Bellies Real Big, Seats Real Small. Cressida, Mark II, Supra and other car stuff and being a Too Buku guy in a regular sized world of cars, and trying to enjoy it. Also drifting.
It's a Toyota, of course it's reliable. Parts are somewhat easy because we live in a global economy. It just depends on how much work you are willing to do.
The fronts I bought from Punchout performance, I think. The design is out there to copy if you have the means to machine them. As for the rears, the car came with them. I thought about reproducing them. But there's a company that makes them. Just Google it.
Hey Carl! Just a quick FYI I'm not hugely familiar with the 7MGTE but a rule of thumb is not to rotate the crank without the timing belt/chain connected. The reason your ratchet was snapping back was likely due to a piston coming up and contacting a valve and you were compressing it back against the spring and camshaft.
Totally had that happen once on an interface motor but these like the non vvti JZ motors or all non vvti timing belt motors by Toyota are non-interference. From what I can tell it's the bubbling in the oil when rotating the assembly. The motor had a lot of sludge in it. So maybe that was it. We plan to cycle (via starter) the bearings with fresh oil then drain before we actually fire it up.
Liked and followed for more. Cool build. I put a 6Mge in an 84 Supra, instead of going to 7M . That was years ago. Now, I'm going with a 2J. I don't have anything on my channel about that, yet, but i think i will.
When I first got into cars I hung out at mechanic's shop and he did a lot of 6MGE swaps in the 90s on mk2s and Mx73 Cressidas. He actually had like 4 5Mge laying around his shop like they were no big deal.
Last of it for a while. Ground is soft in MS and I'm not being given a spot on concrete to work on the car so now I have to wait till the ground gets hard again in the late spring. So sad.
Both 5MGE and 7MGE are but the stupid thing I did was put 7MGTE pistons in a 5MGE. so the 4 valve reliefs in the 7m piston didn't provide relief for the 2 bigger 5M valves. Hence it became interference. I remember reading that someone use 5M pistons in a 7M to gain more compression and still have a non-interference setup. But I got it mixed up. I was young and stupid. Now I'm old and less stupid. LOL
Other than the harness plug, the igniter is grounded through the jumper cable to the negative battery terminal. When installed in the car, the body of the igniter grounds itself to the body. Without the body you need to ground it somehow, I used jumper cables. Just the negative cable.
