Wow. So it's been a while since I've updated this.
After that photo shoot... this happened.

I kinda succeeded in rebuilding it, but it didn't last long.
Then this happened....
I ran it a little low on oil at one stage and killed the rod bearings..... and also cracked the crank.





While it was apart I also had the chance to install some Gen 2 3SGE cams
NB: may not be the gen2 cams installed in the photo below...

This happened at one stage as well. The left failed in 2013 so I replaced it with a chromoly cage, and finally got around to doing the right hand-side too.
While all that was happening, I also got a little carried away with some electronics and converted the clock to a multi-gauge powered by an Arduino Nano. It had ambient temp, voltage, water temp (kinda), wideband input, and provisions for oil temp and oil pressure. I didn't get around to those two.

Just a nice shot in the Adelaide Hills
The car has been on and off the road so many times in the last few years it's hard to tell what was when. at the end of 2016 I also bought NoddE's COP kit and installed the 1ZZ coils. It took a while to get around to it but I was running them for about a year.
I then had the opportunity to buy an almost new Link G4+ PNP ECU off Randomity. So it's now tuneable!!!
I've taught myself a hell of a lot from HP Academy. Get the subscription and just watch all the webinars. Definitely worth it! They also gave me a $50 voucher so I went through the EFI fundamentals course as well.
The ECU is now all set up with a nice stable Idle, modelled fuel, Tomei FPR with fuel pressure gauge, closed loop lambda, direct spark ignition (don't need NoddE's module anymore) and....... OBDII!!!!! :D
I've also installed an Odroid (RPi on steroids) with a 7" touch screen that fits nicely wedged in the double-din space (not quite wide enough, but I can live with that).
It's running Android and has GPS, WiFi, 4G, Torque App with the Link ECU output and all of the data logging I could imagine.
I'm gradually tweaking the tune as I go, Ignition timing is still fairly conservative, but the fuel map is about 90% complete.
That's probably enough for now.