I know this car since 2005 when a pal bought it in germany as his spare AE while he was repairing his 3 door Hachi. When he sold the car, I was quite low on cash so I suggested him to sell it to another good friend of mine. Early 2008 he decided to sell the car to! And because I couldn’t persuade him to keep it, I simply had to buy it
The following pic shows how the first drive ended. Engine mad a really bad noise and dripped oil after only 1km or so.
So, back to the garage and out with the engine. Opened the sump and the oil pump looked like this:
Yeah, pretty bad news, so we continued the disassembling and found some really nasty main bearings:
So whe checked the crank, and as u can imagine it was damaged to. So some bigger parts were needed. As I couldn’t locate a short block or crank, we went to jdm parts in the Netherlands to buy a new used longblock. Being shocked by the broken 20V, I decided to open this one as well to check it. Decided to replace the 5 main and 4 rod bearings with some nice OEM new ones and did thome other minor work.
Reassembled the engine :
Swapped all the parts like waterline Kit, dizzy relocation, water pump and threw the BT back in. After a few tryes the engine starte right up. Had quite a high idle, but it roared just right.
So out the garage, on the roads
Next thing on the list was the rollcage, it’s a 6-point cage including double door bars and the rear X-brace. I soon found out that my bucket seat could’t stay where it was. I’m 1.90m, the AE is pretty small and the cage mounts pretty low so many hours were spent to get the seat in a lower position and still be adjustable. I finished by removing the rear OEM attachment points and some new metal was welded in to fix the seat rails. Height is now pretty perfect. My shoulder sits just under the edge of the door.
Old engine
Needs new crank, oil pump and honing.
Some new 8x15 with Toyo T1R in 195/45:
Wheels are on the car:
Some pics from weekend fun:
I don't want no boring winter :nod:
I’ve mounted and wired my haltech E6X standalone ECU. Converted the engine to coil on plugs. Haltech runs it on “direct fire”. After an hour I figured out that I missed to connect a signal wire. After resolving that minor issue, the engine started on the first try. Now I’m able to get rid of my SP-Tec distributor relocation kit and my OEM 20V ignitor,…
Now that I know that the haltech runs fine it’s about time for the next steps:
Now I’m able to mount the camshafts, EXEDY clutch, FIDANZA flywheel, TODA valvesprings, ARP rod and headbolts,...
Will try to update this post in a few days when the engine will get back in the car.
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