Spent a few hours on the car today. Lowered it down (using an engine crane on fully loaded rear end - eeeek! and on top of that I was lifting from motor lift points, probably stretched my headbolts, hehehe).
Anyway, screwed around a bit. Had a mate come help me lift the crossmember in yesterday (I don't really remember what else I did yesterday - obviously not much, probably sat there dumbfounded at where I was going to fit everything).
Today I got to work bolting in the coilovers and suspension and fixing a little issue of the whiteline sway bar bar fouling on the CV boots. I then proceeded to torque up the crossmember and engine mounts before lowering the car down to a more workable level.
After doing this, I fitted the brass shifter bushes I got here and fastened the shifter cables in place - in the process, working out my screamer pipe needed moving - requiring removal of the wastegate, fun fun!
At this stage, having had enough fun rolling around in the dirt (its a concrete floor, but its covered in dirt - heavy rain a while back washed a poo poo load of dirt in there). I decided I'd have another gander at the spaghetti fest that is my engine bay. Cut up some aluminium pipe and some silicone joiners to length and managed to shoehorn some intercooler piping & air intake in there. The air intake is still quite dodgy, its very hard up against the long coolant pipe that runs from the firewall to the engine. I may just leave it like that, the only issue at the moment is it very slightly kinks the hose. With water & some pressure in the pipe though there should be no problem. I'll reassess later. Also, the 90 degree pipe into the throttlebody needs to be a tighter radius, however, this should do for the moment. I'll mark locations to have the BOV, PCV return (into intake tube) & bung for IAT sensor welded in the morning, then pull apart all my good work (the piping) and start the wiring process. To get this done nice and neat (and knowing my motivation issues, haha) I'd guess the wiring will be done by next weekend. I've still got to work out where to mount the fuel pressure regulator. Its bloody tight in the engine bay and im fast running out of room. Either thinking of mounting it to the side of fuse box or low down under where im going to have my custom coolant filler mounted (pretty much same position as factory - the factory bracket didn't fit for me anymore though :() If I can't get it on any of those two positions I may need to mount it on the firewall somewhere.
I ordered some parts from Toyota (USA) last week. Few bits and pieces I lost and some replacement bits. Got some new quarter windows and associated little air vents coming, as well as a new windscreen rubber, pad for the rear cowl, fog light bracket, throttle cable bracket and a tonne of assorted nuts and bolts as well as a couple of other little brackets I misplaced. When I've got the throttle cable bracket I need to fab up a custom cable bracket (using the factory part to hold the cable). I'll probably route the cable from the driver side across the top of the engine and come in backwards to the throttlebody, fabbings up a bracket off the engine lift hook bracket.
Couple of pics from today:
