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Yes Ryan and Lee spent a while poking things, scratching heads and hmmmming alot! a dodgy coil pack plug (bad contacts) were found, oddly and for future reference this gave a sympton of a very quiet Injector on that cylinder, once it was replaced all was well and the injector was audily the same as the other 5. All good to roll. James

Cheers Wez.

Cheers Lee! Not fogotten you mate will be in touch. James

There was loads of odds and ends to tidy up, fresh oil went in for the restart, a heat sheild was made, there was some heat proofing to do round some cables, but thats the bulk of the pics, so if you have any questions feel free to ask. James

cheers. James

The turbo to intercooler pipe had to be modifed to fit as the test fit wouldnt even get close. Welded and fit. also visible in the above pics is the Auto box oil cooler.

Install pics Nice fitting manifold with hole tapped for EGT sensor Wastegate adapter had a warped surface but a nice think gasket so fingers crossed no extra expenese needed to make good seal. Wastegate otherwise fit very nicely. The wastegate had a double vband flange fitment meaning rotating for perfect dumptube exit angle was very easy Turbo was test fitted to check clearances. All was great Installing the downpipe was a finger busting job as any amount of twizzling bolts whilst supporting the pipe in position was in vain, it wasnt possible to put in more than 2 downpipe to turbo bolts at one time. Heres why! The bolt holes drilled in the downpipe were to my surprise not accurate After some redrilling the downpipe was able to slide up to the turbo and refitted The oil return line was trouble the fitment to sump was very tight with a subframe bolt and the line provided ready to install was about 3 inches too long which meant forcing it into place would have had it rubbing up against the steering coloumn, I removed it, broke the connection open, cut the pipe and remade the connection. Other pipe connections were made along with some capping of now redundant pipes I was concerend with the location of the boost solinoid, heat might have been a problem so that was relocated. Once under the car it was very visible there was a clearnace issue with the downpipe and steering column meaning it was impossible to get a bolt through the hole to make a connection with the exhaust. I removed the downpipe again and tapped the hole in question with a 14ml tap so a bolt/thread could be screwed in. The double decat section of exhaust once fitted to the downpipe wouldnt line up with the rear section of exhaust. Some time and heat had it bent into the correct shape.

she purrs once again pictures to follow. James Finished but needs a clean up. New dumpvalve and flange welded into place New K&N filter fitted Complete removal of intercooler and pipework for a wash out.

Plenty of coolant in there??? lack of coolant will play havok with the timing and causes missfires. James

Righto im typing this and just waiting to get shot down but here goes anyways. Although there is a large amount of room for human error when hybridising a turbo, im not convince thats what causes the fialures alone. The way I see it. The stock toyota unit fresh from factory are better than any rebuilt turbo, its fitted to engine it was designed for and 100% in the condition it was designed. A Garrett / turbonetics unit is designed and built to that design. Hybrid turbos are about turning a turbo designed for one use and getting it machined and rebuilt to a different spec with fabricated parts fitted. Having said all that I have been running a hybrid turbo on my mr2 for an age and had no trouble. I have used many different companies for hybrid turbos and non of them have been reliable time and time again. As a company we have seen a 50% failure rate on hybrid turbos no matter what company they were made at. What really matters if your going to get involved with hybrids is that you dont buy direct from the manufacturer becuase they treat the individual badly and always always blame failures on oil contaminiation. Wherever possible buy from a supplier who has a track record in great customer service and sell alot of turbos, these companies will have some purchasing power and the manufacturer is 100% more likely to help with warranty issues. now shoot me down. James

problem found! egt sensor ok, but large amounts of oil from the exhaust side of the first turbo. James

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Get in touch for further details. James 01252 845645

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Hi Chaps. I was using the above turbo on my 2.2 mr2 unfortunatley its not that well suited to smaller engines so I had quite a bit of lag then then skin removed from my face. The turbo is in great health and has covered around 300 miles, on a supra this turbo can make over 600 hp. Im looking for the measly some of £400 so to put towards rebuilding a gt35 I have. If interested please call me. 01252 845645 Cheers James

ACL bearings are fine. Toyota engines were designed with even wear in mind and so the bearing size structure was formed to put all clearances bang on and true in the hope they would wear evenly and the engine last longer as a result, as we all know toyota engines last forever. This being said i can tell you its all a load of tosh in every engine I have opened the bearings furthest from the pump wear first. I build with ACL and Clevite bearings which once fitted to a stock unmodified crank and rod always measure within tolerance. Hope that helps. James

Is it possibly, certainly with enough tinkering/parts/time/money. Why not just go front mount?

Hey mate, we see alot of these issues, its nealry always because the rubber seal has unseated itself when the filter is done up. The answer is to make sure there is plenty of lube when its done up James

Interesting subject this one fellas. Having just removed Gaz's turbo to wrap his manifold I can confirm that the filtration of the trd panel filter we lovingly wrapped in a stainless box is A1/bang on perfect. There was no soiling around the turbo whatsoever which it quite rare even on the stock setup. I guess im a little bias because I made the box but Gaz is correct, building a intake system is as much about protecting the quality goods behind it as free flowing air. James

Hi Nic. Agreed blitz products are usually bang on and a pleasure to fit, dont know what happened here but its sorted anyways. James

I see where your going with that even, if that was the case it wouldnt alter the position of the back box hanger

I think it was as everything is just about right including the bends in the right places, mainly its wrong because of the hanger on the back box is welded to the wrong side, the rest i reckon is just missaligned during the bending process, anyways now ive worked some trickery once the car is on the floor you wouldnt know any different, thought i would post this here incase someone was thinking about buying one and doesnt own a welder Im sure Gaz will bring it to their attention and it will be sorted. James

Here are some pics I took whilst installing the new blitz exhaust to Gaz's car, either I have the IQ of a chimp or blitz got the fitment a tadge wrong, anyways as promised heres your pics Gaz. James The first lot are how the exhaust looked when offered up using the hanger provided. I welded a new bar to the original hanger and painted it to protect it from rust. Installed it so now we could use the hanger that blitz welded to the exhaust on the oposite side of the back box. So now it sits like: It doesnt sit perfectly central in the curviture of the bumper without forcing it to far right clashing the downpipe into the subfram at the front end. So basically even with some modification i think blitz need to go back to the drawing board or me to school James