Exhaust and Intake side are torn down as far as I think I'm going to go. There seem to be so many random sensors all over the place, I'm wondering if they are all needed at this point?

Pics of how it sits right now after tear down:






One of the piles of **** that came out. That intake manifold can go to hell.


Big thanks to brownman for helping for a little bit. Also we got an idea. Stock mani's upside down fit perfect, so decided to go a different route. Got a line on some SBR 50 trims, should be sick!

 

The Borg assimilates all. Resistance is futile

 

Didn't get a whole lot done. What I discovered is it appears to be impossible to completely remove the lower oil pan without either removing the engine, or removing this big **** cross-member. I needed about another 1/4" but couldn't jack the motor up any further to get that extra little bit. Oh well.

I was however able to just drop it as far as it will drop, and can slide some newspaper in there. You can see where I circled, that's where I need to drill for the oil drain line. So the newspaper should catch almost all of the metal flakes from getting into the lower oil pan.

Now just need to get a right angle drill, a Uni-bit, and that should take care of that.

 

I like that color, so unique.

 

very nice. like that you have a real good idea of where youre going with it.

 

Well I've been stuck in Naw'lens for the past few weeks so haven't been able to make much progress. But with the extra money I'm making, decided to spend a little bit on a turbo blanket to keep things as cool as possible. Very excite!

$85 shipped
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...m=300434923446

 

Got home from Naw'lens today.
Went to MAPerformance and picked up a couple things as well. As always, thanks for the great prices guys!

Turbosmart Compgate 40mm:


Oil Feedline Kit:


Also had some parts waiting for me in the mail. Time to get some work done!!

Ebay Gasket kit:


2 used ignitors from Ebay (one to replaced my burnt one, and one for a spare):

 

Not too much to update. But I've gotten the oil drain hole drilled out with a 7/8" hole saw. And the two bolt holes are tapped (M6x1.0).

Here's some pics:

Drilling the hole



Hole drilled:


Cleaning with Brake Cleaner:





Holes tapped and cleaned:

 

ayyy nice seats! heres mine. i thought i was unique damn! man i wish i could afford a turbo. how much would you say you have spent on the turbo so far and total cost after finished?

 

Overall, the car looks great. Paint job great, interiors immaculate, you're in great shape.

 

Drilled the oil filter union bolt to accept a 1/8npt fitting for my oil feed. You can either buy one for an IS300 for like $25 and it's already tapped, or just drill the stocker. And well, considering I already had a 1/8npt tap, and access to free drill bits and a drill press, that was an easy choice

Lots o lube:


Pilot drilled:


Hole drilled using "R" size drill bit, and de-burred:


Tapped for 1/8npt. Wish I coulda tapped further but it was getting HARD. That look good enough to you guys?:



1/8npt to -3AN fitting installed. Used some liquid pipe thread sealing compound on it:


OFH installed back on the car, badda bing:



Also installed the drain fitting. Need a gasket for that thing yet...

 

So that's where the oil feed would come from if you were to go na-t? I've always wondered that.

 

you can do all of that to a drain plug if you can't get the m12x1.25 to -4 adapter too. when going from twin to single turbos.

when u are looking to block off one of the oil supply lines with a oil drain plug and use the 2nd plug to supply oil for the turbo. pretty smart tho i have to say!

props!

 

I hopped on Egay and bought a 92+ 4Runner Distributor Cap.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...K%3AMEWNX%3AIT

 

Got the oil pan installed. Went to put the Felpro gasket on and it's the complete wrong shape. Come to find out there's a couple different oil pan designs, and of course the gasket was for the other one. Somabich. The gasket did come with 4 bottles of RTV however, so I just RTV'd it and hopefully that will suffice. We shall see...

Once I was done with that, I just grabbed some gasket material I had laying around and made a gasket for the oil drain flange. Gave it a coat of copper spray for good measure. So that should be done.

Installed the oil feed fitting into the turbo. Again I used a little bit of liquid pipe thread sealer.



Decided to try and tackle the tranny. First I had to remove the rest of the exhaust. Once I got that off, I removed the driveshaft.


Then started at the Tranny. I got all the motor to tranny bolts off. Slave Cylinder off, Starter off. Took 2 of the 4 tranny mount bolts off. Took the reverse light plug off. And that's where it sits.



What's left is I need to find the speedometer cable and remove it. Then I have to figure out how to unhook the damn shifter in the car. I took the 4 bolts off that hold it to the tunnel. Looking online people say the shifter should just lift off? Mine doesn't budge. Dumb little thing I'm sure, just gotta figure it out. Then just remove those last two bolts on the tranny mount and she should be on the floor.



Also pics of the sweet turbo blanket