FreeEMSFred
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- Joined
- Nov 2, 2009
- Location
- Kiwiland
I've had this car for quite a while now, having originally bought it for the engine for a tiny sum of $900NZ from a tired and weary previous owner who had been stranded three times, blown a fuel pump, and been towed home by a truck due to lack of functional odometer/trip counter AND fuel gauge. I fixed the odo using Dave Barton's gears a few weeks back, and got a lousy 400km from 62 litres (must've nearly been dry). That sort of mileage is the price you pay for doing a burnout almost every day and redlining first and second gear where ever the opportunity presents itself. Twin cam engines are just like that. Love to be revved.
So I bought it for the engine... but it's too damn nice to scrap! So I'm doing the natural thing and keeping it forever. Seems logical. Logical, like falling in love, only with more passion and lubricants (only the best synthetics). I only have 9 cars including this one, and the 940 wagon will die soon in a way that somewhat follows in the foot steps of some other turbo brickers (more on this later!). That leaves only 8, pretty reasonable for one person, I think.
I have big plans for this car. A sleeper it will be. 500hp @ the crank is the plan. Should be cake considering the stroke and bore. I have a clean (and yet very dirty on the outside) 1994 940 squirter block in good shape to combine with the top end of the B234F (so I can not worry about it all the time), and the mandatory cross member and mounts, too. Yoshifab can supply the necessary parts, including rods, pistons, and cambelt stuff.
I juts have to figure out how to make the trans handle it, however linuxman has done quite a lot of writing up on how to go 9s on these tiny toyota transmissions. Big thanks to him for that!
I have two 1041 940 axles with Eaton G80 guts. I have played with one of these a bit (read, sweet donuts in 940 B234F wagon (yes, got two of these engines, both running strong)) and really like them! Normal most of the time, welded when you need it. Not ideal for track use or windy roads, but great for skids and groceries. Might be OK at the strip, too. We'll see. In any case, one of these will go in fairly soon as the safety inspection sticker runs out on xmas day, the hand brake drum setup has monster play, and I do not want to be without this for very long, as I don't like parking my 240 wagon in public unsupervised.
The first iteration will likely be a B234F + TD05HR-16G setup as practice for the 240 wagon, as that's what I want to do to that. Once that setup migrates to the 240, it'll leave room for the big power build in this.
First things first, though, FreeEMS must do burnouts using this 740 as an embodiment. And so it will be done, before the end of January, unless I decide to do the 240 first. Makes little difference, except that this sees more day to day use.
A few pics for those now falling asleep:
Such a sweet car! Thanks to Josh and Nick for recommending my first Volvo back in 2009, and Abe for helping me find one, and y'all for the wealth of info out there on this site and others. Great stuff
Fred.
So I bought it for the engine... but it's too damn nice to scrap! So I'm doing the natural thing and keeping it forever. Seems logical. Logical, like falling in love, only with more passion and lubricants (only the best synthetics). I only have 9 cars including this one, and the 940 wagon will die soon in a way that somewhat follows in the foot steps of some other turbo brickers (more on this later!). That leaves only 8, pretty reasonable for one person, I think.
I have big plans for this car. A sleeper it will be. 500hp @ the crank is the plan. Should be cake considering the stroke and bore. I have a clean (and yet very dirty on the outside) 1994 940 squirter block in good shape to combine with the top end of the B234F (so I can not worry about it all the time), and the mandatory cross member and mounts, too. Yoshifab can supply the necessary parts, including rods, pistons, and cambelt stuff.
I juts have to figure out how to make the trans handle it, however linuxman has done quite a lot of writing up on how to go 9s on these tiny toyota transmissions. Big thanks to him for that!
I have two 1041 940 axles with Eaton G80 guts. I have played with one of these a bit (read, sweet donuts in 940 B234F wagon (yes, got two of these engines, both running strong)) and really like them! Normal most of the time, welded when you need it. Not ideal for track use or windy roads, but great for skids and groceries. Might be OK at the strip, too. We'll see. In any case, one of these will go in fairly soon as the safety inspection sticker runs out on xmas day, the hand brake drum setup has monster play, and I do not want to be without this for very long, as I don't like parking my 240 wagon in public unsupervised.
The first iteration will likely be a B234F + TD05HR-16G setup as practice for the 240 wagon, as that's what I want to do to that. Once that setup migrates to the 240, it'll leave room for the big power build in this.
First things first, though, FreeEMS must do burnouts using this 740 as an embodiment. And so it will be done, before the end of January, unless I decide to do the 240 first. Makes little difference, except that this sees more day to day use.
A few pics for those now falling asleep:
Such a sweet car! Thanks to Josh and Nick for recommending my first Volvo back in 2009, and Abe for helping me find one, and y'all for the wealth of info out there on this site and others. Great stuff
Fred.