I bought a driftmotion 57trim CT26, completely horrible. Motor was competely fine with old turbo, then changed it to the new 57 trim and it was smoking at idle and on decel sometimes.
Brand new valve seals, great compression on a newer motor. I called Driftmotion to ask their opinion, and they...
It's not a big deal, everyone makes mistakes. The guy practially rebuilt it for free ad he really knows his shit, but nobody's perfect. I just hope he will help me with getting a new bearing, I can take care of the rest as long as the sides of the gears are not chewed up
Apparently this is what happens when your transmission guy forgets to install the snap ring on the outside of the counter shaft bearing.
The center race of the bearing ejected into the bellhousing after about 3000 miles.
This is installed into my 1977 Celica GT along with a 7M-GTE
Pics...
I have pretty much the exact same setup and the same amount of miles on my motor.....
I also have the EXACT same problem too.
It is white smoke.... but it IS oil, I promise, you can smell it. My coolant level never drops and there is no milky oil.
It didn't start smoking until I...
Just got back from the drag strip
She ran 12.4 @ 117mph with a 2.3 60' lol
Not bad at all for being on 195/70/14 tires and only 14psi of boost with a ct26!
Last year on a stock motor... and 9psi, I ran 12.9 @110mph on TINY tires (195's)
Serious weight mod though.
steps:
Remove 7M
Install to first gen celica
make 12 second pass
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