Well this car has thus far been a drama. No updates for a while as I have been unable to work on it.
 
Got 1000km on the engine after it was rebuilt. then went to start it one day and just heard metal grinding. Pulled the sump apart to confirm the worst, the no.3 main bearing is totally stuffed, ground to the crapper, all the surface is flaking off. the rest are ok all be it slightly sctratched.
 
So out came the engine then that night i went to hospital with gall stones, so having that out for the past 4 weeks I have been on light duties so no engine work as stripping it down kinda requires heavy lifting, and twisting.
 
But starting to tinker again now. I picked up a spare 4age 3 rib for a replacement crank as that one seems to be off centre, hence the bearings going. so now gotta strip the engine down and clean it out, replace the crank pistons and rods with the smaller ones from the 3rib.
 
 
But today I did a little bit of dummy fitting, tried my quad throttle manifold I made on the spare engine, just to measure it up and see how it all fits, turns out gonna need to modify the airbox to make it fit on the 16v and in the engine bay.
 
For the past 6 months I have been slowly building a quad throttle manifold for a set of silver top quads I bought. using the stock silvertop manifold I cut this up, the filed the runners out as much as possible, cut the guts out of a t-vis plate, and bolted them together with JB-weld between them.
 
How my manifold started. cutting the silvertop one.

 
then how much needs to be ported

 
How the porting came up with the manifold glued together

 
My manifold Completed, just needs to have the JB-weld smoothed out with the dremel.

 
And today dummy fitted to the engine


 
and the modifications I need to do to the airbox to make it fit. it majority hits the alternator. and overall is too deep from the engine block, it will foul on the rear wall of the engine bay so I need to cut the depth off the box and weld a flat plate on it.

 
So now this will have to wait until Xmas when I go down to dads so i can modify the box. Ohh well engine will just have to go back together stock.

I put the car back togehter in the weekend before xmas 2013. 
 
Take 1 nicely modded rebuilt 4AGE 16V

 
and 1 Corolla C56 with MR2 Spyder Helical LSD with modified linkages to suit an AW11

 
Put them into a AW11 Hardtop with a sorted suspension setup

 
Throw some Nice brakes into the Mix

 
 
 
And hopefully you will end up with a car that goes as good as it looks.
 

well trying to sort out my quad throttle again, I picked up the manifold and found this, looks like the metal has tried to move and the JB weld stopped it, so she cracked. Let this be a lesson to people, it may not have stood upto engine vibration.
 

 
So i decided to cut the mountings an tubes off the front of the manifold, I smoothed the tubes into rounds I am going to now try to attached them to a manifold adapter with silicon hoses? I will have to wait and see how that comes up.
 

 
Ahh the **** you do when you are a tightarse.

well, its been a while since I last updated so here it goes. The engine has going along without much drama. been using alot of fuel up around the 11L/100km which is quite high for a 4age. So I have been forever stuffing around trying to find the cause of this.
 
I took the car out to Wakefeild park for its first time on the track. It went ok. felt massively underpowered. It developed a very strange lope in the idle after the first session, then after about 5 sessions my timing belt snapped :( . My awesome wife drove me a spare belt and tensioner down from Sydney so I can repair it and drive it home.
 

this is what happens when the springs get old, they look for an escape straight through the belt.

 
 
Then the following week got the car repaired so it was usable for our wedding day. Buffed here out the best I could.
 

 
 
 
 
 

Nice update. Sorry to hear about you snapping the timing belt at the track. If it is any consolation, I had my timing belt tensioner bearing fail. Unlike you, my motor is no longer non interference and I have bent a few exhaust valves.

Yeah, I have 9.3mm cams the are dialled in a bit aggressively with smallport gze pistons, so I wasnt very lucky at all.

nah, haven't dyno'd her. My old engine with these cams apart from that stock bigport got 74rwkw. I am not expecting much more than that. 
 
But I am not interested in chasing kw gains. since putting these on the car has so much more acceleration everywhere. its torque curve feels like its has been bolstered dramatically.

You first need an AW11 C52 to get the linkage set off. this guy has the best write up. I  sort of followed his
 
http://www.padandwheels.com/mr2/blacktopproject/day13/c56.html
 
I didn't machine stuff like him, I just JB welded a peice of 27/28mm internal diameter pipe onto the casing after I drilled the hole