2 When I disassembled the car last fall, I hucked the OEM plastic undertrays. They are pretty important pieces for cooling and aero, and function relatively well (so some say), but mine were almost torn in half and missing large pieces. That’s why I’m making a splitter now, when I probably should be tuning turbo bits. I used white carbon fiber… […]
2 I think this picture looks good…for something to come off an iPhone… I might have to come make another camera purchase. The doors on the barn have finally unfrozen (half at least) and I let the car sit and idle while I once overed all the bolts and tweaked the alignment in preparation for being out on the road this […]
5 AFM tuning. The car is all but road worthy after a solid afternoon in the barn. An alignment and a few other details remain, but the turbocharger is fitted in it’s entirety. You guys all tell me I’m going to blow up if I run the stock computer. You say that tinkering with the AFM and modifying the stock management […]
There isn’t really any content here. This past week has been spent looking at details: things like gauge mounting, learning turbo plumbing, vacuum and engine lubrication… and why my first start attempt never actually started. The downpipe is on and fitting good, although it took a 5 pound sledge to get a safe distance off the firewall, and Dave Coleman’s […]
8 When you have the right tools, nothing is really that hard. Making a downpipe, is what I’ve dreaded the most since I started turbocharging the car. Between the irregular shape of the turbo outlet, and the tight confines of the steering column and frame rail I was quite fearful of screwing up and wasting time and materials. Hammer forming the […]
2 Well… not quite, but I’m going to look into it. The truth is… our RAV-4 is actually gross. It’s more gutless than our Echo even… and it’s not actually getting great gas mileage. 480km on 50Liters is worse than 10L/100km. The Echo surprisingly… uses about 30% less. But more than that… I’ve been frustrated over and over again, finding time […]
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