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Well, the fuel issue turned out to be an issue with the pick up. I modified mine to use 3/8" hose vs the stock 5/16", and the tube was not low enough in the gas. The walbro pump I put on exhibited the same symptoms but it was able to compress the air in the lines to 40psi lol. After fixing...

So...I picked up a laptop, a battery, topped up fluids, finished up misc wiring and vacuum line routing and started poking around with the ecu software. TunerStudioMS. Pretty easy to work with, but can get very overwhelming, though there are a lot of videos and resources out there to help with that....

A bit more progress. Started cleaning out the interior and fixed some rot holes on the shock towers, and patched shut a hole I had opened to fix a sub frame nut. I wasn't able to get as much done as I wanted as I got a nasty case of food poisoning this weekend. Yay... 20230327_200957.jpg 20230327_19...

More wiring progress. Added a big boy buss bar, hidden solenoid, cooling fan, starter wiring, etc. I had to fix the oil feed line. I had originally used a compression fitting in the mess of adapters to go from a brake fitting to npt, however I just decided to use l solder the fitting to the brake li...

terceldude wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 2:44 pm Update: I own it now. But need a scanner to scan it in!

if you have an android phone i use an app called camscanner. conveniently makes pdf files. takes a bit of pfaffing around in the app to figure it out, but once you do its super handy.

Oh hey look, more wiring! Also got me a throttle cable from a 99 v6 Camry. Still need to wire in fans, IAC, boost controller, and a handful of other things. Ordered exhaust flanges today. Turns out the reman turbo I got is an industrial / agricultural turbo used mainly on Isuzu diesel engines. Lucki...

Looking good again! Did you weld yourself that exhaust? The weld quality looks excellent. Ha no. Someone in Florida made it. He made them originally for the mr2. As far as I know there's only a couple of these manifolds made. Got more done with the wiring. Got most of the ignition coils wired in ex...

Looking good Keegan! Chris Thanks Chris! Continuing to push forward. Made a frame out of a piece of metal from my roommates Toyota pickup for the secondary fuse box. It's ugly, but you'll never see it once it's mounted. Probably will rivet it to the shock tower to keep it away from the heat. Still ...

Got the alternator sorted, except for the wiring, which will just need extending. The lower bracket isn't perfectly aligned--it needs to get rotated a hair to be perfect. The angle of the picture makes it seem worse than it is. This should have been done before dropping the engine in, but hindsight ...

Well, made an alternator bracket and welded it to the motor mount. The first gen's use a stamp steel motor mount whereas a second genes are cast so I can well to it safely. Now I got to find a belt, and figure out how to run the lower coolant line. Probably need to find an elbow or something due to ...

Back to it. These are the waterproof bulkhead connectors I was going to use.. But I think it's better to reuse the factory grommets. Not sure why I didn't think of this before... Also need to sort a throttle cable. Bought a third gen tercel cable, but the sheeth is too long. Hmmm... 20230215_202531....

You had really great options then on 1st gen Tercel. I have never seen even Tacho on European ones. It could exist on some few ones but most cars come without tacho for sure. Prius electric column sounds interesting. Hopefully we will see also incoming pictures of that when your project proceeds fu...

just cause you smell fuel doesnt mean its building enough pressure to run. i would shoot some starting fluid in the intake and see if she wants to start. if it does, then its the pump.

Cadendoo22 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 12:13 pm

Chard wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2019 2:52 pm This thing20191215_113835.jpg is a monster in the snow!

I know this thread is dead but I really want to know more about this build. What ended up happening to it? I really want to do a similar setup and would love more information

i believe he still has it.

You had really great options then on 1st gen Tercel. I have never seen even Tacho on European ones. It could exist on some few ones but most cars come without tacho for sure. Prius electric column sounds interesting. Hopefully we will see also incoming pictures of that when your project proceeds fu...