Chris Wilson

No, not unless there was substantial demand, are they no longer available from Toyota? I'd need to have the original rusted pipework formed and probably supply new bracketry, too, the cost would be very high.

Thanks a lot Frank Bullitt!

I can do a minimum of three at £940 each including VAT. Carriage to a UK post code would be £12.80 plus VAT There are photos somewhere on the forum of my SMIC, but if you cannot find them I have some on my PC here, err, somewhere....

Sorry, typo / brain fade / distracted, the rear Bilsteins will, with a given spring, raise the rear a tad. just the front will be lower. I believe they correctly saw that with the well loved lowering springs the rear of the car would be put into very poor geo, the MKIV does NOT like to be run low at the back, the geo goes to pot faster than at the front, and there's not a lot of travel anyway. I don't think there's anything wrong with your dampers.

Correct it will put rake on the car. the fronts lower the front, the rears raise it (a tiny bit due to the geometry of the arms).

I have yet to find a good chrome plater in the last twenty years, they all seem to cut corners these days, plus good old `elf `n' safety doesn't make their margins any easier to maintain. I'd approach some of the high end vintage restorers and see if they have found anyone really good, and hope they are willing to share the info. All the after market chromed goodies under MKIV bonnets peel, pit and rust within a short while, none seem to have the (necessary) copper pre plate...

My uprated side mount intercooler is overall exactly the same size as a stock one, and uses modern core technology to effect an improvement. Whilst on the subject I have an order for one to go to the USA to a customer who already has one, but has bought a second MKIV. If anyone is thinking of replacing their IC then now is a good time to grab a better price woth a mini group buy. If you document minor changes needed I may be able to get them accommodated at build time, depends what's required, the link fails to show images for me.

Some thoughts. There has been no change in Bilstein Sport units for the MKIV in years. I bought several sets this year and all are the same as ones bought ten or more years ago. Possible issues that come to mind. Incorrect seat castings supplied. (Unlikely, check the casting numbers on them). Front / rear springs mixed up. (Seen this before). Tired springs that have taken a set. (NEVER seen this with Supra stock springs). Bilstein Sports used with stock springs lower the car the car front and rear between 10 and 15mm. A spring seat 10 mm lower does NOT lower the car by 10mm. It lowers it the geometric ratio of the bottom arm length from inner bush to outer ball joint relative to the damper mount hole in the arm. The ratio is different front to rear. A ruler on a bottom wishbone or rear lower arm, preferably off the car, will give you that ratio. I can't remember it without referring to my notes. Re gassing Bilsteins needs a specialist muffle jig, although I have converted them to a Schraedar valve in the past. You need to machine new circlip grooves, not use a spacer, the circlip retention depends on the seat encompassing the clip. I machine new grooves all the time for custom set ups. Finally I *THINK* if you use Soarer springs on the Supra Bilstein Sport dampers you get the effect you are discussing. The best tech advice comes from Bilstein themselves in Germany, but the tech guys mainly only speak German. Some generic fitting reading: https://www.bilstein.com/uk/en/blog/watch-avoid-installation-mistakes/ Some interesting reading on suspension technology generally implemented after the MKIV production life: https://www.zf.com/master/media/en/corporate/m.../dmpfungsmodulefrpkw.pdf Finally, having to have Bilstein machine grooves at different heights to use a supposedly stock MKIV TT spring set on stock Bilstein Sport dampers smells extremely fishy to me, I think the real issue has not really been discovered here.

I could use 2 more so logistics tell me buying two from Josh42 and saving carriage is the way to go, so Josh, please e-mail me payment requirements and after cleared funds, a collection address. Glover, I'll bear you in mind if I get through the ones I have / will have, thank you!

The ecu's are starting to suffer from leaking or changing value electrolytic capacitors, if you send me a REALLY good set of macro images of the board I MAY be able to spot some trouble, and even repair it as I have surface mount component tackle here.

On the lugs on the intake casting, hard to see!

£20 collected?

Have you checked the ecu to engine grounds as I mentioned above???

Prices please gentlemen?

I don't even polish my car, no chance of polished ones, sorry Reliable and functional, no problem, show stuff, never been interested. I see all this polished aluminium alloy white with powdery corrosion when the novelty and desire for tedious work in keeping it shining has flagged

OK, seems there are a few about, please let me have an idea of what you want for them, collected at my expense please. I am needing a few for stock, if I get too many repaired I'd probably think of offering them here.

I think the cost of shipping will be too high, I'll see what else turns up first if I may? Thanks, we'll see... As to how to tell if they are OE ones, they will have a foil label with Toyota and the Toyota part number on them.

Must be genuine Toyota with undamaged casings and not been hacked about internally! Anyone got one lying around? Thanks. I can arrange collection by DPD after payment, on a given weekday, they won't give a time or even AM or PM, so please bear this in mind!

So there was no wear in the hole in selector shaft coming out of the back of the gearbox itself? If so that was lucky as that's one of the last things to be removable upon stripping the box!

Get rid of ther arm, fulcrum pin, slave cylinder and pushrod and see if you can spot face machine the inside of the bell housing to take one of the many commonly available concentric release systems. Best value are Quarter Master although you may find one off a road car will work...Pushrod actuated clutches are like pushrod actuated engine valves, dinosaurs

Very shy, those Lucky Bags.... I hope you are charging for storage for the BMW?

Head face surgically clean and dry, same with block face, blow out all head bolt holes in the block, oil or debris in them means a probably cracked block as they hydraulic as you torque the bolts. As Ric says, it'll only line up properly one way. have fun....

One of my heavy gauge stainless 2.5 inch TT second decat pipes, used but in excellent condition. Fits NA, TT and VVTi cars, can be modded (by me) to use on a UK / US / EU spec TT with the flange for the second O2 sensor. Price as is £60 + VAT with £5.80 + VAT insured delivery to any UK post code. E-mail me (no PM's please) at [email protected]

The Ebay market for water pumps is a minefield, most GTE pumps are really the different GE pump, or pumps for a Lexus with a different fan pulley flange...I can do the proper Blue Print pumps at a good price that ARE correct for a GTE, but they are dearer than most of the unknown brand things.