more pics of the black 7m mkii

[williamb82]

as most of you know ive been planning a front facing intake manifold for a long time. well this weekend had unexpected free time so me and my friend brian got a good start. i forgot my camera so these are the crappy cell pics i took. he is taking it to work to weld tis week then ill test fit it on the car and mark where im cutting the tube and make the end cap and tb flang. no iscv or cold start injector for me. dont need them. i have a polished 75mm ford tb ill be using and this pipe i recall was ~3.5in diameter. ive had it for awhile and planned to use it as at 16-18in long ill have the volume i wanted. its a long runner manifold obviously. gonna test fit it on the car to see if it clears the strut brace or if itll need a lil "massaging" lol. i did a rough measurment and it should just barely clear. lol. and dont worry how ugly it is. the plan is to polish it to match the tb.

and the tb pics.

 

[williamb82]

well he welded it. said he made 4 passes to make sure its sealed. way overkill. ill have to clean it up with the grinder. no big deal. lol. ill post better pics when i pick it up as ill take my digital cam with me.

well, got better pics. my friend is gonna try to borrow the mig from work so we can get real work done on it. pics of what it looked like after welding and then what it looked like after we cut the back and then started smoothing the welds with the sanding disc on the grinder till the grinder died. needs brushes. ill have to go to the dewalt place tomarow on lunch. its like 2 blocks from my job. once i put the new brushes in we can get the flange i started making finished. forgot to take a pic of t. already got the 3in hole cut in it and the bolt holes drilled and tapped. just got to cut it off the piece of plate.

as for the manifold as it is. we are going to weld on it more to fill the pockets so we can get all of it smooth for polishing and the entire thing will be polished. even the runners. i cleaned up all of the casting marks the 4.5in grinder would reach with the sanding wheel. ill do the rest with my dremel. once we get all the pockets filled and smotted out then we will weld the flanges and fit it on the car so we can get to work on the alt relocation bracket and the bracket for the trottle cable etc... its taking time but will get done.

 

[williamb82]

well put new brushes in the grinder so we could cut the flange i made off the plate and made the back cap etc.. also dd a lil moe cleanup of the outsode of the runners to get ready for polishing. hopefully my friend can borrow the welder from work and we can get the flange and cap welded on and the finishing welds to smooth it all out done. the front of the pipe is gona be trimmed a lil so the tb flange will angle down a bit. make it easier to get the cold pipe to the tb.

 

[mk3design]

Wow, looked ...weird... before the grinding, looking good now though!

 

[williamb82]

well thats what happens when you use a mig instead of tig. since i got nowhere to hook up my tig my friend used the mig they have at work. he is a truck driver and they use it to weld the aluminum bumpers and stuff on the trailers and trucks when they get damaged.

 

[williamb82]

well heres the mock up pics i took with my phone. i didnt have the whole turbo here at my house but looks like the copressor housing is gonna hit my ljm bar. doh.

 

[williamb82]

well got it all back together last night and even installed the heat shields on the turbo manifold and turbo. had to cut a notch in the rear manifold heat shield to clear the egt sensor though. no biggie. today i pressure washed the engine with some engine degreaser. didnt go crazy. washed the whole car with it to get the leaves out of all the ooks and crannies. car isnt parked under a tree anymore either. lol. heres the pics i took. and for those that need to know. the size freeze plug to plug the hole where the cps used to be is a 30.06mm freeze plug. used a 19mm socked to drive it in with. fits perfect.

 

[williamb82]

well, picked up a 44mm wastegate today. its blue and not polished like i wanted but for the price i couldnt pass it up. ill try blasting the blue off and polishing it. if that fails ill paint the blue part black.

 

[williamb82]

got more parts. got the 6 individual coils from a 95 camry and the 6 channel ignitor so i can wire them up properly and als a brand new ford tps and pigtail for it for the tb for my ffim.

gonna try to get the coils and ignitor installed tomarrow. ill post pics when i do. should clean it up alot. now need to get to polishing my set of n/a valve covers to go with them.

