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This fantastic hot-rod has a highly modified Ford flat-head V8 built by Road & Track. The engine has been re-worked to include:-
- hard valve seats and special valves to allow unleaded fuel
- high lift camshaft and altered springs
- full flow oil filter
- modified block deck, to "port" the valves
- inlet manifold modifed to allow modern Holley carby
Since the engine was built , we have further helped the owner install a Jaguar IRS rear supension, custom tailshaft, wheel re-drilling etc.
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This car started life as an "original" unmolested country car. Most of the work so-far has gone into getting the body work just right, and it now sports a custom purple with ghost stripes, totally undertaken by the owners.
Road and Track located and rebuilt a 265, with minor head work, Stage 2 cam with matching valve springs and fully balanced it. The engine now sports the same purple as the bodywork. Extractors and a Holley 350, fitted by the owners, complete the engine package.
These pics where taken at Wintersun 2009, just 3 days after getting registered
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Toyota MRS spyder widebody
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Built for Autosalon, this radical MRS started life as a stock Australian delivered MRS, comple with SMT transmisison. The super-rare Veilside body kit is one of only a few in Australia.
Recent work by Road & Track involved changing the clutch and repairing the SMT operating system. Faults in the SMT operating systems lead to poor gear changes and/or slipping clutch, and are notoriously difficult to repair. Unfortunatelly all new parts for this unique system must be genuine Toyota ones, so repairs are always costly.
The Toyota SMT (sequential manual transmisison) is unique to MRS models. Basically, a hydraukic actuator is bolted to the side of a "conventional" C60 Toyota gearbox, and this device operates the clutch lever and the gear selectors. In late models like this, the throttle is also partially controlled, so quick downchanges can be accompanied by a "blip" of the throttle, to ease the syncro loads.
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The custom MR2 came to us suffering various 3SGTE engine problems. Dismantling found it had been improperly tuned and had been detonating badly for some time.
The pistons were badly damaged from this, resulting in metal going thru the engine lube system, scratching the crank, cams etc. A picture of the damaged piston shows what we often find in these engines.
A major engine rebuild included steel (not cast iron) liners into the block to better withstand high boost pressures.The rebuild also included new forged pistons, ground and balanced crank, billet conrods , modifed cams running on shimless buckets, big valves fitted with matching chamber & port work. A specially imported 80mm throttle body with matching manifold was port-matched to the head.
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WE STOCK A HUGE RANGE OF NEW , REBUILT AND USED PARTS FOR THIS MODEL
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Custom cars
