🔧 BUILD toyota wagon 3800

[Turbocharged400sbc]

I brought it to work with me to hack up the driver side so I can start test fitting it.

I figure a split lower Valance can't possibly make it look worse than it does.

It will hopefully be the last part of this car I have to cut up and modify

*knocks on wood*

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

DDR fo lyfe

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

I agree with finding other bumpers and making them work. Get rid of that rubber shit.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

yeah Handsome Jesus said id be able to find something rusty and chopable down at the buick farm.

id also have to use buick front corner lamps unless i weld a panel in and reduce em down to the toyota units size.

it was a bastard and im sure i crossthreaded one bumper hole but the fuckers together 3 bloody days

only sticking point now is i can find/remember where the plates are, so i gotta go through it and find them in time to buy new tags

but at least the front plate mount is on!

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

A pic of the hideous rubber 5 Mi an hour bumpers of the time....

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

Rinsed it off at the coin-op real quick.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

im begining to think the tip needs to sit further under the bumper.

also... still LOUD when stomped.....also quite brappy/"mad tyte JDM yo" noises at part throttle accel

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

@thechicagogarage

 

[v6buicks]

Pretty dang good for a 3800!

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

During lunch I ficksed the rear fenders

The forklift a 2000 lb skid of scrap metal, msc catalog torn in half, closed cell foam and 5lb deadblow.

Much betta

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

Also as much as I tried I could not get the front wheels to lift into the air

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

Awesome yesterday I realized that I popped all of my rocker trim clips while I was loading the vehicle down with scrap metal and forcing the fender lips upward and outward.
So I need to order some of those...

I had the nice Joy of discovering that the torque converter clutch does indeed function on my 700r4 transmission.
I was able to do 65 miles an hour at only 2300 RPM instead of 2,800.

It got really tiring shoving The Wire into the center of the cigarette lighter socket to get power to the solenoid.

Some time figuring out how the Toyota overdrive switch is wired which is completely ass-backward of what you want but I believe if I end up redoing the circuit orientation in regards to the "on" illumination lamp I can get a switched positive 12 volts that also turns on the light.

Random clicking behind the dash is still indicating to me that I have not located the main electrical problem that continually kills the battery.

Damnit

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

Does anyone know of any really tall Cliffs nearby?

Governor is definitely sticking on the trans.

I was doing some testing in the industrial park while dropping the 442 Knuckles off to be yellow zinc plated....

Trans fluid does not taste well there is definitely varnish coming off inside the trans....

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

And plenty of good news. My lesson in how cut to fit mirrors look like fun house mirrors when you actually install them led to buying an actual made-in-the-usa Burco reproduction passenger mirror with the correct curve. It's definitely glass, ended up costing under forty bucks.

Had the car up on the lift the other day at Harry's on Rand and some of my noises are the fact that my exhaust has stress relieved enough that it is hitting the unibody on the driver side in the rear and the drive shaft on the passenger side in the front. When I welded This Together there was a thumb width clearance between the drive shaft and the exhaust.

I need to make at least two cuts and reweld it.

On the other side of things I've done some testing and my air intake is definitely screwing with my feeling just based off of the offset throttle bar and the 2 1/2 inch pipe entering in.
I believe that it might be causing the air to stall at the maf sensor filament wires somehow with how it's hitting the throttle body entry

So now it's time for 3 in

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

You can see where the air enters the throttle body that bottom half is the actual 44 mm throttle Blade. The top half has a small passage leading past the maf sensor filaments.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

Much betta
Damned cut to fit funhouse mirror

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

New hotness...just finished welding.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

holy hell what a difference a half inch makes to the ol' gal

first i brought everything with me to work...ecept the 3in to 3 inch coupler, i brought the damn clamps, no coupler.
said fuckit and drove to cody's on the TB portion of the intake tube.

everythings differnt
trims all over the place, i expected this as i had indications the 2.5inch intake (a holdover from the ol intercooler piping i deleted) was screwing royaly with the maf readings.

still no intake noise, i cant hear shit yay 44mm tb!

exhaust, buzz point is about 180rpm lower from the begining of the "3800 braapp" as it was with the 2.5inch.

where before it was far more staccato now is far more muddled, idle sounds noticably better.

then ya floor it....and promply remember the 700r4 aint longed fer this world...

muuuuch betta

factory she's a 165hp and 210 ftlbs low rpm tq monster.
dont know what the full stupid headers/exhaust and intake are worth but when it went into the i had ragged the ports and port matched everything and i cleaned up this intake when i installed/flipped it.

running 99 regal L67 file, l36 timing for now. L67 injectors

the 4.10 rear makes 1st bloody useless.

and for some god damned reason i think the drivers seat shrank like the bumper did, its not as big as it was 10 years ago

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

I should probably post this

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Do you need another 700 governor? I can look through my shit may have something.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

id love the 4l70 or 75e or whatever the newer ISS sensor equipped 4l60e successor

i dont think im going to toss in a shift kit or anything, just gonna go electronic then i can get rid of the TV cable linkage at the TB and the tiny 44mm throttle body lol

 

[Mr_Roboto]

How does stuffing the guts of a V8 box into a 60 degree case work?

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

The newer 4l60e's are all replaceable bellhousings and so I should have no problem putting a 60-degree bellhousing on one of the 4 L65e or whatever.

My current trans is an 89 2.8 f-body 700 R4

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Forgot about that, you need a custom converter or did they use the same input shaft on the 6 and 8.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

I don't know I guess I'll find out. Right now the rear wheel drive flexplate (dunno about the fwd vs rwd 2.8 stuffs) style converter is attached to a front-wheel drive ln3 flexplate with nearly half inch spacers and longer bolts