so I went and bought a digital gauge from supercheap.




REPREZENT

The strut won't clear the NA engine cover because of the water deflector plates below the vents. The supercharger lid doesn't have these. If scrutineers don't like it, I'll just take the cover off, I did this at Wakefield and they didn't mind

Rally Spec AW11...

Ku36's fitted and balanced.

Well the AW11 wentreally well at Lakeside and set a 1:10.340 in the last session with a balls to the wall run.
The new digital temperature gauge was fantastic, it was brilliant to be able to glance at it and know exactly the temp, no guessing if the needle has moved a fraction since the last lap or waiting for it to time bomb and boil. Hottest the car ran all day was 97'c after 6 solid laps.

I managed to borrow a pyrometer from Dennis (Thanks mate! I'll be investing in one of these soon!) and found the the front camber I had adjusted the night before was working well, it showed with the temperatures being fairly close across the surface of the tire and the wear looked pretty even. The rear however needs the camber wound up a bit more, which I'll do with the camber bolts I have. Will be focusing on my racing line and setting the car up a little better, to improve my lap times instead of just wacking more HP into the motor or buying better tires.

Some weight reduction may be on the cards as well though (Both car and me! )

maybe start your weight savings with less occupants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCtdeOKZZx0

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Hmmm

<$100 / pair for materials and parts...

Camshafts

Sent out an email last week to five Australian camshaft companies requesting regrind services for the 1MZ cams, currently have had three positive replies and one "Nope, we cannot do them". One of the replies even suggested a place to get custom shims made to match the clearance removed from the base base circle. It looks like I might have to pull the timing belt back off and ship the cams to a few of these guys for measurements so they can provide me with what profile they can be reground to and how much it will cost

Then hopefully we will have a camshaft solution for the 1MZ other then looking for a defunct company in the USA or trying to find 2MZ/3MZ camshafts...

Gotta move house in 2 weeks time, will remove the cams after that and send it to all three companies to take profiling data from them.
Will let you know after that, might see if we can get a group buy or something happening. I'm sure there are 2-3 other 1MZ people on Toymods who might be interested.

Ersh, and I only just got the timing belt back in >.> lucky I can do it in 20mins now