3.0 liter build, Old School Style

[Tanya]

So, as very little of you know, I acquired a 6MGE block on craigslist for $50 back towards the begining of the year. Got it home and gutted it, only to find that the crank and rods were wasted. Thanks to the generosity of a few, I was able to get the parts I needed for my badass build.

I want to think Aaron Garney (RabidChimp) most of all, for his patience and so much more. ForcedTorque for the connecting rods, Shawn (Junkie) for the 5 spd tranny, Robert (Supraguy31) for the 7M oil pump driveshaft and cuel at Supramania for the 7M crank pulley. Thanks guys!!!

Here is my new engine's story:

My parts table, slowly started getting cramped

Got some goodies back from the machine shop

Polished & balanced 6M crankshaft (out of an early 7MGTE)

7MGE connecting rods, 7MGE crank pulley

The last ride my 5M car gave was to go pick up her 6M block from the machine shop

.030" over, high compression piston bling

 

[Tanya]

plastigaugin fun (bleh)

Black block no no, grey block easier to spot leakage

Painting the head (which got a valve job and was milled .005")

Time to clean & paint nasty cam towers

Tada!

 

[Tanya]

Valve cover's turn

Sexy 6M intake

Test fitting belt to the 7MGE crank pulley, 7M alternator and 5M waterpump pulley setup

Oh, found out the hard way why you cannot use the 5M oil pump driveshaft in a 3.0 setup, DOH

6M/7M driveshaft is thinner and notched out for #1 and #2 con rods

Timing belt cover fun

Sexy?

 

[Tanya]

Ohh look, time to go in the car now...

What's that? 5 speed swap you say?

Fuel filter relocation FTW

Happy Supra!

Can't wait to finish breaking it in so I can dyno her

So far I am into the car for UNDER $1,500. The car itself was free. :love:

 

[Deofol]

Wow, that is awesome! Beautiful job on that engine! (drool)

What's planned next?

 

[Supra469]

Very nice clean setup. Just wow.

 

[Tanya]

What's planned next?

Removing the heater core and the rest of the useless crap under the dash (vents).

As of right now there is no power steering, no a/c, no cruise control, no egr, no washer fluid tank. Weight savings ftw

Also have 295cc injectors that will get soldered on to a spare wiring harness and go on after I get my base dyno done.

 

[noah89t]

awesome job! have you tried to crank it up yet?

 

[Tanya]

Yeah she's been running since 4/20. Did the big mk2 Supra Kirkland, WA meet yesterday... put on 240 miles, so total now is around 300+ miles (speedo stopped working when we did the 5spd swap)

 

[Jaguar_5]

Well done Tanya!

You are the MASTER at building cheap Supras!!!

Heres to hoping I make it to Centralia and get to see your car

 

[OneJSupra]

wow :love: :love: :love:

 

[noah89t]

do you think it's a broken cable that made the speedo stop working? that is usually the case.

 

[Tanya]

noah, not too sure. When I was installing the clutch pedal and matching brake pedal I figured I had knocked the cable out of the cluster. Went back and checked it, sure enough, it was not plugged in, but even then still didn't work. I am HOPING it is a bad elbow. I need to get the car back in the air and put the automatic speedo elbow on and hope that works.


Thanks all!

I hope to make it to Centralia, right now it's kinda up in the air though as I have conflicting events going on =/

 

[noah89t]

i don't know about the mkii, but the auto mkiii uses a 3 piece cable and it is usually the elbow that breaks on mine, i went auto to 5-speed by the way. in four years, it has broken twice, so now i keep an extra in the tool box. i guess i could just ditch the elbow and use the tow piece cable...one day.

 

[86yota]

nice rebuild i pretty much did the same work to my 7mge here a quick link to check it out www.tristatetuners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54609

But my speedo cable broke twice from it was the middle (long section) and now the little bottom section. which seem to be more expensive dealer item only kinda sucks ... good luck with it tanya

 

[gtsfirefighter]

Very very nice Tanya! How much power you hoping to get out of it?

 

[RazoE]

make sure it's not unplugged from under the tranny..

One day my speedo stopped working, and I looked under the car, only to see two connectors hanging. Screwed them back together (one had a screw top), and my speedo/odometer started working again. That simple

 

[Tanya]

Very very nice Tanya! How much power you hoping to get out of it?

I'll be happy with anything over 170whp.

 

[IJ.]

Well done Tanya

 

[Facime]

That car is just sooo hot. The black with the machined ribs in the VC's and the aluminum intake.... :yum:

I recently decided that Im going to sell my Cherokee and get a mk2. Hopefully have something by this summer.