I need more Power!

This update starts with this little chap



A kindly donated spare 4e-fte engine, so this could be modified whilst my car was still on the road. I wasted no time, the head was sent away to have work done, as was the throttle body, inlet manifold, block and rocker cover.
Here are the results of that labour, check this headwork out! I reassembled the head with the Cruise uprated valve springs to take higher revs safely.













The head was port-matched to the inlet manifold which was also ported and polished, then sparyed silver by me.



Attatched to that was the Headtune modified throttle body, which now went perfectly flat, had smoothed down bolts and was chemically cleaned and polished to allow maximum airflow.







This was all connected together with new gaskets and an Attain KSP Hi-Throttle, ok its probably just cos its blue but I did want one ever since I saw it in Hyper Rev, thanks RHD for getting them re-made!



The block was fitted with Pauter forged rods and 74.5mm (+0.5mm oversized forged Ross pistons), so all in all was a good package, here are the development pics and the finished assembled engine (minus sump and few other bits still on Jeff).





I quickly painted it matt-black and prepared for assembly









Here is the rocker cover, powdercoated in anthracite matte, this will go on last though, so as not to damage it!



In the meantime my ORC309 clutch had arrived, all I need now is an LSD oh and a turbo kit to run this setup...

...will this do?





A K24 with a Secret Sport manifold and a soon to be added Tial wastegate (black the blue one was sold on).

Again, quickly stripped and repainted with an EGT sensor in the exhaust housing for my Defi gauge



We also heat-wrapped the mani and downpipe to keep engine tempertaures down









My apologies for this but...that about wraps up this update, next time got a few more preparatory additions before the swap!

Cheers for reading.

Soldiering on...

He was back on the road, sadly with a poorly foot but soldiering on none the less...

...and it didn't take long before I was modding again!

The shocking speakers I had were to be replaced by some JDM goodness in the form of some completely refurbed Nakamichi SP-50s, SP-10s and PC-100 crossovers hidden under the seats

and in the back some Nakamichi Sp200s on the parcel shelf, far better than the standard 6x9s

The factory Recaro interior was also to change...I found some awesome Recaro SR seats on ebay, repaired some of the foam in em and got them in the car...

...they were a perfect match for the rears and I couldn't be happier with them!

I couldn't stand the TE37s taking a battering in the summer, so I had a plan to get some winter rims, so I was exstatic when I spotted these Weds SA90s. I have subsequently added some centre caps to these beauties.

A few little colour coded bits were added under the hood next in January 08, namely the Blitz rad pipe so I can add my Defi sensor in when the time comes, the SARD rad cap and NGK spark plug leads



and inside the Defi controller was fitted along with the BF boost gauge!

So I could now keep a good eye on what was going on, I felt it was time for a nicer tail pipe to protrude from under that JAM bumper...cue Keith, who got Zisco of Malta to fabricate a straight through piece of mechanical art to couple to an Apexi Megaphone backbox I already had - without ever seeing it or my car!







It looked lovely and I wasted no time getting it on the car



March saw this welcome addition to Jeff's bum, a Toyota O/E factory option duck spoiler - not in black for long lol, in the last pic you can also see I added a Punto rear wiper, as that Mechano set Toyota used was looking like crap!









I thought the Defi controller looked lonely on its own like that, so ordered up a GReddy turbo timer and Profec B-II boost controller to keep it company



I felt Jeff needed some pampering and Meguiars seemed like a good choice, that clay bar made such a difference to the condition of the paint thats for sure!

In the same month (June), I also upgraded the shifter bushes with some TC trading ones to improve shifting performance and Jordan helped me fit the Whiteline anti-lift plates. The D2 coilovers have also been replaced with TRD shocks a RS-R Ti2000 titanium springs.

I think that is a good place to end this post, no dramas, no damage - just the anticipation that is the next section - Stage 1 of my engine mods!

Be safe kids!