Sam's MA61 7MGTE Conversion

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And some pics for the day


My spark plugs are swimming, literally!


Intercooler piping no 1


no 2


and no 3. Yes that is just electrical tape joining those 2 hoses together that attatch to the metal 90degree bend.


Remote oil filter adapter mounted on the stock oil filter adapter


Follow the lines and they run through here. I ran the pipes this way after some hard thinking and found this to be the best way if i wasnt going to hack holes in metal.


And there she is (the filter) hiding up in the front RH wheel arch.

[Yian]

Beautiful

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Haha, cheers but you dont know the solution to my idle problem do you?!

[urantia]

Fuel pump relay wouldn't be playing silly buggers on you somehow? tried starting it with +B and Fp bridged in the diag connector?

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Not running the Fuel Pump Relay yet, so no that wouldnt be the problem. Smart thinking though...

[Yian]

For some reason, sounds like mine when the iscv was playing up. It'd idle high, but would do that (the idle and brmph, and vrrmmmmm) for a while before settling down on a constant 900. It's doing it again lately, so I'm guessing its time to clean the bugger again.

[WDE_BDY]

Not running the Fuel Pump Relay yet, so no that wouldnt be the problem. Smart thinking though...

One issue I had when getting my 18RGEU running was no fuel pump relay. Not sure if the
the 7M is the same but the 18RG switches the pump on and off with the signal from the AFM, it actually switches off when idling. When I had it hard wired it was flooding and stalling after idling for too long when warm. Switch the pump through a relay and the AFM trigger and problem disapeared.

Callum

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hmm, thats possible. The 7M's fuel pump dosnt switch from the AFM but the relay switches the pump between high and low pressure. Being hardwired, its on high pressure constantly so it might be flooding. I should wire it in and see if that works. Cheers

I was hoping i wouldnt have to clean the iscv but looks like i will be. Thanks for that too Yian

[whatthe?]

hmm, thats possible. The 7M's fuel pump dosnt switch from the AFM but the relay switches the pump between high and low pressure. Being hardwired, its on high pressure constantly so it might be flooding. I should wire it in and see if that works. Cheers

I was hoping i wouldnt have to clean the iscv but looks like i will be. Thanks for that too Yian

My walbro is hardwired also on one setting (as per 5ME spec) and Ive never had this issue. Fuel pressure regs are sposed to make sure that doesnt happen! I'm with Yian, it does sound very ISCV related to me. If you move the wheels to full lock at idle does it pick up a few hundred RPM or does it try to die?

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I took the suspension out of it when i took the engine out and havnt put the suspension back in yet. Will be doing that tommorow. I doubt turning the steering wheel without any resistance (wheels and suspension) would affect the idle but i'll see noone the less.

[whatthe?]

Well, at full lock the ISCV should kick the revs up a little. I dont think wheels and suspension would have much bearing on what happens at full lock...

[ViPeR_NiPPleX]

Sam, you can swap the 6M one on as I beleive they share the same part number. Otherwise, ring toyota and get a trade price on one

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Hehe, cheers James.

Didn't know that either matt. Looks like the ISCV valve will be the first thing to fix 2moro morning. Cheers

Rep all round of course

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Well i've cleaned the ISCV valve and it was rather caked up with carbon gunk, so thats all pretty and shiney now. The tip of the ISCV looks like it has arced out, its well yeh just looks like it has arced out. Dont know how to explain that without a photo and my batteries died just when i was going to take some photos of it. But ah well. The ISCV will be going back onto the car 2moro.
Got the suspension and brakes on it today aswell. And i've fallen in love with the R33 brakes under my wheels, hehe. Again no pics, sorry!! Ill make sure i take some tommorrow.
I'm having trouble with my check engine light aswell. I have it hooked upto the correct wire (as per Andy's Wiring) feeding in from the engine harness, going through a resistor then a LED and then to ground but the light is not coming on. Which wire did you guys run your CEL light off?

[whatthe?]

The tip of the ISCV looks like it has arced out, its well yeh just looks like it has arced out.?

Do you mean it looks like it has a slightly off centre dimple on the rod? The two I've seen both had this, not sure if it's meant to be there or not...