Project:Soarer by megamax

7 minute(s) of a 462 minute read

7-23-2012

so it's been a while. been troubleshooting why my damn car won't start. and viola. I didn't plug an important plug in. why?? because the sob was hiding in the firewall out of sight. so pretty much my car has been ready to run for over a month now. but hey, **** happens. so, on with the show.

now trying to crank 3 weeks of work out in the last 3 days.

i ordered/received my 4 bar map sensor. 

only to be told it won't work for a stock ecu. i later found a 1jz stock map sensor with low miles from a member on c.l. go me.

i wasn't happy at all with my current turbo manifold. so i found one locally sold on ebay. i was actually going to pick up this item before. but thinking i had a t4 instead of t3 flange i missed. now it's time to make up

the welds are 100x better and i don't have to cut any exhaust studs for it to fit.

i picked up some lower mileage spark coils thinking that was the issue. got them from gerb from c.l. great guy to deal with.

so my stock ones that came with my engine are going up for sale if anyone is interested. very cheap not looking to get rich off them.

finally got a innovate and finally got it shipped to me.

at the time i needed a longer o2 sensor plug. the stocker was too short.

using the plug wires from the sc400 this black one looks kinda weird.

so i merged and heatshrinked longer wires. not sure of the condition as this o2 came with my motorset.

so, since my tranny mount bracket was total ass. i needed to re do it. instead of the cluster **** if 4 bolts. 2 should suffice.






so i pulled this heatwrap off my old manifold. can i reuse this stuff?? of after it's been wet one time i won't be effictive??






and pulling the manifold off in the engine isn't easy. but it's also not that hard.





so a good buddy of mine got a stick welder. and i needed some part's welded so here we go.(he's not a pro)


went to lowes. and i got this braced for impact.





exhaust woes.

so i need the wg flange adjusted.






so after taping and multiple removals, installs.






thats what you wan't a sc swap.

well it's video time

7-28-2012

so guys, now doing the exhaust. i got my mani braced. and well from the pic do you think the metal return line is to close to one of the braces??

8-2-2012

so dipping further into this exhaust debacle. i decided to finally get a smaller hotside for my turbine wheel.

there were no ledgible stamping on the iron to tell me what cfm's the original one was. so last minute i went to a local diesel shop and come to find out it was a 18. and 21 was the biggest for the non wastegated h1c. 

so i was either going to pick up this item.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/160855926940...84.m1438.l2649

or get the used 16 for 100 beans. i decided on the later just to try it out. and to used something new for an downpipe adapter.