Doc's KE20: - really coming together now

[The Doctor]

after an evening of struggling with the cage, it's finally back in! Every single bar/part just didn't fit so a lot of hydraulic press/brute force action took place to get it to sit right!

[The Doctor]

when the car still drove, i fitted a centre dash piece from a japanese TE27. I didn't connect it to the engine at that time, so it just sat there, doing nothing!

I couldn't let that happen on the new engine, so i was on the look out for a temp sender. Together with a guy in New Zealand i was searching for a solution. The TE27 seems to be one of the only Toyota's which came with an oil temperature gauge!

So in the end i bought a parts catalogue for the TE27 in Japan and searched for the part numbers and compared. Because me and the guy in NZ where trying different senders, which all didn't work. It worked out that the original watertemp sender in my car should be the same as the oil temp sender! So i set up a little test-rig and started comparing a couple of senders i had



So after a little try and error i got the right sender, now the gauge gives the right values for the oiltemp!




now let's hunt for a 2nd temp sender so i can get both my gauges working!

[Roku_trueno]

Hahaha, love your oil temp test rig Doctor!

[The Doctor]

me mate painted a new bootlid for me, and my flares!



So today i went to the barn and fitted the bootlid:



An yes, i know i got the wrong bootlidplate on, but i like this iron '70 better then the plastic '74 one!
It looks like there is a small differance in color, but i think it's because of the fresh painted boot vs. 2 years of dust gathering car!

Also started on refitting the instrument panels:



And today i sold my Work Meister wheels, but i HAD to try them on the car before they went!





I almost felt stupid to sell them!!
I know know that, for my SSR wheels, i'm not going to use 195/45/13 but 205/60/13 tires. A little bit more ballony, but they'll fill the arches waaaay better!

After that, i went to a mate and he dug some little parts from his attic for me, including a set of sparkplug wires i needed!

Really coming together now!

[Mux213]

Looks wicket man!

[Apolan]

wow that looks sexy!

[banpei]

Aaaaah! You shouldn't have sold the Meisters!
What are you now using on your Chaser then?

[The Doctor]

The Celica-Supras you've seen it on! They look and fit much better then the Meisters.

As of today the enginebay is almost back together:



Refitting the wiring loom (and figuring out where all the labels went i've put on 3 years ago!), still some unknown connectors atm... .

Startermotor is back in and now working on the alternator!

REALLY, REALLY coming together now!

[Apolan]

So close now Dottore!! post some vids of that 2tg breathing heavily

[The Doctor]

yes, almost!!!



and i have lights again!



It's not all working as it should be, but i didn't burn the car down!