300WHP Tercel

[4eftetercel]

Here is my 4th Gen Tercel, I've been working on this car since 2007. It has been through a sit load of changes and the end results are below. I'm pleased with the current setup and can honestly say its been a reliable setup for 2 years now and it gets 33 mpg cruising at 80 mph. This is my daily driver! hope you enjoy! Id also like to thank this site for being an excellent technical reference, i was able to get all the part #'s i needed from here and was able to source all my parts from England (tmdevelopments) Jamaica and Australia. The car is in Fl, USA.

1994 Toyota Tercel Specs

Engine
- 5efte hybrid
- CP 74.5 mm forged pistons
- Carillo Rods
- ACL Glide bearing
- OEM seals and gaskets
- Hasting Rings
- Aeromotive Adjustable FPR
- 4efte Intake manifold
- 4efte oil pan and sump.
- Modified oil pressure valve
- Port and Polished Head (done at home)
- Custom Equal Length Turbo Manifold
- HKS external Waste gate
- Greddy Type R blow off valve
- Snow Performance water Meth injection
- OEM Head Gasket
- ARP Head bolts torqued at 62 ft lbs
- Power Flex Polyurethane Solid engine mounts.
- Toyota Supra 440 injectors
- Nissan Sentra SER Throttle body
- Front mounted 18” x 24” x 3” Intercooler
- 4efte ECU
- Apexi FCD (Fuel cut defencer)
- Apexi SLD (Speed limit defencer)
- Air Condition (Works)
- Mitsubishi TD05 20G turbo
- MSD 6AL Ignition System with 2 step launch control
- NGK iridium plugs gapped to .22
- Walbro 255 lph fuel pump

Transmission
- OEM Toyota C56 – LSD Transmission from the GT-Advance starlet
- OEM Transmission mount for this LSD box modified with Polyurethane inserts
- Royal Purple 75 – 90w gear oil
- Spec stage 3+ full face Clutch & Pressure plate
- Fidanza 7lb Aluminium Flywheel
- Custom axles from The Drive Shaft Shop to fit the factory LSD. Axles rated up to 600HP i didnt want to cut and weld an axle i like things done right so i had a set made.

Interior
- Toyota Starlet GT turbo front seats
- Toyota Paseo Rear seat.
- Paseo gauge cluster
- 2001 Celica GT Steering wheel
- AEM Uego wideband Air fuel gauge
- Autometer boost gauge
- Autometer oil pressure gauge
- APexi Super AFC Neo
- Apexi AVC-R (Electronic Boost controller)
- Water temp gauge
- Fire Extinguisher
- Pioneer AVIC Z2 navigation server with bluetooth, ipod connector, DVD and backup camera.
- Sony Xplode front speakers
- Sony Xplode 6x9 rear speakers
- Custom short Shifter
- Ebay power window and door lock kit wired to work with the alarm system
- Lo-Jack and onstar tracking system

Suspension

- Whiteline 24mm front sway bar
- White line 20mm Adjustable Rear Sway bar
- Powerflex Polyurethane control arm bushings
- Powerflex Anti Wheelhop kit
- D2 Fully adjustable coilover
- 96 corolla front Rotors and Caliper
- 96 GT starlet Rear disc brake Conversion
- Custom made steel braided brake lines

Exterior

- Removed rub strips from doors
- Volvo 740 front bumper lip customized to fit Tercel front bumper.
- HID Kit
- De-badged

Future Mods

- Valve springs
- Camshafts
- 720 CC injectors
- AEM FIC
- Metal Head gasket
- New head with professional port/polish and 5 angle valve job
- GT2831 ball bearing turbo.

200 to 204 kph is where the speed cut kicks in, time to get off my lazy ass and install the SLD.

Tunining out boost creep at high speed.


The 4e to 5e build

Changed the wheels in 07.

Upgraded the IC

This was the setup i ran until i got boost hunrgy and cracked pistons #2 and 3.

Then i bought these cute lil things from Race Engineering along with forged pistons.

This is the tear down to install the new pistons and rods. I have no hoist so i took the motor out in sections and put it back in sections (Head, Trans then Block)

The setup was a T28 with a manifold made from the stock 4efe manifold and a Turbonetics wastegate.

Clutch of choice at the time (i dont reccomend ACT for reliablity or at all) i went through 3 ACT's the one pictured below eventually messed up my input shaft bearings so i had to get a new trans. the second one was a sprung 4 puck and the springs flew out, the 3rd was a sprung 6 puck and the center part where the input shaft goes grenaded. i was only making 240 WHP at the time :screwy:

ACT Release Bearing

Installed the LSD in the gearbox

Upgraded turbo to TD05 small 16G

Engine back in (i think) :lachen:

TRD suspension at the time. posted for P/N if anyone is interested.

Now the 5E :bananarock::bananamac:

Current setup

Rods and pistons assembled

Cryo treated the forged pistons

4e vs stock 5e pistons vs 5e forge pistons and rods

Stock 5e vs forge 5e

Crank

Cylinder notch

Block notch

Crank reinstalled

Pistons installed

Oil pressure sender installed

Transmission of choice

Spec clutch, pressure plate and Fidanza flywheel.

