Rev3 Turbo - SMG - NOW BREAKING

[jasongtr]

Ill start from the beginning as it seems the best place to start

I bought the car off here about 3 months ago.



The car had a few mods

17's (now for sale as im not keen on them)
KO racing Garrett GT28RS turbo kit
Blitz dual solenoid boost controller
Blitz BOV
Apexi induction filter
5Zeigen (sp) single exit exhaust, didnt like it start with but its growing on me
S2000 start button

When my ramp was free i got it up in the air and had a good look underneath - shocking really as the pics show but it had been owned by the same person for around the last 8 years and not done many miles so its just been sat around for most of it

Pics of the underside





So untroubled with what i found i set about planning what id be doing to improve what i found. The list was as follows.

1. Fully polybush to replace dodgy looking old stock bushes
2. repaint suspension parts and hubs/subframes/anti roll bars - rude not to seeing as it will all be off the car in bits
3. clean up the exhaust and heatwrap it
4. replace the suspension with something more sporty
5. renew both inner driveshaft boots as they have both split.


With all the rear subframe/suspension off the car i thought it was the best time to fit a polished inlet manifold and throttle body, much easier access to the bolts from underneath, tightened up the alternator drive belt too as a previous owner clearly wasnt sure how to adjust it and have bent the long threaded bar (must of tried to tighten it without undoing the main bolt on the adjuster - no biggie as i had a spare one)

I repainted the sump, fitted new cancer bars, mine must of been rusting for ages as they were not even there.....

before and after shots





With all the suspension arms/arb's and subframe painted and polybushed its time to start putting things back on the car, also fitted 4 new ball joints.
Polybushed the anti roll bars and the steering rack too, ive been advised by a company fairly local to me who are going to set the car up and corner weight it that as ill do few if any trackdays the standard anti roll bars are perfectly good - so i havent bought upgraded ones

Looks much better now







My 15" wedsport wheels are being refurbished as i write this, so i have front tyres on order and the rears ill be using a pair of yokohama A022's i have on a set of wheels from a breaker.


The brakes are spot on and have had recent pads and discs all round so ive left this alone, again from a breaker i have 4x very recently refurbished (or even new) calipers to put on at some point, ill paint them up first and when they go on fit braided lines and flush some new fluid through, so all ive done wit the braking system is fit a brake master cylinder stopper.




Interior wise, a set of seats in alcantara from an M12 Noble have gone in, these are extremely light so thats nice. I have a pair of alcantara door cards to fit, today i tinted the rear screen and the rear quarter windows and put the interior back together. Ive also fitted a black headlining, black sunviors and light. A reach and height adjustable steering column and momo corsa pilot steering wheel.





Exterior all ive done is trial fit a genuine toms bumper i bought to make sure all is good, fit some quad headlights and ponder over what colour to go on front lights, i have crystal clear. crystal black and JDM all Orange, i think once the MOT has passed ill go for the orange to match the tobes, black is on the car at the moment.






Ive had the centre bars removed from a spare set of side vents, i doubt these will be going on until the bumper does - it can all be painted at the same time, the side rub strips need doing too as they have faded, oh and i need a drivers door as it has a nasty scab bubbling through at the bottom of the door.


Ive bought a Greddy intercooler, i decided to buy new samco hoses and mikalor clamps to make sure its job i do just once, im also going to fit a Spa Designs intercooler in/intercooler out temperture gauge - expensive but most probably the best you can get.





The driveshaft inner boots have been a PITA, toyota want a small fortune for the boots so i decided to go for aftermarket ones, £23 the pair - when i went to collect them i realised why they are so cheap - because they are rubbish, quite hard plastic as opposed to rubber, so i bit the bullet and bought some from toyota - £110 for the pair

Went to fit the boots and the inner cv races have been run dry for a while and are goosed - great more money..... Toyota i thought will be very expensive so i looked at uprated aftermarket ones, £244 later i have a set of CRW ones coming - including the boots in the kit
Toyota now have their boots back






A set of used Tein Superstreet coilovers with camber front top miunts were bought and fitted, and even though the fronts are wound all the way down it still sits quite high, to cut a long story short they have the springs from a set of teins supposed to use stock top mounts and the springs are 1" longer, plus some wierd spacer arrangement was used, anyway ive ordered and received a set of race springs 2" shorter than what i have and almost the same poundage rating. Headscratching moment over.






Ill post up some updates when the wedsports are on and the ride height has been set properly, and when its had a good clean.


Any comments welcomed good or bad

[ashley]

Looks like a good project mate, you going to stay SMG when you respray?

[jasongtr]

yes mate, love the colour, theres a guy with a body shop round the corner from my unit who's doing my wheels, he is going to paint the bits for me but i doubt that will be until winter time, he offered m a vry good price for a full respray - he is good too

[ashley]

Good choice

Looking forwards to seeing how you get on

[synXero]

VERY jealous of the suspension tidy up. Seriously considering attempting something like that myself too, but it's pretty daunting.

[jasongtr]

i used a spare set of everything so i could get it all done and swapped over quicker, couldnt have the ramp tied up for too long.

but its an easy job really, a powerful airgun really helped though even if it can be done without it.

The hardest bush to remove i found was the very front one, with the rest of them i tried pressing them out on a mates 30Tonne press but they didnt seem to want to come out, so a combination of burning, air chisel, drilling etc got them out, clean all the parts up with a wire wheel on the angle grinder and paint.

