86 4runner turbo'd

[88turborunner]

Since I am new to this forum, Whats up!
Secondly, bought this 86 4runner off craigslist a couple of months ago while deployed. My boy took care of the paperwork for me.
Thought it was a blown head gasket with the ammount of milky, milky oh man milky oil.
The truck as a td04 turbo on it. home made turbo manifold, 2 1/2" exhaust possibly 3" didnt measure and I am crappy on measurements after 1"
I pulled off the cylinder head today- while it was started to snow flurry here in va. yeah that was cold. I thought just some guy had pieced on a turbo kit and didnt control the boost or anything causing the head gasket to blow.
while removing the head the rear right bolt was not torqued as much as the rest, hell it wasnt torqued at all. came right off.
I pulled the head, and well still wondering if I should be amazed by the pistons. dont know what the 22re pistons look like in person, so couldnt tell you if they are forged turbo ones or just normal NA ones.
flipped the head up... oh man I got a turbo head. 82 cc's **** yeah doggie! But I am running the NA head if I find out the pistons are low compression ones. Let that turbo spool faster from the compression being a tad bit higher.
Only thing so far I am dissapointed is the heads were not ported and polished, ****in hate porting heads sit there for hours upon hours with a dremel in the corner with hearing protection in of course.
Got on the phone with summitt racing last night, got the ARP head studs, apexi turbo timer, turbonetics 0-25 psi boost controller, and a .043 (cant remember) copper medium head gasket.
The interior- now the front seats are done. but the rear, holy shit man I thought I was 3 looking at a new 4runner by the looks of the seat- my 120lb pit will love it back there. Lifted the seat... factory preserving plastic. no rust, nothing I wiped the tears from my cheeks at that point. I was happier than a straight guy coming out of an accidental stumble into a gay bar.
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[91mr2sw20]

Those are definitly 22ret pistons static compression is about 7.23 to 1. Run the 22re head and it will bump your compression up and help with spooling that turbo. Nice buy looks awesome definitly not the stock setup though. Hom much did ya pick it up for.

 

[88turborunner]

I dont believe there are pistons for the 22r with that low of compression. I would fathum around 8.0 or 8.1 though.
Guy had it for sale at 1750, my boy took him 1300.
Thanks.

 

[91mr2sw20]

ya better belive it with a stock toyota head gasket thats what it hovers at granted the pistons may be around 8to1 but with the head gasket and the cc on the turbo head thats what you are looking at. Call Tim at D.O.A. racing if you don't believe me.

 

[88turborunner]

Well got the heads back yesterday. They checked out good. I spoke with the guy who did the swap yesterday. He said the motor came out of a celica supra. I am searching more to find out really where this engine was at originally- just for shits and giggles.

Painted the head, put the ASE copper gasket on, arp studs on.... then it was dark so I couldnt work on it any longer. yeah I am doing this in the street. Kinda cool actually everyone knows me in the neighborhood as the white mechanic boy. All the neighbors stop by see how things are going for me, ya know. I live in a primarily "urbanized" area. AKA the hood. If I lived at the beach, probably would have been fined for something stupid.
Oh haha, so while deployed my boy took my 85 civic hatch took care of it ya know. I had rolled rusteoleum paint on it, then spray painted it red, then little black, little white and red, and green. It was discusting. so I sanded it down and my girlfriend sprayed it "mean money green" Came out looking nice we though. Everyone here on my block asks me when I gonna sell it. At the beach were my boy took it, nearly everyday got a complaint about it being an "eye sore" and had the tow truck there to get it. I dont know why they would use a tow truck to haul it away. I pick it up my self and turn it around.
Lot off track, anyways. I am suppose to go pick up my new intake and exhaust gaskets this afternoon.
I do have one question, who has upgraded the ignition in the trucks? What would you reccomend. Eventually I am converting over to a SDS so something compatible with that set up would be great. Do they make the spark plug packs like they do for chevy and ford?
also fuel injectors, if one plans to boost in the 15-20psi range daily what size injectors would you recommend?
Thanks,
Chris

 

[88turborunner]

o.k. take a look at the last picture, you can tell me what is wrong. really I already know. I will give you a hint, while tightening the head studs it snapped into two pieces.....

 

[91mr2sw20]

I don't know what you could of broke while tightening the head studs down but it looks like the rocker assembly is sitting funny in the front. You didn't spray paint the whole head red did you?

 

[88turborunner]

rocker assy is backwards. haynes manual didnt state that there was any specific way to put it on. So I just layed it on. The entire head where paint is suppose to go is painted. if your asking did I paint the gasket locations and the bottom- no, hell no.

