G'day.
Car: 1976 Toyo Kogyo (mazda) 1300 two door sedan
As I originally bought it. I used to work for Smorgon Steelmark (big steel supplier) and one of my jobs was to buy workers safety clothing. The supplier I dealth with was run by a group of people who were all in the Brethren cult/sect/church/group (take your pick). There was one girl there who owned this car, another girl owned a reasonably quick Holden Commodore (VL for those of you who know what I'm talking about) while some of the other people working there had some pretty interesting stuff like Series 1 Cortinas etc.
Anyway, long story short, the girl with the Mazda (her name was Dolly... and this was right about the time that Dolly the clone sheep became public... oh the hilarity) got in an arrangement with a husband (arranged marriage, basically got packed off by her family and sent to the other side of Australia to Perth), so she needed to sell the Mazda.
Perfect. Cost me a bit above what other people were paying a the time but it came with all the paperwork from the 1st owner (I'm the third, the original owner was a Mrs Beverly Green of Hawthorn and she paid just over $3,000 for the car and the dealer included a radio in the deal. Nice. Sadly Because Dolly was in the Brethren and they don't listen to music they cut the dash and took it out
)
When I got the car home I found that a) Dolly had been doing burnouts as it had a replacement differential in it and b) her brother and dad had modified it a bit as it had extractors, 32/36 weber, momo steering wheel and big fat 205/60 tyres on 13x7 rims which buckled the guards.
Since then I first put in a 5spd gearbox out of the last of the RWD 323s, then I put in a 1.5 litre to replace the original 1.3, then I transplanted in a 12A motor with the help of some mates. That lasted about 3 weeks before it dropped a rotor in peak hour traffic one night.
So now it has a 12A mild extend port with a series 4 turbo gearbox, shortened Toyota Hilux/Hiace differential, 48IDA weber (as we couldnt find a decent 12A factory carburettor to run it and they're pretty much impossible to build and for the price of a modified one, I could get a weber and inlet manifold)
It was tuned on a Dyno Dynamics Dynamometer and made 120HP at 7,200 rpm but because the fuel pump is a bit small it's been tuned a bit conservatively, but with a proper pump that I've got and regulator plumbed in, it should make around 130HP easily
After I got ripped off on a gearbox, I have to track down another one and the diff centre needs rebuilding too, so I'm switching from the current 4.50 centre down to a 4.375
Front suspension uses modified RX-2/Capella struts with adjustable setup and the brakes are a combination of Toyota Tarago discs and Holden Camira calipers (Girlock). They work fantastically with the standard Toyota rear drums.
pics:
this was the first 12A. lesson learnt: "good runner" usually means "200,000+ km engine thats worth $5 not $250.
went in here
slightly modified RX-4 engine cross member. Gotta love Mazda parts interchangability and the fact that my car's a later widebody 1300.
Toyota differential that sat in my flat kitchen/lounge for 6months making a lovely modern/contemporary discussion peice. Eames arm chair eat your heart out. Ever carried a complete light truck diff up a flight of stairs? it sucks bot bot.
extremely dodgy weber linkage.
front struts
wheels I'm planning to use. (They're Enkei somethingsomething)
Plans:
Fit 3 gauge tachometer dash that I have from a narrow body 1300 coupe
Fit these mirrors to the front guards and remove the chromed drivers mirror. These ones are off a RX-4/Luce
ooofs. Not decided yet on what flares to fit, whether I can actually find a set of Bosu big arch flares is a different matter.
Pretty much decided on bob tail spoiler rather than the wing as shown on the back of the yellow RX-3 and RX-2 coupe.
I'll be going bumperless and probably fitting deflector wings like the RX-3 above too.
Flares. I have a set of these Hayashi wheels too.
Type of flares (bolt on fibreglass) I'll probably end up using.
Bobtail spoiler
R100 racer idea.
Perri RX3, apart from colour ideally I'd like to build a copy of this in 1300 spec. Problem would probably sourcing the big flares and the wide wheels.
And that's about it really. Only problem is finding the money to finish it and a panel beater that's not going to shaft me on fixing a few things I want done.
