All sealed up and ready to go back in once my Axle seals come in from Mitsu. Internals should be here this week and I cannot wait to get this car going. My deadlines coming up faster than expected and I have nothing to show for it yet lol.

 

Cleaned, sealed, and new axle seals, and back in the car, hopefully never have to replace a rear axle in this car ever. Such a pain in the ***. Looks like my internals should be here tomorrow afternoon so I'm excited for that. Coming together slowly here, one day at a time.

 

Finally! Christmas came today and the wait for my internals is over. Blocks going to the machine shop tomorrow to get everything done and then I should be building it this weekend. I'll take some more pictures once I unpack everything.

 

Good luck on your built

 

is it done yet?

 

Haha I wish soon bud

 

It'll be ready by 2016.

 

pretty sick!!

 

Glad Ya saved that car!

 

PROGRESS. Machine work for the block is all done, crank installed and torqued down. Ordered a handful of parts to bolt the head down, should be here sometime this week and then more pics will be up. Getting the itch now.

 

These should do the job id hope

 

Got to the shop early this morning and had some engine building fun. I work for Toyota so besides building Their engines at work and the engines I've done at school, I've never really built a performance built engine. I was nervous but renting a space with a friend that's a machinist for a living helped me out.

Started out with installing the wrist pin clips on the Pistons, one at a time and then fitting the pin in with some oil. Once each Piston had a clip in it, moved onto the hard part. Once the pin and rod were attached to the piston installing the second was a *****. After a few mis attempts and clips flying everywhere, I found the good method to installing them. Fingers bruised and numb but I got the job done.

After that was all said and done and clips all secure, moved onto filing the rings which I had also never done before. Luckily most of mine were close enough that they didn't need much work.

Once all the rings were filed I ran to advanced to buy a ring compressor, confused all the employees there since they're so knowledgeable. Tapped the Pistons into their bores and forgot the squirters would be in the way. After some gentle convincing, everything fit right and was snugged down.

Everything's in and cleaned up now besides torquing the rod bolts, Wasn't able to find the right specs so I just snugged them for now until I confirm proper torque. Parts ordered to bolt the head on and moving along from there. The weather also seems to be making a break here so now I'm even more anxious to drive this thing. Thanks for looking.

 

Parts have been on back order due to the ****ty weather out east. Waiting is fun, updates coming later this week!

 

Been slacking pretty hard on updates lately. Few things have come together, bottom end is together and torqued. Oil pump is on, and a
few of the pulleys. Head should be done this weekend and mounting that as soon as possible. Also have a large list of Oem stuff on order from Mitsu that I should be seeing sometime this week.

 

Been terrible keeping up on this, parts have been either delayed or back ordered this entire build for weeks at a time. Lost interest for a while, but everything's falling into place now. Clutch is on the way and the engine should be ready to drop in next week. First start in about a month for the dyno. Crunch time!