Bean

nice one mate!

Block is cast iron on the Toyota k series engines.

No more real updates as i hurt my back so had to take it easy this week. Me and the GF did get the air filter and pollen filters changed on on her EP3 today though, i got her to do most of it so shes trained up now. The pollen filters were mankey they have been in the car for 6 years and over 60k miles, next time i will change them more often haha. The air filter probably didnt need changed but it was only 9 quid for a blue print one. The new rad arrived though. 20200630_131209 by Bean Beano, on Flickr Im really impressed with it, the quality looks really good. 20200630_13

pm Faisal Amir he might have some.

nice updates. Do those nut sert things come in a kit? I could do with something like that it would come in handy.

Yeah 6 years and over 60k miles done in it. Its been a decent car. Who needs a family car when you can just use a EP3. A good rust free one will be worth keeping hold of they will start dissapearing in the next few years and a good one will be hard to find. Ive just been popping in and out of the garage doing a few little bits. Got these de rusted and epoxy primed. 20200624_121110 by Bean Beano, on Flickr I did a little more work on the intercooler mount / brace, gave it a light sand with some 600 / 800 and ground a small bit of weld splatter off it and gave it some more pr

Just been donig some bits and bobs on the teg. The rad brackets are taking a few goes to get all the little speccs of rust out. Ive also put a few small brackets in from the engine bay de rusting too. Really i would like the stuff to replate them but i dont really think ive got the room for it currently. brackets and mounts bubbling away. 20200623_135041 by Bean Beano, on Flickr This has always been a bit of an eye sore so im going to clean this up. 20200623_133149 by Bean Beano, on Flickr New longer fuel line made up, fittings from Torques arrived next day again. 2020

i wouldnt bother with a second hand one. link I think the blue print part number is ADT31479

Its still going its got 160K miles on it now. The gear linkage bolts came loose the other day so she had no 1st 3rd or 5th gear 🤣 All fine now ive bolted it back down. Not sure how much longer it will last, arches are pretty rusty and a few areas underneath are too. Its recently had a new abs sensor and 2 new bottom arms as they were rotten through with holes in them full of rust. It still drives great though, shes had it 6 years now i think. Ive been telling her for about 3 years to save up to buy something else. She used to have one of the 2.2 diesel civics i think it was a 2013 pl

I love coldness mate, im always hot. i know we dont need it alot in the uk but when youve got it its soooo nice. im gutted the EP3 had great aircon after it got a new ac rad and regassed then when i dropped the subframe to do the clutch i left one of the pipes mounted to it by accident and it split the pipe 😂 gutted.

Yesterday i got the new longer oil feed made up. I actually ended up making two as the first one i made i must have marked the hose by accident with my pen when i was marking the length on it. So i cut it where the mark was, not realising the actual mark i made was a bit further down The hose and ends were for Torques and they arrived next day, great service. 20200619_131217 by Bean Beano, on Flickr Fitted. 20200619_141115 by Bean Beano, on Flickr I then moved onto sorting out the radiator. I was about to remove the rad mounts when i thought there was maybe a chance the fu

Ive always wondered how those circle dimple things are made. Do you just clamp that die on each side and clamp them both togther?

New turbo vs the old one. Even thought its been modified quite a bit its quite a bit bigger than the old one. Maybe hard to tell in the pics. 20200617_141522 by Bean Beano, on Flickr Exhaust side. 20200617_141644 by Bean Beano, on Flickr I welded the waste gate up on this one to make sure there was no little leaks. I used stainless filler wire for this as that works best when welding cast stuff like this. 20200617_141624 by Bean Beano, on Flickr Moved the fittings over for the water lines and oil feed, and the studs which seemed to take ages. 20200617_145925 by Be

Evo 9 turbo arrived yesterday. Seems like ive spent ages looking for one of these. 20200616_150412 by Bean Beano, on Flickr 20200616_150423 by Bean Beano, on Flickr Its been modified quite a bit with the compressor housing ground down so it doesnt need as much room to fit it, they have made a good job of it too. Its had a 3" collar welded onto the into and smoothed inside. The exhaust side has been ported out and smoothed and a 2" collar welded onto the outlet side and slightly ported.

This is serious

good work on the fabrication and making bits and pieces! the parts collection is looking nice too!

I got the intercooler pipes finished off i think. i still need to pressure test them for any leaks just incase. I learnt alot from this job about aluminium and the settings i need to use on the welder and allowing for the part heat soaking so it was definetely worth the challenge. the welds arent pretty or anything but its all good practise. 20200612_163255 by Bean Beano, on Flickr 20200612_170707 by Bean Beano, on Flickr 20200612_170721 by Bean Beano, on Flickr 20200612_170755 by Bean Beano, on Flickr 20200612_170809 by Bean Beano, on Flickr One thing which

just bumping this up as no one got in touch.

I got the mounting bar fully welded and end mounting points cleaned up and primed. I cleaned up and sprayed the front end of the car about 3 years ago but in a few small areas there was some rust staining like around the holes in the front panel and a few small bits on the mounting points. so they were all ground back and primed too. 20200606_150207 by Bean Beano, on Flickr I went over the areas i cleaned and primedthem which left primer patches in random places so i just gave the lot a coat while i was at it. 20200606_150255 by Bean Beano, on Flickr I found a nice place t

I had the sump off my mk2 and it looked like it had the fat rods. Mine has the silver cam belt cover too.

Tonight ive been working on mounting the intercooler. I cut some pieces of aluminium rod which i will weld to the intercooler for the mounting points. 20200605_180617 by Bean Beano, on Flickr These were a bit of a challenge for me to weld on. i had never welding anything aluminium this big before and the intercooler just acts like a huge heat sink so i was welding this at 150 amps i didnt want to go any higher and risk damaging my new torch. Once a bit of heat built up in the core and i worked out a bit of technique it went a bit better. 20200605_190740 by Bean Beano, on Fl

Or someone changed the cam belt cover. Only way to really tell these days is to take the sump off and check.

Just waiting for my dinner to cook so i thought i would get on the computer for a bit. New torch landed. Started to think ive spent a fair chunk of cash on tools and stuff recently 😦 2020-06-05_02-03-28 by Bean Beano, on Flickr I got the new torch fitted, I had to swap a wiring connector over for the button on the torch as i dont have a foot pedal for my machine, then fit the quick connect connector for the gas then i was good to go. So i got the screamer pipe welded up. I tack the pieces together in a few places around the pipe as if you just start welding one side it pul

Yeah cant be helped mate just annoying. I order ALOT of stuff and i guess thats the down side of not picking stuff up locally. I think i am just taking advantage of always been in for the couriers while im off work for so long. This mornings job was sorting out quality issues! New piece of steel getting sent out today and new band saw getting sent out today. New tig torch sent out. Hopefully that will be everything sorted for now. Back to the car. Even though the box section will be no good to use i thought i might aswel make a piece up then i can copy its dimensions and ang

The earlier gt engines had the thicker rods yes and they got the silver cam belt covers.