Starting at the begin I purchased the car back in January 2010, incidentally I found the for sale ad saved in my favourites so shows what it started life as under my ownership.
http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=127718
It was a totally different car to my previous vehicles
(ek4 vti, starlet ep82 gt turbo being picks of the bunch) but thoroughly enjoyable and being only 20 when I purchased it was the only turbo'd rear wheel drive car I could affordable insure. It only began as a stepping stone to another car (evo vi, s15 etc) but I couldn't imagine selling it, so inevitably I soon felt the urge for more power, and visually make it my own.First off I purchased:
Ebc yellow pads all round
Drilled/ grooved discs
New front tyres
Seibon carbon bonnet.
Hks ssqv
The car as it stood:
I drove it at this point for about 18 months, saving money for the big spend, with the goal of a safe 400hp.
First purchases toward the rebuild was a gt3076r kit with spearco chargecooler off this forum.
(The turbo ended up being shagged and it was an expensive lesson learnt). The rest of the kit eventually all got sold off individually as (under the advice of James at JDmodified) I decided the chargecooler was a bit excessive for my goals.This didn't deter me, just made me realise purchasing brand new parts was the way to go on the larger/ more expensive items, regardless of potential savings by going second hand.
Eventually I purchased everything required for the engine rebuild and I booked it in at local garage on the Isle of Wight
(specialises in rally cars/ rebuilds). Sadly it took far longer than initially quoted and at a greater cost but they say quality makes its own time (time being over a year just for the engine).The engine spec:
CP 86.5mm 9.0:1 pistons
Eagle H beam rods
Cometic 1.4mm head gasket
Full toyota engine gasket set
Toyota hydraulic cambelt tensioner
Toyota water pump
Toyota oil pump
Hks 264 inlet and exhaust cams
Hks adjustable vernier pulleys
Arp main studs
Arp head studs
Clevite race bearings
- thrust washersClevite 77 big end bearings
Clevite main bearing kit
NKG cold grade spark plugs
Whilst the engine was out I also had an act 4 puck 500lbft clutch, fidanza lightened flywheel and arp flywheel bolts installed.
Whilst the engine was getting built I had plenty of time to save for and buy the majority of the remaining bits.
I purchased a boot mounted fuel system off someone on here thinking it was relatively inexpensive so what could go wrong.
Luckily I didn't have a repeat bad experience with second hand parts and it was all spot on.It consisted of the follow:
Bosch 040 fuel pump
Custom swirl pot
Inline fuel filter
Tomie fpr
High pressure rubber injection hoses
Mounting plate
On receiving the fuel system I did notice the mounting plate was steel sheet which was heavy and would have required quite a few mounting positions to remove any possible deflection as there were no return flanges along any of the edges, so I decided to make up a thicker aluminium plate
(after calculating weight implications, and deflection values) and made a minor saving in weight but with a far more substantial install.
This was installed into the boot by mounting anchor nuts in the main beams.
And once installed fit snug to one side of the boot and allowed me to retain the aerial.I also purchased a set of Defi gauges
(boost, water temp, oil temp and oil pressure) and the control unit.I initially fabricated a passenger side dash mounted pod but upon reflection it positioned them too far out of my field of view to make quick checks possible whilst driving so an up coming project is to produce a centre console dash mount.
This is a picture of the first holder, this one subsequently cracked as I bonded it using structural adhesive rather than welding as I didn't want to have to dress out the distortion, the second attempt was welded but the finish wasn't as precise
(as anticipated) 
Final list of items that got purchased were:
Sard 800cc injectors
Brand new Garrett gt3076r 0.63ar
Braided oil lines
Tial 46mm wastegate
Fujitsubo legalis r back box
(off imoc)AVT 26' x 7' x 2
' aluminium radiator (for chargecooler system)AVT 12v pump
TRD short shifter
Personal neo grinta steering wheel
Walbro 255lph intank fuel pump
Ko racing engine lid fan kit
The plan had been to run the engine in with stock fuelling, turbo etc but due to the time taken to rebuild the engine it ran out of mot and the fact it wouldn't idle I decided to take it straight to the guys at JDmodified to get the final items installed mapped and mot done all at the same time, then run it in.
Upon arrival they sorted the idle issue, which was caused by incorrectly dialled in cams
(although installed to Hks specification the install data sheet does come with the line stating 'individual adjustment may be required to suit engine' or something similar) and a tps issue, they gave the engine a compression and leak test which proved the engine was healthy and ready for the next stage.I had always wanted a link g4 storm ecu which JDmodified ordered for me, along with fabricating a custom exhaust manifold, down pipe, screamer pipe and charge pipes to suit the turbo/ chargecooler installs
(chargecooler core was a JDmodified supplied unit).With the initial plan of using the huge spearco chargecooler core I had purchased originally the engine bay was laid out to position the core on the passenger side of the engine bay where the standard air filter is located, with this it made sense to mount the turbo to allow the air filter to be positioned in the now empty stock intercooler location.
It was James at JDm who suggested the idea and it was an original idea I hadn't seen on an mr2 so happily supported the pursuit of testing limits etc. It was proving uneconomical to install the huge core given the goals of my build and it was at this point the smaller JDm core was decided to be used.
The car was then mapped and mot'd.
The result of this first (and currently only) mapping session was 382.9bhp (flywheel) and 300lbft this was at 1.2bar and without any adjustment of cam timing. It was decided to leave it at that and let me acclimatise to the car and finish running it in.With the car back
(autumn 2013) I was then frustrated by winter weather and didn't get too many miles on the clock until 2014 began, and then the what felt like months of rain through jan and feb meant drives were limited. This just meant I got on with the little jobs I wanted to accomplish, which were to install:
blue integra dc5 recaros
steering wheel
Trd shirt shifter
Plumb in the Defi gauges
Heat wrap the back box pipes
(shamefully an aesthetic's driven decision) Heat wrap charge pipes
(I found the engine ambient hot air was heating the pipes as they ran over the engine so hoped the wrap would create a Barrier to stop this heat soak)Freshly polished rear lights
(currently were tinted ones that came on the car)Clear side lights
(currently tinted that came with car)
But then the weather brightened up and I've been out in it plenty in the last few months and love the way it pulls and the amount of traction it has
(rear tyres are only 225's) , the sound with the reverse mounted turbo just behind your head is incredible, it's all turbo spool and screamer pipe as the legalis r is a very quite/ civilised back box. 
This brings the story up to present with my most recent modification being alacantra door cards and re conditioning some cusco strut braces.
(Pics to follow) The future plans going forward are to wide body/ arch it, I'm still undecided whether to go with ab flug arches or fabricate my own composite or metallic over fenders, get some wider wheels to suit
(most likely some rota grid drifts or something similar), remove orange toblerone's and a remap to tweak and extract a few more hp.Hope you've not got bored and drifted off by this point, all comments/ opinions to
advise and help progress would be appreciated.
