Pulled marks out with the engien in, was a hassle as it was geting jammed between the compressor housing and other stuff, thankfully, my compressor houasing is in a different location, so I may have more luck.

Engine is going in today. Where are you Daniel! :) I could use an extra hand today. Got a few small things this morning like resizing some braided lines that are already attached to the fuel tank (Yay, means doing them in the car) and confirming everything is tight before fitment. I found the 1/2" to 3/8" adapter so im considering pulling the tranny briefly to confirm torque on the clutch cover bolts. As mentioned before, I just did these up 'tight' as I couldn't find an adapter for the socket bit I was using so only had a 3/8" breaker bar to work with.

Need another volunteer :)

Oh, still got to wire the autronic & CDI ignition yet, yee-freakin-har.

already got 4" 45 degree mandrel bent pipe and a 4" inlet 9" long filter, I think I'll swap filters wth mark, he can have my long one and I'll take his stumpy one.

As for the wiring, really doesn't phase me, its not hard, just time consuming to do a nice neat job. I'm not auto electrician, but I do guess I do have some sort of knowledge being an apprentice electrical fitter mechanic (ie, sparky). Im used to wiring protection relays and what not in substation panels. Makes the autronic wiring diagram look like a preschool drawing.

Wont start on the loom now till I get most of the other stuff sorted. I need to have the car as complete as possible to move - it doesn't really matter if it dont run yet.

That looks really sick!Good looking engine bay!

IC is a Precision Turbo item from the states. How will I connect it? with great difficulty. Probably use a donut section & 90 degree silicone joiner & straight joiner onto the TB.

Its getting there James! Im going to have to do some sort of write up on our intercoolers for this forum and also mr2oc when Ive done mine as well.

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: