SevenMKIII's First Build!

[SevenMKIII]

Little background... (I guess this is sort of a late introduction, too)

My first Supra. My friend has owned this car for probably 6 years and put maybe 5k miles on it. In the past 1 1/2 years I've been wanting this car very bad because I knew the true potential, but everyone was against it. He's not the best at rebuilding or taking his time while doing so. I snagged his '87 Supra 5spd with 78k original miles on the body with a BHG swapped JDM motor from one of his friends, ha. On to my build...

Purchased another JDM 7MGTE through Soshin USA, awesome company, highly recommended. Knew I wouldn't be stupid and just throw it in there, so I'm finally almost finished with my rebuild now. Tore the motor apart and found a pretty decent platform to build on.

No BHG, parts looked pretty decent, none of the bearings were worn down, scored, no copper showing so I was pretty pumped. I took the block and head to my machine shop and had them deck the block and head to the smoothest RA value they could get it to, turned out great. Also had them hone the cylindars while it was there. Got the block back and resumed tearing it down, cleaning it, and applied several coats of 1200* high temp bright red engne paint covering everything necessary. Checked all clearances on main journals and rods with plastigauge, all checked out perfect. I know it's not the most reliable source but it is said to work. Before I go on here is a list of the parts I have already purchased for my build:

Engine:
-Complete engine gasket kit (really will only use a few, RTV and the right stuff for everything else!)
-Brand new Toyota oil pump (shimmed 6mm)
-Brand new Toyota water pump
-HKS 1.2mm bead type MHG
-ARP head studs
-ACL rod/main bearings/thrust washers
-Nippon piston rings
-Cleaned stock pistons-looks new!
-All new Gates accy belts

-Belt tensionor kit
-New 90* coolant hose on back of head with new worm gears
-EGR! Cruise! MAF!:evil2: Carbon Can! VSV's! PCV! A/C! CT26!:evil2:
-Denso 550cc injectors
-VooDoo 6 port vacuum manifold

-Inline water temp sending unit thing from Prosport
-Basically new alternater

-Made custom bracket to hold 1 12" fan and 1 14" fan, call it overdoing it if you want but I want my car to be reliable

Exhaust:
-HKS Sport turbo upgrade T04e I believe? Hard to find info on it

-Cooleze Megamouth downpipe
-Bottlenecked 2.5 or 2.75" catback, WILL be replaced with 3" and test pipe once money is replenished :biglaugh:

Intake:
-24x12x3" eBay intercooler
-2.5" aluminum piping with silicone hump hoses
-Greddy type RS BOV (thanks to driftmotion! received today)
-3" pipe from HKS turbo to large filter

Oil:
-12"x9" oil cooler relocating to passenger side, no hardlines
-Stainless feed line for turbo

Ignition:
NGK wires to coil pack relocated on firewall
NGK copper plugs

Electronics:
-HKS VPC

-HKS EVC II
-HKS Turbo Timer
-Autometer Lunar Boost gauge 0-35psi (All gauges in pods on dash, pics to come)
-Autometer Lunar Pyrometer 0-1600*
-AEM UEGO wideband
-iEquus Oil pressure, water temp, and voltage till I can affort more Lunars

So I already have the short block together, crank, pistons and rods and oil pump are in. Tomorrow I'll be doing more work on it. I try to be organized and I'm relocating things to hide them. Area around struts are bare besizes EVC stuff. I've been taking as much time as I can with this, cleaning parts like crazy getting everything to look brand new and using all the proper torque specs and assembly lube where required/recommended. Goals for this car are reliability! No rodknock or BHG here.. But I want to make decent power. I don't want to completely disappoint myself so if I make 375hp to the wheels at around 18-21 psi I will be happy, for now:evil5: Give me ANY suggustions I'm open to any input and questions.

 

[TooGoode]

good luck! supras take work but they are well worth it!!

 

[boostadikt]

looking good, havent seen a vpc around for awhile.

 

[TurboFreak]

Wow sounds like you got the right idea! Woot!

 

[Big Wang Bandit]

Nice build!

 

[SevenMKIII]

Thanks guys, tomorrow is the last day before Spring Break so we have been swamped with tests and papers. Hopefully I can get a lot more pictures tomorrow. I'm hoping to finish the motor by the end of Spring Break, all I need to do is buy a tool to reinstall the valvesprings (unless someone wants to let me borrow theirs for a few bucks haha) and put the longblock back together. I know I'll run into a few more obstacles but I think if I get one or two good long days I can finish getting the motor together.

