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So, this is a build out of necessity more than anything.

I bought this 94 JZZ30 as a clean daily driver with a bit of poke July last year, mostly stock with just a cat back and some silly big cannons out the back and a Boost-T thingo.

flash forward to Jan this year and a weapon of a hail storm ripped through Canberra and I ended up with a badly hail damaged car, So I still haven't had the old girl fixed yet, but hopefully by the end of the year she will be all shiny and new again.

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So apart from servicing it and changing the wheels I had an interesting experience when the viscous fan exploded and took the radiator shroud out with it, luckily the radiator wasn't damaged and with Toyota wanting $500 just for the fan hub it now has a couple of thermo fans keeping it cool

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I drove it around until a couple of weeks ago where I found a great deal on a HPI front mount kit, So I nabbed it and had it fitted in a couple of hours

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Fitting was a breeze, with every nut/bot and bracket needed to fit straight up with no cutting, I highly recommend using the Jap brand kits for cars, and in fact this kit was cheaper than 99% of the China ebay kits.

Only down side to this kit is that the standard air box no longer fits, but HPI were kind enough to supply a pod filter and adapter with the kit (won't get that with ebay kits)

Now for the interesting bit.

Blew a turbo yesterday :( Which is a bummer because after a couple of months umming and ahhhing over what to do with the car, I had decided to keep it standard engine wise and throw a manual box up the middle and leave it at that.

The car had other ideas unfortunately

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So what to do?

buy a set of unknown stockers and hope they last? Nah

High flow...Too expensive for what you get.

Big Single...YUP

But what to get?

the Short list was a Kando T67-25G which have proven themselves to make power a plenty, but long term reliability??? Its an unknown, and to me something needs to last 5 years to be classed as reliable.

A T78-33D popped up for sale on the forums here..My Original thought was it would be stupidly laggy. But the wonder of the interwebs led me to a few guys using the exact same turbo On 1JZ's and with reports of +ve pressure at around 3700rpm and full boost at 4500 on a stock 1J seemed of to me.

A Borg Warner Airwerks 83-75, Wouldve been great but with a 3 week wait on stock and me needing this car back on the road ASAP.

So I had a good thing about it, and decided that an old school style JDM Soarer would be different enough to satisfy the hipster in me, yet proven enough to not be walking into the unknown, as well as future proofing the car for the inevitable 3L high comp bottom end.

So While I'm waiting for bits and pieces including the turbo to turn up. I'm shaking my head at myself for grabbing this huge turbo, while still having the Standard ECU and injectors in the car...yes yes I know....but I'm not a silly bugger on the street and just cruise around, So I wont have results for a while about how this turbo goes on a stock 1J at full noise for a while until I sort out injectors and a Piggy Back ECU.

Anyway I'll find some more pics and through up over the next few days.

Cheers

Andrew

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So after 8-9 hours here is how it sits.

GTR owners, you have it easy!

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And the damaged turbo

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sucks because the rear turbo looks perfect, but there is a fair bit of ceramic dust so it would only be a matter of time before it let go as well.

Will update later today as its beer o'clock right now

Cheers

Andrew

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have to wait 6 months hey zebra. :P

saw this on import monster ( clicky ) today , i was going to post it in the wasteland whore theard but then i realized it was for a different toyota.

have you realized you called your soarer a snoarer in the title?

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