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Tomorrow I am taking it easy. Going with the family to the lake for much needed relaxation, and rejuvenation after these past two weeks.
I have to finish everything I want done before the welder at the end of the week, then t his weekend I will be heading to the dunes after being invited by my brother for some old school honda fourtrax two-stroke fun. I'm super excited and will get some pictures! Then when I return, car will be loaded up to be delivered and I will be going on another vacation to the beautiful Netarts bay of Oregon, right outside Tillamook if you've heard of the cheese and ice cream. I grew up riding quads, dirt bikes and driving dune buggies here, and I gotta say the Oregon sandy beaches are one of my favorite places on earth.
At that point the car can go to the welder, and when it comes back I can finish off the radiator, fuel pump + wiring, dash, and reinstalling the front bumper and driveshaft. Once the wiring comes in I can get the manifold hard mounted finally and get the catch can setup in. Hopefully I have room to run the TRD strut bar but we'll see. Appreciate the kind words Bill!
Hey Joe, the area you and your brother are going to in Oregon is that where they made the movie "The Goonies"? that was released when both of my boys were young and the whole family really enjoyed it.
Bill
Hey Joe, the area you and your brother are going to in Oregon is that where they made the movie "The Goonies"? that was released when both of my boys were young and the whole family really enjoyed it.
Bill
Bill, That location is in Astoria, Oregon which is on the very tippy corner of the state between WA/OR. I actually have a good friend that lives there, beautiful little coastal town.
I'll be about five hours directly south of that in a place call Reedsport, Oregon or also known as Winchester Bay. The dunes there are massive! Here's some photos of mine from down there previously. This was a 2007 Yamaha Raptor 700 that I turbocharged, ran really hard making 3x the horsepower compared to stock.
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Well, ended up spending the day working on the car. Had a late start but still moving forward.
Started out by tightening the clutch line, I added a little fluid to the reservoir and adjusted the rod and got the pin through the clutch pedal. I'll need someone to help me bleed it before I can start pumping fluid threw it
Put the front tires back on, as I plan on dropping the front of the car to have better access to the back of the motor from ontop. Next I started un-doing the power steering lines that go to the cooler, one end goes to the rack and the other to the top port of the reservoir and all of this gets removed.
I ended up removing the P/S cooler all together, and cleaned it with brake kleaner and used an air hose to blast it out. This thing had some crud in it that started to ooze out when the sun was on it, so i figured it was a good idea to make sure this was clean. Next I installed the intercooler itself, all of the instructions are in japanese and it seems to come with a bunch of hardware to replace the OEM stuff. I initially had the lower brackets backward, then corrected that; and then I un-did the wrong A/C lines. I kind of can't really tell 100% how the instructions want the A/C lines to go because it feels like the SC300 is different than the soarer which the kit is designed for; so the front A/C line I removed the bracket and bent the lines down and forward, and the rear line I used the bracket that came with the kit to move it down and backward. This allowed the pipe to fit between.
Ended up test fitting the intake manifold on; so I could see how the cold side intercooler piping fits. Turned out pretty well. I really dislike the power steering hose coming off the bottom of the pump, that might be getting deleted here soon! Haha. The hot side piping isn't the best for my setup, you can see it was designed for the stock twin turbo piping, but considering that is the only pipe my welder will need to modify makes it relatively easy.
Tomorrow I'll probably drop the car on its wheels, I need to do this to tighten the return fuel line on the back of the fuel regulator, seal the 90° 1/8" NPT fitting, install the fuel pressure sensor, start installing the heater hoses and maybe the throttle cable. Once that stuff is done the following day I can lift the car back up in the air and work on the exhaust over the following two days. My plan is to have that done by monday night; and tuesday morning my parts from Toyota should be in, and this would allow me to finish my P/S system.
Good news as well! My driftmotion drive-shaft has shipped today and will be delivered Monday. So I may have to install that before the exhaust goes fully up but PERFECT timing! I feel at this rate I might finish the car two weeks before getting the harness and having a tune, which will mean a LOT of relaxing!
