Thread: BJ73 Landcruiser

Ive got a low boost circa 8pis turbo on my Patrol, it certainly breathes life into the old girls.

Originally Posted by jakewire

looks like a musical instrument. Some sort of Horn.

No.Its an Artistic model of a Nautilus shell.

It's the key to the money pit

It turns out I bought the wrong turbo which is a great start to this project. Turns out the T25 comes in various different compressor A/Rs and I bought one that is too big for me

Originally Posted by gimp

It turns out I bought the wrong turbo which is a great start to this project. Turns out the T25 comes in various different compressor A/Rs and I bought one that is too big for me

You needed the sunny climate odd raro to discover this?

Well I was told "Buy a T25" and it was advertised as a T25 so I bought it and then I was told "no that's not a T25 it's a T28" but I think it's just a T25 with a bigger compressor A/R than the one I want. but they don't make these things easy and stamp "T25" on them anywhere. Also it doesn't matter cos it's not gonna work on the 3b, short story

but I did jump further into the money pit by buying a second, hopefully actually suitable, turbo.

Originally Posted by gimp

but I did jump further into the money pit by buying a second, hopefully actually suitable, turbo.

You can design your exhaust manifold/extractors to increase exhaust velocity to the turbine wheel negating the negative effect of a slightly larger turbo.

Also, if you have the right sized turbo this design makes the turbo spool up sooner

I'm crossing my fingers that it's a holset with anti surge front cover
So you can wind window down and listen to it suck like a $2 hooker

Had a problem with my intake hosing.




Probably not ideal for my engine to be sucking in huge amounts of unfiltered air, so I fixed it. Now it sounds epic sucking through the snorkel again. Hopefully it didn't ingest too much unfiltered shit. Not a great fix cos I'm a retard and bought 2" silicon and pipe off the Internet and probably would've been better off with 2 1/4 or something to match the existing crossover pipe. Whatever




Also finally tackled my extremely stubborn fuel filter, I'd looked at it before and it refused to move so I just left it, figuring it'd be fine. Got it off and a new one on after some effort. Seems to run a little nicer now. Maybe.

Hope that new bit of pipe is not too rigid or you will break off your filter housing or split the rubber 90 going into the inlet manifold. I've seen it happen with a similar substitution instead of factory parts

Good point. Hopefully there'll be a snail on there soon and I wanted bits I could reuse for that

New shoes. 10R15 Dueler ATs, not the best but cheap and will keep me on the road better than the old ones I had....




Having some starting issues which I think are related to air in the fuel lines from a stuffed fuel filter primer pump, have got a used one coming for 30 bucks, will see if it resolves things

I'm enjoying this thread gimp. I reckon you could sell the publishing rights to Popular Mechanic.

Whens the turbo going on !!!???

And yea that motor will slop side to side on and off the throttle so you need some flex in the intake.