Inferno's Supra: Restored & Built From The Ground Up

Hi Paul,

 

I am happy to say that there was no drop in HP from when they did the initial tune of the car (open DP) and when they did the next dyno run after installing the exhaust and cutout. In addition, there was no significant increase of measured backpressure (open DP before vs exhaust and cutout after) either!

 

Thanks for the well wishes, pics will definitely keep coming! (p.s. I am a HUGE fan of your 2 tone bonnet, and rim/brake combo!)

Glad it worked out mate and the feelings mutual as i'm a HUGE fan of your build

Absolutely amazing. Inspirational to any genuine Supra enthusiast as the benchmark . Can't believe the detail you've went to in creating this.

Great thread, good work:)

I cant wait for that

Will be up as soon as I get my butt into gear and post the photos

Glad it worked out mate and the feelings mutual as i'm a HUGE fan of your build

Thanks Paul!

Absolutely amazing. Inspirational to any genuine Supra enthusiast as the benchmark . Can't believe the detail you've went to in creating this.

Thank you sir, there was a helluvalot (yes that is a word) of thought and research that went into it, but it has definitely paid off! I just had a look at your beast, and I must say, the gold and black/CF look is outstanding (as you can see from many of my posts, I have a soft spot for gold parts ).

Great thread, good work:)

Thank you sir, more to come soon!

Awesome thread and a truelly outstanding effort in building a monster of a supra. Its givin me a chubby

You posting pictures out of order again? The bypass has disappeared on those pictures

Yep, I had some requests for more photos of the full length of the exhaust, so I obliged!

truely awesome build

Thank you sir, there was a helluvalot (yes that is a word) of thought and research that went into it, but it has definitely paid off! I just had a look at your beast, and I must say, the gold and black/CF look is outstanding (as you can see from many of my posts, I have a soft spot for gold parts ).

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Much appreciated comments from a connoiseur like yourself. As a matter of fact I've posted the thread on a local forum I'm on. Amazement doesn't even begin to cover it. Again kudos to the build and I wish you the absolute best of luck with the car.

Thats an absolutly amaising supra you got there. Alot of work gone into that

Jesus, looks like a proper job been done there old bean. Loving it

I have a huge critism......... The updates aren't coming fast enough!!!

I'm sure most of you know how useless the rear seats are, and I personally have never liked the look of them. The problem is that I had never seen a rear seat delete that I liked the look of. It sounds stupid to say it, but the rear seat deletes always looked like just that - as if someone had removed the rear seats... it always felt as though something was missing and never looked quite right.

So, I did my usual obsessing on how to overcome this, and started researching the look of various 2 seater sports cars to see how they dealt with the lack of back seats. Most porsches had roll cages or fabric based solutions, and many of the other sports cars had layouts that would just not be compatible with a Supra. However, I did find 2 possible solutions. The first was the corvette which offered 2 different layouts:

The low back:

http://z.about.com/d/cars/1/0/q/9/1/ag_08vette_seat.jpg

http://media.il.edmunds-media.com/chevrolet/corvette/2010/ft/2010_chevrolet_corvette_seat_ft_618101_717.jpg

And the seat hugging high back:

The problem with the low back is that the Supra has the rear hatch which is quite a bit higher, so this wouldnot look much better than having the rear seats.

The problem with the high back corvette layout was that it would be too high and would have to slope down to the rear hatch, also possibly causing major rear vision issues.

The solution came from a Dodge Viper...

I decided it would look best to have a centre speaker/subwoofer, which would slope down either side as a recess for the back of the front seats.

Some of you may not know, but Larry @ SP used to be one of the big dogs in the car audio world. He used to design and build some of the most award winning custom car audio setups. Lucky for me - he was working on the Supra and made my ideal rear seat delete come true:

The first part of the rear seat delete involved constructing an enclosure to contain the shallow subwoofer that was to be put in. I decided I wanted a small amount of bass for the sound setup - nothing crazy or over the top. Since Larry is an audiophobe, I relied on his expertise in choosing and placing components to produce an amazing sounding sound "stage".

To provide a nice looking backing that would "hug" the seats and suit the rear panels of the interior, side panels were designed and fabricated. These also house the air tanks for the Roberuta Cup Kit:

As i was waiting for the images to be uploaded i jumped over to SF forums to see them first, i cudnt wait.

Keep em coming dude, loving this build.

OMG! This is going to be pant wettingly amazing!

Rrom what you were showing with the Viper, I thought the speakers were going to come up to hug the front seats. Looking forward to some more snaps.

Matt: It's not done yet in those photos

Matt: It's not done yet in those photos

I know, but that's all I have at the moment

I love the complexity of the dash... although I'm sure Larry doesn't

For a new Head Unit/GPS, I decided to go with the Pioneer AVIC-F10BT:

Mounted in the (partial) dash:

The Roberuta Cup Kit "Internals":

Now it was time to fabricate the centre speaker that would sit on top of the subwoofer enclosure providing the rise in the middle of the rear seat delete. It starts out looking ugly as hell, but wait until you see it completed!

It starts out looking ugly as hell, but wait until you see it completed!

 

How long a wait are we talking

How long a wait are we talking

I think Inferno works for Simon Cowell's suspense department

'And the winner rear seat delete is.......................................................................................................................................................................'

Time to start "glassin'"!

Done and covered with a base coat:

The centre and side components had to be carefully fabricated so that they would flow nicely with each other and the rest of the rear trim:

Test fitting the Focal speaker:

Back in the car:

It's certainly coming along nicely