JLee's 1991 Toyota MR2 Turbo build thread

[MotF Bane]

Does the cat cut the wires for you?

 

[punjabiplaya]

http://www.bangshift.com/blog/BangS...us-Radial-Airplane-Engine-Equals-Awesome.html

 

[PhoKingGuy]

http://www.bangshift.com/blog/BangS...us-Radial-Airplane-Engine-Equals-Awesome.html

I was just about to post this in here, lol

 

[jlee]

Yeah, that is awesome..

 

[skyking]

Holy craP! that looks like a Kinner! I've flown behind one of those, it is sweetness. Redline 1750, cruised at 1650. It is so slow you can stick your hand up out of the open cockpit and feel each beat of the blade.

 

[JCH13]

Holy craP! that looks like a Kinner! I've flown behind one of those, it is sweetness. Redline 1750, cruised at 1650. It is so slow you can stick your hand up out of the open cockpit and feel each beat of the blade.

Well, it does say "kinner" in the video title...

 

[skyking]

Sheit, did not even notice that

 

[DivideBYZero]

Yeah, that is awesome..

It's running richer than an Oil Sheik, though. Bring your own well!

 

[Aikouka]

It's running richer than an Oil Sheik, though. Bring your own well!

It creates a smoke screen to hamper the other drivers .

 

[JCH13]

It creates a smoke screen to hamper the other drivers .

It also asphyxiates them.

 

[DivideBYZero]

It also asphyxiates them.

 

[punjabiplaya]

Remote linking forbidden

 

[jlee]

Yay wiring.

I replaced my OEM boost gauge (worthless) with an oil pressure gauge (worthwhile):

Fun....

 

[jlee]

The backlight bleeds around it pretty bad...debating on pulling the cluster again and trying to seal it off with electrical tape or something.

I also ran the wiring and vac line through the firewall for the wideband controller/gauge and the electronic boost controller. I ran out of vacuum line..so tomorrow I'll get some more and finish wiring the wideband. Tomorrow we should also be welding the dump tube/etc so I can get the car running again.

 

[jlee]

Pre-welding pictures; hopefully nothing will go horribly wrong later tonight:

 

[skyking]

Looks like fun times! My neighbor is a better welder than I, he'd be all over that.

 

[jlee]

Wideband gauge mounted for now..might do something else with it later:

And pre-project photos of the old downpipe, specifically to illustrate a brilliant previous owner who welded mild steel to stainless steel, and also to point out the amount of material we (meaning JCH13, naturally) had to remove:

Anyone know what this clamp is called? I need one.

 

[alkemyst]

It's a chain clamp in name.

There is also a chain vice. If you just need to hold the pipe while you work on it then many vices have pipe jaws as well.

 

[jlee]

The beginning:

Goodbye bung:

A little more:

And more!

Cleaning up:

Perfect.

Measuring a patch:

Almost there:

A very happy JCH13:

 

[jlee]

This should be pretty well self-explanatory:

Educated guess on what to do with the dump tube...using heavy wire and pipe insulation to mock it up:

Good enough!

 

[jlee]

Dump tube is done:

Marked for new o2 hole - the old one interfered with the wastegate:

Drilled:

All stainless now, and everything fits!

 

[Howard]

Please grind off the bead. It offends my senses.

<- comes from pharma/sanitary background

 

[skyking]

^Are you talking about the berries?

Nice work, fellas.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Love this thread. :thumbsup:

 

[Howard]

^Are you talking about the berries?