 

[r3d runner]

get rid of that turbo!!

 

[88turborunner]

why should i get rid of it? i scence a little jealousy.

 

[88turborunner]

Well I got everything put back together yesterday afternoon. have to manufcature a new hose for my new turbo though. I am upgrading my evo intercooler soon and so this will be upgraded with an evo intercooler.
I just have to install my boost gage, and oh yeah, my egr pipe is still off, so that is going back on today. Then take it to my boy and his opinion on final adjustments. then off to cali next week!

 

[88turborunner]

sorry for the lack of pictures, I will attempt to get pictures up later today. My digital camera has gone missing within the past week.
I put the egr delete on my intake port yesterday. flushed the oil again to make sure I really didnt have any crap in the system.
Put royal purple in, and got her started again.
adjusted my idle.... then I looked underneath again to make sure I didnt have anything missing.
one of the intake nuts back off a little, torqued it back down. let it rest for the evening. today have to recheck the torque on everything from my head studs to exhaust.
I posted up on 22ret that I am wtb a megasquirt "plug and play" ecu piggy back. I am shaky around electrical board soldering outside of work. at work I will do it all day long. So if you have one or know of someone selling one send them my way.

 

[88turborunner]

oh my bad about the copper gasket manufacturer. its SCE. I was thinking of taking it back apart tomorrow and replacing it with a stealership one or a thinner metal one. I just dont want a cracked head or block on the highway. would rather it be a head gasket which I can probably change in less than 2 hours now. all the bolts on the intake side are the same head size, the exhaust side are all the same including the turbo flanges.
so only 3 wrenches and a flathead screw driver are needed to change out a head gasket.
I also did the work while it was freezing ass cold here in va so I know it wont be an exuse to myself of it being to cold.
I just dont know about the upper to lower intake manifold gasket. which I was told by the previous owner (were pretty good friends now) who did the swap and piping work that he popped that gasket once- reason why he traded it for his blazer.
anyone have any suggestions on metal gaskets vs. composite ones? I just dont want it to spike boost to 17 and pop something.
oh anyone know if you can put spacers on your truck cap to accomodate taller items? I.E. a motorcycle. I bought a 04 triumph daytona 600 for next to nothing, I dont know the first thing about bikes besides dont drop them. but to good of a deal to pass.

 

[88turborunner]

oh my bad, I am leaving for cali the 15th or so. reporting to san diego on the 21st or 23rd. I figure it will give me a couple of days in texas with my girlfriends brother inlaw messing with the farm a little. or slapping around the little brother a little- yeah right he is 13 and already 190 of muscle.

 

[88turborunner]

so I got everything put on. new turbo, kinda rednecked on. got some a 90 degree coupling from home depot.
I am going to replace the oil intake port bolt with a fitting to allow full amount of oil to go through the turbo.
I got an expanding plug and put in the egr coolant port of the intake. I first put a rubber plug in there, but once the engine coolant was warm it blew out.
adjusted the boost, not a lot. my boost gauge has a 1/8" line and is being a sucker for hooking up to the vaccum lines.
I noticed before I even adjusted the boost that it was blowing a little of white smoke. white smoke is coolant normally. even though on some diesels I worked on had a stuck open injector and it caused white smoke.
It is only at idle after a few minutes of idling so it leads me to believe that it is the gasket. Have to hook up a af mixture gage see if its to rich and adjust the idle air mixture.
I want to say that inlet tempartures are around 75 degrees. the pipe from the intercooler is cold as shit.
How do you guys normally set your idle air mixture?
I read the fsm for it, but was not able to find the correct way.
I may also have a tps problem because when I drive it, I give it gas, let off and it doesnt rev down it acts like the return spring is not bringing it back. but I can sit at the front of the engine and it revs up and down all day long.
I really need a tach, af mixture, and my boost gage hooked up bad. you really dont have to tell me.
Also I have a cooling system that wants to heat up real fast. This happened to my boy who did the swap originially before he blew the intake manifold gasket. never got to fix the problem because he traded the truck. It has an electric fan that works.
So-
1. I am being led to believe I have a mix adjusted afm
2. I have to check my throttle posistioning sensor (TPS)
3. Replace the Thermostat.
4. Check my spark plugs, clean them up since they have not been touched since installing while the head was off. I hate spark plug changes in aluminum heads.
5. monday if everything checks out good and still have white smoke get a stock size metal head gasket. Think .043 is to high for a turbo engine. this can also becausing my condensation/ fuel sapuration at the top of the combustion chamber causing the white smoke.... this makes scence because this would cause it to saturate in tell a high rpm is reached. Higher chamber tempartures cause the exces fuel to burn off.

