Bucket 510 with a turbo

[Twodoordime]

Also, a lot of you will probably hate the intercooler set up, lack of grill, etc etc...well...it's not your car. Gotta remember I got the shell for free, intercooler for free, motor for free, etc. I have very little money into the car I just want a cheap toy.

 

I am going to change the set up in the future, once my fj20 car is done and hide the intercooler. I need to replace every body panel (except passenger door, that one is nice, possibly trunk) and majority of the floors before I start actually putting money into the car to make it "nice". So, once I replace the bent up front end THEN I'll put a smaller intercooler in.

[Twodoordime]

Doubt anyone remembers my little bucket 510, but she is still around and kicking. The car stayed how it was pictured above until last weekend when I got bored of the big fmic. I removed the turbo set up, wasn't satisfied, so I yanked the motor and trans too. With the car sitting there engineless once again I looked in my shed and weighed my motor options. Another ka24e? ka24de? nah...sr? no, ive never liked sr's. Ca18det would be cool but I don't own one and hate spending money on this car. So, I settled on an fj20e. I dropped the fj20 in on Sunday, still have plenty of work ahead of me but I think she will stay fj20 for a while.

 

Motor is in and mounted, trans is in and mounted, clutch slave cyl mounted and bled, header is in but not connected to the exhaust. I need to fit a radiator and wire it up.

[Draker]

Let see it!

[Twodoordime]

This is it at the moment. I tend not to clean anything up on this car just slap it together and drive it.

 

 

[gmkeegan]

where did you find the engine?

[Twodoordime]

where did you find the engine?

 

This is actually my 3rd fj20. I have found all 3 local to me. The first two were from word of mouth and this one popped up on craigslist. They aren't that hard to find if you keep an eye open.