The Swapping procces. MR2 N/A is becoming Turbo (Part 1)

Finally I managed to find some time to open my blog window in one side of a monitor and folders with lots of photos in another.

You were all probably waiting my next steps of a swap and I am a bit ashamed that it took so long to me to start describing it :) But today is the day...

I am not sure how consistent I will be, but I will try to remember the most important thing that you need to know when swapping your MK2 from N/A to Turbo.

And I really hope you will like it :)

So no more speeches and let's start.

As my headgasket were probably blown(and it was), I decided to check all the engine.So I had to disassemble everything. Later you will read that when the engine is by parts, you should take it to a service, not only to inspect by yourself... If you want to save money :)

The engine looked quite bad even it was cleaned. All stock instead those silicone hoses that do nothing bu

Previous owner was mad with that sealing material. It was everywhere, lots of it...

Coolant pipes were really rusted. Probably water was used instead of coolant.

It took a lot of time to find and buy a tool to unbolt those ARP bolts.

Engine looked much worse after manifold and other things were removed. It was really damaged be a water in cooling system. A lot of work is waiting...

My gearbox and LSD. And only when I took the gearbox for a check and put the LSD in, mechanics told that my driveshafts will not fit... So, I needed to find and buy driveshafts from LSD gearbox. Expensive things...

In a meantime, some other works were done. I was lucky that there were Ohlins shocks in a new car, so they change my Konis. 

Also I changed all the brakes and fitted braided hoses.

Next job was to take the head off. As you have read before, it was difficult to find a tool to unbolt the ARP bolts. I even needen to scrub it, so here it is:

 

The head was taken off that looked very dirty (oily), turbocharger was checked at the service (it was good and repair was not needed) that costed about 30gbp and metal headgasket(from ebay at 26gbp or so) was bought to safely increase boost:

And thats my old HG. It was surely blown...

Thats it for this post, please wait a new one in a couple of days. That will be more interesting :)

See you!