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So this is how it begins . It's an unknown mileage chassis and engine project. The chassis is a ep70 2 door 1.0 which at some time in its life was converted to a starlet turbo with an 2e-fte telu? I don't know.. i call it 2e-t :)

I bought boua couple of months ago and it has been great fun. 

It has been running ok with a little hunt at idle.. and one coolant leak after another .

The brakes where a mess.. so the decision was taken to stop driving it and restore it .

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I started with the interior to check the condition of the floor etc.. 

So as I take parts out of the car I discover more things to repair . It's ok it's all part of this game. 

Found a decent rust hole at the driver's footwell and a smaller one at the passengers .

I will repair the rust spots and I also plan the strengthen the unibody if I can. I cleaned the area with the rust and used an air saw to trim it. 

Now off to find some 1mm sheetmetal to make a patch for it .

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So I managed to find a fender instead of a piece of sheet metal and went all out forging on it :p

This is the piece that came out after a lot of hammering . 

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And this is the floor with a couple of rivets . 

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So I took of the valve seats for a better view of the crack. IMG-84027534a83341cdd9dbaa352a2692a1-V-1024x1820.thumb.jpg.1f1d42d42cedaff49f495029b1819c35.jpg

It didn't look any better... so I was tempted to send it of for weld repair but I found a N/A cylinder head in very good shape. 

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So who can spot the differences with the turbo head? 

 

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Thats what i though too.. 

I will use the N/A cam as it has more lift on the big intake valve whereas the Turbo cam does that on the small intake valve. .. 

Now I have to find out what to do with the brand new ct12b I stumbled on.. It looks enormous compared to the ct9 I have..

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Back to action. 

Valve cover went for a bath on my old dishwasher along with some motor mounts and other parts for a cleanup.  

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if you have an old dishwasher try it out.!

I decided to do away with the red turbo logo.. Black on black is my theme. :)

 

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Anyone knows where to find the valve cover gasket ? It has a stop production  from Toyota and no aftermarket luck so far. I made one up for now from a 1zr engine and crazy glue :D

 

 

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So what do you think about stitch welding ? Now the car is stripped down I could stitch it a bit.

Which areas do you recommend? Strut towers? Frame rails ? 

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So its time for an Update. 

 

Fast forward 6 months :)  I have not lost faith yet !!!

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The engine is temporarily fitted to figure out turbo location . 

The radiator support was cut and made removable !

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The radiator was nicely tucked in on the radiator support and as far left as possible. 

 

 

I used the recipe for bigger brakes found on Epic TMC's channel 

So In my version I Used the Opel Astra 256 rotors but machined the hub instead of the rotor and got some single pot Celica TS calipers. 

Fit is awesome .. will see in the future how they perform.  

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With white you see the part that hat to go :)

 

 

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Sorry for the delayed posts guys..

I left off Nov before Covid19 and now I have already 5k km on the car and some track testing done.

So from the picture mind the ugly blue coolant hoses , I made a chargecooler and used a hybrid coolant recirculation pump and a radiator from Auris Hybrid.

 

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1 hour ago, Ep71T said:

Sorry for the delayed posts guys..

I left off Nov before Covid19 and now I have already 5k km on the car and some track testing done.

So from the picture mind the ugly blue coolant hoses , I made a chargecooler and used a hybrid coolant recirculation pump and a radiator from Auris Hybrid.

Brilliant build :thumbsup:

 

On 12/5/2018 at 5:50 PM, Ep71T said:

It's big..  don't know if it's worth any effort.

I did notice the cartridge is the same.. 

How did you fit the turbo? Was it a straight fit or did it need changes?

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