Gazoo Racing are making replacement looms and it seems that Toyota themselves are having issues with some of the plugs. The instructions state to re-use a couple of the connectors on the new loom.

https://toyotagazooracing.com/gr/heritage/ae86/

Download pdf at bottom of page.

These cars and their wiring looms are now around 40 years old and faults like broken wires are a nightmare to locate. Given we now appear to know that these crimps can cause problems should we post up where they are located in the loom when we find one, broken or not?

Just an info. post. For anyone having problems with their distributor and in particular the pick ups inside it maybe worth checking the wiring from the plug. On two of my distributors the common ground wire (white) was breaking away from a crimped joiner that is used to split the ground. You will ne...

I can buy a 20v silvertop head quite cheaply to try, do you know if there is any truth in coolant passages not aligning correctly with 16v engine blocks? l thought all of the later blocks were the same.

Based on inlet type. Sounds a bit odd but the regulations l must abide by suggest the engine must use the standard inlet type from the factory. Currently l have a 16v smallport that has all of the expected modifications, properly ported head, high compression pistons etc. but it must retain a standa...

I looked at the BC rear spring adjusters but it seems they only work with their own springs. Do you know if the pictured ones are BC? Thanks

Does anyone know of any other car springs that might fit? I am specifically NOT looking for lowering springs, in fact l'm looking to raise it. Thanks

I think that just a small amount could be used to advantage, l'm guessing here but 2° (1° in/ 1° out) would probably be enough to make a difference. I couldn't really get my head around how the short links affect what is going on, they can't physically change the arc that the links run through. lt i...

No, not going mad! It occured to me that the rear axle has an element of rear steer due to link arm angles. lf the bottom link arms point down to the axle at ride height as the car corners and weight is transfered the out side rear spring compresses (the inside elongates) when the spring compresses ...

Thank you.

BC springs are good for 11mm of lift and fit in the stock spring seats. I've checked - https://www.club4ag.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15683&start=30#p104740 I don't run the engine past 8200 rpm do you think those springs would cope ok? (Re. the comment about 7MG quality in the post) Engine uses...

Fair point about spring rotation. l think the best way to approach this is to replace the valve springs with some that will allow 10.5mm lift and will fit with the original bottom retainer. lncidently Catcams suggest the removal of the bottom spring retainer for their springs. Any ideas for springs ...

I have a couple of modified smallport cylinder heads, one came on an engine fully assembled and working. Not knowing any details about the head l decided to fit the springs and cams to another head that l had professionally modified. When l went to fit the springs (unknown make but probably CatCams)...

If you want a blacktop that is pretty much what you expect to see.
If it came as a complete unit $1300 is cheap so would be worth rebuilding should you need to.

Brilliant!
Thanks for this and l'm happy the values l'm using are close to ideal.
I will use 3.64v - 100 kpa as shown.

The AEM ecu requires max and min voltages plus max and min pressures, it does not have a learning facility. I used a MAP enabled AE86 specific Freedom ecu to read the pressures and the AEM to show the voltages, the voltages are not affected by calibration changes. A Mityvac was used to obtain the va...

These are U.K AE86 MAP sensor values (unless anyone knows any different )
Min volts 0.87
Min kpa 21

Max volts 3.80
Max kpa 114

You will find some in Ireland
BUT
You will have to try hard to get them shipped.

What a great 'find' that diagram is for me! Takes a little thought to get your head around the timings but it is invaluable, thank you. Where's it from?? Thanks jondee86, can count on you to always deliver such great diagrams & pics, besides all them words! All of the 'regulars' on here are fan...

Indeed l am desperate not to halve the injector pulse for the reason you mention. Probably over the summer l will try to adapt a proper crank trigger wheel to my power steering pulley as this seems to be the best way forward. I know there a a few companies that make a RWD P/S crank trigger pulley bu...

What a great 'find' that diagram is for me! Takes a little thought to get your head around the timings but it is invaluable, thank you. I will check again but I'm fairly sure my loom is set to inject all four at once (we have already had this conversation..) but my engine from the factory has the fo...

Sorry l should have said, l'm using a programmable ecu with the stock loom so l'm just trying to replicate what the stock ecu does.
l have no desire to go sequential.

Does anyone know how often the stock ecu fires the injectors?
Ideally in engine degrees (over 720°) or distributor teeth.
My distributor has 24 ne teeth at 30° and 4 cam? teeth at
180°

yabaiani wrote:would AMS Oil 75W-90 in the transmission be good or no? or should i go with either Red Line MT 85 or AMSOIL 5W 30 manual synchromesh transmission fluid?

what are the pros and cons of either?

Did we just go around in a great big loop, wasn't this the original question?

Just wondered if there is an issue with mixing synthetic with mineral oils (however small the quantity) for these applications?

Redline transformed the gear change in my T50 gearbox and l like Motul 90 PA for a TRD diff.

What happens if you very slowly increase the power through the problem rpm area?
It may or may not be an acceleration correction problem.

Sure it's a pita to remove/replace but that is only because Toyota do things right, the hidden stuff is done properly too.
I once navigated in a Peugeot 205gti and we had to retire as the dashboard literally fell off

If the distributor has a pin holding the gear on, remove the pin and rotate the gear 180° on the distributor shaft
Re-fit distributor as normal.
Use a new roll pin to secure the gear.

Really helpful advice for someone.