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Painted the sides today. Hood and rear still need some work, but they're separated from the side parts by the orange lines, so no need to paint them at the same time. I just wanted to see how the satin black is going to look I will paint the window trims as well, but the last owner sprayed over...

Found a filler/rust hell from my car. I already painted the orange sides, but found other cracked panels with way too much filler, so might as well just repaint the whole car. It will be a DIY job with every crack being sanded to metal and treated with phosphoric acid, but this time I'm going to...

Hi, got my 1200hp Fitech dual quad running pretty well after changing fuel pressure regulators and swapping to higher flowing fuel pump. Now I'd like to fine tune my ignition to as good as possible before I can get to dyno. I'll try to write everything I've done so far here, so my questions make...

Cut a hole thrpugh the trunk to see the damaged crossmember better. Accidentally cut a bit into the crossmember as well, but that's luckily the easier thing to fix up. The last owner fixed these oval holes with ******* epoxy filler. No wonder the shock came loose. My plan is now to cut this...

First start with Fitech dual EFI. It sounds so much cleaner than with out of tune carbs I had previously. Now only job left is to finish the wiring and mount the fuel lines properly

No idea to be honest. I hope so. The Toyota rear axle seem to be mated to the car pretty well, so I think that the guy who did it figured it out. Also the hole seems to be damaged upwards, so it seems that the shocks had enough lenght to expand.

So today I was changing my fuel sending unit and noticed that my right shock absorber was completely loose from top. Didn't have enoight light/time to diagnose it from below of the car, but noticed from the trunk that the hole where the shock bolt comes through was completely fucked up. I...

Fitech answered very quickly to email I sent them. Their official stance is the 2nd picture: "On the duel quad system for plumbing the fuel lines. You can bring the feed line in to the rear throttle body and tee off to the front throttle to supply it. Then for the return line you can return off...

Got sick of my carbs being out of tune and not finding anybody with expertise to tune them without half a year of waiting here in Finland and finally bought the dual quad set. I have experience with EFI systems (megasquirt) from my earlier Porsche 924 Turbo, but this kind of dual throttlebody...

Not yet, my timing light didn't work. Gotta buy a new lamp for it. That's a good point, solid +60 all the time. Will do that next time I go to the garage I don't know, there's no sideways play so it should be I think? I'm not the one who built this this engine but it was done 6 years ago by...

So I've kept investigating the strange knocking/pinging of my car. So far I've checked cylinder pressures, oil, oil pressure, opened oil filter, tested pistons for vertical slack with screwdriver after tdc, flex plate bolts, valvetrain etc. Everything seems completely ok. However today I found...

Well good ending to this story. Readjusted everything one more time, letting the lifters fully decompress before doing anything (loosened the adjusting nut, waited 10 min listening to music and then adjusted preload to 1/2 turns. This got rid of the "dragging/grinding" sound. So most likely they...

Well I'm not an expert on engine noises but so far all of the strange noises that I've had on this engine are: First startup after last winter: Really excess knocking. At first it felt that every lifter was knocking, started to slow down (lifters starting to work) after running for minute or...

Thanks guys, I'll try to readjust them one more time. I actually found crane cams documentation and they said that if it's used lifter then you should let it decompress for a while (1-2mins) after loosening the adjustment. I just loosened the adjustment until I had some slack between the rocker...

Writing this on a phone so pardon me for any typos :) So i had some lifter noise. Thought that I would just have to readjust my rocker arms and it woild get fixed. Asked the old owner and he told me that car has this camshaft: COMP Cams CL20-228-4 COMP Cams Xtreme Energy Hi-Lift Cam and Lifter...