Sam's MA61 7MGTE Conversion

[Negative Boost]

Yup, i do remember his sig back in the days. Quoted it just the other day to someone when i was talking about my conversion.

The next BIG thing to do, which im dreading is respraying the engine bay... Yippee...

[hazkell]

I wish i had done it right the first time, another 3 grand down the drain there.... Should see my new sump... 7 litres worth of oil in the bitch... My old sump looked alot like yours, only 1 baffle in it, just be careful with oil levels, oil starvation sucks arse. This time it should be alright and hopefully handle alot more rev limiter and drift action.....

[Negative Boost]

Mad, i was just wondering when i was going to hear from you. Thought you'd fallen off the face of the planet boy!
So what kind of sump do you have on it now to eat up 7 litres? Full custom? Also im a tad surprised you didnt go to a dry sump setup.
I'll be sure to make sure that my oil levels are kept where they should be too! Oil starvation does suck indeed. Thats why i'm also hooking up an oil guage so i can keep an eye on things and shut her down immediatly if oil pressure drops off.

[hazkell]

yeah, full custom sump, nice and large, did'nt want to go the hassle of full dry sump, I did'nt think my stocko 7M would need it, I just wanted to keep it cool and full of oil, I think this time i get oil pressure gauge for safety too.

Car will be at next drift day on the 30th, come have a look at it, got other things done to it too. YEEEEHAAAAAAA

[Negative Boost]

The oil pump is in, the juicy red sump is on, a 5 puck Exedy brass button clutch with a 1200lb custom pressure plate has replaced the HD unit i had on before and the gearbox is on the back of the engine! Its like almost done I just have to torque up some bolts on the engine, put on my line for the oil pressure guage and she's done.


Oil pump in the engine. If you look closely enough you can see just to the right of the pump on the crank it has 6M stamped on it.


Just test fitting the clutch disc.


The engine with the sump and clutch.

I've also been doing some more work on the MA70 radiator.


Here, i was test fitting the radiator and support bracket in the chassis. There's a 2mm gap between the inlet pipe there and the suspension bracket. That gap should increase though once i've drilled the mounting holes in the support bracket and bolt it onto the chassis.


And just checking how far the radiator edges above the top of the chassis. Should be good enough for the top radiator brackets to go on.

All to go now is respraying the engine bay. Started sanding her down. Getting there, just slowly.

Sam

[Negative Boost]

Okay, bit of progress just quickly here, then i have to shoot off to work tonight.
I finished sanding her down and have primed the engine bay! Took forever to do, not becuase it was hard, just becuase i hardly ever had time to do it in. But here she is all primed and ready for some paint lovin'. I'll be painting her tommorow Can't wait. The aim is to get the engine in by Sept the 2nd. Here's some pics

[Stefan]

Looking good!!!

[ViPeR_NiPPleX]

I like it

[Negative Boost]

Did i say last saturday? I meant today saturday It rained the previous saturday so i had to wait untill this saturday to get the painting done. Twas a beautiful day to do some painting aswell, blue skies, heaps sunny, birds tweeting?... You get the picture.

Unfortunalty for me my boss chucked a hissy fit and made me work. Not happy Jan. But my dad was nice enough to do the painting for me while i was at work. So i helped him get all the gear setup before work. I watched him spray a couple strokes and then i had to rush off to work.

I got a msg from dad later in the day saying it was done and it was looking brilliant! I was stoked! So happy its finally got done, it only took a bit over a month to paint... Needless to say the rest of my shift went VERY slow. I just wanted to go home and check out this paint job! Pity i finished after dark but i still managed to snap a few pictures of the freshly painted and oh so shiny engine bay! Big thanks to my dad of course

The paint i used was Toyota 8L2, and boy does it have some pearls in it. Has so much in it, even the guy at the paint shop who mixed it commented on it. Looks fantastic though. I just dont want to scratch it putting the engine in now, lol. I'll have to bubble wrap it or something, hehe

Piccies

[urantia]

gosh dang!

[Stefan]

Looks GREAT - your dad interested in doing some paid work on my car?

[Negative Boost]

Just asked him... he laughed, lol. Sorry mate

[Stefan]

harhar .

[triptek]

real nice work

[Negative Boost]

Thanks mate

I've reinstalled the brake lines, booster and master cylinder and the clutch master and lines. The weathers looking good for tommorow so she'll be dropped in the morning if things go smoothly. I've started replacing the rubber hoses that run around the manifold and head today. They are hard as rock and brittle. So when the engines in, all of them will be replaced.
I'm also replacing the block to head breather pipe but it costs $80 from Toyota. So i've been running around today to find out radiator hose wont work becuase apparently the oil destroys radiator hose in a couple of months. So thats no good, so i found a 90 degree bend of hose that might work. Failing that i think i have a massively long flexible pipe still hanging off the side of the old 6M. That was the breather pipe from the block which ran up and over the engine and connected into the air filter box. So i shall use that if that works.