wiso's AW11 restoration to weekend fun/track car.

Re:wiso's AW11 restoration to weekend fun/track car. (Knightrous)

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:00:04 GMT

The other method is to transfer the internal gear sets and diff into the AW11 C52 gearbox.
This is what I did with my C56 and C60 (6 speed)

Re:wiso's AW11 restoration to weekend fun/track car. (wiso)

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:30:48 GMT

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

Re:wiso's AW11 restoration to weekend fun/track car. (Carmikey)

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:36:07 GMT

^^Wiso - great write up, reading thru you post, you state you used a Corolla C56 with MR2 Spyder Helical LSD with modified linkages to suit an AW11. I too am looking at replacing my old AW11 NA gearbox with one I currently have from a AE93 Corolla Seca (4age smallport).
How did you go about modifing the box so the linkages are on the other side of the box? It looks reasonably easy, yet some precision drilling looks to be in need.

Re:wiso's AW11 restoration to weekend fun/track car. (wiso)

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:30:42 GMT

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.

Re:wiso's AW11 restoration to weekend fun/track car. (Bot)

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:23:58 GMT

did you ever dyno your set up? im just curious about the rwkw, nice car btw,

Re:wiso's AW11 restoration to weekend fun/track car. (MCT_MR2)

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 18:31:12 GMT

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

Re:wiso's AW11 restoration to weekend fun/track car. (wiso)

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 08:29:04 GMT

that sucks major. my last engine I built with these 8.1mm lift cams I used smallport pistons and that was an interference engine. thats why this time round I rebuilt with the stock bigport pistons. And lucky its all good. Even with the cams she does not touch, I would say its close though.

Re:wiso's AW11 restoration to weekend fun/track car. (MCT_MR2)

Thu, 12 Jun 2014 20:29:03 GMT

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.

Re:wiso's AW11 restoration to weekend fun/track car. (wiso)

Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:23:34 GMT

Since the car was no longer needed for anything major I decided it was time to continue my pet project and try putting those quad throttles on. I went a little over board though. As I am doing something rather differant with these. I am going to try and run them on the stock 4age bigport ecu with AFM. Si I have gone to tremendous effort to make sure the things still has a nice factory drivable idle. so I made and idle bypass screw similar to what the bigport throttle body has and plumbed it to each runner after the butterflies.

I also tweaked the stock ISCV for cold starts and mounted that underneath and tee'd into the bypass pipe. So I should theoretically have full idle control.

I had to route the fuel lines and wiring a little differant to stock, but should all work the same. had to change to a corolla FPR as they curl off to the side rather than straight down like the mr2 item.

This was the goal, but I could not get the blacktop airbox to seal reliably enough for use with the afm. So I have to go back to the drawing board and work something else out. It would have been great to use that though as it looks soo factory. You wouldn't really pick it

Re:wiso's AW11 restoration to weekend fun/track car. (wiso)

Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:14:59 GMT

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.

Re:wiso's AW11 restoration to weekend fun/track car. (MR2QIK)

Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:18:53 GMT

Sorry to hear about all the dramas with the motor but good to hear it's all back together & running now.

Re:wiso's AW11 restoration to weekend fun/track car. (wiso)

Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:35:26 GMT

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.

Re:wiso's AW11 restoration to weekend fun/track car. (wiso)

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:57:41 GMT

I was doing some test driving around Sydney, making sure the engine was good. Went for a run through the Nasho with Tracey chasing.

At the new year i went down to my Dads place to sort out some niggly issues and give the car a good run to try and bed the engine in. the trip down I was leaking oil everywhere from the sump and dizzy seal, but it made the 900km journey.

While there I fitted up my new hurricance exhaust headers. modded the b-pipe to fit these. also reasled the sump again. last time I hope.

While there I painted the stock front bumper to match the colour. sanding the stock bars with 3 layers of paint is a prick to do.

I also did some finishing touches on the red one getting her ready to sell. So for the last time they are together I washed them and took some photos of my pair of twos.

Them having a quick kiss goodbye. HAHA

Re:wiso's AW11 restoration to weekend fun/track car. (wiso)

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:23:30 GMT

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.

Re:wiso's AW11 restoration to weekend fun/track car. (wiso)

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:18:15 GMT

Well it has been a while since an update was put up. I was VERY VERY depressed for a while as the car was not going well, giving me heaps of dramas with oil pressure issues. After doing the first bearings i replaced the crank, new bearings cleaned her best I could, started her up and same thing, after a hundred KM's got the low oil pressure AGAIN. So I bit the bullet and paid an engine builder to do all the machining work on the engine. Save me wondering where I went wrong. So I got all the normal stuff done.

Crank Linish, acid dip block, had to bore this block 0.020 oversize with new pistons, check deck, check head for valves seating, got the rotating assembly balenced.

So once again got the block back in peices. Re assembled it and the car Only to find that once again after the first drive had Low oil pressure once been running for a while. Long story short by luck I remove the oil cap to check for oil then glanced over at the guage, the pressure went back up. I have a not right return valve in the intake manifold that stops the crankcase breathing so the pressure builds and stuffs my oil pressure. Not really happy as that meant the second engine was fine.

Anyway I have about 2300km on the engine as of now and its running very fine. So finally happy

all the Parts back all balanced

This engine has been twaeked, using blacktop rods and flywheel to save rotating mass weight

Decided to go for my Blue and Silver theme this time around

Just waiting on the piston rings to arrive, did as much as I could

and all finished