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Location:
Newcastle
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: internals of the 3TGTEU
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Fri, 23 April 2004 03:07
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Guys, I'm glad to see people are still playing with the mighty 3T, especially a fellow novocastrian.
My experience with my 3T, had a oil line blow off about 6 years ago and no one could tell me if or how bad I may have damaged the motor without pulling it down, and then once it was pulled down you may as well rebuild it. I had the only local guy who wasn't affraid of rebuilding one of these do the work and I happily motored along for the next 2 years. Then lost compression in no 3 cylinder. Was told if I was lucky it may only be valve problems, but after having the head done we worked out it was the piston. But what I was even more pissed of about was when we pulled the pistons out we discovered that the workshop who had rebuilt it used N/A pistons (by this time that workshop owner had retired and closed its doors).So the car sat for the next 18 months while I got the money together to rebuild it. This time I sourced all the componets for the rebuild myself pretty much the same as you guys, ROSS forged pistons, gapless rings, JE pins, geniue toyota bearings, etc. Also o ringed block/head, 2mm copper head gasket, mitsi TD05 turbo and has been going strong since. Most recent changes (past 18 months) have been big front mount intercooler, forward facing TB and relocating air flow meter to turbo side of the motor. But I have now reached the limits of the factory ICU and injectors (running about 13psi) and need to upgrade to after market to progress.
[Updated on: Fri, 23 April 2004 03:09]
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