-Chris

 

[SevenMKIII]

Some more pictures for tonight.
Test fitting the primary timing cover/finding all bolts haha

Painted block/decked/honed/cleaned pistons

Shiny mating surface:love:

Cooleeze

Water pump and head studs

The Rebel :evil2:

Custom $5 fan mount

EVC stuff

Testing pipe routing

Red valve covers and all valves/springs/collets in baggies

Where Boeings get wet

My HKS Sport turbo

"Poor Man's Ceramic" 1200* aluminum paint :biglaugh:

More coated parts

Cleaned strut tower area

Boost, Pyrometer, and AEM UEGO in ball-and-socket cups

-Chris

 

[SevenMKIII]

And a few more...
78k original miles

FMIC peeking about-Should I cut the bumper??

Greddy Type RS

Cleaning up combustion chamber and ports

Denso 550's

I have 3 stock turbo TB's, two were the same size but this one was I think 65mm ID? the others were 60 or 61mm IIRC, any ideas?

Back shot

Keeps my sanity *notice temp if you can make it out*

Last but not least, what's left of my brothers car before getting ITS rodknock cured heh heh heh :biglaugh:

-Chris

 

[Reign_Maker]

Turbo A t/b?

 

[empera]

looks good man, yea 65mm is the turbo a...

 

[SevenMKIII]

But I thought the turbo A had a larger opening in the back also? Like 68mm or something?

-Chris

 

[SevenMKIII]

Few toys to make sure my gauges don't blow anything up. Probably overdue, trying to find a 30amp relay switch in town but nobody has one! Head is getting professionally sonic cleaned and reassembled with new valve seals, dropped it off this afternoon and he said I can pick it up tomorrow morning, quick turnaround!

-Chris

 

[89Turbo]

hmmm nice build but im not sure how well that coating is going to hold up on the exhaust mani

 

[SevenMKIII]

Thanks! I'm not looking for anything special, just to get my stuff to not look like @$$ basically haha. It was $5 a can and "says" it's engine enamel and it protects to 1200* so it has to be somewhat better than just spray paint.

-Chris

 

[tonystarks]

nice build :naughty: Where are you getting the head done? I am supposed to drop my head off in a couple weeks @ some place in Algonquin. I wish I had the time to tear my car apart........:cry:

 

[SevenMKIII]

I got my head back today, looks great and it was cheap. $64.89 for disassembling head, sonic cleaning it, and reassembling with new valve seals. Looks brand new on most parts. Got it all done at Kalina Machine in Peoria. On to the pics!
Closeup

A head from far, far away

-Chris

 

[SevenMKIII]

I got some more work done on my car but ran into a hopefully not too big of a problem. Got the HKS hg on, cleaned head is on doing 5 passes in 8 steps from 15-82ft lbs on the arp studs, cams in, painted water pump, timing belt tensioner, oil pump ds gear, cam gears and timing belt. When installing the lifter buckets, a lot of the intake ones were very hard to get in. I had them all in order, so I know they went in the same bore or whatever, but they kept catching on the valvesprings. One would NOT go down for anything, but I finally shimmied it down but it wouldn't rotate. Bad move. I was thinking once it has more oil and is warmed up it will break itself free and bounce back from the spring, but as I bolted the cams down it just went down and when I rotated the cam it stuck down there. It is very tight and I don't know what's wrong?! HELP! Do have have to take everything back apart and take the head off to fix this stupid bucket?? Check the pics out.

Also, I shimmed the oil pump but it says to shim the relief spring too. Is that beneath the lower bolt in this picture?

Thanks

-Chris

 

[mattgo]

Good work man!

 

[SevenMKIII]

Anyone have advice on my cam follower problem?!?

-Chris

 

[SevenMKIII]

Today was my last day of spring break, so I'm not too pleased with not being able to clean the heck out of everything and paint it to match. Someday I'll get around to removing piece by piece and painting them but for now this will do, I have been without a car for about 4 months. Pretty sure the motor is entirely assembled, to my knowledge haha. Here's a overall pic

And what's this peeking through the nooks and crannies?

I need some MSD spark plug wires and spark plugs, and the Hose Techniques silicon hose kit, a battery, LOTS of oil and some coolant and I'll be good to go this weekend.

-Chris