SW20 Turbo (Jap Import)

So you're on the road.  yaayyy.  You're in Newy aren't you?
 
Our Monthly meet in on Monday night.  Macca's Broadmeadow 6.30 meet & chat, then short, drive for somewhere to eat.
 

so is that Monday the 23rd your catching up Shaz?.
 
If so I might actually be able to make one!!. 
 
 

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I may be slightly biased Nik_Lee but I think you have exceptional taste judging from your 2... haha.
 
Looks in great condition, I have work to do to mine to be happy with it yet.

lol, I may be a little biased as well 
 
I hope to see yours at the meet on Monday night, and yep the next on is the 23rd at 6:30pm

Have been busy of late with my preparations for an up coming road trip. Had heaps of trouble shooting to do. 

Put it on the dyno after the GCG turbo was bolted on and it sucked. only reeled off 115rwkw and less than 200nm. 

Took it home, replaced all Vac lines, cleaned ignition contacts, base timing checked. then blocked the boost sensor vac line to allow it to go over 12lb, which so far I'm only sitting around 13lb and the AFR's are sweet so I'm happy to leave it at that.
 
Made 153rwkw and 365nm with the above work. (not exactly ground breaking but the engine is running healthy)

Then the other night I decided to check my filter, upon closer inspection I found that my airbox was had a dodgey modification by the previous owner where they have cut a perfectly 'oval' hole into the side and had shoved some ducting into the hole. It was pretty rough so it would have been sucking air from everywhere. 

Here's what I found:


 

 
So, being in Mount Isa I had little choice but to kind of dodge up the dodgey intake. So I cleaned it up a bit, brought some PVC 900mm bends from Bunnings and some termite capping to use for covering up the oval hole and mounting my new intake pipe to. 

Turned out okay for a dodgey repair, but once I'm back from my trip I'll either replace the airbox or look at a new intake to better capture the cold air. 

Here is the front of the box. Plate was trial fitted here but I ended up adding sikaflex to the underside when i finally put it together:


Installed it once it was dry and hooked the ducting up this time cable tying it onto the PVC pipe:
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New K&N Panel filter. good for at least 0.00073rwkw gains:



Then today I cleaned the AFM, drained the coolant, flushed it twice with deionised water and then replaced with Toyota red going back through the bleeding process. 


Decided to give it another service with some Synpower oil and filter as it will be due in about 2,000kms anyways and I'm about to depart for a 7,000kms trip.

Adjusted the suspension in the rear to give slightly more clearance and it appears to feel better on the road. might get this thing corner balanced when I get the chance. But, first I need to replace the rack as there is a bit of play in it. I guess while I'm going might as well put some new bushes in the front end as well. 

Took it for a spin this arvo and came home smiling like a fat kid in a candy shop. pretty stoked with it. really looking forward to this road trip. seeing a lot of country and hitting a lot of my favorite roads.

Cheers.

A member on the forum 'Shayno' from central coast NSW.

DDB didn't have cameras at that stage. But he was pretty good about it as he is a wheel and tyre outlet as well. So he said that he was happy to get me anything I wanted to replace regardless of cost.

I was tempted to go crazy but I had already been thinking about changing the rims to Enkei RPF1's so I just stuck with them.

When I picked it up he had it detailed and a couple of stone chips touched up. I was pretty happy with it, especially as I was getting close to needing new tyres haha.

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I was in Newcastle mate, I moved in August last year to a tropical paradise called Mount Isa. My wife and I are planning on returning to the Newcastle area early next year we hope.

Turbo I have purchased through gumtree. So it's a GCG rebuilt CT26 with steel wheel and 55 trim comp.

I don't know too much about them as I usually dabble in old school v8 toys. But it feels okay so far. See how it holds up once I add fuel and an ecu i guess...

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Wandering around my shed last night and realised I still have a full box of Dynamat extreme left over from my Coupe build. So decided to Dynamat at least my doors and see if it improves the sound of the stereo and the cabin noise at all.

I lined the entire inner skin and then just covered the holes on the outer skin. seems to feel solid. hopefully it sounds much better. If i get around to it I might even have a crack at the rear firewall as long as I am not cutting my time too short as I leave on 14th at 03:00am. so dont want to be up all night putting it back together lol.
 
This is looking inside the door skins. Dynamat applied to inside for the full length:

 
looking at door: would never have normally done this given the weight it adds. however with 7,000kms ahead I want the sound to be as good as possible.


Blocked the holes in the outer skin. didn't worry too much about doing the entire door. if it doesn't make much of a difference maybe I'll cut some to fill in the areas I missed on the outer skin. wait and see