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Driving around for a while. Everything runs fine and the car feels like it is settled suspensionwise.
After this I’m going to add the odo to every update I do. I forgot already what I had on the gauge when I took this picture. 113000 something km if I remember correctly 🙂

I got this one from a local dealer:

(messy cables, fix soon!)

My mom was complaining that the radio in Corolla was acting badly. I said to her that I’ll buy a new one into AW11 and then the old one is good for Corolla.

I bought one with bluetooth streaming so I can use Spotify in car (I actually said to dealer that I want the cheapest Alpine radio with green buttons and bluetooth streaming, this is what I got) 😀

This one could work as a pulley spare if nothing else is available. It is smaller than toyota idler pulley (which is 90mm?) and bit thicker.

One subaru idler from Widrics stash.

Here are my spares. The bent one is on the left, then I have one idler that has a bearing that can be changed, which probably isnt a genuine toyota part anyways, and then my real spare from the spare engine.

…I’d say my AW11 is a lady a bitch.

I found this by accident. 😀

We’ve been working with both of our Subarus lately (considering starting a new blog) and I haven’t paid that much attention to my AW11. I think the car was sitting in Widrics yard at least a month and seems it was jealous about the attention what the subarus were getting.

Then one evening, me and Widric went to a drive. Things escalated quickly and we went into a big parking lot in the middle of night and tore some rubber off  my tires 😀 I didnt notice anything wrong with the car and left the car again in front of Widrics house.

A week later, when I was leaving Widrics driveway I noticed that something was wrong with the car. It made the most horrendous clunking noise ever. Turned out the drivers side shock top nut was loose! No idea how that could have happened, the top nut had been tightened ages ago and the car had sat untouched for the whole time.

Couple of days later my AW11 really told me to take better care of her, again with a loose nut. I was leaving a gas station and to match the traffic speed I accelerated pretty quickly off ramp. Then something hit the underside of the car maybe three or four times and from the rear view mirror I saw something shiny bouncing on the road. The car was running perfect, no warning lights and all gauges were at normal. I took the next exit, parked the car and went to look if I could find the thing I saw. I was pretty certain that I just drove over some debris on the road but I had to be sure.

I found the the thing and it looked so much like a serpentine belt idler from toyota that I started to think that this is the weirdest thing ever. What are the odds to drive over a similar idler that I have in my car? I went back to my AW11 and opened the hood. Both belts there and everything was good.

…and then I noticed that the idler from SC/WP belt was missing. The belt was there, maybe bit loose, but it was still running the water pump! 😀

Luckily, I had a spare. I found out that I still had one spare idler from the spare engine I bought some time ago, but we visited most of the auto parts stores in the town with Widric until remembered that I had a spare.

The one that flew off the car was not round anymore and it took me maybe 20 minutes to put the spare in. I wonder how the nut holding the idler was loose…

I’ll have to quote Dr. McCoy from Star Trek here:

“”You treat her like a lady, and she’ll always bring you home.“” (TNG: “”Encounter at Farpoint””)

Got it working! I fixed the slave cylinder with a repair kit and added some brand new brakefluid.

Removed the battery and intercooler to get to the slave cylinder – that fucker is down there somewhere:

Removing the cylinder was probably the hardest part. First the line to the master cylinder, then the bleeding line and finally the two bolts securing it against the gearbox.

Here is the cylinder:

The piston is still in

This one seems to come from Aisin – cant make out the numbers…

I’ve read about the longer rods used with beefier clutches, but never really found out how long the stock rod is. Mine is most likely stock and it seems to be 67mm long.

I had some doubts about the helper spring inside the slave cylinder. The lower one is old and upper is new and oh boy it seems that the force is with the old one! I had to really push hard to squash the old spring. No idea why there was such spring in the first place.

Getting all back together was easier than removing the parts. Bleeding the clutch was awful, because the bleeder valve is under the car next to front motor mount. Kinda perverted to put it in such place.

Widric was fixing his Impreza GC8 while we were at the barn. He thought that his Impreza wasnt going to get running properly even after he swapped all the stock components into engine (dump valve, stock injectors and spark plugs). The whole story is long and sad.

MR2 was done and we sat there in silence, sipping our beers and wondering what was going on with the Impreza. Widric said that he was going to drive around one more time just to make sure that we didnt miss anything. I went to clean up our mess and suddenly heard how Widric drove past the barn with such noise that it left no doubt that the car was actually running just fine!

Cars are just voodoo sometimes!

Widrics GC8 and my AW11:

We’re driving back from the barn – Widric is ahead of me:

Last six months have been hard. I got sick and I’m not well yet. Over six months at this point…

Some pictures from our adventures with Maladar and Widric, first two of the very last pictures of the car before closing our hideout for the winter:

Our hideout is a barn. Whoooo…

Cars waiting outside:

Celebrating our epic moving – we finally got all our stuff to winter hideout:

Visited the guy who is going to make the turbo exhaust manifold for me. We spoke about an hour for various things and in the end I narrowed my turbo selection into BorgWarner EFR 6255/6258 and Holset HX30W.

Both turbos are very durable but there are some differences.

HX30W would be nearly optimum for what I’m looking for. Relatively cheap, modern and small A/R, somewhere around 0.4. In general the turbo would make boost from small rpms, but still should make enough power for my application. Physical size (somewhat big) and the fact that it is made for diesel engine are turning me to BorgWarner.

6255/6258 (still havent decided which one should have) is bit expensive. Power estimates are similar with the Holset but the turbo itself is full of high tech thingies. Ceramic bearings, space age alloy turbines and whatnot. The turbo, what I’ve found from the internet, is physically bit smaller than Holset, but with way bigger turbine blades. With all the space age bits (lightweight and smaller inertia) the turbo should still be comparable with Holset.

Other parts the guy is going to build for me are complete 3″ exhaust with small muffler and some piping for the intake. Gotta watch my budget. 🙁

Some specs fo the turbos: (will add in the rest of the specs later)

	Holset HX30W	BW EFR 6255
Compressor inducer	44mm	49,6mm
Compressor exducer	71mm	61,4mm
Compressor trim	?	?
Compressor A/R	?	?
Turbo inducer	56mm	55mm
Turbo exducer	49mm	?
Turbo trim	?	?
Turbo A/R	0,41	0,63
Flange	T3	T25

Last time I drove the car was nine months ago

Maladar added one item into my pile of turboparts (spot the Waldo):

…and here is the Impreza that Widric’s been poking:

Quite stock at the moment.

I shall turbocharge my AW11!

I’ve already bought some parts:
Intake from AE92 (smallport but there will be an adapter)
Alternator bracket from AE92
Coolant neck and alternator upper bracket from AE92

New battery!