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haha, you're crazy.. now trade me those RPF1s back!
Originally Posted by Tomm
Hiya friend, it's your ol'pal that bought your 95 VVT
Nice build, I'll be following this thread so keep it posted.
I was changing the timing belt for the VVT and it ended up turning into a "while I was in there" type of job, so I pulled the head to replaced the head gasket...and then ended up rebuilding the head. Necessary? Probably not, but I had nothing better to do, so why not.
This was before I cleaned and lapped the valves. They're much more shiny now.
Got a few problems sorted over the last couple days and now she's finally working pretty well. The biggest (most annoying) issue was the throttle position sensor that would read 100% at 50% throttle. No amount of calibration, adjustment/etc would fix it. I took it off the car, benched tested it and all was fine. I finally broke down and pulled the itb (the one against the firewall) to bench test the whole enchilada. Turns out the TPS was for another car. it worked backwards of what I needed *shrug*. A quick trip to Autozone to pick up a mk4 supra turbo TPS (To which the guy at the counter got all excited about until I told him I don't own a mk4 supra, it was going in a miata, to which he replied "A 2JZ IN A MIATA, BROOO" and I replied, not just a Toyota throttle body and he was all "meh"), and all was well.
Next step was to calibrate them. The car really didn't accelerate nor idle well and this was the main reason. Cyl #2 was doing most of the work and cyl #4 was almost at 0.
Once that was tackled the next hurdle was trying to fit the big air filter which was an issue with the coolant reroute and the ABS module. I decided to just try ans fit the air filter first and deal with the coolant reroute later. To get the air filter to go on over the air stacks I actually had to unblolt the pass motor mount and lift the motor up. Once that was done I was only left with one option.. run the coolant reroute above the filter. It's not elegant, and I don't like it.. but it works. I may reroute things in the future and clean that whole coolant hose/fitting.
After a quick street auto tune she really came to life! Oh the noises!!
(excuse my ugly mug, front camera would have pointed at the dash)
To reward myself and the car she got a wash.. all pretty
Decided to clean up the engine bay a bit. First I took the copper fittings and moved the to the backside of the head. This allowed me to run the coolant re-route below the ITBs.
My VCG was leaking and i've been meaning to chop my valvecover. Very happy how everything looked under there...
Next up chop and paint the valve cover.
And the finished product:
Thinking about an m-tuned fuel rail to further clean things up and work on the PCV system. Overall she's running very well apart from the first (cold) start of the day which still takes a couple key cycles.
The guy who bought the motor I built got it installed and running. Glad to hear it's running well!
If I knew I was gonna be apart of the infamous Apartment Build Thread I would've taken a better picture, and cleaned my engine bay...... and repainted the valve cover.......
02-09-2018, 10:23 AM
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