Oil Filter Relocation

[Starfire]

Due to the fact that the extractors on my AW11 come really close to the oil filter mount there is not enough room for the standard filter to be mounted. In the past I have used a small Daihatsu filter, but the design of these appears to have changed to the point where the part no longer fits the Toyota.

I have had a remote mounting kit from Earl's sitting around for quite a while but because the barbs come out of the top of the plate that attaches to the block there is not enough room to install that either.

The solution I came up with was to use a side exiting sandwich plate adapter and make a 'cap' for it, which allows the oil to go over the top and back through the galleries to the remote mounted filter. In essence the cap acts as an erzats filter, albeit a very short one (27mm). I had a friend make this cap up for me.

Next I had to determine a location to mount the filter. I chose down low on the passenger side firewall pointing towards the passenger side of the car. Initially I intended to drill holes through the firewall and bolt the remote mount directly to it but it turs out that I was rather tight on space and there isnt really room for that. I then decided to make a bracket out of some 2mm aluminium sheet that I had lying around that mounted under the charcoal cannister bracket and bolted to the bottom of the car where one of the splash gaurds would have been in a former life.

I made a rough dummy of the bracket using a cut up pizza box and then scribed that design on to the aluminium. Had I been able to find my Dremel tool or my angle grinder it would have been fairly easy to carry out the next step but for some reason both tools were in hiding so I had to rely on my trusty hacksaw. It took a while.

After many test fits, adjustments, sanding, drilling, filing and polishing I finally had my bracket ready.



I then attached the remote mounting plate and filter, which is attached with stainless bolts and nylock nuts. In order to get the bolts through the base plate I had to remove it from the rest of the assembly using a couple of hex screws on the bottom.



Here is the bracket mounted in the car for a test fit. The thing on top of it is the charcoal cannister.



While I was doing all of this the hoses were being made by a hose specialist supplier nearby. While I really didnt need it I opted for Teflon hoses covered in a stainless steel braid. They werent cheap but they look damn fine and will probably outlast the rest of the car.

I went and picked up the hoses along with a new battery (as mine had died a couple of weeks before) and went to collect the cap from my friend's house.

Unfortunately when I got home it became apparent that the centre hole in the cap had been cut with the wrong thread - it simply wouldnt screw on. I have since taken it back to my friend's house and he will be fixing it up tomorrow.

I have test fitted all the hoses but due to fading light didnt get any pictures. I will try and remember to get some tomorrow.

Hoses and fittings $147
Sandwich plate adapter $60
Remote mount adapter $60
Oil filter $20
Aluminium plate $10
Cap $39
Total $336

[Starfire]

I spent a good deal of today working on the Tercel and Matt's car. He hadnt changed the plugs in over 12 months and it showed...

Nic arrived at about 16:00 with the modified cap, looking better than ever.

From left to right we have the cap, a bolt and the sandwich plate



Here is the complete assembly ready to be bolted on to the engine


And here it is installed in the car. It was hard to get a good photo.


Here is the completed remote mount with filter, charcoal cannister and braided hoses


Here is a shot of the engine bay after a bit of a quick clean showing my new battery and rice GREDDY oil cap


Special thanks go to, in no particular order:
Nic (Quan-Time)
Matt (Naughty Nurse)
Beej
Jordan

[Mos]

Nice work
One word of advice though, if your braided hoses are not covered with a plastic film, make sure they don't touch anything because they will wear anything they are in contact with, including engine parts.
Mos.

[Big rob]

One other thing, i cant tell from the photo but i looks like you mounted the filter horizontal? I would suggest mounting it vertical so when you undo the filter, all the oil in it doesnt go everywhere.

Nice though

[BigWorm]

Tidy work there mate, any chance of getting another cap made up?

[takai]

The normal adaptors work fine though with a pair of 90* fittings and if you take the on-block sandwich plate off.

[Starfire]

Thanks for the comments guys

Yeah I could probably get another cap made up but if you have the room use a regular remote mount adapter - its one less part that you need.

It seems to work quite well although there is a slight oil leak from somewhere - I think that the sandwich plate isnt done up tight enough.

I'll let it run on topups for another 700km or so and then change the oil again as it was pretty icky in there (I had let it slide for a while due to the time and cost involved in this project).

Mounting the filter sideways made sense as that was the way the hoses had to go. As its easy to get to there all I need to do is have a rag handy and it won't make much of a mess.

[takai]

You may want to get a small nut welded onto the top of the filter replacement, thatll aid in taking it on and off and getting a good seal.

[Starfire]

That was originally in the plan but Quan couldnt find any alloy nuts at his work and the timeframes were kind of tight on this little project.

[AndyTTR]

nice bit of engineering there!

Just a question - when you add things like this (remote filters, oil coolers etc.) do you need to bleed it when changing the oil?

[Starfire]

Yes and no.
for the most part it will bleed itself. When you change your oil you arent getting all of it out anyway, just make sure you change it fairly regularly and you have nothing to worry about

[30psi 4agte]

Nice work mate + rep

Couldnt you have used a normal remote adapter and done away with the cap like this???



Or have you only used this because you already had it ???

[30psi 4agte]

Woops should have re-sized that pic

[STR8 2.8]

Nice work mate + rep

Couldnt you have used a normal remote adapter and done away with the cap like this???
Or have you only used this because you already had it ???

he had one and it wouldn't fit, hence this whole setup...

anyways
nice work champ! +rep
anyone else interested in a similar setup, there are companies that make them (TD performance products), also known as a blanking plate.

[Starfire]

I had about 60mm to play with on top of my filter mount. The standard remote mount adapter fits, but not with the barbs required for the lines.

It was a bit of a pain making it all but I'm pretty pleased with it and its something that ive been meaning to do for ages.

That is one damn fine looking engine If you could edit the post with a smaller pic that would rock - some of us are on dialup you know