Marseille

1. 1JZ-GTE also has 2 turbines. Or you meant you were swapping late 1JZ with VVTi & single-turbo? Actually, it's ok to fit twin-turbo in altezza. You just need to custom modify your exhaust according to altezza's remaining parts on the right - you'll discover it during the process. 2. The engine mounts: it was a wonderful surprise for me that JZ perfectly sits on stock 3S-GE's engine mounts. You don't need to modify them at all! My friends who recently swapped JZ in their altezzas used JZ's engine mounts and had to modify 'em. But I've tried to put it on stock 3S-GE's mounts - and it was ok. My 2JZ-GTE sits perfectly on 'em. 3. Radiator: stock 3S-GE rad is possible to use but with thinner fans. But to cool the new engine you better should choose a thicker copper rad. Even a stock radiator from good old diesel corolla will suffit (3S-GE's stock rad is too thin for JZ).

Thanks, mate. I've just understood the half of what you tried to explain. Probably it is because of my poor English. Particularly I can't get all the things about the KPI and inclination and its dependance on allignment of castor/camber... Well, I need some time and an explanation in native language to understand all the stuff. But thank you very much, anyway! Mat, I've wrote you a PM about tom's tension rods... I'll buy 'em.

Mat, where did you get TOM's tension rods??? I"ve just searched the japanese catalogue and didn't find any there... BTW, as you were going into EDC, soon you'll find the nessesity of more agressive steering angle. I'm sorry, english is my second language... What do you mean by "Ackerman" or "TOOT"? I don't understand that, sorry. The gain I'm looking for is extremely wide steering angle that enables better drift angles at high speeds. I thought adjustable tie rods enable increasing steer angle... And to adjust the castor angle I thought I need adjustable tension rod... Isn't that correct? Sorry, what did you mean by that? BTW, camber -3 and castor +6 - is the setting most preferable for drifting. Could you please explain that again but more simplified? So you mean that I'll need an 'adjustable negative camber A-arm' to adjust the proper camber angle? So will this increase the steering angle without any other stuff? I'm sorry for tons of questions, but you are here - the main source of info for me. Thank you in advance.

Hi everyone! I'm from Russia, Moscow. Now I'm building a drifty altezza with 2JZ-GTE (from JZS147 Aristo) and R154 tranny (from JZZ30 Soarer). I've already installed Tein Flex coils, thick Hotchkis swaybars and all the braces (upper/lower/front/rear). Now I'm seriously concerned about steering angle and allignments... WTF! Any ricy-drifter on 200SX/Silvia can easily get all the drifty stuff like "all-in-1 package for building a D1 car"! And what about us, the luxury drifters? ;) Look what I've found to make our cars drift with better, more agressive angles: 1. REINFORCED ADJUSTABLE TIE RODS. The ones I've found are made by JIC-magic for JZX110 (Mark2/Verossa). Our suspension is 100% equal to JZX110. These increase the turn angle by aprox. 5 degrees. Here's the link to jap site (look for "Performance T-Rod"). It costs 17000JPY, which is fair enough. 2. QUICK STEERING KNUCKLES I found these from our japanese brothers "Altezza Drift Club". They used to have these short knuckles from "GT-Net". But I've purchased the ones from C-One Motorsport. Here's the link to C-One's site (look for "QUICK STEERING KNUCKLES" there). The price is 48000JPY. I've already installed them - this really rocks! The steering angle increased, also the lock-to-lock of the steering wheel decreased a bit, which is really helpful at turning from side to side while drifting (also when you do fish tails). BUT... I've searched all the net and I couldn't find any adjustable TIE ROD ENDS (for more extreme turning angles, and a must-have thing for lowered cars) and TENSION RODS (for changing the caster angle - to make it like, you know, these Mercedes crazy laying-on-the-road wheels) for IS/Altezza! Well, actually only one brand I've found makes all the stuff for our cars - Ikeya Formula. But it's :tsktsk: expensive! So I don't even take it into account. I heard Mat wanted to use Ikeya's stuff on his "drift car", but didn't see it on the car though, since he left this car as a spare one. So, if anybody could help me find any affordable stuff like that - I'd really appreciate that, mates. Hope some of my info above would also help you, guys. Cheers.