The only bit not painted so far is the adjustment points on the arms from the subframe to the rear hubs, ill do that when its been fully setup

[craig]

Nice car mate, where'd you get the Noble seats from? Felt the weight of Peter's M12 seats when he replaced them.

Seriously lightweight seats!

[jasongtr]

good ole ebay for the seats, very light yes, iirc when i weighed them they are 5kgs, and bolted through the floor so a weight saving of about 30kgs for the pair

[craig]

good ole ebay for the seats, very light yes, iirc when i weighed them they are 5kgs, and bolted through the floor so a weight saving of about 30kgs for the pair

Yeah, MK2 seats weigh 20Kg's each!!

[jasongtr]

the noble seats are comfortable too

[jasongtr]

small update

the interior is all rebuilt, seats properly fixed in place now.

the cv boot ties arrived today so i got busy with the CRW uprated cv joints and fitted the driveshafts back on.



Fitted the greddy intercooler with new samco hoses and mikalor clamps, what a PITA it was to remove the old std intercooler, even doing it on a ramp it was a pain to remove the bottom intercooler shroud fixing bolt, still its all done now but i do need to buy a fan shroud and spal fan at some point.

Wheels are back from the bead blasters, they are being painted tomorrow.



Waiting on a ns track rod.

so when the wheels are back and the track rod is here and fitted, tax time, book the suspension setup and away we go

[Blue_2]

Ive bought a Greddy intercooler, i decided to buy new samco hoses and mikalor clamps

Where did you get your samco hoses from? sizes? and what size clamps did you need?

interesting read by the way

[jasongtr]

samco hoses were from demon tweeks off ebay -

5x 60mm short ones and a 60/70mm adapter

mikalor clamps were also off ebay, just remember the hose sizes are internal dimensions and the clamps are external sizes (68-73mm for the most) the throttle body is the next size up, the hot pipe to the intercooler pipework seems a little loose the clamp is done all the way up, might need to see if i can get a reducer hose and use a smaller clamp if it blows off.

i wasnt going to fit the intercooler straight away so i bought a samco hump hose 70mm for the throttle body to std cold intake pipe with mikalor clamps, ill have to sell that on

cheers for the comment

[Magic Beans]

I'm a fellow fan of the colour, it works really well on the car

Watching with interest.

[jasongtr]

cheers

ill get it all cleaned up with the wheels on in the next few days and post up pics

[Race Idiot]

The steering rack has bushings? And there are poly replacements?

Also uprated arbs are def still worth it compared to the standards, with just coilovers I still noticed there was a bit of roll compared to the setup with antirollbars which cornered much flatter.

Also all orange jdm sidelights ftw

[jasongtr]

yes the steering rack has bushes round the rack under the brackets, mine are powerflex poly bushes.

As mentioned above in the 1st post, after an email conversation with the motorsport company thats going to set the car up they said for fast road use and limited track work the uprated arb's are not worth buying - just their opinion of course but one i know someone else on here has listened to on his mr2 - if of course a cheap set come up i might look at them but theres better ways to spend £300/400 i think.

Agreed on the JDM fronts, ill stick them on after the mot

[Race Idiot]

yes the steering rack has bushes round the rack under the brackets, mine are powerflex poly bushes.

As mentioned above in the 1st post, after an email conversation with the motorsport company thats going to set the car up they said for fast road use and limited track work the uprated arb's are not worth buying - just their opinion of course but one i know someone else on here has listened to on his mr2 - if of course a cheap set come up i might look at them but theres better ways to spend £300/400 i think.

Agreed on the JDM fronts, ill stick them on after the mot

Is this what you mean?
http://www.powerflex.co.uk/product-deta ... /1929.html

Tbf I think coilovers and uprated arbs might be a bit too stiff for fast road use anyway . But the car I bought recently had stock arbs and coilovers and I didnt like the way the car rolled during cornering compared to my old cars setup, which I put on instead.

What happened to your old white one you were doing up? I rember you telling me you were gonna put a v6 in it or summat when I came round to collect a door of ya lol.

[jasongtr]

yes thats the ones i got £22.03 delivered off ebay so a bit cheaper

ah the white one, well thats a story, i reshelled everything from my blue rev1 v6 into it, put new suspension, alcantara interior, bought a trd supercharger for it which never got fitted. spent months off and on working on it and went out in someones mk2 golf with a 300ish hp audi s3 engine in it, well it blew me away and realised my mr2 would never be as quick so i bought the golf and broke the white v6 (before it even came on the road )

oh then i broke the mk2 after a couple of months and bought a mk4 r32 (kept that for 6 weeks and broke that too )

so im a few days away from the turbo coming on the road, i dont have any plans to break it though (well not just yet )

[Race Idiot]

yes thats the ones i got £22.03 delivered off ebay so a bit cheaper

ah the white one, well thats a story, i reshelled everything from my blue rev1 v6 into it, put new suspension, alcantara interior, bought a trd supercharger for it which never got fitted. spent months off and on working on it and went out in someones mk2 golf with a 300ish hp audi s3 engine in it, well it blew me away and realised my mr2 would never be as quick so i bought the golf and broke the white v6 (before it even came on the road )

oh then i broke the mk2 after a couple of months and bought a mk4 r32 (kept that for 6 weeks and broke that too )

so im a few days away from the turbo coming on the road, i dont have any plans to break it though (well not just yet )

Ah yeah found them on ebay cool

Dont break this one lol! I'd have to buy all the nice clean suspension arms! Although i've got polybushes for mine I dont think id get the arms/subframe cleaned up I dunno...