Ended up ordering the driftmotion P/S hose. Although I liked the PHR one more, I couldn't justify double the price as driftmotion just looks a little long, but still looks quality. Now I just need to crack those huge 22mm? I think banjo bolts off the pump and rack.
Hope you guys' aren't tired of the daily photo dumps. Right now I am surviving on the motivation of looking back at my car at the end of the day, hands hurting, exhausted, sweat dripping in my eyes with my hair tied up and trying to make time to eat and shower. I swear everything is slower and harder for me, but I continue to do it despite having to re-do, re-learn and repeat. I guess that is what makes me knowledgeable, the pure confidence to try something to begin learning through repeated failures.
So let me tell you how we got here.
I started off by putting the battery tray and battery in the car to test fitment with the intercooler piping. Everything's good but the reason I did this was to figure out where my BOV was going to be mounted for my welder. I decided that there was really only two locations I liked, one is in the throttle body where the TRAC unit used to be; but this would require the throttle body to be removed, then the track housing would need to be cut off and throttle body hole saw'd to weld the blow off valve there. This seems like more work, and also would just clutter the engine bay more; so I decided it fit perfectly on this lower pipe in the bumper.
Next, my nephew came over and helped me bleed the clutch; no photos of this but we got all the air out from what I can tell, but with him pumping I didn't realize he wasn't getting engagement at the beginning of the pedal; but underneath we had some good movement on the alteration kit so I didn't think much of it. Now that I press the pedal I feel like I need to adjust the linkage shaft a bit to start engagement a little earlier. Anyways.
Got the car off jacks and busted the high pressure p/s hose off the pump, then I removed the pump and took the A/C pump off the block so I could take the lower high pressure hose off the rack off. Just need my driftmotion hose to come in and I can put it back together.
I ended up getting the heater hoses on with OEM clamps, I think it came out pretty good. Had to lay ontop of the motor to get the hose and clamp on the back of the head, I will need a new set of long angled needle nose pliers if I ever want to remove it.
Forgot to add on that I tightened the return fuel system yesterday too, and ended up re-routing my feed line on the inside of the motor mount rather than the outside to give me a little more flexibility and less strain on the hose as I tightened it up. So fuel lines are fully tightened, I just need to install the fuel pressure sensor today.
Driveshaft is showing up a day early! So that's my plan today.
Install radium 90° 1/8 NPT + Link 150 PSI fuel pressure sensor with loctite 565
Paint driveshaft dust shield and install
Patienty await my driveshaft to show up, take photos and then install
Install new driftmotion speed sensor adapter (using the cable driven base with the cable to digital marlin crawler adapter)
I'll be waiting on my P/S reservoir and lines (all of them) to be installed before doing the radiator. Apart of me wants to leave it out for now until the welder is done with it. The intercooler scares me enough, I'm going to cardboard it back up and tape it for safety haha.
Tomorrow I can start mocking up the exhaust, and I also need to run the fuel pump relay wiring.
When I put a battery in it yesterday I tightened up the terminals and tried lowering the tilt steering wheel with no luck. No power at all without the engine harness it seems.
Removed the old throttle cable, installed the new one. This wasn't too bad aside from getting under the dash again but I knew it had to be done.
I also installed the radium 90 NPT fitting and the link fuel pressure sensor, just letting the loctite cure up now and praying its tight enough for no leaks, but I got it pretty snug. Then I threw on the intake manifold to test the throttle cable routing and things are looking GOOD!
Super happy this is the one I went with, exactly what I wanted. Lets hope it bolts up now. After putting the pressure sensor and throttle cable in that's all I'm going to do for today. Tomorrow drive shaft will go in!
Joe, you have really turned into a POWERHOUSE yourself. I have really enjoyed your build saying that I have also learned a lot. My Dad use to say if you didn't learn at least one thing a day it was time to be planted. With your build I never worry about not learning something daily. Hey thanks for all the pictures and also of the dunes in Oregon. I read a book a number of years ago about the Chinese landing there a few years before Columbus came to America.
