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Well, heres where I'm at right now. The turbo is installed and functioning, FMIC, installed (waiting on the pipes to come back). Still need to get the Megasquirt, EDIS, and a decent BOV. Theres still some odds and ends to get from the wreckers, but its mostly together. I was orginally going to use a carb, but decided that the MS was going to be better for reliability and more HP.

What I could use too is somone to "re do" my exhaust manifold. When I had it made I didnt realize that the flange had to be thicker than the turbo inlet flange. If somone could make one for me for a decent price that would be cool.. I would be able to send my old one so you would have somthing to go from.

FRONT VIEW (new bumper cover)
http://memimage.cardomain.net/member...65_74_full.jpg

Another 3/4 (with the ever present mesh rims)
http://memimage.cardomain.net/member...65_75_full.jpg

Mod on the old gauge cluster, the boosdt gauge will be in the center and the A/F will go to the right on the tach... who needs a speedo anyways
http://memimage.cardomain.net/member...65_70_full.jpg

Lousy pic of the turbo installed.
http://memimage.cardomain.net/member...65_66_full.jpg

Heres a pic of the manifold I wouyld like to have re done (but better)
http://memimage.cardomain.net/member...65_44_full.jpg

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Thats frigin sweet man, such a cool and original sleeper, big props to you my friend!!! :6

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are the charge pipes from the intercoolers coming out the front or wtf is that on the left side of your intercooler?

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Cool project!Nice to see something original.That mani isnt the prettiest but it should work.

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With the manifold I'm mostly worried about cracking. I will be putting the lowered suspention from my 5dr on it somtime in the near future, and hopefully a skirt kit off a Corolla GT-S coupe. Then its getting painted flat black.

THe pipes come out the front of the intercooler because there wasnt room to have the pipes in behinmd. The IC pipe come out the grill and attach to the front "bride of frankenstein" style (look at the pass side of the grill and you can see the cutout). A friend of mine at work is welding all the pipes up for me.. I cut them and tacked them all in place buty I figured his snazzy pants millionaire welder would do a WAY nicer job than my "princess auto" $79 stick welder..

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that charge piping is going to look ridiculous coming out the front of the car, I dont even know where its running to

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Yeah, its going to look ghetto, but it will do for now.. I'l probably change the IC (I would like a 944 unit) next year and improve a few other things.. but for now I'm, happy with it.

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Thats awesome man. Nice HMTness. Wheels are sweet too :)

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;D Very HMT stylee that's awesome.

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those inlets for the fmic bring a whole new meaning to ------ rigged!!!! it is so HMT, i love it!!!!

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Well, the corolla bumper cover is gone for now, I'm not sure its going to be making a comback either. Im just waiting now for an SDS.

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member...65_82_full.jpg
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lol that thing looks MEAN. Does it move pretty good?

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Weld your own bumper damnit ;)

Giant spikes at the sides or something

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Hahaha, oh man, that intercooler piping is priceless!!!

Good work man. get some burnout vids!

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i want more pics with a bumper on with the piping finished. now.


well done.

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I still have yet to drive it.... waiting on the SDS. Im anticipating about 170 - 180 hp and it might way 1900lbs tops. I think im going to put the quad round lights from my old Coupe on there too and skip the grill, just leave it all open.

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oh yeah... and its going to be flat black

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---- yeah man that's sweet.

:6

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so.... (though this is my first post here, nowhere near my first post)....

what do you plan to do about the very weak trans that these tercels came with (with the stock 3a)....

i personally considered getting one of these and dropping in a gze (easily available to me).... but was advised against as the trans wouldn't hold up even to the power of a gze....

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so why not swap in the full 4ag driveline? or better yet, 3sg(t)e

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thats ------- gangster, I'd rock that trans till it gernaded 8)

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I dont think its worth the effort of swapping the entire drivline to either an S (3SGTE) or A (4AGE) series. I dont suspect I'm going to have any issues at all with the transmission. Even if I do I have a parts car with a spare.

What I really want though is a 4spd from a 95 - 99, since they have a super long 4th gear for max mpg (or mph in this case). The 1987 - 1990 trans is pretty short, since the car had like 70hp to start with, so I think its going to run out of gears real fast

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why fix it if its not broken. all transmissions are weak. everyone says that about every trans. drive it till it brakes and explodes to a million peices then drive it some more.

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holy ----. that ic piping is what hmt is all about. front page ---- right thurr :S

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E series trannies can take lots of power anyways

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hmm.... must be newer than i was thinking of..... the tercel driveline i was thinking of was the weird one (where the engine isn't transverse but it's still FWD....)

i doubt it has the same E series trans that came in the s/c mr2's and turbo mr2's.... (which stock can handle 500whp)

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a c50/52/56/60 trans isn't too strong either...... they tend to blow themselves apart on hard launches with ~200whp or less.....

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Heres vote 1 for front page for that intercooler piping :) thats pimp

nice progress on the ride

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this is beautiful....the epitome of HMT :'( sorry i got alittle teared up....its just....

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http://memimage.cardomain.net/member...65_82_full.jpg


P.I.M.P.
GANGSTA

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you shoudl go drive into something and put a big dent in it and make it look liek duct tape is holding the headlight in.....thats about the only thing else you could do to make that much more HMT

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:y :y :y :y :y :y :y :y You are a HMT certified gangster :6 I love the Princess Auto boost guage too ;D

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princess auto boost gagues are shittt. they have no response at all, they are basically useless.

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solid hmt style work

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I used to date a crazy goth girl that owned that car's identical twin. She'd get hammered drunk and start driving crazy in it, 60 mph around hairpins with mudflaps scraping type driving. Those era Tercels handle pretty well bone stock if you aren't scared off by a little body roll.

One with over 100 whp would be loads of fun. :y

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God I miss my Tercel. I never should have sold it. The bucket was faithful as hell, ran like a champ.


My friend still owns his. We use to use those things like bumper cars in traffic, go off-roading, mad burnouts with the 165 tires, bowling for trash cans. Ah memories.

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thats pretty awesome man....what year is the tercel?

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Not to mention he's on DOT road race tires(Advan A048's if I'm right from looking at the tread pattern) I miss those tires. :'( What comes in those things? 4af's or what? I have a 20V silvertop head if your interested in building something up in the mean time. That FMIC and chargepiping setup is more gangster then all the crips and bloods rolled together into one. :6

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Its a 1988 CE (so basic it'l make you puke). I didnt know the princess auto boost gauges were such ---- (although I was suspicious), I have a volvo one I could use..... but theres no numbers on it, it just says "turbo". Actually, I think i will use that one and just write "nog" at the fat end"

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The tires are A048 Advans, I would like to get slicks when those wear out. The engine is a 3E, the most crapulent of all Toyota engines. I was thinking of using a 5EFE when the 3E dies. I DO have a set of 5EFHE pistons and rods for it though.

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I know a local using a PA boost guage and he has had no problems.

:y