Turbo M16A Jimny

thanks, the turbo certainly wont improve its off road credentials and its a bit top heavy for rallycross. I had to sell it to myself that way! but will be interesting to see how it survives. I am not taking it too seriously but I am sure my wallet would say otherwise!

The Jimny certainly has a unique charm to it and it will be hilarious for it to be a wolf in sheeps clothing. I have this suspension on and have put it on the stiffest setting to raise my survival chances!
www.driftshop.com/tein-street-advance-z4...uki-jimny-jb23w.html

it has a whopping 25mm lift!

When you start throwing it around interested in your views on the Tein street kit i.e overall quality, fit and how's the comfort?
​​​​​​Need to fit something to our MR2 as original suspension is now too old, but don't want rock hard track setup.

I have had that suspension on for about 2 years and its really good. The trouble is I replaced it with the original 20 year old suspension with "Jimny lean" so its hard to gauge how much better it is compared to a brand new OEM set. I had Tein on my Mazda mx5 turbo ( premium version) but they do sell some cheap stuff for the young boy racer thats stiff and you cant adjust it. The Jimny is very popular in Japan and I trust a Japanese company for aftermarket parts

this is the model I had on my MX5:

TEIN Flex Z Coilovers for Toyota MR2 Inc Turbo SW20 (89-99) (id-workz.co.uk)

sadly the jimny arches dont have room above for this but you probably could put them on the Mr2

TEIN UK LIMITED | Products | EDFC ACTIVE

This is Teins detailed product description for the Jimny. They do the Gen 3 and Gen 4.

uk.tein.com/product/street_advance_z4.html

found this cool video of a Jimny event in Japan:

TOP of JSTC2021 (jimny-matsuri.com)

while I wait to hear how the Jimny gets on, I have been thinking of a few supporting modifications that will help make the car more reliable.
first one which I will do is fit a electric water pump.  Davies Craig Electric Water Pumps (EWP) Information .
there are three ways to install it, which the link explains in detail, I will probably go with removing the old water pump impeller and leaving the housing installed and then by passing the pully completely. I will also remove the mechanical fan and put a electric one in. This means it will keep cooling the engine whilst its off and dump much more heat at idle.
The second will be putting either a secondary inline fuel pump or a intank one. Been thinking about this one.  Walbro GSL392 Inline Fuel Pump 255LPH HIGH PRESSURE (universal external pump) (walbrofuelpumps.com)
There are formulas to figure out the flow rates, but I believe the current Jimny one is 100 L/H which will max out about 170 bhp which is bad as I want to surpass that and also have lots of headroom. The walbro would be a booster at 255 L/H keeping enough flow to well past the stock engines boost tolerance. I may also get a boost referenced fuel pressure regulator, this video explains it all   (286) HOW and WHY to upgrade your FUEL PUMP and INJECTORS - THEORY + PRACTICE - Project Underdog #13 - YouTube

The garage has run over with other jobs but I can announce that it is running. They said they had difficulty figuring out the trigger wheel pattern. The ECU has a inbuilt Oscilloscope that reads the wave pattern coming back from the crank sensor. Apparently its a random waveform and Link technical support ended up helping to decipher it.
Jimny will be on Dyno next week.

he said it runs like a little sowing machine...not sure if thats good or bad thing!
probably because of the sound of the timing chain?!