TomAky Westfield SEIW

[tomaky]

R888's best snow tyre ive had so far! I was genuinely impressed with the 888's snow performance!
R888 ftW!
Thinking a track day in the sable very soon to bring the love of cars back!

[tomaky]

So i got the wiring diagram finished!
Had a look around the garage and starting notching a job list up in my head.
Unfortunately didn't get the hands dirty tonight. Spent a lot of the night dealing with a family issue sigh.

[tomaky]

So reasonably productive night. Door lock swapped. Figured the aux belt out, however the ac comp is going have to come out to get to the crank sensor plug.
Cut the clifford out cleared the wire up there. Will pit the plastics back on.
swapped the speakers out for the ones i bought in the auction back in may. Put the door cards back on.
Cleaned the crap out of the car.
Tightened the jubilee on the oil return. Little worried about one of the sump studs where we couldn't get access to tighten the bolt, looks like there is oil coming out of it.  
Went to pick my jack up on the way home my mate wasnt there sigh. Need to move the axel stands in order to swap the sub frame.
On a negative but inevitable problem, the callipers are seized on. Will get tother wheel off free them up. Remove them and give them all a good clean hopefully all will be well.

[StuC]

Hold on. You actually used something that you paid over the odds for from ding day?
I am yet to do that!

BTW, got to love seized calipers.  s:-( :-( s:-(

[tomaky]

First line of attack will be a big hammer then i may try moving then on the clutch got a feeling as they are itll be a battle removing them.

And no i them speaker adaptors wernt much good a dont think haha. I ended up cutting the stock speakers out of the mount.

[StuC]

That's more like it!  s:lol: :lol: s:lol:

[tomaky]

Really bad night in the garage. Considering the whole project.

[Anonymous]

Chin up, think of the end picture not the current picture.

Get a link mapper to install and map if necessary that will be a big boost for you and the project.

[tomaky]

Im putting serious consideration into scrapping the blue car, taking the bits off it and put them on the sable. Sable's engine is strong. The link works on the sable.
Cant get the middle susp arm into the sub-frame. Drivers side hb cable seized, slider bolt on drivers side rear caliper snapped. need new bolt and slider. Somewhere in your garage rich id imagine there is a hub nut as that doesn't appear to be on the car haha.
If the sub frame magically goes on and i get the parts ive just listed. i will leave the HB cable to a garage when it goes for mot. Oh and the engine fires up ill continue.
The sump oil return doesn't look screwed in enough theirs a little drip from it, to tighten it i have to loosen the hose back i imagine that involves oil ejaculating on my face.

[Anonymous]

if i could get into the garage i will have a look but it is very much rammed.
The oil sump return wasn't a perfect fitting it you remember i found a fitting lying around to allow us to screw in and make something to allow us to connect the pipe. there will be a little bit of oil but like a few drips. oil level in the sump should be below that point in the sump.

[tomaky]

Oh another sump related issue, think its seeping a little but, dont know if you noticed but when the dipstick goes in and you pull it out it somehow ends up bent... not sure how hahaha
Could do with them 2 ratchets aswell ha using a little 1/2 incher last night ball to the ache haha.

[tomaky]

Sub frames in the stubborn swine.

[tomaky]

Sable tracked, tyres pumped up and cat heat shield removed its well gone and has been rattling for a good while not going to get chance to do the rear pads so apologies for any squealing.

[tomaky]

So. Time do a update. This Project hasn't been properly updated for 2 years :O
So a couple of years ago I did my first track day first time out spun it, no big deal, its part of the learning curve. I learnt a tremendous lot about how to o drive the mr2 and how crutial the balance is threw corners, I made some changes including more bracing and the toyo r888's my times came down.
I then became frustrated by civic type r's and the likes holding me up or even overtaking me on the straights. I decided I needed more power, a opportunity arose to buy a turbo'd 2. This car is well known, I decided that the car wouldn't work for me as I do a lot of miles and on track the body kit would be trashed. The turbo kit is a quite rare Thor racing custom kit, it runs charge cooling and a gt28 turbo.  So the plan grew to swap the engine/box and turbo into my blue car. This all occurred June 2015.
So the cars went down south to Rich's the turbo's engine came out. It then got painted candy apple red with a flake (because race car). Sadly nothing went as smoothly as we planned it got to the point where the engine was in but would not run on the link. The cars stayed down tehre for a good 6 months as I was un able to get them the 305mile journey home.
Come March myself and good pal Mr Sloan drove down to essex fitted 2 softops on the way down blue came back on the A frame and a not very happy Red car drove home it was reluctant to start this turned out to be a connector that hadn't been connected after that she started no bother. I was at this point in the middle of buying a house, so I decided to sell the Red car having tidied it back up to help with the whole house moving.
So blue went into the parents garage. Where problem solving begun. The engine would not run on the Link Storm ECU, it had ran before transplant. At this point I know completely nothing about ECU's and engine wiring.
I spent hours on the phone to the lads at link out in New Zealand I gradually began building my knowledge. We basically isolated it down to the fact that the link was not picking up engine speed so Cam/Crank sensors.
At this point I had a look at both sensors and the crank sensor earth was not connected. Thought walla this will work now. However at some point in time due to the stress put on the wiring harness cables have snapped off the harness block, so this made no difference at all. The next theory is that the crank sensor is goosed.
At this point due to things changing in life. I lost interested in the car and sought a different friends group in the form of my golfing pals.
I said at this point and all summer I will finish it in the winter.
So come the end of September I have now jumped head first back into the project. I have acquired all the parts to build a new harness as the old one cannot be saved. This is going to be put together starting on the 10/10/16. Whilst ive been acquiring other parts for the harness. There was another issue through all the swap the clifford alarm basically shat itself. So that has now been cut out. I have also fit a TRD  short shifter and new speakers. Last week I tackled fitting a sub frame that I had renovated earlier on in the year as the old one was swiss cheese.
Through out all this ive been driving sable FL i picked up locally.


So now, the currently job list.
Fit interior plastics
Build Harness
See if car runs if not change crank sensor and fire up the link software. If that doesn't work blow it all up and find a new hobby.
Clean the brake disks up and calipers
Fit wheels
Take to MOT with HB cables which are now seized
Hopefully Pass MOT
Have full Geo done!
Drive car and deal with any teething issues going forward.

[Jrichards20]

 s:lol: :lol: s:lol:  what a story. Love the part about finding a new friends group because we're not good enough.

[tomaky]

Haha is was more what was easier play golf or attempt to fix a unfixable car hahaha
Could prob go on more but there are enough ramblings there.

[tomaky]

Little update worked on the car the last 2 nights. Got the interior plastics done. Hb cables have freed a little need to re adjust at the  scock cock scock pit end. Rear suspension torqued, needs alignment.
Harness as had all cables solder to block needs the splices doing.
Im getting close.

[s12vea]

Keep it going!

[iower]

Lots of great work going on here, keep it up!

[s12vea]

It will be running by 2017, well done Tom

[1979scotte]

Lazy bugger get a move on.
I want this running by December 24th.

[tomaky]

Hoping to hve the harness back monday/tuesday. If it runs i will put it in for a mot next week a think. There are a few issues to deal with. Done think many are MOT failures.

[tomaky]

Will it wont it?

[Jrichards20]

Will it wont it?

Has it been delivered?

[tomaky]

To be continued tommorrow...