do yours like that henry!
do yours like that henry!
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Word. Inspiring!
Daaaaaamn, 22R Freshness, well done.
Thanks guys!
One cam life.
Got sick of waiting for Superpro, so I just dropped the motor in. I can still get the bush in when it eventually arrives, but at least I've got some things I can do for now.
Gawd ! Is that what a Celica engine is meant to look like ?
Our 21R looks like an oil slick with an engine submerged in it
Last edited by Tetsuo; 1st November 2013 at 05:33 PM.
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Don't worry, mine looked much the same before I pulled it out. There's a picture somewhere a few pages back. I've seen worse ones, but it still wasn't a pretty sight, haha.
Got the rack bushes off Superpro and installed them, then proceeded to finish up all the little bits and pieces yesterday. I got it to fire and run for ~15 seconds before noticing that it was leaking water from the radiator drain bung. I also needed to adjust the TPS as it was just rough as guts without holding the throttle cracked. I got it to warm up today, but it started leaking water out of the coolant bypass pipe that bolts to the rear facing side of the timing case just underneath the front of the intake manifold. So far there hasn't been any oil leaks though, so that's a bonus. Probably one of the few 22Rs that doesn't leak like a sieve, haha.
In case anyone is wondering, the factory injection seems to run fine without any of the EGR, air injection system or the cold idle valve connected, so good news to anyone else who has all the old hoses and piping crumbling away. It also frees up a hell of a lot of space around the oil filter.
All fixed.
The only niggly issue at the moment just feels like a slightly sticky throttle, as it jerks the car when coming from coasting then accelerating.
Other than that, I took it for a short drive and everything seems to be in order now. It'll actually rev out to 5,500RPM now, which is something it always struggled to do previously, but as I expected, it's still no powerhouse. A new exhaust would probably help a little, but I'd rather just enjoy driving it for a while.
The alternator issue turned out to be either a dead regulator or diode pack, so I swapped those bits from my housemate's flogged out 5E-FE one and it came alive again. The leak from the back of the motor just turned out to be a leak from the rear half-moon seal, which was easily rectified and I replaced the selector rod bushing in the gearbox while I had it out to check the rear main seal.
Re-bled the brakes with some fresh DOT 3 fluid to wash out a decade of muck and filth in the system as well, so everything feels nice and fresh again. Well, mostly.
TLR: It runs and I am happy.
I did some work on fixing and upgrading the audio setup in this. I originally had an older Clarion head unit powering some 4" JVC speakers in the original dashboard mounts and 6" Clarion speakers mounted in the rear passenger side trims. The Clarion speakers gave out since the foam cone mount things disintegrated, so I replaced them with a cheap pair of Kenwood 6", mainly just to fill the open cavity in the trim. I scored a secondhand Alpine 12" Type S sub in a ported box for peanuts from Jake and mated that with a 2-channel Fusion amp I had lying around in the Mira. Nothing fancy or even remotely audiophile by any means, but it's a bit of an upgrade and it's nice to have a bit of low range now.
Belted out some eurobeat to test it out for laughs.
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