Drive Shaft Shop custom axle vs stock

Getting the exhaust done.

HKS wastegate and dump pipe.

In this pic you can see the solid mount and the anti-hop casters

The T3 i initially ran with this setup. Way too much lag for my liking.

After getting the motor done it was time for the cosmetics and fine tune.

power windows

GT Starlet front seats

Navigation unit, AVC-R and AFC neo

Rear sway bar

Front sway bar

Front lip installed

The Finished product!

 

[goldenvtr]

Awesome dude good work. What boost you running for that Figuer? I've maxed out my td05h 16 and looking for the next step for up to 400hp

 

[4eftetercel]

1.4 bar 20 psi. I can go much higher but want to keep it reliable.

 

[AdDaMan]

nice

 

[GP82]

Great work there, really good setup. Is the Sentra throttle body much bigger then stock, was it a bolt on modification with the throttle position sensor.

 

[4eftetercel]

anyone know where i can source the following parts? 1. cruise or other reputable brand valve springs. Athena 1.2mm head gasket and a good set of plug leads (7 to 9 mm)

 

[kemnaychris]

Tidy car mate just wondering how your factory LSD works as am getting one fitted tomorrow and just wondered how well it works and felt on the road ? any info would be good

 

[Dan3SGTE]

THis is very cool! Is this 300WHP or at the flywheel?

 

[4eftetercel]

Great work there, really good setup. Is the Sentra throttle body much bigger then stock, was it a bolt on modification with the throttle position sensor.

Yes it is 10mm bigger, if i recall correct the 4e TB is 52 mm the SER is 62mm. It bolts directly on to the 4e intake manifold without any mods the diameter on the 4e intake manifold the the same size and the SER's throttle opening. It almost as if the nissan TB was designed for the 4e. the TPS requires minor mods as the mounting holes for the tps dont line up so you have to drill two holes on the 4e tps to be able to bolt it on. I've also figured out how to wire the nissan sentra's 3wire tps to work on our cars. It reads progressive on the AFC thats my next mod after i figure out some wiring issued with my car. see this post

http://www.toyotagtturbo.com/forums/showthread.php?99896-Another-Throttle-position-sensor-problem

 

[4eftetercel]

Tidy car mate just wondering how your factory LSD works as am getting one fitted tomorrow and just wondered how well it works and felt on the road ? any info would be good

its pretty solid, i had doubts it would have been able to hold up with the HP figures i'm running but it's been holding up. Cornering is predictable and tight but i think the sway bars are to thank for that. In a straight line launch it does a good job of putting the power down without too much wheel spin.

 

[4eftetercel]

THis is very cool! Is this 300WHP or at the flywheel?

That's wheel with a very safe tune. when i'm done with the future mods i plan to do a all out tune to see max HP then de-tune it back to 300 or maybe 350 for reliability

 

[kemnaychris]

That's sound mate yeah I hope it will make a big difference as at 260 bhp my wheels spin like hell lol I got a 24 mm whiteline arb it's massive n works well so a LSD box will help till I can afford a cusco dif for my other box

 

[skevosEP91]

nice work mate!!!!! Does Driveshaft Shop make racing axles for Glanzas and Starlets too or the made them custom for you only ?????

 

[somal]

really nice setup

 

[laskt9]

love the car! i guess i can drool over it on here and to now

 

[Rock-kick-Ass]

nice job on the car bud.. i like it alot

 

[4eftetercel]

nice work mate!!!!! Does Driveshaft Shop make racing axles for Glanzas and Starlets too or the made them custom for you only ?????

The driveshaft shop actually makes a kit for these car. Its crazy expensive though, $1250.USD it is rated at 600HP and come with hubs. here is the link http://www.driveshaftshop.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=ep82

I had them make my custom axle because i am running the C56 factory LSD gearbox and trying to find the oem short axle was next to impossible! when i found the part # and went to the dealer the price was insane. Drive shaft shop charged me $300 to make the 1 short side axle, the other side is an over the counter rebuilt axle from the parts store. When i bought that axle i noticed how beefy it was compared to the OEM axle and how it looked very similar to the DSS axle . I then did my homework and found out that Drive Shaft Shop rebuilds axles for a popular parts company here in the US. That explains why both drive shafts looked so much a like. :rockon:

Thanks all for the positive feedback! if anyone knows where i can get a good set of plug leads please let me know! im also trying to source a set of aftermarket valve springs and an Athena headgasket. I know TMdevelopment has them all but the British Pound to USD rate is killing me and making the parts way too expensive

 

[elison]

Hey buddy,

Nice build. Its neat and clean. I have the Tercel also with a 4EFTE but the 1996 version. Im now in the process of forging it. I got NGK leads from speedvision and they are pretty solid. You can get gaskets from sam also at speedvision or at raceeng or at alamomotorsports.

Cheers..