seerex

Its done and running some what to good.

reactone

I'm ------- jealous!
That heated space is larger than the first pic looks.

Eville140

Got it running pretty decent up to around 15# and was working on 20# when the clutch gave up, think I had a slave cylinder problem as it held a 4th gear blast fine, then it wouldn't pull itself in first? Had to be home so the wife could go to work so I limped it back home about 2-3 miles...so the cltuch was more than dead by the time I got home. Bellhousing has a scatter shield on it that makes getting to the bolts with the engine in the car impossible. So here is how it looks today.

Already have another clutch, but going to hold off and tear the motor down, half fill it with hardblok, get some billet main caps, line hone and rehone the cylinders. Then when spring hits give it hell.

I never got any videos from when it was running good. But here is a tuning run at just under 15#. Was having problems holding a tune from run to run, ended up being a dirty fuel filter and was dropping fuel pressure under boost 20# of boost with good fuel pressure makes this video look silly.
http://www.eville140.com/video/15psi.wmv

And my puppies are still doing great, just much bigger.

Random Hero

Keep us updated. I've been following this project. i love it. I wish my starlet didint get towed.

t_cel_t

woah did you like turn your manifold upside down or did you make another one?

t_cel_t

oh here it is
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/3tc-1...spagenameZWDVW

gt350

nice randy!! glad to see it running. it's been a couple years since you've been working on this puppy. i finally gave up on the turboford route myself. guess hitting a wall and destroying your car does that too you. seems our cars both had the same fate. I gave in to the honda world. guess i'll see how this light wrong wheel drive wonder works for me.

Eville140

Yep, the volvo head stuff is tempting. It would be dirt cheap for us DIY guy to whip up an intake and mani and do the head mods. But then you are stuck running an auto or spending a chunk of cash on a trans. If the toyota ever dies I will either say screw drag racing and build a cheap toyota or vw for autocrossing or build a honda.

As for the manifold on my car, I have made quite a few 3tc manifolds and that one just happened to be done when I was ready to start it. Plus I was sick of top mounts.

fe3tcourier

Someone linked this thread from forced section. glad they did :-) add me to that list of "keep us posted" people!

Your work is always top notch!

imburne

+1