Project:Soarer by megamax

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holy ****!! ben a while since ive updated. well been using this as the daily since the s13 has been down for a while. Been traveling back and forth from Missouri to nyc and all points in between. put about 23k miles on swap since completed. - SO LETS RE-CAP!

so I had to re-do the front upper arms. brought and installed the megan front upper camber arms. I must say they are kick *** quality and I have 0 problems out of them(make sure you Loctite the bolts) 

here is the results before and after!!! remember I have a new oem supra flca.

it lines up beautiful in the front. but I knew at some point sooner than later. I had to really tackle the ****-storm known as the back suspension.

so I decided I needed bigger speakers in the rear, also I was going to do moar long distance driving. so I needed my pornos to sound like gold when I played them. STILL poor I decided on some sony speakers. 

I had to dremel the front and back housings where the speakers went to make everything fit. 

these are the fronts, and iirc I got some 6x9's for the rears.

But before that I needed to modify the rear where these speakers would go. took many hrs with some careful cutting and drilling. was able to make a solution.

later on I scooped up a good name brand 7" double din touch screen. 

now on long trips my solitude isn't so bad!

but I had a gap.....

I really REALLY missed my cubbie, so I went to best buy and had to hack up a solution to fill the hole. 

it's small but it will do. so my sound/entertainment system is complete for this car.

10-3-2015

so in other mods I got a new chra holset hx40.




I also got some new rear struts for the trunk(no more bumped head)





also brought/installed a new carrier bearing for the driveshaft.



I also got a ebay kit and made my cluster blue

So I finally got my hands on a celica steering wheel. and it's so simple to switch it over a caveman can do it. there is a write-up on how to splice over the airbag wires and the simple grounding for the horn.










here is the celica wheel hub




and the sc wheel hub





here is what ur merge should look like





here is the final product





and ta-da no more creepy lexus wheel!




this was before my stereo upgrade!

so more suspension upgrades. the rear lower arms were shot. so I picked up these nifty megan units!





the right rear oem units were a ***** to get off. took forever! but after using a heavy as **** hammer I got it done.




and the results on the rack?




now just left is the rear uppers!

so I had an idea/seen this done before and I needed a constant 12v feed to my electronics.




had to break off the lower board.




and here is the end result





and meanwhile I had some fake leather laying around and decided to reskin my center armrest.

so rocking the cheap e-fans I brought from advance auto for 2 years. They keep the temps down. brought a temp switch relay from autozone and all was well in the kingdom. then one of the fans died. and I had to look for an alternative.





WHY NO CLUTCH FAN?-u ask. well I prefer the electric fan more with a temp switch because after the car is turned off it runs longer to cool the rad core down. this is beneficial for track days, and hot as **** days also. and the parasitic loss isn't there like on a clutch fan.

so I needed an oem quality clutch fan with kick *** cfm flow. ive heard Taurus fans are the go-to ones. but the shroud won't fit the supra rad. what's a guy to do?

The Volvo rad fan uses the Taurus motor and comes with a nifty relay system. so I sourced one and proceeded to make it work.







easy to wire/understand relay system.



now was the fan shroud. I got some cheap metal and extended it alittle to make it work.




and final installation.





to finish up this job, you will need a bmw temp sensor. preferably this one.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/131254980884?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
the pigtail harness for that sensor(get one at a junkyard off a 90's bimmer)

AND

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271852873691?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
know how to wire things in and poof. a kick *** proven oem-like cooling system.

so I went ahead and brought a grounding kit for the car. hoping to improve on the taxing electrical system I have on the car already. 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/UNIVERSAL-10MM-HIGH-PERFORMANCE-RACING-EARTH-GROUND-GROUNDING-WIRE-KIT-BLUE-/260391699672?hash=item3ca08e04d8&vxp=mtr

I already had existing 10mm wires and ad to use them in conjunction with this kit. it's universal so not cut exactly to the sc length. 

I myself haven't noticed any specific difference with this kit installed. after about 2k miles my alt took a crap on me and I had to have it rebuilt. so maybe down the line I can/will see a difference?

so last week(my assembly date). I realized that my turbo seals went. so I had a g-pop rebuild kit luckily avail. I would up using the rear shaft clip from one of my lesser ebay kits(those fit). so the gpop kit came with the o-ring that goes between the compressor side and the rest of the turbo. 

Being as how ive done a few turbo rebuilds but never used this gasket I thought it a good idea to put it on. silly me didn't lube it up. I just put it in there dry. maybe that is why when I get down the road and go into boost is pops off??

I stopped immediately and it slightly bent my compressor blades(I straightened them back out). But I drove the car back a qtr a mile like this. YES I put the compressor clamp back on. it wasn't as snug as it usually is without the o-ring. but lesson learned, don't run with one?

so, in anticipation of hopefully/finally getting my head decked/gasket matched this month. iam going to also change the oil pump, I have some nifty cam gears from Australia, and re-brought some 264 cams, got the valve stem seals and ready to put in these injectors. 

speaking of injectors, ive also gotten my **** wet with this aem v2. looking at the john fast king videos has helped me sync the aem and even make a drivable base tune. 

just there is 17 videos, and honestly learning how to tune the aem is pretty boring honestly. I have to get my add in order at some point. because getting ****ed for $700.00+ for one map. isn't my idea of a good time. 

so now TODAY. iam going to start on the fun task of dropping my subframe and installing these bad boys.