PegGTS' officially low and slow ST204, Now featuring low! Options

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Woooo broken engine out!

[PegGTS]

So I got the interior back together for the most part the other night, just gotta put the pssenger side panels back in once I get the wiring harness back through the firewall.



I also got the new engine on the engine stand and changed the timing belt and swapped everything I needed over from the old engine. Once everything was swapped over I got the clutch and transmission on the new engine and dropped it all in! Bolted up the side motor mounts for now, I have yet to figure out the mess of the wiring harness that's waiting for me.

That's all the progress for now, hopefully I'll get everything done in the next week or two and she'll be up and running again soon!

Degreased the engine bay a bit to prep it for the engine.

Before:



After:



Engine and tranny together:



And in goes the new engine.

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Woooo, now for the hard part. Wiring.

[PegGTS]

Yeah I know...everything should go slowly but smoothly though, hopefully

[cheela]

you're just missing the turbo now. hahah

[PegGTS]

Missing it, for now...

[PegGTS]

Well I got the car running tonight! So here's a bit of an update.

After getting the engine in I went to bolt up the rear motor mount and realized that I had actually crushed it and the bracket as I was putting the engine in so out it came again. I took the rear mount and bracket out and straightened it out as best I could and put it back on. Dropped the motor back in and made sure it was lined up this time.




Swapped the valve cover with my original one which I had painted wrinkle red (The front didn't wrinkle very much) and got most of the hard parts back on. Laid the wiring harness in and got to work hooking everything back up. Had some trouble hooking up a few vacuum lines which I forgot to mark, asked around on the ol' Facebook and found out they were for the idle up control valve on the power steering pump. Had a look at the pump and the nipples where the lines should go were broken off, so I capped them off for now until I can replace the valve.




Also while I was putting the engine back in I found a strange motor mount sitting in my garage and couldn't figure out what it was for. Back to Facebook again and Dustin told me it was an MR2 motor mount, so at least now I know what kind of car the motor is out of!

Finally got everything back on and threw my vanity plate on just because lol. My brother had taken my battery to use in his 4Runner so I had to borrow a Honda battery from my girlfriend's dad. It felt like such a shame to be using a Honda battery in a Toyota





Saturday I filled up the fluids and tried starting it for the first time. It turned over, but just didn't want to fire up for some reason. Thinking it could have been the distributor, I swapped it out for my original one and still nothing. I made sure it was set at TDC on the compression stroke and that the distributor rotor was pointing towards the #1 spark plug wire. Then today we tested to see if there was spark and there wasn't anything. We couldn't figure out why we weren't getting any spark and we were all scratching our heads. Here's a video of what it was doing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGtY5gbQTT4


Then as we were all sitting there trying to find out what it could be, I had a look behind the intake manifold and saw something...a ground wire. Turns out it was the main harness ground which I somehow completely forgot to bolt down. I was probably working on it late one night and was too tired to even notice it. So I bolted that in, tested for spark and there it was! Put everything back together and tried starting it and it fired right up!

That was probably the most relieving moment ever. To know that I was finally (mostly) done and that I could get the car back on the road again in time for a local end of year car show!

I just have to get a timing light and set the ignition timing although it does seem to run very well as of now, almost no issues so far. Here's a video of it running, it's really loud since I had the exhaust unbolted haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18qEPYHYCGY

Now all I need to do is install my stainless steel brake lines and she's good to go! Can't wait

[cheela]

for shame! honda parts in a toyota!!!

hahah glad it's back up and running though. just in time for winter

[jordisonjr]

Just in time.
I think Keith and I were gunna get a shoot going soon!

[richee3]

So did you get the axle out or pull the motor with the axle in the trans?

[PegGTS]

Just in time.
I think Keith and I were gunna get a shoot going soon!

Awesome. Should be up and running in the next couple days!

So did you get the axle out or pull the motor with the axle in the trans?

We tried getting the axle out but it just wouldn't come so we did end up pulling it out, axle and all lol. Thanks for the tips Daniel, you've been a big help!

This post has been edited by PegGTS: Sep 14, 2015 - 11:13 AM

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It's alive!!! Muwahahahaha!!!

[richee3]

Glad I could help out in some small way.

[PegGTS]

Didn't install the braided lines yet, figured I'd get it up and running first then worry about that

So tonight we set the ignition timing. I found that it should be set to about 10 BTDC but after doing a bit of research I found a lot of people saying they were able to squeeze a bit more power and MPG by setting it to about 12-14 BTDC so that's where it's sitting now.

Then we bled the brake system and got her back on the ground. I took it out for a quick drive around the block to test everything out. Didn't go too far since its not insured lol but from what I could tell everything seemed to be running well! No issues so far.

Tomorrow I'll go and get about a month of temporary insurance just to last me until the winter when it will get parked. Can't wait to start driving it again!



This post has been edited by PegGTS: Sep 19, 2015 - 4:08 AM

[PegGTS]

Got the car insured this morning and drove it to school and work. So far no issues other than the rear motor mount I believe. It seems to be shot, when I start up the car you can hear a fairly decent knocking sound coming from underneath and at low RPMs you can feel it too. When we were putting the engine in we did notice it was a little torn but at the time we just said screw it because we just wanted to get it done and make sure it was running lol. I'm not too worried about it right now, the engine isn't going anywhere Other than that, everything seems great!

Also washed it for the first time in about 4 months, my god that thing was dusty. As I was washing it I also noticed that a lot of the paint on the passenger side is cracking and flaking off. Must not have been prepped well enough so sometime soon I'll redo that.



And here's the two 'Yotas together

[PegGTS]

Went out the other day with a friend and took some shots, then of course my clear turns showed up the day after...

Gotta replace those front bumper bolts! I guess I also never mentioned the decal on my spoiler...given the state my car was in for the past 4 months I think it was only appropriate haha. Let's just say it's the only decal my girlfriend approves of









Unfortunately my passenger door bottom is starting to get quite rusty as you can see. Might do a quick fix for now and then possibly source another door eventually.

And lastly here's some before and after shots of the clear turns.

[RoadRage]

Looking good!

but next sideskirts pls

This post has been edited by RoadRage: Sep 21, 2015 - 7:06 AM

[PegGTS]

Yeah sideskirts need to happen haha

[PegGTS]

Hasn't been anything going on with the car over the winter since it's been stored, but I just ordered some OEM sideskirts last night! Going to install them when I bring the car out of storage. Also have camber bolts to install in the front.

[njccmd2002]

that would make the car look much better.