My R

Yeah it's unbelievable to think it's like that actually

Digging through some old pics and thought id post these ones of when I first started assembling my car, it's obviously come a long way since then

I do love a freshly built & super clean engine :-)
How close are you to completion, 2015 ?

Until I decide to change other things the most expensive thing left is an ecu and wiring, been putting it off for ages I def want to be driving it by the end of the year for sure

It deserves to run great build and get it finished lol

The bay looks so tidy, have you relocated the powersteering reserviour and all the fuses from the right side of the engine bay? Awesome car dude!

Thanks guys I'm using an electric powersteering pump mike so the factory reservoir gets removed. Yeah moved some of fuse boxes out of the engine bay, the drivers side one is the only one left atm now.

Is that pump off another car then? and yeah im planning on doing some wire tucking to make the bay abit neater. Wheres that fusebox located now then ?

Ive seen people use the electric pumps off saxo's / 106's for builds before

Yeah it's a pump off an MR2, still need to really test it out, did that so I could run the alternator where the power steering pump was.

I moved the fuse box near the airbox to behind the reo bar and all the abs rubbish to under the dash. Then run all the wiring through the guards, cleaned it up pretty well.

sounds awesome man, id love to do that to mine. Get the bay cleaned up etc but im keeping my car fairly stock so i cant have the fusebox and abs inside haha

Haha yeah know what ya mean. Wiring can drive me nuts but it's always good getting stuff done

Nice work mate, what colour is your rocker cover?

It's just powdercoated like a dark blue, almost looks more purple in the second pic?

Good colour choice

Serious car you've got there mate,lots time and effort, well done.

Thanks alot mate, sometimes I'd like to swap it for a standard one though

Are going to do the same with the standard? I guess the joy in the process of doing it up.

Haha no Id never swap it but maybe one day I'll buy another standardish clean one.

,hard to find a standard one,in Japan maybe

Picked up a haltech 1000 ecu from a friend at an amazing price I couldn't turn down. It used to be wired in an ae86 with an SR. Included wiring loom, speed sensor, oil pressure sensor, boost solenoid, 1000cc injectors, coil packs and heaps of extras. Unless I change my mind this will more than likely be my new ecu when my car goes for a full tune

Quite a serious ecu that :-)
Should do the job nicely & a cheap buy is always a bonus ...

Of course if I was buying a brand new one I'd go the 2000 but this was too good to pass up. All the wiring is done so I just have fiddle with the loom to make everything fit the R. All this cost a little more than what I would pay an auto electrian to wire from scratch.

I had abit of a light bulb moment this morning that i hadn't thought of. With my new ecu Im pretty sure I'll be able to control my electric power steering pump, so I'll be able to turn on/off the pump based on road speed for instance. Might be a better option and give me some more flexibility over the way the pump would operate normally in an mr2.

Yeh that should be possible as has a lot of output controls that ecu.
Are you using the original motor controller & steering movement sensor & then use output from haltech to just activate motor controller when vehicle running.