thread with a little more AW11ing and driving in general..
I've been driving this car every day for the last three weeks - I registered it right before I went back to work. My work moved over the christmas holidays.. and although I used to catch the bus to work every day, it’s not really an option any more.
My work is now located in the outer northern suburbs, and the trucks/cars I commute with are a little too fast for the poor old 4Runner.. hence the push to get the AW11 back on the road. Driving this car also softened the blow of having to move work to a piece of shyte area, and being forced to drive. I love love love driving this car.. and this distracted nicely.. almost like some sort of retarded reward for myself.
 
Now driving little red every day in some of the pushiest stop/start and high-speed highway driving? The car nails it. It feels as though it can drive circles around every car while they're doing 100km/h..
..but driving like this, the constant stop start, hwy driving surrounded by cars throwing dust, and having to park all day in the sun/rain in an industrial estate, will no doubt take its toll. It’s just so hard on an old car, and (just as it was when I've daily’d this car in the past) it pains me to see it. :(
 
Also notsogreat for another reason; for the last couple years I’ve rarely driven. I would take the 4runner If I need to go somewhere, but id never just go cruising aimlessly at nights like I used to, or go on ridiculous detours on my way home just for the sake of it. Owning an old 4WD was an excellent decision (and no accident) for someone who has just a *few* issues with driving…
I distracted myself with tidying up the 4Runner, the AW11, and a fleet of old wheels and parts.. but now the AW11 is back.. and as I wrote above, everything is instantly back to how it always was. I've been driving this thing flat-out. :(
 
So yeah.. the good and the bad. Great that I’m driving the adub again – its excellent.. so so much fun and truly better than I even remembered – but bad that its getting worn out unnecessarily.. and very bad for the other obvious reasons.
Ideally I will put this onto club reg to forcefully limit my driving (not wanting to, but knowing I should..), and hopefully sort out the work commute a different way.
 
We’ll see how that goes anyway!
 
Some more odd-yet-relevant pics: Garage with a healthy dose of flattering shadows…











Bit of a thing for late-80's SSR..
 
Some for the 4Runner too..



 
Also ordered some new wheels specifically for the AW11. Work Seeker CX's in 16x6.5 +28 all round.. with plans to run a 195/40 S-drive. They would sit just how the gold Type-C's did a couple years ago...



Like a pretty snowflake.. right?
Dont worry.. I know they're odd. Just something different..
 
Wont change the wheels until the car is lowered (regular coils this time..); but I'm happy with the car as-is for the moment, so no rush..!
 
Anyway.. yeah. We'll see how that goes too! haha

done. :)
 
 
 
 
 

just a thought with the air filters for the ITB's. You could set up a pod filter in your boot instead of having 4 uni filters, would make it easier to clean and would provide more consistent flow to your individual throttle bodies. 

This is very clean!

Possible; but I'd have to run the 4" ducting from the box to the filter at least; as the 2.5" (3"?) factory piping as I showed on the previous page, just wasnt enough air.
Not sure how the Pod filter would look in the boot either! heh.. too picky!
 
But yyyeah.. cleaning of these filters is a bit of an issue I've been ignoring. I think they're supposed to be oiled.. but ehh.. I'll just consider them rock filters and be done with it. Lookout 15,000km rebuilds..! <_<
 
Cleaned the car again thoroughly yesterday... eyes full of tears, as I mentally apologised for leaving it in the sun at work for the last few weeks. Sunroof popped.. but interior now fith a fine coating of sand/dust/dirt...
hhaha.. poor car. :(
Photoset again doe! same photos as usual. But one complete February 2015 letswalkaroundthecarandstrangelytakephotosofeverything.. despite forgetting to take a frunk pic.
















Lil'. Reh.
 

Mint.
 
You drove past me the other day, looked very clean as always.

Man that boot looks comfy :-)

400,000km on the odo and still in better condition than most cars on the road.