Brandon's Build

[dgj2812]

i just bought and installed an autozone heater core. there was a bit of fitment issues with the flanges that the extension pipes connect to. but it was fixable with some pliers. mines been in almost a month with no leaks. hit me up if you need some help changing it, i did mine by myself in about 6 hours

 

[BrandonW]

i havn't updated in a while but i have some updates, engine is out and the engine bay is getting a good cleaning which is coming out very well so i don't think i will have to paint it

im pretty much done gathering parts that i have been doing for a while, just waiting for 2 things that should be here early next week and then a few other things i'll be ordering and i will be all set

would have had more pictures but the batteries died in my camera

 

[BrandonW]

oh and does anyone know what hose that is coming off the power steering reservoir like off the holding bracket? (far right) it needs to be replaced it almost came apart

 

[BrandonW]

 

[BrandonW]

i gots the 6m crank

what the 2 on the right side, the circle in the middle and the < with the 2 under it stand for?

 

[BrandonW]

some other goodies i have for assembly

goodyear belts
hose techniques silicone vacuum hoses
aem wideband
aem boost controller / gauge
purolator fuel filter

 

[BrandonW]

got another egr since a mating surface cracked and broke off, got my new pistons and now im just waiting on the bearings to be delivered and my turbo to get back from dm

 

[OfnaRcR4]

Noice!

 

[BrandonW]

Noice!

thanks, hopefully all the engine stuff will be finished by the end of this month

bearings got here on friday so today i took the bearings, pistons and the gasket set up to the shop

 

[BrandonW]

got a delivery today as expected it was my 57 trim ct26 from dm

 

[Supra28]

Damn that 57CT is good stuff!

 

[BrandonW]

so i got some bad news today

machine shop says that my head has cracks in it and is not salvageable :icon_frow

so the build is on a little bit of a hold till i get another one which i hope shouldn't take too long

 

[BrandonW]

ok so i asked driftmotion if they had a 7m-gte head just to see, worst case they wouldn't have one, and what do you know they have one that has been rebuilt and machined to a low ra already for a great price being that its already rebuilt and machined to a low ra

only negative is that the shims are mixed up or not put in the correct locations (shoudn't be a big deal at all)

pics they sent to my emai,l i might take a few more when i get it unless i drop it straight off to the shop with the block to figure out the size hg i need

 

[kamikazemkiii]

Whats the name of the rims?

 

[BrandonW]

Whats the name of the rims?

they are sportmax/xxr rims the 006 model

 

[kamikazemkiii]

thanks i thought they were sportmax's

 

[BrandonW]

a little update:

the head from driftmotion was taken over to the machine shop by my mechanic, i didn't inspect the head since it was packaged pretty well and i didn't want to mess it up or not be able to get it back in the box so i just took it up to the shop that way, turns out there were no shims even in the head, weird (was supposed to be a fully rebuilt head resurfaced and with shims just the shims were mixed up) everything else was good and i probably needed new shims or some from my old head anyway so thats no big deal

machine work that was done and is finished:
decked block
bore and hone 6 cylinders
clean block
balance rotating assembly
polish and clean crank
disassemble head adjust valves, polish cams, clean, ect. and reassemble
r&r core plugs

everything will be back to the shop tomorrow and then reassembly can start

while thats being done im taking a ride over to a place that does powder and ceramic coating to have all my exhaust stuff ceramic coated (driftmotion ceramic coated the hot side of the turbo while doing the 57 trim upgrade)

 

[BrandonW]

update, got some stuff back from ceramic coating don't mind the one heat shield thats kind of beat up on the left (the heat shields covering the exhaust manifold have seen better days lol) it will still do its job maybe i'll replace it later they were cheap to have coated and a picture of the carbon fiber cam gear cover i purchased a few weeks ago:

 

[BrandonW]

so today i did some running around in philly with tyler (gaboonviper85) who who gave me a hand with my head and block to check the ra and to also check what size metal head gasket i need since i didn't know what was removed from the head and block
(cellphone pictures)
ra = 8 :aigo:

ra = 23:

 

[arizzle]

looking good did u also get the cylinders honed? n did u get it hot tanked?