Keep up the good work and I will look forward to the next installment.
Bill
Got the car lifted back in the air, removed my old speed sensor and put the new one on. This is pretty dang hard to tighten with a wrench with the transmission mount; so I may need to use some pliers to help, but its as tight as two hands will get it right now.
Used a piece of wood to tap the transmission dust shield on. I ended up priming this and using some flat black, it should be good enough not to rust. After I used some red grease and put a thin layer on the front yolk, getting it to slide on was a bit tricky, this chromoly drift motion yolk has much tighter tolerance on the spline than the OEM does after 25 years; but once I got it lined up it slid right on. I ended up requesting a drive shaft 50-3/16"; but I feel it is 1/16" long to fit perfectly. With the driveshaft plunged all the way forward, I had a hard time getting the rear past the differential locator pin. I ended up using a hammer and tapping it on, which then allowed me to pull the driveshaft back out and fit onto the flange perfectly. I used blue loctite and torqued the rear bolts to 75 ft lbs although I didn't get any instructions on what to set this at.
Pretty happy that the driveshaft is in! My hands and arms are still pretty sore, and my massage appointment got cancelled so I'll just be taking it slow. I wanted to add transmission fluid and screw on the fiberglass transmission piece.
Tomorrow will be exhaust + P/S parts from toyota, and driftmotion just shipped my high pressure P/S hose but not quite sure when that will get here.
Haha. So for some reason I had it in my mind that I could fill the transmission up from the interior, like I have always done in the past for my R154's. Sadly because the size of my hole, I can't remove the front bolts at the moment and its an external shifter R154 so no shifter hole to fill through. I will have to remove the fill hole on the side of the transmission and pump 3.2 quarts in.
Decided to tighten the shifter up, then I test fit the fiberglass piece under the stock trim. It really fits well, so I pulled out the center console and screwed down the fiberglass panel. Lastly I finished it off by seam sealing it and spread it with my finger on a glove. Before you hate, yes I did seam seal the screws as well. Haha! I'm not too worried about that, but I didn't want any smell leaking through.
Went and picked up a supply of parts from toyota, including the power steering reservoir, center console bolts; and the union for the power steering pump with hose and clips, o-ring and bolt. I also should have gotten new bolts for the transmission dust shields to install those.
TT Supra P/S reservoir and bolts fit perfect.
Then I put the transmission tunnel boot on, the chaser setup for the fiberglass piece. This turned out well not too much to say about it although I did order toyota bolts for this. After I started installing the exhaust, I tried mocking it up in three sections and I started out by installing the center section, once I figured out the orientation and where the exhaust hangers were at this went up pretty easily. Then I installed the muffler by removing the stock rear hanger bracket, installing the new PHR one and lifting the muffler onto the exhaust hanger. After that, hooking the v-band was easy. Because I didn't have a downpipe I used a box to hold up the midpipe, attached it to the v-band adapter and have it holding up to the transmission currently with weed eater line for the car to be transported.
Noticed the muffler has a little dent in the tip which makes the circular end stand out to me. I will have to try and tap this out possibly.
Pretty happy! I got another gallon of redline MT-90 coming with a pump tomorrow, and i just got some 24mm low profile sockets to remove the fill plugs. This isn't crucial to do before the welder though.
In regards to that, I believe I have everything done that is needed before the welder gets it. My driftmotion P/S hose will arrive thursday which will allow me to install that, along with my A/C compressor, P/S pump and finish my power steering system off and thats the final buttoning up I wanted to do before it goes to him. He will add the BOV, modify the hot side intercooler piping, create a downpipe and make a recirculated wastegate pipe for both wastegates.
Then when I get back from vacation and the car is done, I'll install the radiator, and fuel pump if i haven't already while I wait for the wiring harness. Getting REALLY close!!
Man that big exhaust is brutal - I love it! You're making excellent progress Joe! After a good vacation I bet you'll come back more motivated than ever!
