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Thanks Shane, this was my next choice after yours;) Konrad YHPM.

YHPM I want it!

If you are stationed near Hanover then it should take about 4 1/2 hours

Nope not a Soldier, at least not anymore, I left the Army in 2004 because of wounds suffered in Iraq Decided to stay in Germany. I'll be at the Hockenheim ring, It's only 20 minutes away!

Sorry bit of a hijack but might help you out. I read somewhere that you can swap an N/A valve body into a TT autobox and make it pug & play, can anyone confirm?

No I am an American but been living in Germany for over 8 years:d

I'm in Heidelberg guys, whereabouts are you? 4 Supras I know of around me, we should have a meet!

No

there are N/A headers on ebay for $190 US dollars, I have a full OBX R exhaust setup with a 90mm OBX-R mid and catback section.($350) made a massive difference for me. for not much investment.

Hey Alex, how far are you allowed to modify it and still be legal in your class? You seem to be doing well and I'd love to see how you would do with a bump in power!

There are quite a few adapter kits sold here in Germany, would have to be 25mm+ to fit on stock studs though!

Do you have a delimiter or speed converter fitted, My GReddy Speed cut defender came loose one time after going over a bump in the road. so killed the speed signal to the ecu. the autobox did similar things until i re soldered the connection.

When I bought my supra it had 16 fronts and 17 rears, I use that set for winter tires now

NOT XS POWER, they are the Chinese Knock off brand that produces all of the crap manifolds and shit XS ENGINEERING has tried to take legal action against them to no avail

By the way XS Engineering is one of the largest tuning companies and aftermarket parts manufacturers in the US They produce components that directly compete with APEXI ALL of the dyno tests were conducted by Import tuner, Who are Generally impartial. Why not use all APEXI parts? If I could afford it everything on my car would be apexi too Are they not one of the largest highest quality part makers out there?

Sarcasm doesn't translate well into a forum, I did see the smiley but have had much worse things said to me by someone with a smile on their face. My frustration is this, I learned engineering in a University I'm told here what I learned there is wrong I find dyno plots on a bunch of different cars to show that regardless of the dyno type, or the car type Driveline losses are more than most so called experts say. All of them are show consistently low by the amounts I learned at University So I get told It's all the dynos are wrong and trying to make money. I'm told my own dyno is bull shit Finally I find one that meets all of the criteria, same car/engine/gearbox and the number is spot on to what I said before and still get told I'm full of shit without one shred of contrary evidence So being told that now I'm wrong because I'm American is downright infuriating, joke or not.

Yes I have only lived in Europe for 10 years been to every continent except Antarctica and speak 3 languages fluently to get told by some one that I need to remember that there is a whole wide world out there.

oh yes that constructive! I guess just because I'm American I can only ever believe I'm right, never can be though, The Brits are always right however. What kind of narrow minded Idiot brings politics and nationality into a discussion like this? You want to debate on the basis of my facts, Sure, My education, ok, My Experience, I can accept. but my FUCKING NATIONALITY! You know what I have never said anything to anyone on this forum demeaning their nationality and in return I get all of this Racism/Nationalism. Maybe I do need to move to a less biased forum.

So does anyone have a problem accepting 150rwhp as the baseline for an NA auto? Check my math please, I'm only an engineer 220/150= .6818 still with me? 1 - .6818 = .3182 Multiply that by 100 = 31.82% 31.82% loss to the wheels OMFG wasn't what that F-ing SAE certified engineer has been saying from the beginning! Must have been a lucky guess, Those Engineers don't know shit anyways they just pull numbers like 30% out of their ass. What you read on the Internet is much more reliable

and here it is http://www.importtuner.com/powerpages/impp_0105_1997_toyota_supra/index.html dyno testing of a stock auto N/A facelift then upgrades. Please read all of it 150 rwhp to start 172.1 rwhp after bolt ons On the same dyno Yes it is a different dyno but xs enginnering is no fly by night tuner shop.

Lets see, where do I start, 1) I thought I did say all drive line losses were guesses? Oh yep post 1. 2)You say I pulled 30% out of nowhere, then you go and discredit what I learned at university, where I got the 30% from. Really? Ok 3)Where precisely do you get your figures from?, the internet?, guessing? or from "tuning shops who may have a vested interest in bigger numbers." ? And all of that is more valid than What I learned from someone with a PhD in engineering in college!! 4) I pulled as much different data from as many different dynos on stock cars as i could find to show how much less most cars make when on the chasis dyno 5) the supra auto box is good, as an engineer I agree (what are you by the way? Since you obviously know more than me or my professor, or all of the equipment we use), but there is nothing amazing about the box to indicate it has higher efficiencies than Manual transmissions. so you get to pluck a higher efficiency number out of the air ?

True, unfortunately there were no conventional automatic M's, 100% used to be manual, then came the SMG, now anything without a clutch pedal is a DCT

sorry I'm so tired that I read fwhp as front wheel horsepower. not fly wheel hp. I need to get to bed

NO BMW engine dynos all of their M engines to make sure the put out at least the claimed HP, most actually put out more. One of my old buddies used to work there.

going to bed, you cant compare fwd & rwd efficiencies, I'm too tired to get into it but like the flywheels there is a lot less mass to accelerate in an ff layout.