My Celica GT4 Engine rebuild

[ferdyg]

I recently had to have my engine rebuilt due to ringland failure.

Tim, who rebuilt my engine, sent me a little present which I received yesterday.

Here are a couple of photos of what he posted to me.









Tim at TB Developments took photos of the various stages and I have posted them below for you to view.

Great work by Tim, get in touch if you need anything doing.

http://www.tbdevelopments.com/

http://3senginebuilders.com/index.html

photos of the rebuild



















































and this was lurking under the air con compressor

[TotalControl]

Impressive. I hope this is only the first rebuild?

And WTF, how big was that Spider?

[ferdyg]

yes, 1st rebuild, and hopefully the last!!

the lid its laying on is 6 inches across.

Booked in for mapping at Surrey Rolling Road on the 18th September.

[Riknos]

Looks much better afterwards, how much did that all cost?

Also, loving the chargecooler cover

[johnyboy1976]

looking sweet Ferdy - that spider is vile though

[gazchap]

Howdy ferdyg!

Good stuff mate, also asking how much Tim charged for that little lot, it'd be good to know if mine ever needs a rebuild

[Meoricin]

ferdyg said:

yes, 1st rebuild, and hopefully the last!!

the lid its laying on is 6 inches across.

Booked in for mapping at Surrey Rolling Road on the 18th September.

Please tell me it was dead when they found it.

[ferdyg]

Yes, the spider was very dead!!

Tim quotes on a job by job basis, depending on what you want him to do and what you want parts wise. (forged pistons, uprated turbo, he will do it all for you)

if you want his contact details let me know.

[ferdyg]

Decided to do a couple of little jobs on the car, move my boost controller and hands free kit and then decided to give a little clean,

anyway, thought I would take a few photos when I finished.



I know I missed a bit but done now





















that's it for today!

[buzzer]

very nice....

Whats the red paste you have assembled the engine with?

[Mastodon2]

Looks like he cleaned the piston in an ultrasonic bath before he sent it to you, it's very clean! Also, that is a bloody massive spider.

[ferdyg]

this is what he used

http://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-1038-red-line-assembly...

yes, he cleaned the piston up nicely for me and that spider was HUGE!!

[Red Devil]

ferdyg said:

Booked in for mapping at Surrey Rolling Road on the 18th September.

Awaits dyno figures.

[ferdyg]

340bhp at the flywheel, 272bhp at the wheels at 1.2bar.

pulled it back a bit to 320bhp flywheel, 256bhp at the wheels.

quick spool up on the turbo, cannot remember the exact torque figure but was around 335

very happy.

To get more I would need a bigger turbo, increase fueling, improve cooling, go fmic etc but to be honest its plenty quick enough for me.

Was at Santa Pod a few weeks ago and ran a 13.9 on a very windy day, GT4's with 440bhp were only running a best of 13.4 so very happy.

now need to work on my gear changing