D-Turbo in a terrible car

[Mal]

Long time no visit!

The engine


The pump (left)


The 10mm head


The other usuals



The turbo


All looking good, until you see the car it's going into 


A few things to figure out still but I'll cross that bridge

Car background: a humpy corolla lift with backbreaking seats, hateful gearknob, wanked out radio and best of all the mule of a DW8 under the bonnet. How a car can be made so hateful takes a lot of skill, hence I like it  

Things to worry about include shafts, gearbox choice and clutch. Otherwise it's a drop in... Relatively! 

[7057sam]

Ah cool idea

Watching with interest

[Pebbles167]

How bizarre! I'm watching this!

[Mal]

I'm at this every evening

Pulled apart the turbo, not impressed with the play but otherwise solid. New bearing kit on order. In the mean time, I have a GT20 from my beloved C220 (I miss it dearly) to custom fit, same pattern as the GT23v so shouldn't be an issue swapping them after.

Cleaning up the GT23v



Now I don't have much pictures of the actual engine removal as it was mostly done in the dark at night. Toyota are genius in some ways and total wankers in others. Like the engine loom, lovely simple clips that are easy to undo. But the loom isn't detachable 

The only other pics I have for now are this. Hopefully I'll have a few more tomorrow



My new trophy 

[pioneer DJ paddy]

Lol f*ck me that rod got it good :-) good work so for man keep it up 

[Ruan]

Holy crap those things are vile!

I love it!!!

I never knew they put the DW8 in those sheds, this is going to be a hilarious winbus!

[Poodle]

Hahah this should be interesting, fair play!

[Piggy]

Epic.
Old man blows a rod epic! Haha

[Paul_13]

You may of cracked the gearbox
same happened to me and the force of the gudgeon pin hitting the starter cracked the box

[THE_Liam]

These are hateful cars. Scary memories of being drive around by my mate in his mams Corolla, 4 wheels in the air over humpbacked bridges, dragging the handbrake on randomly, sitting with the wheels spinning at the lights waiting for them to turn green then rolling burnouts, never killed it. However, his driving eventually killed him.