Suprakeith

Better late than never but here are all my pics from Yakushi 2024 with supra club, was epic weekend and the storm was amazing, these are just the pics i took so thought would share them.

I've done Ferrea oversize valves with Ferrea oil seals, BC double springs, Solid buckets, 264 cams, stainless retainers and head is fully ported and polished. only plan to rev to 9k but over spec'ed it to be safe.

I hope so lol

Car only running 600bhp at moment but that's down to gearbox, engine built to run 1800bhp plus head can rev to 11000 safe and that includes my custom new loom and Nos system, plan is once get new box to run around 1300bhp

It all depends on what power you want and how far you want to go, my NA-T conversion has cost me over 30k

I've got a billet one that getting rid if your intrested drop me pm and will send you pics over

I would 100% do it, when did my build i had engine block re-honed ,decked and acid cleaned so knew was all perfect before started fitting new parts.

I pretty sure he doesn't make them anymore but could be wrong. def worth dropping him message to double check

That small one below power steering pump is your Air Con compressor, i know can get aftermarket pulleys unsure about stock replacement.

Just paid for my ticket, looking forward to great weekend with you all again

Lovely looking BMW

She looks and sound stunning, can't beat some good proper flames

She's looking really clean and fresh, you should be very pleased with that, she will def stand out when on show.

This weekend just gone started fitting the new parts, fitted new plugs also as why not and also fitted stock OEM crank sensor duo to in future plan to go dizzy delete and get SRd to fit trigger kit, least the sensor fitted ready to go when needed. Got crank and cams on TDC and fitted OEM crank bracket plus greased up shaft bolt with nice new HKS cambelt for good measure, fitted new OEM lower timing cover aswell. Really am happy with how its going now and have Alex coming over this saturday to help set up dizzy timing and make sure everything is 100% as should be ready to use her again, i only have the stock dizzy cap fitted at moment as have to attach HT leads to use timing to tell the Link ECU what the timing is set at, Mike from SRD has also been so helpful during this process and has helped loads remote logging into Ecu to check everything and to show me what to do when set timing. Have ordered new fuse box cover as tried to clean mine up and its ruined and after get engine running will do full oil change. Roll on Saturday and should hopefully having running supra again and wouldn't be at this stage at at all if wasn't for all the help from Alex, his dad David, SRD and Mike from SRD

Also during this process after doing interior refresh, while refitting seats had issue with drivers seat, it got stuck and couldn't move seat to fir front bolts, in the end thanks to Alex again he managed to remove seat and took it to his to strip it, him and his dad found the old nylon cogs had totally stripped, so was another problem to deal with....i started looking at new aftermarket seats but also had heard of people fitting brass cogs from Toyota land cruiser, so i ordered couple new cogs and with lots of hard work and skill from David west and Alex west, and manual lathe they managed to bore out cogs and fit them to sleeves ready to refit into seat frame, when the brass cogs turned up was hoping would be simple push fit but was so wrong and can not thank them both enough for the hours spent on repairing my drivers seat. Another good note all my new parts turned up from SRD ready to be fitted, can't believe that due to Whifbitz crank bracket failing i've had to spend nearly 1k to get engine back to where should be.

After the discovery of seized bracket, and having right nightmare removing the ATI V2 crank pulley and i mean nightmare....lol. spoke to other built owners and SRD and decided to go back to stock OEM crank bracket and also stock Toyota crank dampener aswell, so placed parts order with SRD. While waited for new parts to turn up, i gave engine bay area good clean ready. Am amazed at how clean the vicious fan came up.

Right where do i begin....after the new dizzy turned up, Alex came round so we could reset timing and get car running again, we fitted the new dizzy and tried started car she would fire up but wouldn't idle and was running so poorly, at first we couldn't work out why and rechecked all coils and loom and everything was all good and working as should, tried again and still no joy at all. Then Alex noticed the cambelt was loose, so we turned crack to TDC mark and noticed both cams were miles out, so we thought something must of failed or got stuck and caused cambelt to jump and lose tension. To say wasn't happy is understatement as was now worrying could of damaged engine after all the years of building engine, i decided to start stripping front of engine to see what had happened. What found was shocking the Whifbitz Billet cam belt bracket had seized, i only purchased this part because believed the add that the stock bracket can fail, so thought be extra safe, once removed everything we discovered the shaft bolt had seized inside billet crack bracket, i compared unit to stock and SRD billet bracket and noticed they both have a bush inside where bolt goes where the Whifbitz one doesn't, and considering the out come could of been loads worst and since fitting crack bracket have only done 6k miles on my built engine. And yes there was washer on shaft bolt just removed it for the pictures.

That is stunning mate, really love the look of your engine bay. Wish mine looked that good

So started off giving everything good clean and hoover, then went over the really bad bits with wire brush to make sure all clean, once happy painted the metal in a zinc primmer and once dried put silver top coat on, haven't done passenger footwell yet as that's where ECU sits and going to paint that by hand and finish bracket making for the Link ECU to sit pretty. Plus while everything stripped plan to run sound system wires and also re-route Nos lines into engine bay ready to start using Nos system again. also going to sound deaden all under carpet before start the re-fit. Gave Toyota ring today and have ordered new rubber bungs for floor as only £6 each and as can tell from other pics one is well worn and explains why carpet was bit damp in that area Today i also gave the carpet good deep clean I know bit silly to start big job like this while still not sorted car running issue but am pretty confident its dizzy and making most of week of work. Here are pics of progress so far.

Also while on holiday this week have been planning to strip interior carpet sort any rust and give everything good clean, its one of them jobs have been wanting to do for while now, so made start Monday and removed seats and carpet and was quite surprised as metal work was in good condition just dirty.

Right few updates, with the running issues had Alex come round couple weeks ago and we went through all the coils, loom and plugs again to double check it all and still had no luck getting car to fire and run right, so decided to try the dizzy and adjusted timing slightly and car wanted to start so adjusted bit more and car fired up so now sure issue is the dizzy, removed old dizzy to see if had any play or damage and found big crack in magnet and the bearings had failed and shaft was moving all over place so am pretty confident that is what caused the running issue. So rang Toyota and they wanted £872+VAT for new dizzy, looked online and can get same part from Japan Toyota for £218 so ordered new unit plus have ordered set of new HT leads so can reset engine timing and get car running sweet again. Good news both items turned up last week so plan when Alex free again to fit dizzy and set timing and fingers crossed she's all back to normal

I would also look at distributer and double check timing as i currently having issues with mine and believe distributer is problem, also check all your earth points as i had problem couple years and was the power cable from fuse box plus the earth near fuse box was bad