Turbofreak's 1992 Poopra (Update 3/16/08)

[88mkIIIproject]

good luck with it man, at least the job is semi-fresh in your mind so it should go a bit smoother, especially the head studs

 

[gurley0916]

how did the HG go?

 

[TurboFreak]

Haha it's still 200 miles away at my apartment at college...
I should be going to get it this week though and it should be running by next week.

 

[TurboFreak]

Since this thread got bumped I figured I'd post up and update and my little parts pile...

Ordering a Toyota HG from Champion tomorrow(need to deposit some checks and the bank is already closed grrrr...) so that it should be here by the time I get my car back up to my house.

The pile is missing a turbo block!!! (It's at my friends house, I should be getting it back to my house the end of this week)
EDIT: It's also missing an IC, Turbo ECU, and a HKS Sport Muffler that is in my trunk 200 miles away!

I've finally started working again so I'll probably be getting some parts soon. Hopefully a +89 wing and a ct26 from my buddy and all those parts ya'll have for me(if you still have em). Then all I need are some odds and ends to finally go turbo!

(The pile also has misc. N/A parts in it which I am making a for sale thread right now for...)

 

[LilMissMkIII]

Updates FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:boobies::boobies::boobies::boobies::boobies::boobies::boobies::boobies:

 

[NgoFcukinWay]

Since this thread got bumped I figured I'd post up and update and my little parts pile...

Ordering a Toyota HG from Champion tomorrow(need to deposit some checks and the bank is already closed grrrr...) so that it should be here by the time I get my car back up to my house.

The pile is missing a turbo block!!! (It's at my friends house, I should be getting it back to my house the end of this week)
EDIT: It's also missing an IC, Turbo ECU, and a HKS Sport Muffler that is in my trunk 200 miles away!

I've finally started working again so I'll probably be getting some parts soon. Hopefully a +89 wing and a ct26 from my buddy and all those parts ya'll have for me(if you still have em). Then all I need are some odds and ends to finally go turbo!

(The pile also has misc. N/A parts in it which I am making a for sale thread right now for...)

Nice. I still have that OEM headgasket I bought back in September. Been trying to get rid of it for a while. Still got the receipt for the sumbitch.

 

[TurboFreak]

So the car is in my garage now.

Just got home from work and I'm sitting in the garage about to tackle this HG job for the second time in 4 months... I've been researching more and there are a couple things I did wrong last time that will be done RIGHT this time...

...Wish me luck.

I'll post some pics up tonight after I get done for the night. They won't be exciting(at least I hope they wont!). Just progress pics.

 

[TurboFreak]

(I know this thread is very boring and therefore no one reads it... ...but oh well.)

K, So I didn't get very far. Only managed to get the intake and TB off and all the bolts on the EM top and bottom off. Oh and I managed to slice my finger open pretty good on the cold start injector...

Here's progress pics.

YIKES.

Where the magic happens...

What the cold start injector bolt did to my finger. It's a lot worse than it looks in the crappy cellphone pic... and the blood's in the way to show how deep it is.:3d_frown:

 

[MK3.0dudeman]

I see the old h/g hangin from the wall LOL.


ben my fault i never got back to you about the car I think I'm just going to keep my car.I mean it would be an ok trade but the driving me and you would have to do just to look at the cars isn't worth it to me.Good luck with the h/g.

 

[LilMissMkIII]

Hey, progress is progress mate!!!!

You get a happy dance for having it in the garage:

:boobies: :boobies: :boobies: :boobies: :boobies: :boobies:

 

[TurboFreak]

No worries Brian.

And yay! Kristel boobies!!!


So an update.

Drained Coolant and oil today. I put the oil in a graduated cylinder of sorts to see how much coolant was in the oil. I'll post pics.

Exhaust manifold, intake manifold, and fuel rail is off. Now I need to get the valve covers off, the cam gears, and finally the head itself. Then I need to drain the coolant from the block. Toyota OEM Headgasket arrives on Tuesday per what FedEx said.

Things that I think caused my previous BHG:
-Didnt drain the coolant from the block, just from the rad. (Doh!)
-Didn't torque it down in intervals of 10ft/lbs
-Didn't retorque it.
-Only changed the oil once after fixing the bhg (besides filling it up once I was done with the HG work.)
-Used crappy Ebay Headgasket

I'll probably work on it more tomorrow cause right now I'm off to work.

 

[ViR2]

why are you going OEM hg way? Mine blew just after 3k miles...

 

[EdgeSupra]

why are you going OEM hg way? Mine blew just after 3k miles...

Because there is nothing wrong with an OEM headgasket, as long as the torque and re-torque procedure is done right and you aren't forcing stupid amounts of boost into it.

 

[Big Wang Bandit]

dont break it again ben

 

[TurboFreak]

Because there is nothing wrong with an OEM headgasket, as long as the torque and re-torque procedure is done right, the head is resurfaced and you aren't forcing stupid amounts of boost into it (it's n/a) it shouldn't blow.

Edited it a little but yeah that's why I'm going OEM. While I agree a metal headgasket is far superior to an oem/paper one, I don't see the need for one because:
1. the OEM one will be fine if torqued to the right spec(and all other procedures are done per the TSRM/SM)
2. It's N/A
3. I'm building a turbo motor as we speak...

 

[TurboFreak]

First, a little update. Head should be off tomorrow, if I don't go to the beach. This build isn't exciting, I know, but at least I keep ya updated right?(At least the select few that are bored enough to venture in here.)
Currently:

I put the oil in a container to see if the coolant would rise out of the oil but I let it sit overnight and nothing seemed to happen...

Here's the coolant though... haha.

Now here's the "other" build progress. CyroSlash is gonna send me some turbo injectors and a fuel rail and BHG is gonna send some coil packs and some IC piping when I pay them shipping at some point...haha. And my turbo block is STILL at my friends house... He lives an hour away and I've been working ALOT, so no time.

What exhaust is this? I'm pretty sure its the HKS Sport Exhaust...

ALSO, what ECU is this? +89 hopefully? Is all +89 stuff compatible? And will they work on my 92?

 

[ViR2]

Because there is nothing wrong with an OEM headgasket, as long as the torque and re-torque procedure is done right and you aren't forcing stupid amounts of boost into it.

It was proven that stock HG is the general fault in 7m engine design, so why make a headache for future and save some on oem hg? Eventually all oem gaskets blow.

 

[TurboFreak]

It was proven that stock HG is the general fault in 7m engine design, so why make a headache for future and save some on oem hg? Eventually all oem gaskets blow.

Show me where it was proven the stock HG itself is the general fault in 7M engine design. Read up more dude.

Its the 54 ft. lbs. that they are torqued to from the factory. Wayyyy too low.

And I'm not setting my self up for a headache 'cause this motor isn't staying here for too long. Just needs to last for a couple months until I can drop the GTE in it which WILL have a MHG.

I expect this N/A motor to last for awhile though but oh well if it doesn't.

 

[buckshotglass]

I brought your parts to the meet, where were you dude?

 

[TurboFreak]

Ahhhh! I couldn't go dude!

Still have anything left?