-88 2.0 GT project

-88 2.0 GT, 3S-GE turbo project

Hello

I bought this one last summer, july if Iremember correctly. It had been daily for a woman, who drove it
of the road in 2001. Her husband changed new fenders, new front lights, did some weldings to the bottom
and few other little things at the same time. He didn´t done it all the way and they forgot it to the garage
till summer 2011. So it´s been of the road and in warm garage 10 years. But finnish weather etc. have done few
rust marks everywhere.



When I picked it up, it wasn´t in driving condition. Fuel tank was in a boot. When I took it of the trailer, rear brakeline
snapped. After getting fueltank into a car and pipes for it fixed, I tried to get it running. It wasnt easy task. After
research I found out that no.1 and no.3 injectors wasn´t working. I took those of, little bit power from battery and hammering
and suddenly those were working. 10 years had glued them somehow.

After that I fixed brake lines and checked that brakes were otherwise ok. After those I took first test drive. Everything felt
and sound good, so I could start fitting turbo and exhaust manifold from ST165.

Quite soon I discovered that turbo was hitting starter, because fwd have starter beside engine, not above tranny like in 4wd.
Well, celica have same tranny like camry and camry have starter above tranny. I took camry starter and made hole to bellhouse for it. After that was made, I realised that celica fywheel is smaller than camry one. Damn, I had to take tranny out
and put the camry flywheel on it. Same time while doing that, I changed ridig copper clutch disk. I also changed tranny to
camry model to get starter exactly where it should be.

Now I really had chance to start bolting on a turbo. I was mainly using parts, which I allready had. So exhaust side is from ST165, manifold, turbo, DP and CAT. After that there is stock 3S-GE exhaust pipe. It didn´t have CAT before, but because finnish regulations, I had to put catalytic converter to ensure that pollution level is not rising after this kind of things. It doesn´t have to affect really, because CO and HC levels just have to stay where those were before. So Cat is empty, only shell remains....

Right behind the front bumber is aftermarket intercooler, which have "nice" homemade duct to take fresh air under the bumber.





Pipes for cooler are made from thick steel bends and tubes. Heavy, but cheap and can be welded myself.



Otherwise engine is stock 3S-GE, enginemanagement is untouched besides of extra fueling in boost area. There is one 530cc injector before throttle body, which is run by little device my friend built. There are two things adjustable, start point of injection (now start in 0.1 bar boost) and the other thing is how rapidly it increases the open time of injector. Triggering for injector is from ignition.

Basic ignition timing is retarded a little to prevent detonation. I know, not so good things, but when you want to do and learn by yourself and do it with budget, it works for me.

Car was in dyno this tuesday and gave 162kW and 318Nm from engine with under 0.5 bar.





There is a little leaner spot in approx 4250 rpm, not too lean, but effects to torque and power line. It goes quite nicely and I´m quite happy. This is a good start, or what do you think?

 

at the 4250 area, the afr is in it´s leanest point. After that it started to get better after it´s getting littlebit too much fuel in the end. I´m going to think solution for that. of course, if I raise the boost, it will get leaner, but then it might get too lean in 4250 rpm area.

These settings I have now are just random parts, which I had. Now I have somekind of proofs whats right or wrong.

Thanks for cheering me.

 

Now I got an idea (splendid if you ask me), and started to prepare my 162 for new paint.
And on the other hand, I had nothing else to do, there is -30 degrees celsius outside. I
get color for it this week and hopefully painting will be started next weekend. It will be
good or more horrible than it was, we´ll see.

Here is one stipping picture.

 

It´s not going to be original color. Original color have been silver or gray metallic. More likely medium gray metallic (159). Then this color is wine metallic (3G9), but I´m not sure of that either. New one is going to be completely different I would say You will see someday...
I´ll take pictures and put those here when it´s done. I´ll try to do something with the wheels also, I just don´t like to 5 x 100 bolt pattern, it´s not easy.
I believe that the car is actually -86, but registered in -88.

 

Ok, now somebody is thinking way I´m thinking. I got bigger injector for my extra fueling system and next I´m going to ditch the T-VIS and we´ll see where afr is going.