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  1. this may be a bit out there/ignorant/lazy question cause i'm still fairly new to the toyota stuff... but here it goes:

     

    Any body know how similar or easy it would be to adapt this bell housing you're working to an early landcruiser transmission if it all? I want to say completely differant, aka completely differant/unrelated project but I've been a bit curious about the ez36, but I dunno if that really would be all that satisfying for the cost vs dropping in a cummins 4bt or 6bt I've been dreaming of :slobber: but I'm still curious about it...

     

    The first step to every long juorney is the first step, Me and Matt made the descision at the very begining about what we would be building, that focus must not be detoured

    I spend about $5000.00 per design, and hundreds of man hours building one pattern, then some guy from Texas writes to me and says ' my neighbor has a trans he aint using, could you build me an adaptor for it? ' ( true story)

    whats in your wallet?:)

  2. hey bill, are the mounting holes for the toyota pressure plate and subaru pressure plate on about the same circumference?

     

    my buddy that is running ungodly power via a NA clutch gave me the web page that made the pressure plate for him.

     

    clutchnet.com

     

    they manufacture their own clutches. so i was thinking either have have a toyota pressure plate drilled with the subaru pattern or have a subaru one built with toyota diaphragm springs.

     

    or i know there were a couple good clutch places around here that used to make clutches how ever you wanted.

     

    i don't know, just thinking out loud you probably have more clutch connections then i ever will

     

    the bottom line is cost. when I build a bellhousing, I want a cost effective, easy to get parts for, system that an entry level guy can afford.

    There aint nothin worse then buying something that dont fit and then you gotta buy this and that and grind something down, thats all crap

    The bellhousing should do all the design work, the parts should be 'over the counter' stuff from the local parts store, after that, if somebody wants to spend a ton of money on the latest and greatest ..............have at it dude!

  3. lets have some fun >;o)

    one of your fearless members asked me about a bellhousing to mate the sub engine to a purely rwd unit, preferably the toyota w series transmission, i thought it was a neet idea

    the only trouble was is that my main man mellow65 lived a cool 1500 miles away from me, so he sent me some material in the mail

     

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    come a long way >;o)

  4. the contct circle in the clutch diaphram is huge compared to what I am used to, either the throwout bearing will be found or the diaphram spring must be replaced

     

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    the disc is a dirct bolt up from the Toyota 22r engine, the Sub is on the left and the Toy is on the right , both 9 inch

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    the pilot bearing on the toy and the sub are the same, that is a Toyota w 55/59 input shaft with a Toyota 9in disc attached to the sub flywheel and pilot bearing

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    the Sub pressure plate bolts right over the Toyota disc, fits like a glove

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    the Toyota W series trans face plate mated to the Toyota disc in the Sub flywheel/pressure plate, this will also re-use the Sub starter

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    its looking good but we have alot of work to do yet

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  5. This is awesome!!! Are you going to be selling these?

     

    kinda the idea, yea, once I get done building them:)

     

    depending on the throw out bearing the cost should be in the mid $300.00 range

     

    the design hopes to use all Sub hardware , like clutch fork, pivot ball and slave cylinder flywheel. starter and pressure plate with just a Toyota disc to finish the build

  6. I went out and bought a Sub core motor for mock up

     

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    I built a rotisary to be able to move the engine in any position and make adjustments as the build proceeds

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    I mounted up an R 150 Toyota trans to check input shaft length and some cenetering, it looks like it is coming along nicely

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  7. I cut out the clutch controls and the starter bagage, then reconsruted it to size

     

     

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    there are two trans bolt patterns fit into the trans facing, one is for the W series Toyota trans, the other is for the R series Toyota trans, that way it will offer more selection for what you want to do

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    I like to build a little cleaner looking sides and improve the draft lines for the casting shop

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    its important to visualize when reconstructing the starter pocket, that this will shrink by 1% in all directions , so this pattern must be adjusted to a larger size then expected

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    I am going to leave the clutch controls alone until I assemble the whole unit and test the throw out bearing operation, the measurements are just too critical at this point to make a mistake

     

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    the trans bolt pattern is not traced out for looks, I build a wide bolt flange landing before the bellhousing walls are built as a guide, I need to know the bolt pattern before I can add structure gussets from the side wall down to the trans face plate

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    looks like this bellhousing is tired of all the surgury >;o)

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  8. after the bellhousing was measured and cut down to size, the back of the new housing was squared with the front of the housing

     

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    then the new trans facing was put into place and indexed to the proper angle

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    the facing was ancored and the lower skirt was decided on for the proper drafting while casting

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    then each panel is cut out and replaced to build a conforming justure from the front of the housing to the trans mounting surface

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  9. sorry about the late reply, yes, I been puttering with my little Sub project.

    I build a variety of housings and ship around the world and get a bit distracted

    This is for the T 56 to the narrow block 4G63 Mits engine

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    This fits the R 154 to either the wide block or the narrow block or the EVO's Mits engine

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    sometimes I can dream, sometimes I can invent and sometimes I can build, but it dont work like an assembly line, sucsess is usually a series of small failures >;o)

  10. lets have some fun >;o)

    one of your fearless members asked me about a bellhousing to mate the Sub engine to a purely RWD unit, preferably the Toyota W series transmission, I thought it was a neet idea

    the only trouble was is that my main man mellow65 lived a cool 1500 miles away from me, so he sent me some material in the mail

     

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    the first thing I did was to square the rear of the housing so i could set it on its back and get my centers

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    then I cleaned out the center section so I could indicate my centers

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    this one number is critical to the datum lines

     

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    then I could cut down the rear of the housing to the right length for the input shaft

     

     

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    after all that, a datum plate had to be built to hold everything in place while building the pattern, the bolt pattern is built into this datum plate and a center locater is placed in it

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    the existing belhousing is bolted to the datum plate

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    then a center dowel is placed off the datum

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    then the front plate removed from a W 58 Toyota trans is attached to the center

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    and that gives you a roughed in sketch to work with to build a pattern

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    the next step is to build the back plate on the bellhousing

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