Nik_Lee
Wow, you have had a bit going on haven't you, its nice to see that those wheels ended coming up so nicely in the end though, oh and how did the bolts come up what did you do with them in the end?
Have you thought about a slightly lower ride height for your car? if you went the coilover route and went with KW coilovers you could also fit their HLS which gives you up to 45mm of lift to negotiate steep access areas.

 
Been very busy since my last update and the car is never done :p I cleaned the bolts with vinegar and polish, I was going to replace some but couldn't source anything other than genuine RAYS at $4 a bolt or crappy colored eBay ones. I thought it best to use the current ones as they weren't too bad but one day they'll need replacing as you suggested
Looking to get Eibach Pro springs at some point with Koni's but money is depleting haha I've tried coil overs before and been burnt so I'm not too inclined to go back down that route sadly. 
 

Falcon
You have been busy. And congratulations !!
Some sod has pinched all your photos ?  Nice looking car till that happened. Thanks for the story.
Nik Lee. What is this New Toy you speak about ?? Do tell. Photos.

Thank you. The photos seem to remain for me although when I use tapatalk they sometimes bug out. Welcome for the story everyone loves a good one :p 

In an effort to fix the intermittent boost issue I was advised to change coolant sensors. Bought 2 off eBay for about $20 each and the one for the gauge went fine however the one for the ECU decided to snap whilst tightening:

So I took all the piping out so I could get in there with an easy out:

and in the process a hose past its expiry, so much joy right now:


But I got the Bast**d out:

 
Put it back together with stock sensor so it could drive to meet and the water pipe housing in the 3rd picture decided not to seal anymore and started dripping coolant so I ordered a new O ring from Toyota. For the perished pipe Jaemus helped me out with some spare hose but it was too small for the barb. Got it on with the might of Zeus but it'll need to change. Once I have the O-ring and the new sensor I'll delete the hoses to the throttle body and use that pipe to replace the one from Jaemus and then I can take my car for the drive I've been dieing to do. 

Right so those of you who've ventured to the cooling systems thread will have worked out the rather hilarious yet sad situation I found myself in over the past 2 weeks. 
 
I bought a $20 temp sensor off eBay to replace the stock one. Bled the car like 7 or 8 times all resulting in overheat on the guage. Turns out sensor was ****ed as the second I put the stock one back in we were smooth sailing again. It did cause mass frustration and I did purchase a neat bleeding set up for my aftermarket radiator:




 
Got the idea off Robk and now its spill free. Before I had to unscrew plug then screw it back in with coolant going everywhere. Now I have a 70cm coolant hose thats permanently attached to radiator and hides under garnish. When bleeding I take hose, take cap off, attach inspection hose and when coolant is at the right level I bring hose down to that level take inspection hose off and cap it off. It's a brilliant system. 
 
While I was waiting for coolant to settle I put some stickers on:

 
Got all my coolant together for a laugh:

 
And found some toblerones:

 

This is a great addition to the stock cooling system

It's great if you have an upgraded radiator that only use plugs. The stock cooling system uses a tap similar to the one at the heater bleed point. I'd reccomend this as a cheapish solution only costing about $60 worth of parts and means you don't really have to get coolant all over your hands. 

Glad to hear you got the coolant issue sorted out. What a pain that it was the sensor - nothing is more frustrating after all that effort for it to be something to trivial (especially considering you just bought it!)

I'll never forget a few months ago when I did a full coolant overhaul over Christmas; I put a full days effort into making sure to do a proper flush, bleed it properly, etc. - only to find it all drained out onto the road the next morning as it had been dripping all night from the radiator drain plug because the o-ring decided it was perfect timing to off itself..

Moved into a new place over the past few weeks and am back in Newcastle now. I have a double lock up garage which means I've got much more space to store my spares:


 
So naturally I'm now more inclined to fix things seeing as I don't have to take my tools up and down stairs into a public garage. I am fixing the revering lights as they've been on the blink for a year. I took the plug off the reverse switch, bridged it and lights were fine so it's the switch. A new one is on the way from Amayama. 
 
In going through some of my spares I found many things I didn't know I had such as a Traction Control Throttle Body but also a Rev3+ Gear shifter (Something I've been trying to buy for a while without knowing I had one). When I found it, it was a little worse for ware:

 
So I dissembled it, cleaned the grease and human slime out of it, wire wheeled the rust away and re-painted it with some black rust converter paint I had lieing around and it came up awesome:




 
 

Welcome back to Newcastle, I am sure you will appreciate having a double lock up garage now.
 

Bit the bullet today and installed the CT20b that I've had lieing around in what feels like forever. I had 5 mates come around to help out for what was a long and painful day. The casualties were the rubber oil outlet pipe to the sump that was vulcanised and just fell to pieces, my BOV which has been wobbling around and we found out that the installer stripped the threads on the flange (welded to pipe) that it screws to and the turbo stay which no longer bolts to the turbo. 

As you can see and know this was a pain to get at and the bolts to the manifold were a pain. Uni-joints saved the day and the hardest bolt was the damn oil supply banjo which took the power of zeus to move and was bending my 300mm snap on breaker bar doing it. The dump pipe bolts were aweful as they needed a chopped 14mm open ender to get on but happily I can say its bolted on.

CT20b Turbo Stay on a Gen2 engine just doesn't line up. I also discovered that the CT26 never had the M12 bolt in there anyway so like its predecessor the CT20b will have to rest on the stay. The exhaust has support and advisors on the internet have said that its fine to have it like this. As Toyota no longer sell the part if I can't find some from wreckers I'll just leave it as it is. 

And the old CT26 finally removed:

After that day, this is sorely needed:

Where did you get the fittings for your aftermarket radiator, would you happen to have a link to which fittings you bought I would love to run a similar set up.