Remote gear change

At the same time as ordering my fuel tank from Alecam, I grabbed one of their remote gear changes for the T50. After several months of it sitting on the shelf all wrapped up I finally stopped being lazy and did a trial fit to the gearbox. It bolts up perfectly and the...
Lightweight flywheel

Lightweight flywheel

After much reading of the benefits of a lightened flywheel I took the plunge and ordered a 4.5kg 4140 forged chromoly steel flywheel from the US. I did a lot of research on the different brands out there as I was concerned about a shattering flywheel taking my ankles...

Mounting the diff brackets to the Escort axle

Fitting the diff brackets was a what I thought was going to be a fairly straight forward procedure.  In parts it was.  Cutting off the brackets was easy.  I used and angle grinder with a cut off wheel to cut the majority of the existing mounting brackets.  Then I...
Modifying the 20v starter motor

Modifying the 20v starter motor

Now that I had a nice flex plate that would bolt up to the engine and to the gearbox it was time to move on to the starter motor.  Unfortunatley the 20v start motor is not a direct bolt up to the T50.  The top mounting bolt fits perfectly but the bottom bolt hole sits...

Modifying engine flex plate

One of the first jobs I tackled was modifying the engine flex plate.  The standard plate that sits between the 20v and its front wheel drive gearbox has the starter mounted on the opposite side to the T50 gearbox that I have.  Luckily all that is required to match up...

Toyota 4AGE 20v Silvertop and T50…

A bit premature but I managed to track down a Toyota 4AGE 20v Silvertop engine and T50 gearbox. Was a great deal so I snapped it up. A bit of a rough picture of the engine.  It does need a good clean up. And the gearbox… Apologies for the poor image...