Car: 1976 Toyo Kogyo (mazda) 1300 two door sedan
As I originally bought it. I used to work for Smorgon Steelmark (big steel supplier) and one of my jobs was to buy workers safety clothing. The supplier I dealth with was run by a group of people who were all in the Brethren cult/sect/church/group (take your pick). There was one girl there who owned this car, another girl owned a reasonably quick Holden Commodore (VL for those of you who know what I'm talking about) while some of the other people working there had some pretty interesting stuff like Series 1 Cortinas etc.
Anyway, long story short, the girl with the Mazda (her name was Dolly... and this was right about the time that Dolly the clone sheep became public... oh the hilarity) got in an arrangement with a husband (arranged marriage, basically got packed off by her family and sent to the other side of Australia to Perth), so she needed to sell the Mazda.
Perfect. Cost me a bit above what other people were paying a the time but it came with all the paperwork from the 1st owner (I'm the third, the original owner was a Mrs Beverly Green of Hawthorn and she paid just over $3,000 for the car and the dealer included a radio in the deal. Nice. Sadly Because Dolly was in the Brethren and they don't listen to music they cut the dash and took it out
)When I got the car home I found that a) Dolly had been doing burnouts as it had a replacement differential in it and b) her brother and dad had modified it a bit as it had extractors, 32/36 weber, momo steering wheel and big fat 205/60 tyres on 13x7 rims which buckled the guards.
Since then I first put in a 5spd gearbox out of the last of the RWD 323s, then I put in a 1.5 litre to replace the original 1.3, then I transplanted in a 12A motor with the help of some mates. That lasted about 3 weeks before it dropped a rotor in peak hour traffic one night.
So now it has a 12A mild extend port with a series 4 turbo gearbox, shortened Toyota Hilux/Hiace differential, 48IDA weber (as we couldnt find a decent 12A factory carburettor to run it and they're pretty much impossible to build and for the price of a modified one, I could get a weber and inlet manifold)
It was tuned on a Dyno Dynamics Dynamometer and made 120HP at 7,200 rpm but because the fuel pump is a bit small it's been tuned a bit conservatively, but with a proper pump that I've got and regulator plumbed in, it should make around 130HP easily
After I got ripped off on a gearbox, I have to track down another one and the diff centre needs rebuilding too, so I'm switching from the current 4.50 centre down to a 4.375
Front suspension uses modified RX-2/Capella struts with adjustable setup and the brakes are a combination of Toyota Tarago discs and Holden Camira calipers (Girlock). They work fantastically with the standard Toyota rear drums.
pics:
this was the first 12A. lesson learnt: "good runner" usually means "200,000+ km engine thats worth $5 not $250.
went in here
slightly modified RX-4 engine cross member. Gotta love Mazda parts interchangability and the fact that my car's a later widebody 1300.
Toyota differential that sat in my flat kitchen/lounge for 6months making a lovely modern/contemporary discussion peice. Eames arm chair eat your heart out. Ever carried a complete light truck diff up a flight of stairs? it sucks bot bot.
extremely dodgy weber linkage.
front struts
wheels I'm planning to use. (They're Enkei somethingsomething)
Plans:
Fit 3 gauge tachometer dash that I have from a narrow body 1300 coupe
Fit these mirrors to the front guards and remove the chromed drivers mirror. These ones are off a RX-4/Luce
ooofs. Not decided yet on what flares to fit, whether I can actually find a set of Bosu big arch flares is a different matter.
Pretty much decided on bob tail spoiler rather than the wing as shown on the back of the yellow RX-3 and RX-2 coupe.
I'll be going bumperless and probably fitting deflector wings like the RX-3 above too.
Flares. I have a set of these Hayashi wheels too.
Type of flares (bolt on fibreglass) I'll probably end up using.
Bobtail spoiler
R100 racer idea.
Perri RX3, apart from colour ideally I'd like to build a copy of this in 1300 spec. Problem would probably sourcing the big flares and the wide wheels.
And that's about it really. Only problem is finding the money to finish it and a panel beater that's not going to shaft me on fixing a few things I want done.
just picture the needle of the speedo now lying at the bottom of the gauge. not good