 

[driftertim]

If you are interested in selling this truck let me know. I'll take a plain in from Canada n pick her up.

Thanks,
Tim

 

[88turborunner]

I dont know what it would go for, but if the time comes I will let the boards know. Thanks.

 

[88turborunner]

edit: reason why no photos lately- camera is no where to be found and I dont feel like using my cell, which I hate to have anyways because my girlfriend cant call in tell a couple of weeks from now anyways, she is deployed on the ship I just came off of.

Today was an interesting day. I am not wanting to make a ricer looking 4runner. that is just gay. but man does my dash represent gay ricer mobile. I have to fix it.
For now, I got the AFM installed where the change tray (ash tray) sat. and the big freakin rpm gayge to the right of the instrument cluster.
I was hoping to install the tach a little lower like near the shifter, but that didnt work out, shifter gets in the way.
Was going to go with one of them 3 gage things for the pillar. but dont have the 75 for that. well I do, but you know- having 7 days left in town...
Good news!!!! Thermostat is changed. oh man that was stuck. going to run some clr through it or simple green to rid of the calcium tommorrow. or just keep a water hose running into the engine while that runs. it was nasty. I have flushed the engine at least 4 times today and just now un hooked the lower radiator hose, and still like sewage dog slobber brown crap is ozzing out of the hoses. so yeah, cleaning a coolant system tomorrow.
My thermostat I ran into a problem. I went to put the housing back on, had rtv on most fingers trying to do everything with like 3 fingers. the second bolt I went to put in and seen the bolt.... oh hell no I am not messing up another damn hole and this one I really can fill up. The bolt had evidence of stripping out the hole previously. I had to take the housing back off, get a tap and a longer bolt and fix that before it came a real problem. end result though- both bolts are the same size head. which are also the same size for the intake manifold nuts and bolts. kind of convienent.
I am thankfull for the rpm gage and af meter. I noticed I was running at a 1000 rpms for idle. sounded good but I like stuff perfect so I adjusted it to 850.... and it sounded like crap. then shut down. oh man this sucked.... I adjusted stuff for like another half hour or so. and was thinking re****ily why is my mixture so lean!?
oh yeah, they probably never upgraded the injectors and kept the smaller na ones on. I dont know how to tell the differences between stock and 440's or even larger. so tomorrow a hunt at the junk yard for some injectors! So I didnt have any more idle white smoke today.
I checked my spark plugs first this morning all of them were giving me the lean condition- then confirmed that with my af gage later.
So hopefully just a couple more tweaks and I will be running well enough for the ride out of town! if not then I am taking my f150, really dont want to do that, it only gets 20mpg on the highway and 5 quarts per 500 miles.

 

[88turborunner]

WOW....
Got the 4runner for a 30 mile trip to the pet sitter who is taking my 2 pits for a couple of months till my girl gets back from deployment.
The truck spiked 12psi, and blew out a coolant hose plug. so looked along the road. hey a stick, and had a hose clamp in the back. bamn fixed that! haha.
coming back from newport news, I have to go through a tunnel and over a bridge. as soon as I passed the bridge the truck started over heating.
pull off a the next exit, looked under the hood. blew the upper radiator hose. no stick and hose clamp can fix that. walked to autozone got a new hose. put it on....
The truck wouldnt fire up, crank all day long, just wouldnt fire up. some guy at the gas station I gave a hand to had AAA, he got my truck towed home for free. fricken awesome!
At home, I changed fuel filters. Then finally checked my TPS.
TPS was good, so I cleaned the contacts.
some cleaner got in the throttle body, wiped my finger inside of it. oh man its a little dirty. sprayed some more, oh man thats nasty. flipped the throttle up. looked in with a flashlight. oh yeah the throttle body is coming off. It was thick like chimeny thick.
the intake manifold maybe had 2" of airflow movement. I scooped out carbon deposits. ughhh it was disgusting.
I went to start it up, click, click nothing. then every time I put the key in it would buzz for .5 seconds, then nothing.
Help of my multimeter I traced it down to the AM1 fuse. wire that goes from the battery terminal to that. It was messing with me because one check it would be good so I would check the rest of the circuit. then I would have low voltage, but no resistance. well got it anyways.
Cleaned up the battery terminal and the wire put back on. got my windows rolled up thank goodness. then still didnt want to turn over. didnt care had the windows up and a storm is coming through.
I got my 440's in today! yeah!!!! After painting my new office room I am installing them. get it cranked up, inspected and set it under a car cover for my girl to get home in a couple of months. then she can... wash it.