Blitz S/C being installed this Saturday!

[Yoda]

its worst for us cause we are not there to see the start up :(

[LtNoogie]

Originally Posted by camelll

It is scary to fire the thing up for the first time. I went and got a neighbor to watch in the engine compartment and have a hold of the fire extinguisher.

How long was it before you felt comfortable driving on the freeway? 15 minutes later? A day later?

[cali yaris]

ooh VERY CLOSE now!

I stayed up late, just hoping for an update. Thanks Noogie, I can go sleep now.

[LtNoogie]

Today, I ran the red wire that had been left in the passenger compartment back through the loom and into the engine compartment. This wire and the last yellow wire are soldered onto the small ECU connector harness.



The covers go back on the ECU harness connectors. I put one of them on backwards so that wasted some time.

HINT: Take as many pictures as you can before you disconnect or tear apart anything. Three days later, it's hard to remember what position it was in when you started.

The two ECU harness connectors are reconnected to the ECU and the ECU is mounted back onto the firewall. Wire loom sections are cut to cover as much bare wire as possible.



The +12V wire is connected to the battery. We don't tie strap anthing down in case we have to take it apart again.



We shine two lights into the engine compartment for five minutes to make sure there are no tools left in there or connectors left unconnected. My brother finds a bracket that had not been re-attached to the throttle body so I attached it.

The fuel pump connector goes back onto the top of the fuel tank back where the 60% seat was. We prime the fuel system per the directions. Position the fire extinguishers within reach.

The S/C control is set to OFF and the car is started. The car starts and all looks and feels good. We start and stop it a few times to make sure the belt is running straight.

Then with the S/C control set to the lowest level, I start the car again and press the throttle part way. We hear the blower clutch engage. I left my Scangauge at home so I don't know what RPM I was at.

A few more presses of the throttle and the car starts to idle roughly. The CEL comes on and the car does not want to idle very well.

I press the throttle part way again and that is when the injector pops out of the fuel rail. There's gas all over that area and we decide not to do anymore testing until tomorrow.

You can just see the fuel injector and it is now partially out of the fuel rail.

[LtNoogie]

At this point, I doubt that I will take too many more pictures unless something extraordinary happens that need recording. I will continue to post on my progress until it is running and I feel that it is safe enough for me to drive this car home. Eventually, I will make that video for PETERPOOP. You'll probably see me just crawling at walking speed in the parking lot while my brother walks alongside shooting the video. I'll try to hide the fear of a breakdown from my face.

I want to thank, in advance, all of you who have been watching this journey for your moral support. I am constantly amazed at how many views this thread has generated.

Special thanks go to those who did the installation before me and have given me many priceless hints.

I hope that this will prove useful to those who have yet to install their Blitz superchargers. Kurokuma-kun, if you are still watching stealthily, good luck this coming week. Same to you whooppee777.

[Doc Zaius]

Hahhahah... I drove around the block only a few times, and got it out on the freeway about 10 minutes later. Popped the hood just before that to make sure the belt was still good, and there wasn't any weird smells or smoke in the engine bay.


But yeah, for those injectors, we totally thought we had them on fully... pressed and pressed and wiggled and pressed, but still as soon as I started the car, *squirt squirt* all over. You guys are much more safety conscious than I... even though I had an extinguisher in the garage, it definitely wasn't nearby just-in-case!!

Pop that sucker back on, and go make some boost!

[PETERPOOP]

nice progress! can't wait for videos!!!! oh yah!

[LtNoogie]

I used the 8-rib because that's all they had and I thought that Doc had used the 8-rib. Ahh, the blind leading the clueless.

[Doc Zaius]

Nope... I came up with the genius idea, but a little too late!

[LtNoogie]

I found the problem! It was a rubber injector vibration insulator that had popped out and fell on the floor when we removed the fuel rail. My brother had found it on the floor when we pushed the car back but he did not know what it was.

This rubber insulator pushes against the injector and keeps it seated in the fuel rail. With the insulator out, injector #2 had nothing holding it in tightly against the fuel rail

I followed the shop manual and removed the valve cover to totally remove the fuel rail and work the injectors. Cool pictures to follow tonight.

I'm going to put everything back together but need to wait for my brother to get here before I fire her up again.

[Malaya1221]

Originally Posted by LtNoogie

...I fire her up again.

please stop saying this!

can't wait to see it in person and maybe ride on it!

[SIPNGAS]

So close!! Great work!

[LtNoogie]

Ladies and Gentlemen...WE'VE GOT BOOST!

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[eTiMaGo]

woohooo!

[LtNoogie]

Last time, we saw that fuel injector #2 had popped out of the fuel rail and gas was squirting onto the engine. Today, I undid some tie straps and proceeded to loosen the two bolts that hold the fuel rail to the head.



This allows the fuel rail to pivot up a little and I can pull injectors #1 and #2 completely out of the rail. The other two injectors are too hard to pull out right now because of the angle of the rail.



There is no good reason why the injector should have popped out of the fuel rail so I looked into the holes where the injectors plug into the head. I noticed that cylinder #1 has a black rubber something in the hole and cylinder #2 has shiny metal.



Apparently when we pulled the fuel rail the very first time, one of the rubber fuel injector vibration insulators had popped loose and had gotten lost. This is terrible because I'd have to go to Toyota to get a replacement and there's a 100% probability that they would have to order it.

Then, I look on our work bench and I see a black rubber thingy that looks alot like what should have been in the fuel injection port. Luckily for me, when it fell out days ago, it fell onto the floor underneath the car. When my brother pushed the car near the garage door, he found the thing and put it on the bench, not knowing what the heck it was!



In order to get the other injectors out, I decided to follow the instructions in the shop manual. This is the Yaris shop manual that Violin had posted in 2006 to the DYI forum. That set of manuals is priceless and I suggest that everybody download the pdf files to your computers.

The manual says that in order to work on the fuel injectors, you have to remove the valve cover so the ignition coils come off, the valve cover comes off and I'm staring at the two cams, the timing chain and other cool engine components. This only took 20 minutes.







Now, it's really easy to lift the fuel rail up and I can get to the other two fuel injectors. I put o-ring lube on each injector o-ring and the injectors go back into the fuel rail.





The fuel rail slips back into its original position and I make sure the inectors are pushed into the rubber insulators in the head.



I install everything in the reverse order that they were disassembled and the engine is back in one piece again.

My brother comes to the shop and we go through the startup procedure again but this time the car is idling very smoothly. No CEL. I need to get a wideband A/F gauge badly because it smells like its running rich but it could be because it's still cold.

Lastly, we take it out on the street in this industrial park and test it and I can definitely feel it when the blower kicks in. There's an urgency to get somewhere that I have not felt in this car before.

We'll drive it carefully over this Thanksgiving weekend and I'll keep checking for loose nuts and bolts and I'll check the belt.

Other than that, this project is essentially over. I'll post some driving impressions after I get some more time on it.

Th th th th that's all folks!

[cali yaris]

wow....Noogie, you are a CHAMPION.

[*MAD DOG*]

Well done. Just need to get it on a dyno when you have it 100% finished.

[TOLMACH]

2 LtNoogie:

This thread is awesome!!!!!

Thank you

Also kudos to everyone else who helped create this thread