BIG NEWS TO REPORT
IT'S ALIVE!!!!!!
Thats right, after a very long delay, I finally took a week off work, flew to Chicago, and spent 4 days working almost straight. Yesterday was about 22 hours working on the car, but my trip is over and I am on my way back to L.A.
I will post a pic or two now, I have a few more for later. I am uploading this while I wait for my flight at the airport.
I completed almost all of the wiring. Tested it before pluggin in the ECU and found just 2 minor problems. One of them was a relay with a shorted coil. Good thing I checked as it was the engine main energized by the ECU MREL lead. I just jumped the ECU pins to power up the motor and it blew a 20 amp fuse. OUCH. The other was a wire that pulled out of a crimp. After that, I turned the key and it fired to life on the very first try with no error codes at all. I even drove it, 40 feet, under it's own power, and it really wants to take off. Running with just open headers it was much louder than I expected. It roared like an unmuffled bug block, but settled into a smooth 600 rpm idle. Just touch the throttle and it jumps to 2000 in a blink. It acts like a light flywheel. We did et the exhaust built back to the cats. I am using the original Lexus cats, but they are moved back a bit to put them in the stock Celica(left side) and Supra(right Side) cat positions. I made my own heat shields for the right side, and the one over the cat also has ThermoTec over the shield for a little extra insulation. I also plan to wrap the pipes before the cats with the ThermoTec since they are so much further from the ports.
Alternator and powersteering work fine. I never got it hot enough to open the thermo stat though, cooling fans never came on. It was just too loud to run much longer at 2AM.
Enjoy the pics, I will post more when I am back in LA.
Gary Meissner