[TERRA Operative]

Well, I have recently come into possession of an AE101 Toyota Corolla Levin GTZ, powered by the 4AGZE engine.

[WhiteSX]

ahh Riz's GTZ, nice looks like its coming along well, keep it up.

[TERRA Operative]

That's the one. I plan to turn it into a fairly formidable street car. Built for 'spirited' runs through the hills mainly, but chiefly for cruising. I have the AE92 being built for stuffing around on the track.

This post has been edited by TERRA Operative: 18 August 2007 - 02:12 PM

[blue]

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This thing will be a streetcar, not an amusement ride....

i love it! so true!

[(OO BANGN OO)]

lol JP 5w-30w



im running 0-30w.... its thinner than nicole richy after a night of finger down the throte syndrome. never burns, great oil pressure and the motor spins alot nicer

[TERRA Operative]

Heh, I wasn't that game.. It seems ok with the 5w-30, no smoke or noise. I will keep an eye on it though.

The next big mod will be the Exedy clutch. It'll be a standard clutch with the pressure plate upgraded to 2200pound of clamping force.
The only difference between the standard and HD Exedy clutches is the clamping force anyway, so I am getting the cheaper option and customising the pressure plate for even greater force than the HD has.

[(OO BANGN OO)]

i thought that terra was rebuildn the motor??

thats what i thort a buildup was

[TERRA Operative]

Not a rebuilt motor yet, the rest of the car is first. Once that's up to scratch, I'll get serious with the engine.

Just made some more updates on the site, posted dyno charts etc.

[1Jizzle]

Looking good ! Will be orsum once it's complete... I'm sure

[kAm]

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Created with Notepad

smoke the lenses, me rection it would look better

[TERRA Operative]

I might actually have some of that spray on tint left from when we did my brothers old EF Falcon. A few light coats of tint, followed by a few coats of clear and a polish, and they can look really good.
Just got to make sure you don't put so much on that it gets onto bogandore territory. Just want enough to deepen the colour a bit.

[kAm]

give it a shot on some of the spare bits and see if it suits the car, dont know where mine came from but it was some sort of black plastic or something. was it really created with note pad?

[TERRA Operative]

Sure was, all hand coded. More efficient that way.
My brother is a programmer, so he took care of the style sheets or whatever it's called, I am just creating the main body.

[Toyrolla]

Nice work documenting the writeup.

[TERRA Operative]

Another update just went up.

Enjoy.

[TERRA Operative]

Just a small update made on the brake ducting.

That's all.

This post has been edited by TERRA Operative: 24 August 2007 - 10:04 PM

[JayMan]

great work Terra! keep it up keen to see what its looking like now

[KRaZi 101]

brake ducting? plz explain to a nub

[TERRA Operative]

Pipes that go from the front bar and duct cool air straight to the front brake rotors. If you look behind your rotor, you'll see a plate with a little vent in it. As the rotor spins, it sucks air through itself kind of like a turbo. I'll be enlarging the vent and forcing cool air through the rotor.

Bit like cold air induction for my brakes.

This post has been edited by TERRA Operative: 26 August 2007 - 05:29 PM

[kAm]

both my ae92 levins had the back plate on the disc brakes bent out, just the series one had like a vent looking thing to prevent rocks? lol

[KRaZi 101]

TERRA Operative, on Aug 26 2007, 05:28 PM, said:

Pipes that go from the front bar and duct cool air straight to the front brake rotors. If you look behind your rotor, you'll see a plate with a little vent in it. As the rotor spins, it sucks air through itself kind of like a turbo. I'll be enlarging the vent and forcing cool air through the rotor.

Bit like cold air induction for my brakes.

interesting.. put some pics up once ur done.. i may copy this lol

[TERRA Operative]

More updates.

Got a full guide on fitting a 4AGE throttlebody to the 4AGZE, as well as some info on the AE92 ECU swap (to be finished soon).

[TERRA Operative]

MOAR UPDATES!

Installed the carbon fibre gauge cup, documented the AE92 ECU install a little better and added info on the brake ducting and throttlebody swapover.

[TERRA Operative]

Lots more updates and additions. Will be doing some more work on Friday.

[KRaZi 101]

nice stuff mate... i mite try do the brake ducting sometime

PS. clear lenses? LOL

[TERRA Operative]

Another update!!

Just got the car on the dyno again today at the dyno day.

The car now pulls 104.7kw at the wheels, that's 140Hp! woot. Looks like the AE92 ECU and 4AGE throttle body paid off. An 18kW increase isn't too bad I think.

I also replaced the leaky oil seals on the crank angle sensor (dizzy for non coilpack ignition).
I'm currently working out how to replace the rubber bushes in the shifter linkages with ball bearings, problem is the hole in the linkage is 0.2mm smaller than the bearings... :mad: I might have to get the linkages from an AE92, as they are 22mm in diameter exactly, and easy to get bearings for.

I have also lined the underside of the piping for the top mount intercooler with aluminium tape in an effort to minimise heat soak. Probably won't do much, but every bit helps, I guess.

I'm sure there's more I've done, but I can't remember what right now....

[1Jizzle]

Congrats on that figure yo

may not be mine anymore but at times I do have my "missing GtZ" days..

Glad to see it's being well kept and used to the full potential.

Orsum stuff dude.

This post has been edited by RIZ21: 21 October 2007 - 02:23 PM

[TERRA Operative]

Lots of updates to the site.

Alloy Radiator purchased, bigport head purchased, Interior pimpage, etc. With more to come.

[89yotarollagts]

140 HP ? why does that seem so low to me ? arent these motors rated 175 stock ? yea sure u can figure some power loss to the wheels but dam ? U running stock boost correct ?

[(OO BANGN OO)]

that is fwhp and thats pretty norm figure, u do loose a bit through the tranny