My Toyota MR2 build thread - 1994 GT-S
My Toyota MR2 build thread - 1994 GT-S
"Life's goal is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well preserved body. But, rather to skid in sideways........
totally worn out and broken, shouting 'Holy ****, WHAT A RIDE!'"
FirebirdPhil
15-03-2017, 04:58 AM #361was it the passenger side - you know how heavy these McD eating fools are:p
"Life's goal is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well preserved body. But, rather to skid in sideways........
totally worn out and broken, shouting 'Holy ****, WHAT A RIDE!'"
My Garage
Supra Build Thread
' Nothing feels quick when your other car has a 1000bhp - JamieP
Quote:A Supra without a spoiler is like a Gypsy's dog without a Nob.
Dan_Turism0
15-03-2017, 05:06 AM #363haha bar-steward Phil
My Garage
Supra Build Thread
' Nothing feels quick when your other car has a 1000bhp - JamieP
Quote:A Supra without a spoiler is like a Gypsy's dog without a Nob.
moke:
"Life's goal is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well preserved body. But, rather to skid in sideways........
totally worn out and broken, shouting 'Holy ****, WHAT A RIDE!'"
FirebirdPhil
15-03-2017, 05:07 AM #364busted Danmoke:
"Life's goal is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well preserved body. But, rather to skid in sideways........
totally worn out and broken, shouting 'Holy ****, WHAT A RIDE!'"
![[Image: mechanic.jpg]](http://www.roflcat.com/images/cats/mechanic.jpg)
My Garage
Supra Build Thread
' Nothing feels quick when your other car has a 1000bhp - JamieP
Quote:A Supra without a spoiler is like a Gypsy's dog without a Nob.
Dan_Turism0
15-03-2017, 05:29 AM #366has to be done
My Garage
Supra Build Thread
' Nothing feels quick when your other car has a 1000bhp - JamieP
Quote:A Supra without a spoiler is like a Gypsy's dog without a Nob.
You can see inside the CV joint here! Next to the bolt hole in the middle:
![[Image: brokenCV.jpg]](http://theshado.ws/images/imoc/brokenCV.jpg)
Bad news I'm afraid... a flailing banana washer released by the bolt falling out has knocked a hole in the CV housing. Fortunately I have a spare passenger side driveshaft complete with a working CV joint so I am going to nick the bolts and washer from that, bolt it all back up together and hope there is still enough CV grease in the joint by the time I get to Lukes for the ATS CV joint not to be toast
You can see inside the CV joint here! Next to the bolt hole in the middle:
thats not good mate
but at least your safe :thumbup:
![[Image: Sig-enginebay.jpg]](http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y179/SteveHammatt/Sig-enginebay.jpg)
IS200 Turbo project now just about complete ! See my thread here and leave your comments.
Now running standalone Syvecs ECU and no stock ECU !
steviewevie
15-03-2017, 10:44 AM #369Fingers crossed for you mate !
IS200 Turbo project now just about complete ! See my thread here and leave your comments.
Now running standalone Syvecs ECU and no stock ECU !
Took my car from home to Toyota in MK to pick up some bits and it was only running on 3 cylinders...
Messed about with the HT leads and the distributor a bit (covered in CV grease! there's nothing in my engine bay that isn't) and that cured that.
Took it easy on the way down to Luke's, didn't want the CV to run dry or throw any more grease anywhere. I had already removed the bent dirt shield so there would be nothing to catch anything flying about.
Got to Luke's about 10 and we set about fixing things. We discovered that the remaining 4 bolts on the ATS CV were only finger tight! Have checked the driver's side one and that's fine though. We also discovered that the ATS cage wouldn't fit inside the Toyota CV bracket, so either the ATS bracket is custom or the cage has deformed (more likely as I think the ATS kit only consists of the race, cage and bearings). So after 2 hours of mess, rebuilding CV joints etc etc we put it all back together. Car was back on the road by just gone 1 (although it's low on gbox oil but I will fix that tomorrow).
Got to SRR about 2 and ran both Celica ECUs. They are both identical, so whatever change is made in the facelift ECU doesn't affect performance. So that was a waste of time, but I'm not too fussed as my first ECU experiment went so well, this one was bound to disappoint.
The biggest downer of the day is that my car was 20bhp DOWN on the last run a month ago. This adds fuel (lol! see what I did there?) to my theory that my cambelt has slipped a tooth. We were getting flames from the exhaust on the dyno, as well as Charlie pointing out that the ignition timing was loads more retarded than last time. At least I got to go and relax with a burger and a pint at this stage.
So, cambelt cover off tomorrow to see what's what. Will also need to put the remains of the MT90 I've got lying around into the gearbox. Fun times.
Today was very infurating.
Took my car from home to Toyota in MK to pick up some bits and it was only running on 3 cylinders...
Messed about with the HT leads and the distributor a bit (covered in CV grease! there's nothing in my engine bay that isn't) and that cured that.
Took it easy on the way down to Luke's, didn't want the CV to run dry or throw any more grease anywhere. I had already removed the bent dirt shield so there would be nothing to catch anything flying about.
Got to Luke's about 10 and we set about fixing things. We discovered that the remaining 4 bolts on the ATS CV were only finger tight! Have checked the driver's side one and that's fine though. We also discovered that the ATS cage wouldn't fit inside the Toyota CV bracket, so either the ATS bracket is custom or the cage has deformed (more likely as I think the ATS kit only consists of the race, cage and bearings). So after 2 hours of mess, rebuilding CV joints etc etc we put it all back together. Car was back on the road by just gone 1 (although it's low on gbox oil but I will fix that tomorrow).
Got to SRR about 2 and ran both Celica ECUs. They are both identical, so whatever change is made in the facelift ECU doesn't affect performance. So that was a waste of time, but I'm not too fussed as my first ECU experiment went so well, this one was bound to disappoint.
The biggest downer of the day is that my car was 20bhp DOWN on the last run a month ago. This adds fuel (lol! see what I did there?) to my theory that my cambelt has slipped a tooth. We were getting flames from the exhaust on the dyno, as well as Charlie pointing out that the ignition timing was loads more retarded than last time. At least I got to go and relax with a burger and a pint at this stage.
So, cambelt cover off tomorrow to see what's what. Will also need to put the remains of the MT90 I've got lying around into the gearbox. Fun times.
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