History of my car...
I bought the car for NZD $1600, not going and they weren't sure why...
Towed it back to the workshop and started ripping it apart
The wiring loom
didn't look healthy for a start and i didn't have a fire extinguisher handy
lol
I swapped it for another one i had, once i done that (i'm never looming another
7m again lol) we thought we'd check out the timing belt see if it needed a
change, yup definitely so....
I went and bought
all new belts and had them aside :)
while looking at the timing we noticed that the great big bolt that holds
onto the left cam pulley was kinda missing :o
Hence it threw the timing out about 10 teeth, no wonder it wouldn't start
for the last owners
We corrected
that and put her all back together but she still wouldn't fire...
so i check out the Cam Angle Sensor timing and the sensor was out 90°
ahhh so we set that, woohooo
give it some petrol and she fires
Yahooo i was so happy, didn't have to spend much to get her going, but i did have to comment on the intelligence of the last owners lol aparently they spent months trying to figure out what was wrong with it, maybe they should have undone 4 bolts and taken the timing cover off lol
So that was awesome,
i ran it in for a week or so then took it to shore performance for a dyno
I got 117rwkw and 440nm of torque on 5.9psi boost
I was still pretty happy but for the first time i noticed the temperature
went up, once i took it for a drive it came back down again and i thought
nothiing further of it
Now 6psi was
killing me YOU CALL THAT BOOST TOYOTA?
I invested $85 in a bleed tap for the wastegate
I lived in a
quiet unbuilt subdivision so it was perfect for testing the tap :D
I started at the bottom of the road, jumped out, upped the bonnet, turned
the tap, down the bonnet, jumped back in the car and went zooming up the road
(we had construction workers there and i tell ya they looked at me real strange
lol)
i'd come back down and do the same again, i did this i think 3 times, on the
4th time i went zooming up the road and then my car seemed to hesitate then
helloooo 4 cylinders :( i lumpy idled back down the road and parked in front
of my house, i went in and asked my ex to come have a look, i said to him
"my cars idling funny," his intelligent response, "oh its probly
just not used to the boost," my reply "no, its really idling funny."
so.... my ex came outside and we saw smoke pouring out my exhaust... "oh
damn" he said, you've just blown your turbo seals... he went to the back
of the car and had a sniff "oh, um, no you haven't you've just blown
your head gasket!"
Damned, ok get it towed back to work and rip it apart again
So i pulled it all apart removed everything and pulled the head, sent the head down to CHRS to get plained and cleaned up after i blew the oil and water galleries
It was actually funny when i pulled the sump plug off... when i first did it i wondered when the oil would start coming out, it was all water for about 30 seconds lol
I inspected the factory head gasket and found that it would appear the last owners intellengent mechanical ability had put the gasket on the head then placed the head on the block.... there were screwdriver marks all over the head gasket... terrible
Well it was time to go and get a head gasket :D i decided to go for a head gasket that had been made by a friend... it would be a 3mm compressed head gasket made of carbon fibre and steel layers
Then it was time
to pick up the head, i sent me mum down to go and get it and it hadn't even
been touched :o
Turned out that they couldn't do it coz from one corner to the opposite corner
my head was warped :(
It had a blown head gasket before and seriously overheated
So i now had to find a head... turns out the person i got the gasket from
had a fully recoed and ported exhaust side head for me woohooo, cost me $400
for the head and $100 for the gasket
So i got them together and started putting my car back together, started it and oil leaks and water leaks and exhaust leaks galore :(
We fixed the fluid leaks but the exhaust leak and this damn annoying rattle like a washer loose on a bolt, all i could hear was those two things, i spent two days trying to find those stupid things lol
I had a friend Ray come and have a look and talk about gut me, took him 5 minutes to find them lol, On the back of the head is the egr plate i missed which wasn't bolted down, i would figure the engine reconditioners would have made sure of things like that lol
So with those fixed i was back on the road again :D
I was told by John to run it in for 1000kms, what he didn't expect is for me to do it in 2 days lol
So on the dyno i went :D 151rwkw and 980nm of torque.... huge difference :D
Then came the paint job bright daytona yellow woohooo, i still gotta do the engine bay tho, but i'm going to pull the engine and detail and deloom the engine properly :)
Once i got it painted i got SAS North Shore to compress my springs for me as the lowest gauranteed drop i could get was 30mm, i rang places and they said "yep" we have a listing but no height measurements, so i could buy the springs and they could drop it on the ground so it's undriveable or they might not do a thing so a big waste of money - Big UPS to SAS
I still had overheating problems though, if i drove like nana it's fine, if i boost the temp goes up grrrr
i did everything, and it still didn't fix it, i was told that timing could be a cause so i stopped at a friends workshop and put the timing on stock and the temp thing went for about two days but then it started again :(
So i replaced
the water pump with another one i had and the cupling out of the fan and yahooo
it dissapeared....
for about 3 months but then it just started again... the only thing it could
be is the water pump so i decided brand new one this time.
So the only new addition to my car at this point is the 3" exhaust and big phat muffler from Evolution Motorsports and that's my trials and tribulations of my supra for now as at 24th January 2004