My Engine Bay Renovation Thread, AE111 ECU conversion, wire tuck, and more... Options

[playr158]

looking good coomer

but actually the 2 sized velocity stacks does VERY well up to 14,000 rpm i might add
most of our sport/racing bikes have the 2 outter stacks shorter and 2 inner stacks longer. Though i'm not completely sure of the reason. I remember reading about it on a GIXXER forum awhile ago. I'm sure you will work something out

keep it goin!

[Coomer]

Last night I made some good progress.

I removed the sideskirts, fenders, wipers and the panel beneath them, more stuff from the engine bay, and separated stuff from the engine.



There's the engine bay in its current state.



Ugly A/C line connector...I don't know if it's worth pulling the dash and all the heater and a/c stuff just to remove this.



The C52...as you can tell, I'm not a big fan of Toyota C52 trannies.



The motor with some stuff removed...note the triangular-shaped intake port. This means my motor is a post-'93.5 motor with the better flowing intake ports. And I always thought it was pre-'93.5 based on my throttle linkage...



Speaking of the throttle linkage, there's the intake manifold off of the car. It's filthy and will be cleaned up soon.



I removed the fuse box wiring from the black fuse box itself and pushed it into this area...I'm thinking I'll relocate the fuse box down here, but I'm not sure yet.

Today I removed the flywheel, clutch, and some accessories from the motor and put it on an engine holder so I can clean it up. No pics though...it was too cold and snowing too hard for me to move from inside the nice warm house just to go take pictures. But soon I'll begin cleaning all of this stuff and prepping the engine bay for paint.

[97lestyousay]

The C52...as you can tell, I'm not a big fan of Toyota C52 trannies.

X2 C52s are junk. Looks like you have made some major progress.
I can't wait till meet season.

[celicast3sgte]

nice work man

[Bigmeanbulldog55]

Nice progress, as usual Coomer. btw, what's so bad about the C52s?

[Coomer]

Nice progress, as usual Coomer. btw, what's so bad about the C52s?

They're just not very durable...my second gear synchros have gone bad on both of them that I've had, and my third gear synchro is bad as well on the more recent one that I just pulled off the motor. I might tear apart the tranny just for kicks and see what those synchros look like on the inside if I have some spare time.

[Bitter]

no more teef on em :lol:

[97lestyousay]

Nice progress, as usual Coomer. btw, what's so bad about the C52s?

The one in my ae92 has a bent shift fork and no 3rd or 4th gear atm.
The third gear syncro was bad in it when I bought it. The guys on the
AE92 website say if you are going to do a lot of auto-xing learn how
to rebuild one yourself or have a pallet of them laying around.
The one in my celica the second gear syncro is on its way out.
This site has a rebuild article in the tech section, might be of some use.
http://www.ae92gts.com/home.html

This post has been edited by 97lestyousay: Feb 24, 2007 - 10:27 PM

[Drew-887]

What trans do you plan on using if the C52 is junk?

This post has been edited by Drew-887: Feb 26, 2007 - 12:55 AM

[lagos]

coomer looks WAY to clean for having just worked on his car

[Coomer]

What trans do you plan on using if the C52 is junk?

Another C52...unfortunately...perhaps I'll learn how to rebuild trannies and install new synchros.

coomer looks WAY to clean for having just worked on his car

Haha, I always go inside and clean up first...don't wanna get any dirt or grease on the nice camera.

[Coomer]

Today in class I was bored, so I drew up my basic wiring schematic for my new harness. It should be nice when it's all said and done. Just have to figure out what exactly I need to order as far as connectors go.

[Bigmeanbulldog55]

^^You're a pretty big dork, man. Good job on all that, I know I couldn't do it.

[hitcachi]

Hey Chris, I havent been on the site in awhile, and i was keeping track of this thread before, so I just was curious to know if you still had the hesitation and idle problems? If not, what did you do to fix them? Sorry for not reading the thread right now, I'm kind of in a hurry to get out the door and i just wanted to get this posted. Thanks.

[95CelicaST]

I have that sweatshirt... well jacket... whatever it is..

I was wondering the same as Art about why you were so clean!

[Coomer]

^^You're a pretty big dork, man. Good job on all that, I know I couldn't do it.

Thanks.

Hey Chris, I havent been on the site in awhile, and i was keeping track of this thread before, so I just was curious to know if you still had the hesitation and idle problems? If not, what did you do to fix them? Sorry for not reading the thread right now, I'm kind of in a hurry to get out the door and i just wanted to get this posted. Thanks.

Yep, it's fixed. There's info in my previous posts.

I have that sweatshirt... well jacket... whatever it is..

I was wondering the same as Art about why you were so clean!

I love that jacket...so warm. And yeah, I always go up and get cleaned up before I take pictures, because I don't want to get the camera dirty.

[Coomer]

Tonight all I really got done was getting the dash off...which wasn't fun.



There's the interior with the dash off...does anyone have any pointers on removing the A/C unit?



There's my clutch disc removed from the motor. Anyone know what causes those springs to look like that? Would that cause problems shifting?





There are a couple shots of the motor on the stand...note how dirty it is...it'll be clean soon.

I came back to Ellensburg tonight to go to my friend's 21-run, so no more work on the car tomorrow, but I'll hopefully work on it more this weekend.

[Bitter]

looks like the clutch springs all hit something, any faint marks on the flywheel or flywheel bolt heads?

This post has been edited by Bitter: Mar 1, 2007 - 8:30 AM

[WannabeGT4]

I had a problem like that with the clutch in my turbo coupe. It was caused by one of the flywheel bolts backing itself out. Shifting got tougher and tougher until the clutch disc was pretty much locked against the pressure plate. I'm now much more liberal with the Loctite.

[playr158]

the A/C unit comes out pretty easily....

bolts on top and bottom + some connecting the 3 sections.....but i think the middle one normally will pop out first then the rest kinda just follow and fall off