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[NOSBandit]

It is, I've had it for 10 years lol

[Ormes]

Great project... I will watch with interest

[NOSBandit]

The next stage was to have the driveshafts made, these took approximately 4 weeks.
So it was time to do a bit of maintenance, replace all wishbone bushes with spherical bearings and replace all bolts and fittings. Replace rear tie bars with rose jointed ones, rebuild steering rack
Also as a matter of course I replaced all the wheel bearings, just in time for the new driveshafts.

[Rosssco]

Those drive shaft angles look quite big (might just be the photos!)

[NOSBandit]

Driveshafts were fine, it'll be the angle of the photo

[NOSBandit]

I was now making more work for myself, whilst the car was in this state I may as well replace all brake pipes, flexi's and uprate the brakes.
So I fitted a set of wilwood 4 pot calipers to the front and a set of 308mm discs

[NOSBandit]

I also had to change the fuel pump, so I fitted a bosch 040 pump into the tank to feed the swirl pot and a bosch 044 was used for the fuel rail and a adjustable fuel pressure regulator was fitted.

[NOSBandit]

After a lot of deliberation I decided to use 2 double pass radiators for the charge cooler and surprisingly it works very well
The silencer and under panelling was now fitted as I was going to have a hinged rear clam

[myles]

Good work!

[Rosssco]

Be interesting to see what flow you get through those radiators, at that not a high flow area without some ducting.. Sorry, I'm sounding like a critic on your thread (not intentional)!

[NOSBandit]

It works surprisingly well with the fan drawing the air in the vent.

[NOSBandit]

Latest update, I've had a few delays dealing with a rabbit issue!!
Now the engine was in it was time to sort the interior and dash. I fitted a dash 2 pro as this could read all the information from the ecu and the customer service is second to none, I can highly recommend them.
The steering wheel centre works really well with the dash and ecu, this was made by buchos on this forum, I can highly recommend as well.
I also fitted a harness bar and four point harness, I wanted to keep the seats as I thought they suited the car very well. So I fitted a set of harness slots on them.
And I also fitted the all important egt gauge.

[MAXR]

It always amazes me, how ingenious & skilful some of you guys are. A great project! 

[vxt5]

Whats your plan for the boot lid. The chargecooler looks like its a bit high? Maybe a raised one? Keep up the good work Sent from my SM-G928F using Tapatalk

[NOSBandit]

The next thing was to fit the rear clam, I wanted to have a hinged clam to make life easier for maintenance.
Due to the way the clam is designed it needed to slide back as it lifted, so I modified a set of heavy duty draw runners and the result worked very well.
I did lose part of the boot space as the Toyota manifold is very large and the charge cooler pipes needed to run round the back of it. As I wanted to keep some boot a piece of aluminium was fitted to reseal the boot.
Due to the charge cooler and manifold being quite tall, the boot lid and engine cover needed a slight redesign.

[CHILL Gone DUTCH]

There no chance of water ingress there

[NOSBandit]

I had to add a extra vent for the exhaust and turbo, it was OK when I was moving but got some heatsoak whilst stationary.

[Nev]

Wow, major work, all credit to your ingenuity

[NOSBandit]

Thanks for that Nev

[NOSBandit]

This is the end result, the first 3SGTE powered VX (as far as I know)