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Ok cool, I'll drop Lee a message to make sure everything's good. How do you want paying? I can bacs the whole lot if you want, not 100% sure when I'll get down to pick it up.

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I'll take that please mate. All pedals and stuff yea?

I've got one here you can have mate.

Thanks mate, no rush. If the price is right I'll be 100% into this.

Excellent. Full conversion with pedals etc? Let me know when you've got more details mate.

Reminded me of this... http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?99608-Dead-supras-Lots-of-them Them were the days.

I fitted a complete box earlier, drives lovely again. I'm going to strip down the old one and take the valve body out to try and find out how a bog standard NA has lunched its transmission!

Update on this. I found my overdrive!... There it is, those shards of metal just there.

I give up with these gearbox woes. After any manual 5 speed conversion, W58, R154. Ta.

Thanks for the advice and chat today David. I swung by Silverstone to grab another ecu, i'll give that a whirl when I'm off work, failing that I'll try the next step.

Typical that I probably threw 20 of these away when I was in the game! It's the one thing I've never had to get involved with. How much did David charge? I'm only up the road.

Got that Nic cheers.

Thanks mate, will take a looky and drop the pan over the weekend.

Anyway I can test them David? Nothing in the fluid, nice and clean. 2L out, fresh 2L back in, blasted to Kettering and back with no difference.

That's the plan. Just going to drain it off now. I'm now getting a slight drop in revs (4-500rpm) when I click OD on but it still feels like its pulling back. Puzzled.

Last night something weird happened with my autobox. No warning signs or previous issues. After changing up into 4th (OD on), it made a slight whirring type noise and felt like extreme engine braking when I lifted off. Almost as if the handbrake was on. I stopped and let it go up through the gears, all gears are fine with no noise apart from 4th, it felt hesitant and made the whirring noise again but only with OD on. Click it off and it's fine in 3rd. A little further toward home and I've now lost 4th (OD) altogether. No codes, no flashing OD light, just no OD! Fluid is fine level wise, doesn't look burnt. All other gears are still fine and whisper quiet. Any ideas? Never had an NA autobox fail on me!

Possibly. I really only bought it for a cheap every day runaround. It's just a great base for a build now it's back in its original quicksilver! It really is a minter. On the one hand I don't want to ruin a great reliable every day drive and stack 100 miles a day on it, but you know how it is. I was looking at a turbo on one of our trains earlier and wondered if it would fit...

I wouldn't say £2k for a 2001 NA with 35k on it is costly? Granted it cost me to get it painted back to original colour, but it still owes me less than you see 94 NA's go for. Plus, you can't get a better base car for a project!

It holds a gear in place, you can see the end you screw in is hollow, it acts as a spacer/bearing, as you screw it in it pushes into a spindle and holds it in the correct position. Make sure you put a dab of grease in the hole, then just hold it in place so you can move the seat enough to take it out and screw it in properly. Yes this is why the left side is jammed and the right side moves a little. [emoji106]

All back together...

That was £1300 just for the shipping and duty once landed. Car owed me around £2k on the road in the UK. Bear in mind it was May/June last year I bought it, prices have gone mental in Japan since then. You'd be lucky to be under £3.5k in the road now.

As above, if you look on the floor on the left side toward the front of the seat, you might find the white bung has fallen out. It's basically the size of a 5p coin, 5mm thick, threaded with a cross head on one end. You can hold it in place with your finger to move the seat, but you'll have to nip the seat out to screw it back in properly.

So back in June last year I wanted a cheap runaround, so I privately sourced a 40k mile 2001 NA in Japan. My guy sent me pics and checked her out, then gave me the whopping price of....145000 yen. £747.21p The reason it was cheap...it was red. And it wasn't supposed to be. Shakens all checked out mileage wise, so on the boat it went. Cost me about £1300 to ship with taxes and customs once landed. So in August I met Littlenum at the docks to pick her up. I think we were both in shock when it rolled out the storage area! I certainly didnt expect such an immaculate car. The paintwork was perfect, interior was mint, and underneath was like new! So once she was home I took a good look round. Perfect, the paint job although not the original colour was indeed the later Toyota red, and was a great paint job! Engine bay or floor pan hadn't been done mind. I found a tag on the underside of the bonnet for a bodyshop. Being curious as to why someone wanted a Quicksilver car painted red, I googled the s*!t out of this place, and called them in the hope someone would speak English. They did! Turns out the car had only been painted 6 months before I bought it. Expecting 'Accident' information (Which I didnt really care about, this was supposed to be my daily), I was surprised when he told me it was just a straight repaint! The customer wanted it red. I mean..WTF? It went straight through its Mot with 1 advisory of weak shocks, and registration was quick and painless. I now had a Y plate Supra. So off to Keron to get some BC coilovers and some 18" Rota's just to fatten her up a bit. Fast forward to earlier this year, and you may remember I had a run in with a Romanian truck coming at me the wrong way round a roundabout and exiting into my path. Luckily avoided any contact, but kerbed both n/s rims avoiding the back wheels of an Artic that wanted to run over the front end of my car. So I took her to Pete at Paint-tec in Northampton to see about getting the wheels done. These guys paint Million pound original D-type Jags, and a £16 million 250 GTO, so I trusted his judgement somewhat. We got onto the subject of the original paint, and how it annoyed me that the engine bay was still original. A good few £0000 may have changed hands. Much difference from the £1000 I paid for the first paint job and kit fit on that TRD aero that I 'Botched'. Anyways I agreed to strip the car as much as I could myself on my drive, then drive the chassis over and continue the full strip down at Paint-tec. Due to MVP's total incompetence (It isn't over yet, watch this space) I had to wait months and months before I could take it over due to needing the bits I'd ordered (8 months ago and one part never turned up at all) before Pete could start painting it. So the main bit I was waiting for eventually turned up 4 weeks ago, so over she went. Bucket seats... So here we are 4 weeks later, I've been over all day putting her back together to a point I could drive her home to continue putting it back together tomorrow. Its stunning. Simply stunning. Now fully painted in its original 1B9 colour, with a genuine Ridox carbon rear lip and an MVP front lip thats been cleverly disguised as a stock one for now because as we all know, MVP dont stock MVP lips. So my £750 cheap run around is now a stunning Quicksilver car with 45k miles on it. Its only half together, so here's some half teasers... Now, about that engine and box... To be continued....

I think I understand. You got the car with no rear brakes on it? Therefore there's no discs on it, so it would look to the untrained eye that it has rear drums. Throw some Escort drums on it. Then you really have a 1/1 option.