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The bore difference is a serious hurdle...i looked at the gasket area that you would be left with to seal the cyls and wasn't confident it would hold up for long.

That is officially awesome, great work. You should come and join the Toymods forum. They will love this and a great forum for general old skool toyota know how and parts sourcing.

Yeah I'll hang around a John, I'm pretty sure I'm not done with UZs yet ;)

Well it shouldn't be hard to keep track of the GT8 if I ever want to buy it back ;)

Yeah i very tough decision and one i didn't ever think i would make...a tough coupla years with this car though and i don't have the time for it anymore. Once they become a chore and no longer a joy i figure it's time? :( and while i'm cleansing the Zulu and my KE10/11 corolla are for sale as...

Car is for sale. Serious car for serious buyers. Full rundown happily provided to serious enquiries. No dreamers pls, you don't buy a car like this on a whim.

No extensive road testing yet, but a common mod in the Subie crowd and all rave how much more accurate the car feels for whatever that is worth? I'll let you know once i resolve my 32 bent valves issue ;)

ignore head shot? photobucket is having a conniption? here is the before

Drool, that looks amazing Mike. Probably will go OK to i guess ;) The 'slop' you are feeling could well be the spring steel. here's what i did to mine: Before you can see there are two separate bodies and as complex as it loos they are only held together by a bit of 6mm spring steel. You can...

So turns out it was just a small section of the timing belt delaminating? A fresh belt and no reason to suspect anything, but perhaps the fact it sat in one position for a fair while was enough to stress it? It doesn't appear to be a genuine one either. Expensive lesson for me :(

looks like it might chirp the tyres a little ;)

That's exactly what I did with mine....as well as strengthen the input shaft as they can be just a pretty thin piece of spring steel, which I didn't entirely trust once the power assist was gone....you could feel the 'twist' with the steering wheel. All locked solid now after a little work with...

Stock by the looks and seller hadn't indicated otherwise. Mild head shave, Ross 8.5:1 pistons.....nothing really to suggest they would touch?

I have the proof...all 32 examples of it ;) Not that knowing would have made any difference.....just need to figure put why so it doesn't happen again. Surely not activating the VVTi wouldn't result in valves touching?

Hmmm ok, I had assumed Toyota had stuck with their non interference platform for belt driven engines? Still a bit weird though seeing the engine was a runner previously? It seems something had made the timing belt jump given the initial light touch....and then jump again resulting in a box...

Can't hurt I guess but he wasn't very mech savvy and all my previous questions were answered from the workshop via TT.

With the cam covers off it looks like bent valves and lots of them :( Hopefully pistons didn't cop too much? But WTF? These are non interference? How can this happen? Timing belt is fine. Given there was always a tap, I think valves were touching but then something let go, cams went of of...

Hey TT, I finally installed this thing but on start up it had a weird valve train 'rattle' and while I was figuring out this noise the engine has failed. Any thoughts?

Pumps out of the throttle body so I'm guessing broken. No noises on turnover though, even on the starter so hopefully damage is minor? Stock valves, HD valve springs. Engine as it was when bought (off here). Assured it was running fine but was making a strange 'clang' from the 1st start...

So it actually turns out it wasn't just a noisy VVTi :( engine dropped a valve this arvo at idle....seems I bought a dud :(