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go to your local hardware store and get yourself some aluminum bar. It is fairly easy to bend with a vise, easy to drill, and is relatively strong. Hint: mock it up with cardboard before you start cutting and drilling. Here's my IC mount (well, the top anyway):

not that it will help that much with tramlining, but dial a little more camber into that front suspension. unless you're doing all of your driving on the highway, you are losing handling performance at -0.6 degrees.

Unless you want to manufacture your own, chances are you'll need to buy from RonnieK if you want stiffer than stock. Bonus feature of his, they incorporate the spacers as well.

toyota bushings are no longer available. How fast do you need the bushings? I've got brand new (ok, 2000 mile) front ones (4) in my cracked subframe that I don't need. The subframe however is still in the car. And it's -20 outside.

did you measure the valve shim clearance?

Whoa, that's good to know.

The shop in Edmonton I'm having my block built has been top-notch so far. They're a V8 shop, but have built a couple 7M engines. Balanced my rotating assembly to 0.1 g and my cylinder bores machined within 0.0001" of eachother. They've got good machinery and seem to know their stuff. They...

if you're on the stock ecu, its a good idea. Cracked ringlands on #6 of my engine sure suggest I should have left it on...

If you delete the EGR at the intake runners instead of removing the cooler and installing a block plate there, you are still blanketing the back of your head with hot exhaust (which there may or may not be cooling system provisions in the head for), hence the heat buildup comment. It is...

I've got a few OEM EGR gaskets kicking around. PM me if you want one. I've also got an extra cooler plate if you need it.

a loose pulley... loose crank bolt wouldn't cause your compression and leakdown results.

broken ringland should show more compression than that, mine still made 125 psi and the ringland was broken over 1/8 of the piston. Start with measuring valve clearances and go from there.

MPI consumables are dirt cheap. Costs a bit to get into for the backyard mechanic though. If the crank didn't fail due to a casting flaw that was brought out of hibernation by increased engine ou, its possible that the machinist managed to gouge the fillet radius of the journal creating a...

I know tanabes are orange.

I'm impressed that you dd a car you track. Mine feels (well, felt) harsh on the road and like a wet noodle on the track. What does it tip the scales at (sorry if it is posted and I didn't read). Adam

forged and hardened are independent processes - forging is the rough forming process while hardening is a surface treatment.

yep, you need the tube, the nut, and the compression ferrule.

that would be awesome. did you do any combustion chamber work (smoothing and unshrouding valves, etc)?

So, after buying a cracked "built" head, I finally tracked down a head free of combustion chamber cracks. Off to the shop for cleaning and a valve job, then I'll try my hand at porting. (Casting #3 on this head) As far as the block is concerned, thankfully the worst cylinder cleaned up at...

well, lets go on a pictoral journey then. Last summer, I sold my dd so I drove the car for a few months with a shiny new turbo. It was pushing oil out the intake so, I did a compression test. 1-5 :) 6 :( #6: #3: Expensive replacement head: Aside from the block being at the...