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Frekev - R33 GTST from Belgium


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Hello all,

Because most of the people ignore long posts I'll try to make it as short as possible.
I'm Kevin from Belgium, all my life I've been passionate about Japanese cars.
This is my first car, the most things I learned about cars is with this car. I swapped it myself from a 4A-FE to a 4AGE 20V
https://www.facebook.com/Toyota20vSwap/


10 years I went for the first time to JAE in the UK and saw a lot of JDM cars that I have never seen before (because Belgium is LHD)
I saw a white R33 and it was love on first sight (even tough I was a Toyota enthousiast). Years laters I bought my own white GTST with the 40th Anniversary bodykit, exactly like I wanted it (except the f*cked up front bumper)

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Unfortunately the previous owner maintained it badly and "upgraded" it with bad parts.
Unichip piggybag,cheapass IC installed badly and saw pieces out of the bumper, Greddy boostcontroller with turbopressure that went all over the place.
First time I drove it the little tube on the cam covers came of.

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Not a big problem, I fixed it. Besides that I had the turbo pressure problem so I removed the Unichip and boostcontroller to make as stock as possible. I drove a little bit on wastegate pressure and it drove ok.
I only drove it a month and then it went in wintersleep. I bought a house that needed some work so I stayed in hibernate for 2 years.
I get it back out, refresh oil and wanted to set it to 0.7bar with a manual boostcontroller.
After some pulls the engine went bang, I think I drove it for 1000miles since I bought it.
Put it angry back in the garage until a friend took the initiative to help me to remove the engine.

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I took the opportunity to clean the engine bay.
They removed the inner board of the wheel arches for the IC pipe so everything was very dirty.

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I'm almost half way :-)
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I also started to disassemble the engine. Long story short: Pistons broke:
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oil pump:

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This week everything will be cleaned and measured.

What certain needs to be replaced:
- Turbo (still original)
- Exhaust manifold (cracked)
- Pistons obviously :D 
- clutch (cheap ass worn in 6-pad)


Goal: +-400bhp but most importand fast spool, torque and fun to drive. I'm not a dyno figure kind of guy.
ATM I'm thinking about a "oem" like exhaust manifold with a GTX37xx turbo. But all imput is appriciated!

Thanks!

 

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