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Anyone have any sugestions. My plan is as follows for my poor little 7AFE it is blowing oil out everwhere and the valve seals are leaking.



Get some 4GZE rods, and crank (used). A set of oversize pistons, have this block bored to the 82.5mm with 9.1:1 comp pistons. Turbo kit it, they have garret kits for the 7AFE that fit corrolas, and a ebay intercooler. SAFC2 port the head and intake some. 2" cat back exhaust, aftermarket cat.



I have found cheap engine kits, I know a company that can do thermal coatings, for valves and the pistons. A machine shop around here will do my boring and piston-crank-rod balancing. A toyota dealer has the tool to do the valve shimming, and will rent it out. And a friend has a exhaust shop, and can either do crush bends or will have mandrell bent pieces made, and weld them up, stainless.



So far I have come up with about $3,400.00 ish for everything minus the crank, and rods. But I have no idea where to get them, or if they truly will work. Talking with another gear head on the west coast he used the same setup to get better rods for cheaper than aftermarket, and a better TDC duration for close timing under boost.


Any help is very much appriciated.

[Steevo]

Found a crank and set of rods, but need to check specs on the 7AFE crank, or search here.


Out of a 87' MR2 $200.00 from Arizona. Howevr it is called the "small pin" engine, but there is no direct difference between the rods-crank on supercharged engines to aspirated.