yep, you heard me. I'm coming back to the 5sfte community. Doing things a little different this time around, here's what I can remember so far that I'm doing differently:

Genuine HKS BOV, the new 2007 design
Got my injectors cleaned and flow tested at witchhunter. They were is poor condition before and are great now!
Going with a SAFCII instead of a neo. I got it for about $75 cheaper, and it measures knock. I was gonna get a greddy emanage ultimate, but I don't have a laptop to tune it with and it just looked too complicated for me to figure out how to tune it by myself, so maybe I'll upgrade later.
Got a custom stailness braided oil feed and drain line kit made specifically for my 5sfte. I just gotta weld a fitting onto my oil pan but I'm having a hard time finding someone willing to do it.
I'm fixing my radiator fan which was broken before. the motor fell out of the blade cause it was hooked up wrong
I'm using a regular sized radiator instead of the koyo, for a little more engine bay room
I'm relocating the battery to the trunk
and I'm cutting my IC piping down a lot for a cleaner install, might even paint them like LewFX

that's all I can think of right now, pictures to come. hope to be running by the end of the week after 6 months of down time!

Pics when you get done!! Glad you stuck with it after all your frustration.

Forget the pics, get some vids with the 5sfte in action bro. If not pics will do just fine.

I think cutting down the charge piping will make your engine bay hella clean. The set up you have in your profile, looks like you rushed a little with the piping. Or just lazy lol. GL with the set-up though.

>
don't have a video camera, but I'll see if I can borrow one.

as for the intake piping, it was more just because I was anxious to get it running, and it was intended to be temporary until I had time to cut it. but I only got to drive the car about 100 miles with the turbo on and any spare time I had was spent in hunting down oil leaks...

for VIDS. I know what you mean about being anxious man. Well once the oil leaks get taken care of, that ride is going to be sick.

Welcome back to team 5sfte!

just finished installing the fuel pump, and I took a couple pic of my oil line kit for you. here's the flange that bolts onto the turbo:



here's the lines:



here they are threaded into the turbo



pic of the oil feed line (also note I turned my radiator hose around so it doesn't touch the turbo anymore



and the oil drain line. Yes, I will be cleaning that area of the block up a bit before bolting everything on. it got a little dirty from oil that was leaking from my filter relocator kt and coolant that was leaking from an oil cooler hose. both those leaks will be taken car of though.



these kits should be available to anyone that wants one. Just contact Aaron at RabidChimp.com (this website makes a kit like this for 7mgte supras, I originally only asked to buy the flange to bolt onto my CT-26, but he wanted to make the full kit, so he did) However, I wouldn't order one yet, I think my oil drain line may be too short, I have to wait until I get my oil pan back on monday because I found somebody to weld it, but they can't get it done until monday.

that's all for now, I may work on it a little more later tonight. I still have to:
Install oil pan
Finish fixing radiator fan
connect remaining few connectors of my wiring harness
Install oil filter relocation kit
Install turbo
Install turbo oil lines
Install and cut IC piping
Install SAFCII
Install gauges
and relocate the battery (after I buy one... lol)

So what was up with your other oil filter relocation kit? Like why was it leaking?

cause I installed it wrong and the rubber O-ring wasn't exaclty where it was supposed to be. 100% my own fault. the canton racing filter adaptor and stainless braided lines is the only way to go for the oil filter relocation.

you don't have to go stainless do you?

>
technically no, but I thought I could get away with rubber hoses too and I regret it. You'll burn through them eventually due to how close they are to the downpipe. might as well just buy stainless to begin with and save yourself the trouble of buying things twice like I did. (actually... this is the third time buying them... I sold my other kit lol)

This post has been edited by 6strngs: Nov 18, 2007 - 12:47 AM

LOL. You know what they say. 3rd times the charm.

went to a pick'n'pull today and was surprised to see a 6th gen celica there! it was an 94 ST in the same color as my car. but almost everything had already been stripped from the car. all the interior pieces were gone except the steering wheel and dash board, the engine was gone but it still had a transmission (I think it was manual, but I'm not sure). I got what I wanted from it though, a radiator fan shroud and fan blade! also got me a couple different oil dipsticks from 4th gen celica 3sfe's and one from a 5sfe from a 5th gen. I broke my dipstick while trying to get it out and haven't had a way to check my oil level since. but the reason why it broke was because it hit my downpipe and there is no way to pull it out and get it back in while the downpipe is still in place. I'm wondering if other people with 5sfte's have this problem or if it's just me? if so, what have you done to fix it?

