[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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