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Bad decisions 11 IAT sensor With boost and a charge cooler comes the need to watch IATs a little more closely. From the factory, the IAT sensor is in the maf tube, since the stock engine doesnt really have much that can change the air temp other than heat soaking the manifold, the difference...

Bad Decisions 10 Battery mount/relay/circuit breaker holder fab I needed somewhere to put the new relay box for the fuel pump, intercooler pump, and aux fans so I made a pseudo battery box to replace the stock toyota battery tray. It indexes in the stock locating holes and mounts my sealed...

Bad Decisions 9 blower reinstall and throttle adapter test fit. Sean

Bad decisions 8 Blower assembly and dry fit 2 To assemble the manifold and blower you have to remove the top cap of the manifold. It is held on by tapered head M8 fasteners and sealed with a section of epdm cord. The only area I ran into an issue with the setup is the bypass valve actuator...

Bad decisions 7 Dry fitting the manifold before pulling the water log crossover off. The elate setup requires you to modify the crossover pipe by cutting the elbow and shortening the stickout with a new 90 degree elbow. I didn't really document this very well but I will try and snap some more...

Bad decisions 6 Injector adapters The elate manifold I am using is setup to run stock Denso style Toyota injectors and a lot of people have reported that running the stock injectors with a rising rate fuel pressure regulator is adequate to run these chargers and motors with ~5psi. Since I am...

Bad decisions 5 Fuel system part 1 I made a new fuel pump sending unit for the Bosch 450 fuel pump, new oem toyota fuel level sending unit, and the bms fuel bulkhead and got it in the tank. It makes pressure on my test loop and I should be able to get the relay setup wired later this week...

Bad decisions 4 Since the supercharger manifold has an internal intercooler, I needed to add an external heat exchanger. To connect the dots, I have some -12AN 90 degree push lock fittings. The intercooler setup will also get a pump from an 03-04 Terminator Cobra and a water reservoir...

Bad decisions 3 With the blower (mostly) cleaned up, I unwrapped the intercooled Elate MFG Manifold and did a quick test fit. I know the blower is not assembled, this was a dry fit. The RR blower uses a really long snout that forces the blower rearward on the manifold. This is not ideal from a...

Bad decisions part 2 Some of y'all know, the 2uz came with 2 variants of throttle body. The early model ones (98-02) use a "cable driven" throttle that has the accelerator cable and accelerator position sensor on the throttle body itself. The later model ones use a more common style E-Throttle...

Bad decisions part 1 I had to go to Dubai for a week for work and came back with a nice per-diem bonus that I promptly spent on an impulse buy... which was a mistake? Turns out, there are some really smart people south of the equator that have figured out how to get an Eaton TVS 1900 from a...

While doing some prep for the bad decisions that follow, I had to move my winch cable around. Lucky I did because I found the ground cable completely corroded internally. I have never submerged the truck, the cable was heat shrunk with adhesive lined heat shrink and there were no cuts in the...

Disc conversion 2 Temp Sean

Sequoia rear disc brake conversion v1 The time had come to ditch the 94 lt1 camaro calipers and "custom" cut k1500 rotors had run their course. The braking performance wasn't great. I had never gotten around to hooking up the parking brake, they squealed badly in the rain or in reverse and were...

They (Bullet Devices?) Are also making the new CAT S75 and Moto Defy2 with the capabilty built into the phone. Has not been released yet but is supposedly coming soon. Sean

Yeah, that's my fault for derailing the thread. Your originial drawing made sense (to me anyways). Sean

Here is the concept I was referencing. https://steeltubeinstitute.org/resources/hss-knee-connections/ Basically, in image B and D you add an extra plate to the joint between the two tubes. This keeps the section (the shape formed by the open cross section of the tube) from bending inwards...

Do an L shaped notch on the intersecting tube and weld all around. You didn't ask about it but if you do a mitered joint between 2 tubes that maintains an open section on the inside (like a pie cut or elbow), structual detailling design manuals recommend installing a flat plate between the...

If you want a quicker/simpler but more expensive way to do it. You can pickup a microsquirt ecu, a pi display, pi3+ or newer, a serial hat, and just run tunerstudio for linux. If you go that route, you can use some of the i/o on the microsquirt to run relays or other functions. That said, you...

When you do the alternator, soak the bolts in PB Blaster before attempting it. I had one break off in the block and ended up having to drill it out which did not go well and is why there is a random 9/16" bolt and nut on my motor... Sean