Chris Wilson

People need to be careful with the aftermarket pistons, and I am not just saying this because I sell my stainless steel one... I see plenty that are just gold irridite coated, or a black phosphor finish. This lasts no time at all in an application like a brake caliper piston and I have seen them rust enough to partially seize the caliper within 18 months. If you don't go stainless they MUST be hard chrome plated to a good depth.

43 mm OD is the size of Jap spec rear pistons for the MKIV, just measured one and checked my notes too, cheers.

In fairness, it's empowering and tempting, but so are boob jobs for women When you get a grip of them reality returns though.

Cruel! Expected! Respected

Sorry, it will have to be achieved in my own good time, it's something else on the back boiler and not Supra specific. They are something I want to offer, but at the moment I want to keep it in house, no offence Thanks for the interest!

An excellent and balanced post, if a referendum on one of the most important topics in our recent history is to be wrangled by those that are incapable of losing due to whatever, it sets a frightening precedent for any future vote that may take place in the UK. If a vote for the Liberal Democrats wins, or the Labour Party wins at the next general election, should I feel enabled to strike up about the ignorance of the voters, and demand a second vote probably biased towards my desires, or that the vote was biased because they were duped by other powers into making a voting decision beyond their capacity? What criterion should a democratic vote be judged by? Education? Age? Their educational establishments? Pitiful, if we had voted to remain who on the exit side would have felt so triggered to have gone through such hoops to attempt to circumnavigate the result? I HONESTLY believe we have a millennial voting sector who have been "educated" to not accept losing as an option should it go against their desires. We are on the cusp of making a democratic vote subject to later scrutiny based on the subjective opinion of the losers about the capacity of the participants. Quite frightening given the bias for some to promote minority aggrandisement.

Now young Peter, whilst you are doing your research check out affect and effect, or if in doubt try the simpler ruled "impact"....

It could be a TRD I think some of the last ones did have the option of changing ramp angles, I would need to access a backup and look at some photos, not fitted one for years. If it is a TRD it should work well, although they have minimal preload so as to be quiet and civilised for the average user. Giken use some trickery to run plenty of preload yet remain quiet and snatch free, albeit you need to use their very costly diff oil to ensure this longterm. The good thing about Giken apart from they are damned good is YOU CAN BUY SPARES! How cool is that these days?

Car batteries, especially modern ones with as little lead in them as the manufacturers can get away with, do not like being totally, or near totally discharged, the plates sulphate like hell. They are not deep discharge batteries which are specialist things. I see new batteries dead within weeks if allowed to completely discharge and then jump started and have 60 Amps rammed into them. They need to be kept topped up, which is not always easy if you don't use the car regularly. They also don't like frost for whatever reason, so if the car is in storage best to take the battery out and put it on a "clever" trickle charger. I had a few customers buy solar panels for this, and tested one. It struggled to give 1.5 Amps on a bright July day, with the panel orientated for best solar capture. in other words it was a bit of a joke! Good batteries ain't cheap, they need a bit of mollycoddling. They also fetch bugger all weighed in so best to look after them.

Err, quite, quite, this man knows....

Just join the pipes and bin it, the pump's probably seized up as well as the temp rarely gets high enough to run the pump.... I could get copies made but the cost will frighten all but the bravest.

I'll try and remember to measure one, I should know but now make a lot for other cars and don't want to give you bum info. I will have plenty of rusty ones if you want one to compare? I also have at least one new stainless one on the shelf...

I keep most of the bits to rebuild them, but don't want to sell the bits separately, but I will rebuild your old pump if it's not scored to buggery. I can also source new ones that actually work unlike most of the none OE ones on Ebay. Is the reservoir OK, many are now choked up and they are complex inside often thorough cleaning fails to get them correct and a new one is the only fix. Tight track usage demands a better cooler...

A lot of aftermarket ECU's expect and demand a square wave from the wheel speed sensors and the stock ones give a sine wave. I used to be able to get converters but they dried up. I have a box of components to build my own sine to square wave converters but no time to complete a batch. http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?316889-Traction-Control-and-ABS-analogue-to-digital-converters&highlight=sine+wave

I do loads of them, it's time consuming, hence not cheap, but if you don't get it done right they'll cry enough in short order.

Just put a multimeter on the battery terminals and at a fast idle with as many heavy draw electronics turned on as possible you should see at least 13.8 volts. Alternators are now an Achilles heel as they get old. Leaking water pumps often see them off...

Looks like a CUSCO or that other Jap aftermarket thing. Does it clonk and grumble when manoeuvring? It appears to have two options on ramp angles? EDIT, perhaps a KAAZ?

Usual poor traction is a car lowered too much on stiff rear springs, that squats on to its bump stops sending the already too high rear spring rate through the roof, a poor choice of LSD (Giken are THE BEST), and in the wet, too wide a tyre choice. If you have never driven a Supra on stock 16 inch rims and good dampers in the wet, you have no idea how bad some "mods" can make them I can recall some hot MKIV's that plain gave me the willies in the wet and weren't much nicer to drive on a dry road. The search for the right "stance" often leads to people finding the thing swapping ends unexpectedly or worse... Ask any recovery guy how many supercars they've scraped onto the bed when some hero fails to realize huge wide low profile tyres and a streaming wet motorway make poor bedfellows.

I had a triple pump MKIV in a bit ago and in traffic the fuel in the tank was nigh on boiling, they need ECU control otherwise in "normal" use they just get fuel mad hot.

Brave, very brave....

Firm exiter here, the EU have proven incapable of handling economic migrants, the situation has festered uncontrolled apart from Italy and Hungary, and perhaps Poland, and talk of aan EU army is risible, when last tested in the Balkans the EU was a waste of time and they had to rely again on the Yanks to sort things out. They are corrupt, most of the top brass have criminal baggage, too big to make snap decisions in a crisis and hell bent on a European Super State a part of which i have no desire whatsoever to become. I am an old fashioned Nationalist and sovereignty, now a dirty word amongst university leavers, is something I treasure. Any missing or duplicate "a's" is down to fag ash in the laptop keyboard....Bloody thing

I grooved some heavy aluminium bar stock to sit over the sill returns which are reinforced where the little notches re. I can then jack up safely assuming the car isn't rot box, even if the jack has a dished steel saddle and not a rubber pad on it. It's a pet peeve of mine seeing cars with mangled sill returns I see some real horrors that could have been avoided if someone had modicum of care a respect for the poor thing.

PM sent Matt, thanks

Thanks for that Andrew, I am pleased to hear it's serving you well!