Stu

Sweet rig! Have wired up a couple of escorts with 4ages and confirm they go good!

I really struggle for free time these days but have been ticking off the odd job when I can. Now the engine is in I could continue with the game of making the trumpets fit. In the last photo of the previous post the rear pair of trumpets weren't fitted as they hit the brake booster. I had various schemes in mind for sorting this including a change of angle for the quads, or printing different trumpets, but an easy solution was to change the booster to a smaller unit. Quite a while back I managed to pickup a second hand KE70 booster to measure up, and seeing as it looked like it would all work I got a new one and finally got around to fitting it. Here's the comparison: I also picked up a new master cylinder and threw that in. The rubber line from the reservoir to the master touches the strut tower but I'll muck around with that later on. At least now there is ample room: Also finished up the fuel rail spacers and fitted the rail Got some new cam cover washers so bolted them down properly and fitted the coils: Can't decide which spark plug cover to run, tempted to stain the wood version and run that till it catches on fire: I also took the starlet for a quick loop around the neighbourhood, When I got back one of my nieghbours was waiting for me which made me worry for a bit, but he just wanted a ride... Poor things gets warmed up then trashed, then put away again. One day I will revisit it and make it betterer... or worserer... but definitely faster. Anyway, thats all for now. PS: All of this is @kpr's fault

Ive been getting all my batteries from Nick at Pinnicle Motorsport who has good buying power with Hankook branded batteries. Ive done similar in sending sizes and he finds suitable options - send him an email and see if he can help you

Shit this is awesome! Congrats on all the hard work. Must be seventy billion hours in this.

2GR with 4-71 or 6-71 blower on top! ... I'll see myself out

So the engine has sat on my bench for a while due to distractions with house projects which can be seen on the House DIY thread: And I've also been helping get the MIL's 72 beetle back on the road which is pretty much done, leaving me with a little spare time to back to the engine. First up was welding some fittings to the sump for the turbo oil drain, vvti oil drain and the oil drain from the back of the head: I gave the sump a good sand and clean, then painted it black to hide the sin. Also painted the block. Took one last look (hopefully) at the girdle, fitted the windage tray and the SS works oil pickup, then jammed the sump on: Next I made up the head oil return line: I started mucking around the the vvti oil feed, figuring out what elbow I needed. The base of the weld on -6 fitting was a bit touchy touchy with the block so I broke out the CNC Makita sanding lathe and accurately spun it down for clearance: Tig welded it, black paint, sorted: Due to the height difference of the 7a block I modified the tube between the water pump and the water neck - its ugly so no photos. But also modified the water lines by deleting the small lines that ran to the OEM throttle body, and made a bracket to support it off the block. Due to the banjo fittings on the vvti block there wasn't enough room for the fuel rail fitting: So milled off a flat surface on the top of the rail, and drilled/tapped it for a banjo bolt instead. I didn't take a photo but the original end fitting is lopped off and the rail end welded up. Then fitted a new crank sprocket, the Garage4age crank hall effect bracket and sensor, idler, and cambelt etc. Due to the injector length the fuel rail spacers where too short so machined some up out of acetyl. They still need trimming down a few mm and a clean up so will muck around with these more in the future. This vacuum manifold thing came with the car, so made up a bracket to hang under the throttles: Kind threw everything on it so I could have a quick wank then got it ready to lift in. Then it was time to pull the original engine out: Then I had another wank over the engine sitting on the garage floor ready to go: Then once I had composed myself again I threw it in the car (shit photo): So that's where its at for now, heaps of little jobs to sort then will start back into wiring.

I run one of those Mocal setups on my 4agte starlet to remote the oil filter as space is somewhat limited - good piece of kit. Actually that photo shows nothing except the filter in the drivers front. Will try find more photos.

Brendan at Niteparts has completed a handful of these over the years, it might be worth giving a call for pointers?

Just use a nail

Would be really simple to do, just trigger inputs so it knows the engine is rotating and one aux out for the pump

Piggyback an old link on the stock setup to just run the pump if you get desperate

G4+ is a fair step up functionality wise and recommended over G4

I don't have any experience with the 1uz AFM specifically but some other AFM's have a Fc pin that is used to trigger the circuit open relay and not the ecu.

Turbos will soften the exhaust sound

Scott Hoffman over in OZ has used Maxspeeding gear in alot of his moderately ludicrous builds with good success. I highly doubt he's using them in his latest billet engine though.