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RE: Knightrous' MZW11 & AW11
2013/02/22 17:17:57
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Digital Dash time!
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RE: Knightrous' MZW11 & AW11
2013/02/22 19:01:27
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RE: Knightrous' MZW11 & AW11
2013/02/22 19:54:16
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Will it be in the car for Slidewayz tomorrow? Very keen to check it out, als did you get the C60 in or did the rain put you off?
Go soothingly on the grease mud as there lurks a skid demon.
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RE: Knightrous' MZW11 & AW11
2013/02/25 19:02:41
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SlideWize - 23/02/2013 Another great slidewize event, plenty of fun in the skid sessions and some good competition in the timed events. Had a lot of fun with hand brake initiated drifts and rev limiter smashing peg leg exits. I struggled a lot with front end understeer, which is attributed to sub-par front tires and probably and excessive amount of front camber on my current track alignment. Going to run my R888's next time, adjust my camber back to some more street sensible and probably drop a 50kg bag of sand into the frunk to give the front end of the car some weight for traction! Bunch of photos I snap during the day. Sunday was followed up with the QLD MR2 Cruise through the Samford Valley and then up Mt Mee for some thrilling scenic driving. Dom and myself detoured from the pack and hit up the Campbells Pocket Rally Stage before joining the rest of the group at Kilcoy for lunch. I separated from the cruise to head home while everyone else did the western loop back to Brisbane, however 40km from home, the TrackDub developed a really bad electrical problem. At first it was like the ignition was breaking down, and throttling caused the motor to die, while a couple of the dash gauges fluttered around all over the shop in a retarded fashion. I could start the motor, get it to run for 5-10 seconds before it would struggle to idle or conk out. $200 later, it was tow tracked home, where I couldn't get the motor to fire up. So I drove it up the drive way using the starter motor, and then a little after that, I couldn't even get the motor to crank over, I just get nothing when the key is turned. However, with the epic amounts of rain that is currently falling and no space in the garage, it looks like it will be a week or two before I can start tracking down what the hell is going on. My initial thoughts are, the regulator in the alternator has **** itself and was unleashing 20+ volt spikes into the ECU, which would make it shut down, I could also explain my gauges going nuts and my inverter throwing under/over voltage warning beeps everywhere. Other ideas are that there are is some damaged wiring loom that is shorting and has melted, causing some unknown damage to other things. This break down comes at a semi-convient time, simply because in the next few weeks the motor will be dropped so I can install the new 6 speed gearbox and LSD, so I can take this opportunity to do both jobs at once.
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RE: Knightrous' MZW11 & AW11
2013/02/27 16:56:24
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While sulking about not being able to work on the TrackDub due to heavy rain and flooding, I decided I should probably make up my mind on my upcoming wheel purchase. I've mulled over my options and I've narrowed it down to this: Kosei K4R 15X7 +40 4.86kg - $904 shipped. and these hidden little gems from NZ Wolf R1FT 15X7 +15 4.80kg - $1100 shipped The R1FT's are my current #1 choice unless the shipping on the K4R's turns out to be spastically cheap. Lame offset just makes the K4R's less attractive and I'll have to run a 25mm spacer on them to get them to where I want them. Soon as the car goes back on the road, it's time to start saving
post edited by Knightrous - 2013/02/28 10:55:11
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RE: Knightrous' MZW11 & AW11
2013/02/27 19:44:19
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I 2nd your choice between the two.
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RE: Knightrous' MZW11 & AW11
2013/02/27 21:11:07
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+1 for good offset.
If it dosnt scrub, youre doing it wrong.... :P
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RE: Knightrous' MZW11 & AW11
2013/02/28 10:56:46
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Well the Kosei K4R's come in at $904 shipped. Still cheaper then a set of Enkei wheels, but not cheap enough to change my mind over the R1FT's.
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RE: Knightrous' MZW11 & AW11
2013/03/04 01:35:53
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Well I managed to do a shuffle of cars and get the TrackDub into the garage to work on it. It starts, it idles, it revs and looks 100% good, until touch the brake pedal or turns the lights on or hit the wiper switch... Then it splutters and stalls. I found a couple of rather melted earth wires on the ECU loom that bolts to the head, so I assume there is a seriously big earth loop issue here somewhere. Will work on that more during the week. In other news, I need to get a shed fast...  Yep, that's my lounge room. 3x project cars worth of parts... I've started stripping the Camry E153 I bought last year to get the necessary parts out of it that I need for my close ratio E153 gearbox. My usual trick of pulling the bell housing off to remove the diff doesn't seem to work with the E153 due to some internal oil pipes, so it looks like I have to go the hard way through. Going to build a gear puller tomorrow for the 5th gear and start stripping it.  With the fact that this is a Camry gearbox with a LSD fitted to it and with the fact the syncros look really clean, I'm assuming this gearbox has been rebuilt at some stage. So depending what the LSD is (VLSD or clutch pack) it looks to be quite the little golden egg...
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RE: Knightrous' MZW11 & AW11
2013/03/07 14:49:05
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When the ST185 twin pot and SW20 22V brakes went on, it left the car with a rather soft, lackluster pedal feel due to the now undersized master cylinder. Today I've rectified that by purchasing a 1" Hilux master cylinder off ebay and will fit it this weekend. Hopefully this will give the brakes the a much firmer pedal feel for when I take the car out to Norwell Raceway in April for the Downshift Track Battle.
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RE: Knightrous' MZW11 & AW11
2013/03/07 15:18:19
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MR2QIK - "The Little Car That Could"  320rwkw @ 19psi (pump fuel, no giggle gas) 11.96 @ 116mph (with 228rwkw)
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RE: Knightrous' MZW11 & AW11
2013/03/07 21:30:32
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RE: Knightrous' MZW11 & AW11
2013/03/08 14:07:23
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1" brake master has arrived, installing it tonight!  In other news, the bearings for the ZZW30 LSD arrived today (to match the C60 gearbox) along with the drive shaft seals, so I'll pick them up tomorrow and start building my 6-speed gearbox!
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RE: Knightrous' MZW11 & AW11
2013/03/09 10:03:53
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Looks like your having a ton of fun up there! Wheels look great. Option 2 is my preference. When changing the gearset, make sure you use all the reverse gears from one or the other.
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RE: Knightrous' MZW11 & AW11
2013/03/09 18:42:53
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Picked up the bearings and seals for the 6-speed today. Big thanks to Paul Woods @ Woodsport for sharing the part numbers.  With these in hand, I can start assembling the gearbox Installing the Hilux master cylinder was a breeze, about 15-20mins work tops. It just needs a small tweak to the brake lines due to the lines connecting to the master horizontally, while the stock one is more 45 degrees in from the top. (shown below) There is now more space between the tank on the master cylinder and my strut brace, so it's actually easier to get a bottle of fluid in there to top it up. After the master cylinder install, I started looking into the electrical issue that forced me to bring the TrackDub home on a trailer a few weekends back. Now after having it start and run the other day, today it was back to just cranking and no firing... So I started pulling the loom out and it wasn't long before I found this. Now it's not heat damage, as it's sitting above the gearbox, but something has pulled a lot of amps through that wire and melted it, and then it has corroded further and started shorting and causing issues. So just need to remove the rest of the loom now and I'll work on requiring the whole earth setup to some bigger gauge wire and try to see what circuits could have pulled all the power though it. Well I've run out of light in the driveway/garage today to keep working on wiring, so I might go back to working on this for a while.
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