Suprakeith

She's stunning, hopefully you don't have to wait too long for her to arrive

looking good mate, can't beat titanium really stands out and suits engine bay

I thought 50lb be about correct for size of nuts, bloody hell million quid for seize bolt damage and can well imagine that's very tense lol

Bonus engine was still smooth as silk on hand cranking. can't beat the great 2jz. be interesting to see the results from using charge cooler and how much of difference makes

Yesterday had some free time so decided to test fit new Walton Manifold, at first i cleaned side of engine block and gave head exhaust side wipe and clean aswell, after i then fitted the new titanium studs and new Toyota gaskets before lining up manifold just to make sure everything ok before tightened up. I have torqued up the nuts to 50 ft/lb at moment may go tighter but think should be all good, have to say really happy with how manifold looks and also love the look of new titanium nuts and studs. I fitted two studs into turbo flange to test fit turbo to see how looks and have noticed slight issue, my turbo is too big lol..i haven't got enough space with distributer there to mount turbo fully as the cold side will catch carbon dizzy cover which is annoying as only purchased carbon cover few weeks ago but it is what it is, was planning to buy trigger kit at some point just means will have to do it sooner rather than later now. Had to rotate turbo to get turbo drain in right position which also looking at will need to drain fitting as its close to manifold and also longer braided hose as mine too short, least the oil feed was fine means one less thing to buy. Next plan is to have play with old downpipe and new wastegate as will need custom downpipe making and new screamer pipe. Few pictures of yesterdays progress

Thank you very much, i used titanium studs and nuts to hold turbo onto old log manifold and had no issues at all, over the year they didn't come loose once and held perfectly tight seal so was more than happy with them, that's main reason why decided to buy the exhaust studs aswell, i have a special socket for them aswell as the nuts are 16 sided and don't want to cause any damage when torquing up, i can't remember what torque settings used last year for turbo studs but do have it written down, i don't think the heat expansion rates should effect them at all if honest but only time will tell. if honest just wanted fancy looking studs as the manifold looks so good wanted to whole setup to look stunning.

Final update for today..lol Few days before Christmas the Walton Motorsport manifold and wastegate turned up, can't praise the guys at Walton Motorsport high enough as explained satiation with old manifold and what was looking for, and they did me amazing deal on the parts and the quality of manifold is 2nd to none am so pleased and happy with it, as now going all out hot side treated car to all new titanium studs and nuts for manifold and turbo, and of course all new gaskets, plus some heat wrap for when get downpipe made, manifold looks to good to wrap, its a work of art. Have now spoken to company in Lincoln who make custom stainless and titanium pipework, so once got manifold fitted going to get Matt at Nicromobeum to make new pipework for hot side, also depending on cost will look at getting inlet pipework done in titanium as have decided to refit Nos solenoids and start using Nos again as paid out so much to have custom Nos setup and haven't used it since going turbo. Anyway enough writing now here is pictures of new manifold and wastegate.....once get manifold fitted will update build and just sidenote will be selling old 3inch downpipe and 45mm wastegate with screamer.

At this point was half temped to sell or break car as had really had enough but after thinking for few weeks decided against it as have spent 10s of thousands on car and really do enjoy and love car, she's amazing fun and love driving her. So after speaking to few companies and Mike at SRD aswell decided new tubular manifold was way forward, lots of searching and reading later choose the Walton manifold with new 50mm wastegate aswell, means going to have to get new screamer, downpipe and hot side intercooler pipework made up, but decided was well worth it as always wanted tubular manifold. While was looking for manifolds also decided was going to replace all coolant system as had the SRD radiator since got car 14years ago and it had started to weep coolant, so have ordered new Koyo rad with new silicone hoses so that everything was new and fresh. plus treated car to nice carbon dizzy cover. Was temped to get trigger kit as now have crank sensor in position ready, but choose not to as with all the extra cost of everything just can't afford it as car will need remap once new manifold fitted, hopefully will do trigger kit next winter. Carbon dizzy turned up and fitted that to get rid of horrible stock GE dizzy cap, this is how my poor engine bay is looking at moment.

During the summer and using car lots did come across of my exhaust nuts coming loose ever since had the Whifbitz NA-T kit have had issues with gaskets blowing and the nuts coming loose, have tried so many different stud and nut options but still same result, so as can off road for winter thought would try one more time with the PHR short stud and nut kit, so removed all hot side early November and after checking everything really carefully discovered the Whifbitz log manifold was badly warped and twisted so that had to be causing the issue for last few years, i mean it wasn't massive issue but was extremely annoying as everytime after using car had to retighten the nuts and was using lots of fuel duo to AFR sensor being in downpipe and exhaust gases escaping from manifold all the time. Took the manifold to local machine shop who really know there stuff and they were the ones who machined my block before, to see if could skim manifold flat as didn't want to refit twisted warped manifold as wanted it to be right, and after speaking to them they explained that when turbo flange was welded to manifold it had twisted and manifold was basically scrap not fit for purpose at all, so connected Paul and he wasn't that helpful but did offer to sell me new manifold at discounted price but at this point really didn't want another poor quality part after all the issues have had so far from poor quality parts from Whifbitz.

The next weekend took car to local carpark as collage lad was doing photo shoot for project, was great to get car out again even though in rained was still great day and also took car to Yakushi show, Santa pod and lots of other local shows during summer to make most of car again and have to say had really good summer with car.

Wow about time i updated this as have had so much going just totally forgot about it, Long story short Alex came over and we reset ignition timing using dizzy cap with HT Lead and timing light, can fired up and ran perfect but when went out for test drive she started misfiring again and was massively down on power as would expect, we both at lost and thought had to be coils again. So after few weeks searching internet came across company in Australia called Supraworld who sell a billet coil bracket for the GE and longer coil stalks, some reason no one in UK does they only sell the GTE brackets for ignition coils. After few weeks kit turned up and was very impressed with the quality of kit, came with all new stalk springs and fixings, def was very happy with kit. That weekend decided to fit the longer stalks to the SRD coils and get bracket fitted, again car started up perfect but once again took her for test drive and was missing again so was really confused as to what was going on as had Mike remote in when car was idling and ECU was flagging no issues or faults at all, so was thinking only option left deliver car to SRD for Mike to sort, was really frustrated and annoyed as we had tried everything could of. Left car running while too fully charge up battery and was just looking around engine trying all vac hoses again just incase missed something as you do was second guessing myself, while leaning over bay i caught one of the coil wires and note of car changed so thought that was really odd so wiggled few wires and car began hunting and missing again, so again spoke to Mike and he said re-check coil loom, even though myself and Alex had all ready done full check using multimeter, we disconnected all coils again and wire wiggling wires and using multimeter we were getting different readings, so removed coil connectors from loom and 4 out of the 6 weren't fully crimped properly and had strands of wires, so turns out all along the issue was the Whifbitz R35 coil loom that came when ordered R35 conversion kit. I ordered all new connectors and Alex rewired all new connectors to loom while also fitting new pins to wires and bingo bongo car was perfect again and drove better than she had in ages, was over moon but at same time very annoyed duo to poor quality of coil loom from Whifbitz. Also new fuse box cover had arrived from Toyota. Vid coil.MOV

I still here, check forum every few days see what's going on, but don't post much.... but need to post more and also update my build thread more often

I got my longer throttle cable from SRD

Yes did full engine rebuild and turbo at same time

She was stock N/A more or less with 75 shot of Nos, before fully forged her, now running just over 600 at fly, 507 at rear wheels, can run lots more but limited by my W58 gearbox at moment