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FMU as in a fuel control setup only? Ive thought of that and a buddy of mine even said i could try his APEXI neo, but for now im going to be stubborn.
As for wanting my car, trust me you dont you havent seen the whole thing. Unless you like pink. That and i have more money into the car then what it was worth new, although that aint sayin much.

Heres a few pictures.

Right after i lowered it on T3 gear (www.technotoytuning.com) front weld on coil over kit on the front, NCRCA's, camber plates and lowering springs and AGX adjustable shocks. I now have their lower control arms, tension rods and just did a manual rack conversion. Can you say angle?
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Boom tube its not full 3 inch, but what the hell.
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A buddy of mine painted it for me about 2 months ago and put the decals on it. What a nice surprise...
I still need to repaint the bumpers and clean the trim up.
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What can i say, i like supras. I dont have enugh funds for balluh rims yet.
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SUPUH JDM SHIFTAROO
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Now you know.

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Liam, you can clock the housing without moving the centre secition and ------ aroudn with its angle. IF u get MSquirt, you can go edis and do away with the dizzy altogether. Really frees up alot of room. When you put the drain on the pan, make sure its as high as you can humanly get it. That turbo will die, and the tow will cost more than getting a proper one.

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Holy shifter batman!

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Haha the shifter extension is a lot nicer with my short throw, with the stock shifter it almost hit the dash in 1st and in reverse it was in the passanger seat.

Ive seen the mega squirt EDIS combo before, ive heard its over complicated and hard to tune, but thats only what ive HEARD. No facts to back it up.
As for the drain you're obviously talking about the oil return for the turbo? I will definitely note that since i didnt really know where to put it other then it goes on the oil pan haha.
I usually run my engine at least a half a liter over full since im always going into corners hard and keeping it pinned at the redline. As anyone who has driven a 4AGE hard knows the stupid oil returns in the head are all on the exhaust side and the PCV breather is on the intake. First time i sucked oil through it i thought my engine blew up haha. I almost cryed!

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ahh man you shoulda kept the paint orig if you weren't going to get a really paint job.

and the gts sticker on the side is killing it.

i love the car anyways tho.

here's mine, or how it was before i started to tear it down again for resto.

https://www.homemadeturbo.com/forum/...?topic=19506.0

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No. Why even bother turbocharging then? After you've replaced a few motors because you blew them up at 4psi, then you will realize why you need a standalone.

You have been lied to. Static compression ratio has exactly nothing to do with the pressure you feed the engine. The airflow of the compressor however, does.
You will blow a stock headgasket with anything that resembles boost with the stock cyl head torque, keep that in mind.

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What in the ---- is up with old toyota guys driving nutty ass cars? You all make me feel unspecial, but I'm glad there's other real ----------ers out there. :y

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A buddy of mine has run a stock tired bluetop at 7psi ass raping the ------ ---- out of it and it hasn t blown up. Their is nothing overcomplicated about welding a trigger wheel and making a mount. Edis fantastic, you can lose tha tstupid dizzy making turbo fabrication much much simpler. Your going to go through all that work just to blow it up ... Get a standalone and a new turbo, you're cutting the wrong corners... Thats pretty bad considering HMTs standards.

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I think Megasquirt is about the cheapest, simplest, reliable EMS out there. I've been looking to possibly get a MS for the wife's 72 mustang when I put the 8-71 on the 408 cleveland.

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Well originally this was going to be a $500 joke, then i thought id attempt to do it right on absolutely zero budget. What im trying to say is i spent everything on the kit, now i have my car apart and want to go out to an event on the 14th of December.
As you can see im an idiot to think i could even get the car to fire up let alone make boost without having something go boom.
I came on this site because i was told people here knew there stuff and im sure as hell glad i did. After reading through the 20v silvertop thread quickly i will now be doing it properly even if it takes me, well forever. You definitely sound like you have some experience to back up your facts.
My original plan was to back the timing way off and go from there, hope the stock fuel system could feed the engine enough fuel without flooding at idle and pray that all the stock internals would not melt. I had nothing but crazy ideas in my head and like normal i started ripping and tearing everything apart before i had a clue what was going on.

You mentioned AEM EMS and MAP ECU2 were what you would suggest for a standalone. The AEM system seems a little out of my league and very expensive, like upwards of $2000. The MAP ECU2 however seems like its closer to my price range. Honestly I have very little understanding of standalone systems, which is my biggest obstacle. I dont mind learning, but my brain hurts just thinking about it. I searched a bunch on the net, but i still have so many questions about these systems. Im not going to waste all your time answering questions i may not even need the answer too.
Thanks for all your help, i guess im going to have to figure out what i want to do now.

As for megasquirt and Fords EDIS thats another option im going to look at since it seems like its been proven effective before. I just dont know if i could put Ford parts on my Corolla haha.

The paint job was done for less then $400 by my buddies dad in a tent on their side yard. It turned out like crap, but i was more concerned about getting the rust hole on the passenger side rear fender/quarter repaired and a few other dents dings and small rust holes fixed. Also my horrible sunroof patch job needed about 3 quarts of long and strong to smooth out. Pink stickers WERE NOT ME, I REPEAT NOT ME. Thats what happens when you trust a friend to help you with your car haha.