[Supras] NA-T Conversion

cthommes at adelphia.net cthommes at adelphia.net
Tue Mar 11 20:02:17 CDT 2008


I hear that if you use that pusher fan and 1 qt. water wetter, then you will fix overheating issues in cars that have a BHG, 9 year old tap water in the radiator, and 4 lbs of dead leaves behind the AC condensor.

-Craig

---- Dan Gyoba <dgyoba at abstractconsulting.com> wrote: 
> > I am just completing conversion of my
> > 89NA to a turbo. The car is running, but I still have some wiring to
> > take care of; the cruise control and the boost meter/gauge. For those
> > of you that have done this before, is it easier to run new wiring or
> > to dis-assemble the dash from the donor car to get at the wiring
> > harness? Similar queston on the relay that controls the pusher fan
> > between the intercooler and the condenser.>
> 
> I don't have this pusher fan.  It wasn't there in my donor car, but then my car is 
> a Canadian spec.  AFAIK, this pusher fan was only there for the automatic 
> transmission models -- at least here.
> 
> If you want to have it, then I'd just run new wiring.  I don't think that it's 
> worth trying to get all of the extra stuff in place to do.
> 
> My donor car was an '87T, and my '89NA was from early in the model year, so it had 
> more in common with the '87 and '88 than with the '90.  I had no trouble fitting 
> MOST of the connectors from the '87T harness into my '89 chassis harness.  A 
> couple of the ABS connecters were different, but that was all.  Also there seemed 
> to be a difference from the headlight sensor for the idle up, but I deemed that 
> relatively unimportant, and disconnected it, since it was more trouble than it was 
> worth.
> 
> My turbo conversion was about 11 years in the offing, so I had done a LOT of 
> research before starting.  ;)
> 
> Dan Gyoba
> '89 NA 456,708 kms, Turbo swap COMPLETE
> http://www.abstractconsulting.com/~dan
> 
> 
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