 

[williamb82]

got the camry individual coils installed. i just went ahead and wired up the 2nd edis6 module tonight. works good. no more spark blowout at upper rpm's. i want to run a datalog to see if the ignition has smoothed out. it feels like it has. i dont have any more random pops either during cruise. heres pics including how i had to mod the boots and the internal metal thing.

 

[williamb82]

well, saw a flywheel i thought ight work, its for a quad 4. so i took a stock flywheel to napa and grabbed a quad 4 flexplate. 5 holes line up perfect. so all i need to do when this flywheel arrives is have 1 hole plugwelded and redrilled to the offset position and then the center hole bored out to match the 7m flywheel. i dont expect that to cost too much. and this is a brand new flywheel, not used. a major step toward the completion of my 6 speed swap.

 

[83restomod]

car looks like its coming along nicely. is that COP system still waste spark? im looking into doing a COP soon. thanks

 

[williamb82]

yes its still waste spark. it made a pretty noticeable diff in how smooth it runs.

 

[williamb82]

it arrived today. maching was estimated at 1-1.5hrs so wont cost much to have modded to fit.

 

[williamb82]

well, still havent gotten my tax return yet, so not much has been done. i had sandblasted the blue anodizing off the wastegate months ago. well 2 weeks ago i got bored and finised polishing the top. heres the pics.

 

[williamb82]

more goodies arrived.

adjustable spring spacers for the rear.

t bolt clamps for my 3in i/c pipe kit.

the 3in aluminum i/c pipe kit.

mockup pics on the engine. need to make my aluminum drain line.

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got everything to be able to use my tig now, including running the outlet etc... miller 320 a/b p. 25ft wp20 water cooled torch.

got a tank for my wire feed 110v mig also.

got the kickouts to increase the size of the oil pan sump.

the bleed line and rebuild parts for my qm1 internal slave cylinder.

an flare kit and valve spring compressor for he 7m/jz heads.

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also got some rb's started out with 17x8.5 +4 front and 17x9 -13 rear. problem is the 17x9's have way less lip then the 17x8.5's. plus with the -13 offset, if i run a 275/40/17 drag radial as i plan, itll rub badly. soi sent the 17x9's back and got 2 17x7.5 +4 for the front instead. they are hyper black centers with polished lip.

17x9 left, 17x8.5 right

this is the 17x8.5 on the rear

this is 17x7.5 left and 17x8.5 right

17x7.5 +4

17x8.5 +4

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these are my 15x7 A.R.E. mesh wheels with 275/50/15 nitto nt555r tires. my track setup. i mounted them to get a good idea of the clearance id have running a 275/40/17 on the 17x9 -13 offset rota rb-r's. decided to go 17x8.5 +4 in the rear.

this is my new daily driver. 93 lexus ls400.

my tilton twin cermetalic discs for my t56 swap.

this is my tilton ultra high ratio pp spring

the parts laid out with the tripple plate metalic parts. twin disc cermetalic and tripple metalic both use the same cover.

and the twin plate setup assembled.

 

[closetnerd]

Very nice build! I'm digging the metallic red paint on the block.

 

[williamb82]

well, i bought a an flaring kit and a 5/8ths tubing bender so i could make my oil lines. feed is 4an and drain is 10an. the oil feed and drain flanges for the turbo, as well as the oil drain flange for the block, i bought from my friend andy at arizona performance. the m12x1.25 to 4an oil feed fitting for the block i bought from a hydraulic supply shop. only thing left to do to the oil lines is take the drain line off and polish it as i made it from 5/8ths aluminum tube. reason i made a solid drain line was because of how close it has to go to the turbo manifold. i was afraid ss line would melt.

 

[closetnerd]

Very nice build. Doing it proper I see.

You have something creeping out of your shorts in this picture.

 

[williamb82]

finally got around to taking pics of the rotors(12.19x0.81), calipers(forged dynalites with 1.38in pistons) and pads(q compound) for my rear bbk. also got a new pair of curved vane front rotors(12.19x1.25). all 4 rotors are plated so wont rust like my current front straight vane rotors. all i need now is the custom technafit outer rear lines and i can install them. prolly wont though untill i have tires for the new rims to go on at the same time.