After a week of searching I finally have reinstated myself back into the supra club with a perfect track car base. I got the car through a forum member newbiematt who luckily I had met before and knew was related to a good friend Mr. Licence who had always looked after the car… Bonus.
So last night I asked Matt if he could bring the car over to Force India for Tony and I to give the engine a once over. We started by first compression checking the engine which was going brilliantly until we hit the dreaded cylinder 5…. The compression was very low at only 60psi. Matts face and mine dropped but we continued to investigate the problem for Matt by getting the leak down tester out and finding where the problem was. After setting the piston at TDC we were getting a leak of 80%!! Investigating where the leak was coming from it sounded like it was leaking out of the exhaust valves as the noise was coming from the TT setup. But was hard to tell. The good news is im 98% sure it’s not past the rings as there was no noise from the crank case areas. Plus there is no oil contamination in the combustion chamber, on the sparks or any blue smoke out of the exhaust at all.
At this point Matt was unsure what to do and with Christmas coming up it was not the best news he had had. I decided to offer Matt a price which I thought was still fair for the car and I could use the difference in money to either possibly replace the engine or fix it. We came to a value today and the car is going to start under going its transformation from tomorrow.
So what is planned… Well below is the spec at present and a couple of pics.
Greddy 3 row FMIC
GNew greddy profec e-01 boost controller running 1.2 bar
Warlbro Fuel Pump
Unknown jap s/s exhust with 5"
De-catted with restrictor ring
Enkei NT-02 Black 17" wheels (Have set of stock 16" rims too)
Bilstein Yellow shocks with stock springs
J-Spec Brakes with braided hoses and CW fast road pads + spare set of CW Race Pads
Blue LED dash conversion
New carbon fibre dash kit
Oil filter relocation kit (not sure of make)
Oil Cooler
Sard BOV
First things first is to gut the whole interior and everything I can remove with out the use of a plasma cutter . Then the car will be going over to AutoTec 2004 (gledo’s) for us to remove the head and fix the compression issue. While the head is off it will be going over to SRE for them to port match all the head with the new single turbo manifold and give it a special once over.
The next plan is then to fit the GT35 single kit and really go to town with weight reduction! When all the weight is removed and everything is tidied up it will then be time to make the custom loom, fit solaris, dash2 etc
For now that’s what Gledo and myself have planned but we have all winter so im sure specs and plans will change.
Tomorrow afternoon is the start of removing everything in the cabin.
Last thing I forget to mention was on the drive home today Tony and I decided to weigh the car at a local weigh bridge to see what I am starting with. As I like to keep things interesting I decided a bet was needed for who pays for lunch. I guessed it would weigh 1450kg and Tony thought more at 1500kg…. Unfortunatly I lost the bet as it came in at 1520kg full weight
Will update as and when
Ryan
