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Cam install was straight forward, but the process is a pita. I purchased some lame aftermarket tool to remove the shims from the buckets, w/o removing the cam.
I'm sure the genuine Toyota tool works like a champ.




Clean up the cam caps in the solvent tank, because they looked like this




Use lots of lube - that's what she said






I threw the cam pulleys in the blast cabinet because they looked like this





Masked them off with tape to protect the belt surface








All painted


Cleaned up the back of the timing belt shield



Mount the pulleys




Paint the crank pulley also




This is about the time I decided to sell the veilside knockoff manifold and kill my veilside knockoff build thread. Looking back, the veilside was a knockoff, of a knockoff. The absolute worst reproduction ive ever laid my eyes on.

Here it is in case you forgot how heinous from earlier in the thread

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Bought a Greddy style manifold which people were raving about at the time

Get that mounted on here as part of the mockup with the fuel rail and injectors






Q45 TB

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By this time we're looking at moving because the new neighborhood we moved into as the first house, 8 years prior; was turning into a *****hole with people letting weeds take over thier lawns and people parking on the lawn, rat infested neighbors houses because they stored trash in their backyard.
Remember, i admitted earlier that I'm kind of a house snob. So its at this time that I believe I put the motor on hiatus until we moved, so everything went into storage for a bit.


We moved and I immediately sold this - which coincidentally continued to hold up progress on the GS on an annual basis, and was a large paper weight.





And built this - with a 4.7L 2UZ from a wrecked tundra. Complete build thread in my sig. I had built at least 12 cars, and bought and sold at least another half dozen daily's between the start of the GS3 and the beginning of this cruiser project.

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Oh, there was one more thing I bought as I was packing up the house. A cast log manifold









Here she is just before moving to storage. A few reminder notes to myself

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Just like on Supraforums - i'm surprised this thread has so many views, but so little comments.

So after moving into the new digs, and finishing up the V8 landcruiser in my signature, I moved onto the car with some help of friends.

Pulled the ol' girl into the garage and started the teardown. For some reason the EXIF data on the photo says 2007, but we didnt move till 09'...

Anyway, hood off showing the guts with 185k+miles
Not sure why the images look so grainy and *****ty

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This is my buddy Justin that passed away in an accident on Memorial day 2011 - separate post to dedicate this photo

We dropped in the motor, complete with PVC toilet flange for air collection ! Rest in Peace bro

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Here she is - In car mockup V1.1 Quite a few versions since this pic - Progress stopped for a while so I could unpack what was left after over a year of living here in a mess.






Gut the interior and cleanout all the random stuff I lost into the abyss over 9 years -

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I don't think I mentioned it earlier in the thread - Originally I was planning on doing the aristo motor and trying to make the swap look 100% factory, but hog out the turbos like Stu Hagen did to make it a sleeper.

At some point I got carried away, as I do in all of my projects - But after seeing so many wire tucked projects going on from SEMA and internet scene... The rest is history...

I'll be doing hardlines for fuel, and air in the car. I took the fuel rail and modified it for some 75lb domestic o-ringed injectors





I thought it would be cool to use braided sheathing instead of flex look so I picked up some of this at a local electronics store

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Next up is the generic 24x4x10 intercooler mockup with some leftover china j-bends



An aluminum radiator for a MKIV since I couldnt find one for a GS300 at the time, except for the fluidyne one for $650...
This one is pretty nice, good welds. Nice shape on the tank, not like the boxy square ones.





Back before I had my torchmate, I cut these tabs to weld to the headlight stay. This crappy thing is that this wont do **** to hold the thing in place.
So they are likely getting the axe later in the build...










The bumper reinforcement needs to stay, but also needed to be modified to do so. Its a shame with this much modification, most of the core wont even get airflow.
I may do a spray bar later. Not sure yet.

Markup the center






I realized with the upper core support being tied into the headlight and bumper stay, it too needed to be modified.



Snap-on Blue Point spot weld remover



This is what you get left with

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Gotta run to a meeting so here's the last post of the day

Get the cooler mounted and start on the piping. Remember this is just for mock-up since these are leftovers








A little clearance for the piping on the bumper.

TRACKMKIII

Wow!! This thread is beautiful! !

joewitafro

Did your friend Justin attend any Centralia supra meets? I feel like I recognize him.

Great updates! Your attention to detail is awesome...

By the way... I noticed you had a raptor, and a turbo gs300...

Did we just become best friends?!

twojayzee

I don't think Justin came to any supra meets with me. We went to alot of car shows together though.

We've been talking about my raptor for a while, did you ever read the build thread on it ?

I think we are best friends. I want to ride in your car, after all this building; ive still never ridden in a boosted GS3.

Did we just become best friends? Hell yes. My name is James, but you have to call me dragon

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Here are photos of the generic cam bucket/shim removal tool... no bueno

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Alright peeps. So I decided long ago that I wanted to do a black themed engine bay and parts.
Different textures and sheen's to breakup the look... so it doesnt look like a painted long small block chevy with all one color coating gaskets and other parts. That **** drives me nuts.

So I was on the hunt for as many anodized fittings that fit that criteria that I could find, within my budget. The AEM BDFPR was the next item on my list.

I mentioned that I was running hard lines thruout - I modified the vacuum port so it doesn't need a rubber hose.

This is the vacuum port fitting that needed to get modified since it acts as a restrictor. Otherwise I suppose you could drill and tap the port size.




And this is the port in the FPR



The plan is to Mate these two items together



Take a little off on the lathe



Match up the size of the fitting to an undersized bit




Hog out the center of the fitting



Looks like this




Press them together with a little loctite sealant like so -




Voila - Cut off the 1/8" NPT end and use some more loctite to screw it in like this.