I also took a look at a buddy's (Cali_Jeff) battery relocation set-up and I have a good idea how I'm going to do mine now, I just can't decide between running the wires under the car or under the door sill and behind the plastics.

and one last thing, I tried figuring out how I was going to cut down my IC piping and as I was poking around, I came up with a different method of routing it all together. I took a pic of the mock-up to give a general idea. I need to cut up a bunch of the piping, but this'll give the general idea. what do you think?

when i saw pics of presure2 and shin's car, they had bent the entire line for the oil dipstick so that it faces a direction that you can get @ it

>
you mean bend the tube that the dispstick feeds into? should I just start smacking it with a rubber mallet? lol

you asked for it, you got it! I just found I can upload videos from my cell-phone onto youtube (couldn't do this with my old phone). So, though the quality will be crappy at best, I can still have videos for you! here's a quick one of my IC piping:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Twhr_dyigSM

and a picture of my fixed radiator fan for good measure.



This post has been edited by 6strngs: Nov 19, 2007 - 3:16 AM

what size is that return line?

Weird bends and angles, but hey it works.

>
that was just a test fit, it won't look that wierd when it's finished.

Manny, the return line is -10AN and the feed line is -4AN.

from my tuner guy, he said t-clamps suck...theres another product out there for half the price of a tclamp... it surrounds the pipe and clamps unless t-clamps one way tightening

>
I'm not really sure what you're referring to...

referring to t-clamps for ic piping

>
the feed should be NO larger than -3an, with a restrictor.
you should know that by now.

lew, unless you have beaded pipes, and or aluminum piping, tbolts are just fine. if they ARE beaded, and or aluminum, ya just cant overtighten them.
constant tension clamps are IMO the best ones of all, asside from the 250$ EA wiggins clamps but theyre definetly not cheaper than the t-bolts.
when i redo my piping here at some point, thats what i'll be using.

>
I'm going be using a restrictor for the line, I don't see how it'll be a problem though as with a restrictor the same amount of oil is going to enter the line anyway. The guy who made the kit said he's used -4AN lines on CT-26's all the time without any problems.

btw, I got my oil pan back and the drain line did turn out to be about an inch too short, so I'm taking the line to a shop to see how much it would cost for a slightly longer line, hopefully they can reuse the hose ends cause I'm just about out of money at this point...

GIT-R-DONE!

well, took the line to the shop and he looked at it and said it's definately not an AN hose. it's SAE. anyway, he said he could make me a hose using stainless steel hose ends for $55, then he suggested an AN hose, but when he looked at the price, just the one 90 degree hose end would cost about $40! I didn't get either yet, I'm going to look into some other options.

>
guy, are you thick headed.
the person who REBUILDS these turbos, who has been doing them for years, swears by no larger than 3an.
especially in a car that overfeeds the turbo as it is, why would you use a larger line??
ive been running mine for 2.5+ years.
have you read arts sig lately?

having a couple days off from school, and a day off work, I've really been going at it today. I've gotten alot done. here's a pic of my crankshaft, notice the clean oil pan surface I spent probably about 2 hours cleaning!


here's a pic of all the parts that still needed to be installed, of course, I took this pic a few hours ago and have half of it in by now


here's a pic of my downpipie, wrapped with exhaust wrap and then painted with a high-temp silicone protectent paint. should keep the downpipe from rusting due to the exhaust wrap trapping moisture, plus it looks cool to have a flat black downpipe, lol.


and here's a pic of the front of my engine block. I cleaned it up a little bit, it still looks dirty, but it's waayy cleaner than before. and I put some heat wrap stuff around my oil cooler lines to keep them from melting again!


I've also got the filter relocation kit and the turbo, manifold, downpipe assembly installed. next up I'm going to get the IC piping all trimmed down and installed, then the gauges and SAFCII all wired up. after that, I just have to get an oil drain line made, get a battery and everything to relocate it, an intake set-up put together, then fill it up with oil and coolant and it'll be good to go!! hopefully...

Where is your coolant lines for your turbo coming from?

>
I tee'd off from the throttle body coolant lines.
here's a pic showing the final fitment of the hot side of my IC piping. much cleaner IMO.


now I've just gotta cut two pipes and the cold side should be finished too. then just gotta do a lot of wiring. I'm so tired though, I don't know if I'm gonna do all that tonight.