TRD Ferguson - Race Car

Make sure your igniter is properly grounded to the firewall

 

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Remove the plastic cover on the busted one and solder the contacts inside The charcoal canister is a filter from your tank to the manifold, it's supposed to filter out fumes but they have a limited lifespan (like catalytic converters) The charcoal vaccum system I junked because it wastes fuel/vaccum and adds to your emissions, not to mention extra weight and crap under the bonnet.</p>
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It has nothing to do with EGR or the EFI systems, rather a way of being eco-friendly by not having fumes going into the atmosphere when you opened the tank filler.</p>
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Your coil and igniter won't affect the starter but if either are faulty the spark will die, you need working spares of all these items if you intend doing endurance races</p>

 

If you remove the canister and block the lines you will find there is actually a vaccum in the tank caused by the fuel level dropping

There are no lines to the gearbox

 

Good Luck with the car!

When i bought my Celica, first thing i did is put new struts and lowered springs in it, my gearbox use to jump out of second gear, so try that before you go racing!

 

you misread stig, on the MT cars, there is a "jet" in one of the vacuum hoses for the EGR. i don't know what the hell it's for tho

 

I didn't, the jet is there to limit flow on some cars.
By eliminating the lines the jet is also eliminated

 

whats its purpose? if we take it out would there be too much flow?

 

Hey everyone, I'm one of they guys who worked on/drove with TRD Ferguson, so I thought I'd update the thread with some news and pictures.

We completed the car and raced a Double-7 Enduro race at Road America on October 20 & 21. The first day we did decent, finishing middle-of-the-pack (which none of us were too disappointed with, considering we'd never raced before). With one or two laps left in the race, the engine somehow blew out a bolt on the exhaust header manifold, and we also had some major issues develop and the back end of the exhaust system, and we lost some power. We made what repairs we could and waited for the next race. The second day went much worse, with a seemingly unrelated issue cropping up -- we couldn't get the car to rev past 4000 reliably. We eventually figured on the issue being something in the MAF sensor, but not having any backups, we had to tweak it as best we could, but we never did get the car running reliably again. Out of a 7 hour race, that car was on-track for maybe 3 hours that day, and we finished near the bottom.

We were all really pleased with the balance and handling of the car -- Road America is a course that seems to favor high-horsepower cars, but there were sections where our little 162 kept up with the big boys just fine. That said, any section of the course that was relatively straight... well, we got our doors blown off by the guys with 220+ HP.

We plan to take the car to several races next year -- right now we're working on putting more power under the hood -- it looks like our 23 year-old 3S-FE is going to be replaced by something with a little more get-up-and-go.

Here's some pictures from the Road America race: