Ian.G's Track/Drift Levin.

Bunta Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 842 Location: Greece

Better and better every time! Can't wait to see your beauty rollin'.... Thumbsup

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject:

It looks like a car Shocked

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zenki grill - late spots - result.

Ryousuke Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 186 Location: UK

Looking good Ian.

Nice to see that you have sorted out the front camber and ride height at the front Smile

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 8:47 pm Post subject:

Next time when I hear news from you in this topic, I wanna see a video with this baby running.
Amazing job, well worth of waiting I suppose.

IT IS NICE Thumbsup

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:29 pm Post subject:

I'm loving it ! Puh

Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 5:10 am Post subject:

OOOO

Very Very Sexy.... I`m Loving Drool

RESPECT

Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 7:55 am Post subject:

Bunta Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 842 Location: Greece

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:29 pm Post subject:

Centre panel.

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Dash cluster

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The exterior pulls have been done and the cables just tucked behind the dash until I trim them down.

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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:26 am Post subject:

Ian....do you even know, yourself, just how cool your car is, or are you blinded by know???

Worship

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject:

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:44 pm Post subject:

Oh man... This is definitely one of the best build hachis ever! Thumbsup

Takumi Joined: 20 Oct 2008 Posts: 314 Location: Lithuania

Nice car mate Smile

What front bumper is that??

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:28 pm Post subject:

Cheers for all your kind words guys. You've put up with my ramblings about this car for long enough LOL.

As for the bodywork, The front and rear bumpers and sideskirts are All RunFree/AlphaStyle Levin Type II. See them here.

The red RunFree car was really my inspiration for the externals of the car and you can see more on this cool video. Deffo one of the nicest looking after market kits available.

I really hope we can get it running soon - very eager to drive the car and see how it performs.

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject:

Its home in my garage - I can get back to work on it now.

My new windows are all installed too so thats it now really - just have to put some spring latches on the tail gate for regulations.

So what is left to do - seemly enough to keep me busy over christmas Cool

Still - it was a happy day. Its just over 3 years since I blew up the car and started the route to toyondadom. Its really nice to finally see that I will hopefully be able to drive it again quite soon.

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Looking forward to getting to know it. Cool

Bunta Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 842 Location: Greece

Did you drive her yet? Nice to see her home.... Cheerleader

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:28 pm Post subject:

Three year already! Time flies!! Shocked

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject:

I have just one question. If I wanted to put exactly the same spoilers in my Levin coupe, would it need some kind of modifications? Are the coupe and hatchbacks the same?
Thumbsup

Beautiful car... Wave

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject:

Yep - front/rear bumpers and side skirts are the same for a 2-door coupe as they are for the 3-door hatch. Thumbsup

Obviously if you have a trueno front end you would need to get the trueno-specific front - but run free do those too.

Joined: 17 Dec 2008 Posts: 8 Location: california

very nive very clean! Drool

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:27 pm Post subject:

Love this build! got to be at the T O P in my Hall of Fame Worship

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:49 pm Post subject:

great Ian, Sir!! not alot left there then, eh? keep it up man! let us hear it!! Smile

and see it going its first steps to the real world!! Smile

adam

Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 2

Good Job man ,
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Enjoyment

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:08 pm Post subject: hey

ian what det you do wit wiering did you youse s2000 wiering for the engien to box or what? regards..

its a nice one mann

Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 3:50 pm Post subject:

Hi man - the wiring loom uses a near standard s2000 engine loom mated to an AEM ECU with exactly the correct connectors. The rest of the loom is all custom and yet to be made.

Some good stuff has been happening.

Throttle Linkage - its Jenvey's std ITB linkage kit. The ITB lever needed slight trim to clear the airbox (which I previously sorted when building up the inlet side of the engine) The firewall end has been sorted to enter the car and the pedal has had a modification at the top to carry the cable. Can't wait to mash it to the floor.

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When I get some time I'll replace the cable in the future. When we built our hayabusa powered westi we found a place over near Mansfield that makes the most amazing throttle cables you'll ever find to your custom specifications. You'll never break one again trust me (I need to remember what they are caled though - ha!)

19 Row cooler and stat/sandwich plate. I was going to remove the heat exchanger/water jacket from the oil filter but for now is fine - plus we dont have to think about blanking out the water line that runs round the front of the engine.

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Oil lines were measured up to custom lengths as we wanted as little additional pipework in the system as possible and everything nice and simple. The other end of the cooling system looks like this.

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Big 13" push fan for the stupidly large radiator. Ad's is just finishing up the mouting brackets for the cooler itself and a small bracket to secure the oil lines onto the chassis leg. The air dams in the front bumper will feel all this stuff nicely without any need for additional shrouding.

New harnesses - nut straps and all. I suspect I'll not be moving very much once lashed into the toyonda.

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Seats feel like they have shrunk with age or something LOL. I've also started to measure up all the bits of cage padding for the A-pillars, roof and door bars so that will be in soon too.

Got my hands on some Castrol SRF brake fluid and brand new bleed nipples for each caliper This castrol stuff is the $#!+. Normal stuff to flush through and then the good stuff goes in. I was seriously thinking of replacing the front brakes with AP's but I never ever suffered fade on the track so I can save a packet. The Mazda 4pots seemed pretty shit hot before.

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Main drive belt for Alternator and Water pump all sorted.

This just needs the breather lines finishing and a catch tank then its ready for electrics and petrol. I think I'm going to use the drain line on the bottom of the MOCAL catch tank to go straight back into the sump - that way I'll only dump oil on the track if I can manage to surge 1L of oil all at once - doubtful. A powerful impreza engine can surge .5L of oil when you lauch it - I have no powers by comparison LOL. Plus the back end of the car would probably explode if I add any more.

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I've got to do a touch of heat proofing on the firewall and off side rear chassis leg to protect it from heat generated by the primaries. I've got some gold material that will hopefully do just that. As there is between 5-10mm of space between the leg and the pipe the temperature will be drastically lower due to air flow so I only need to barrier for approx 80deg of heat instead of 900deg. You can get these neat stickers from Merlin motorsport that will measure temps where you stick them - very useful stuff.

Rear hatch clips all sorted.

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Sold my Equip 03's a few weeks ago to a chap in Germany which left me litterally on bricks LOL. I took the pair of 9J S1's I had in the garage over today to try them for size. With ET-10 instead of -15 they fit in the streched tin arches just fine.

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I really need to get my hands on another pair of these - if anyone sees a pair of these (15" 8J or 9J specifically) let me know - I want them urgently. I've also got a full set of 15J Compmotive ML's coming (8J front 9J rear) so I'll have plenty to play with.

Who knows - we could litterally weeks away from high rev screamer mayhem.