7AFE Turbo kit install by DCW, To one of our good known members celica :) Options

[doGGy]

Well guy and girls - i can proudly present another project witch i will try to document / write-up / expain to a smallest details as posible. The project is install of a Turbo kit to a Martin (malpaso) 96' ST celica.

Works begin tomorow - so i will try to write up every single day of work i will be spending on his car, all the jobs what was done, and what things are installed and WHY they are installed + how they work and etc. Hoping to make this write up to be usefull to a people who will be doing the same thing later, and for the people to understand better how things work and etc.

Keep and eye on this topic - cuz it will have lots of info and pics in the long run

As for now - Martin celica is securly standing in my yeard - and Martin is traveling back home with the bus (20h drive oh man.... ), so lets hope the owner will give his response in this topic later

Romas

[doGGy]

Back to buissnes - its sunday (ussualy i start my week at sunda ) so im gonna be working whole week again Got alot of stuff done today (basicly all the freeing space / mounting stuff work).
Well here we go again:
First step today was to free some space in the engine bay, so some stuff had to be removed and relocated. First thing was radiator fan - it gets in the way there the downpipe will be - so i aint wanted to leave it there and melt down from the heat - so, there he goes



Once it was removed - i had to make some space in front of the radiator, cuz i was gonna place on the left side in front of the turbine, so it will not only cool down the radiator - but at the same time blow some air from header and turbine. I did the same setup on my Old ST, and it worked pretty fine, cuz Fan fits in front of the radiator like it was meant to fit there But to fit it there - i had to remove the Oilcooler radiator from the old place, cuz it gets in the way there the Intercooler will be mounted.


After half hour here hows the front of the Celica was looking (can you say - Naked ):


Fan was fit in the place:




After some time spent making brackets for the fan, finally - it was fully bolted in the place:


NOTICE - if some one will try to install fan like this - the important thing is to Switch the WIRES of the motor places - When it is installed BEHIND the radiator - it sucks the air in - once you get it in front - you have to make it BLOW the air.


Now was the time for some cutting To run the intercooler pipes, i use different route when most of the people do, so i just cut 2 holes in the front support, this way i make the piping shorter, and easyer to run (different intercooler sizes might need different route, i do my setup like this cuz my Intercooler sizes lets me route the pipes this way). To make everything more understandible - take a look at the pics:
Left side:

Right side:

After i cut the holes i used simple rubber hose, i cut one side of the hose and wrap it on sharp edges of the metal to avoid chatering sound if the pipes will be hitting sides of the holes. After the hose was fitted, i drilled some small holes in all the corners and used some Zippies to hold the hose in place.

Once the holes where done - was time to install custom front support bar what i made long time ago:


After the front support was in place, was time for Intercooler mounting and some messuring for the new IC piping:


After this, next step was to find a place where to mount the Oil Cooler. It was kinda hard to find a place for it where it will get some air, cuz Martin uses Fog lights in the bumper so i couldnt install it in the p0lace where the side opening on the bumper are, so... I found a place for it in the fender, right there the Washer fluid tank is (Tomasz - i left the Fluid tank untouched ):

Its still a permament mount, cuz i will need to make another bracket for it to hold nice and tight + tomorow im getting all the hoses for the Fuel / oil.

Everything installed in the places:



And the last thing for today was mounting the new FPR, so i just made simple bracket for it, and drilled 2 holes in the firewall - and whoala


Tomorow i will start all the welding jobs (IC piping / Downpipe) and will be running some hoses to all the places and etc My plan is to start this beast by Tusday if everything will be ok And then - DYNO tune I cant wait....