Scoot

My Jap spec auto cluster will be up next week If my new one arrives.

I got some very strange car polish and scratch repair kit from my parents. Missus says my presents late from Japan though. Wonder what that could be....

Alright, so a cheeky Christmas Eve update for all. I got round to painting and fitting the replica TRD spoiler I picked up a month ago. The guy I bought it off sold me it at a decent price, had a few dings and such but he was certain it wasn't a cheap copy. Turns out it was... Anyway, I painted it from spray cans, which should have me taken outside and shot. But I'm pleased with the results, Got a great colour match and put plenty of prep work in to get a decent finish. When we fitted it today, we found the mounting points on the sides were in the wrong place, so it's an inch or so too far back on the boot. And I'm not too sure of the fit of the carbon. It looks like it sits too low, Anyone got any close up shots to compare to? This photo shows what I'm talking about. See how much flat surface there is on the inside? Not sure if that's correct. Anyway, That's all for today. Waiting on a bit of better weather to get the car out the garage and bolt the bilsteins on. Still trying to decide wether to run harnesses with stock seats or the bucket seats I picked up a while back. Cheers for reading, and Merry Christmas to all! Scoot

Quick update to the thread while the paint dries Got a set of bilsteins with springs delivered, after a complete mess about with the courier. They'll do me nicely as mine don't look as healthy from first glance. Also picked up the TRD half carbon that I got delivered to my mates. Given the sides a spray with primer and keyed the surface ready for some paint. Will be getting a full car respray at some point so going to give them a few coats from a can and some TLC till they're nice and smooth then fit either later today or Tomorrow. Feels good to be back working on the car!

http://mkiv.com/techarticles/blitz_dsbc/index.html I followed this when it came time to do mine. Up to you where you take power from.

Most boost controller installs are the same, There's an article on MKIV that should show where you need to put bits.

Just caught up with this build. Love it! Can't wait to see the whole thing complete.

I was underneath the car with an extension and elbow. And it took me a few hours of soaking with penetrative spray as I had no heat. Just don't snap them!

Scoots dirty dirty Auto. I got some amount of abuse from the scottish lads when I bought the Supra. They've all went quiet now.

That's a lovely colour mate! I want something similar.

So much room for activities now! We removed the air box and piping to give us room for the boost controller install, and then had a lot of fiddling to do. The rear four cam cover bolts were quite a pain to get to, so we cracked out the repair manual to see what it said. It was about as clear as a muddy puddle unfortuantly, so after some sausage rolls and head scratching we figured out what needed moving. This was so painful that I forgot to take a photo, but it took us around 20 minutes as it's all stuck on solid from years of running. Eventually the exhaust cam cover came free and we were greeted with a nice camshaft as a reward. The next one came off with ease once the first was off. And the old seals. One looks a lot newer than the other, but no worries. Replacement seals, washers and coil pack clips cost me 50 quid from Toyota, Due to arrive on Saturday. It was nice to know I could walk in and still order most parts if need be. And for cheap too! - - - Updated - - - Next, we started to fit the boost controller. There was no real mounting point available for it, and we didn't want to have it just lying about in the engine bay, cable tied to something. Until Al noticed a possible mounting point between the brake master cylinder and strut tower. I believe it's for a fuse box if the car is for the USDM market, as that's what most USDM pictures show. Personally I think it looks like it was meant to be there. Once it was mounted up, we routed the no 3 and no 2 hoses to the no 1 wastegate actuator, and no 2 hose to the turbo compressor pressure outlet. Was a tad tricky as they're tucked in the engine bay, but they went on. After that it was just a job of blocking off the old VSV valve with some 6mm caps. Voila! The no 1 input on the boost controller was to be mounted to a boost source post throttle body, so we used a T piece to connect it to one of the boost hoses on the throttle body. Then ran that pipe along the firewall and to the controller. Another T piece was used to join up the boost gauge sensor, and then the electronics were wired through the firewall and a grommet was put in to seal them up. I'm still trying to sort the back box angle out on the exhaust. A degree out and it's either touching the bumper and asking to melt it, or hanging so low I'll rip it off I'm sure. So it's just a case of me getting that right angle, and then the V-Band can be welded solid, welds tidied up and It's on the car. It won't be to most folks taste, but it's 3 inch decat with a 4 inch to back box. It sounds meaty, and when I go single turbo upgrade in the future, I just need to sort a nice 4 inch down pipe and replace the second decat with 4 inch to have a full 4 inch system. Oh, I also refurbed the inserts of the headlights the other day too. I've spent more hours than I can count on them trying to polish them up as best I can, But i've given up knowing I won't get a perfect finish. Much better than the old yellowing lenses that came on the car! After that I was back to work, and won't be back till Christmas for a fortnight. Waiting for me at home I've a half carbon TRD replica spoiler and some other bits to tinker with.

I thought I might as well post something up as I've been updating this on the ZSOC forum since buying the supra. It's kind of hashed together from some of posts on there. The Bolo is the name given to it by a spotter mate of mine, who upon seeing the B18 in the reg identified it as the model name of an old bomber plane, and it kind of stuck? Progress is a lot slower on this as I'd like, but as is the problem with working away from home, I only get to work on her a month or so a year. So here goes. Ever since I was a little kid, I've always thought highly of the Supra. I can't put my finger on why. I think they just look gorgeous. I was never interested in the motor, or the scene behind them, I just thought that the outline was just breathtaking. Since I was 16, I've just endlessly researched and drooled since then. So at age 23, after a long boring weekend in camp earlier this year, I went to test drive a local one as something to do. After viewing it and taking out a test drive, I was suitably happy that everything mechanically was sorted. The exterior was in a poor state, with cracks on the fibreglass bumper, rust and paint flaking off, which is probably one of the reasons that led me to buying this. I spent the next week hooing and humming at the thought of buying my own supra, and eventually decided I couldn't let her sit and just get worse. It's a '93 TT Auto, Was imported into the country in 2007. So, onto the photos! Took delivery on the following Tuesday night. Wednesday morning she wouldn't turn over. Battery had drained. It came with the most hideous alloys and cheap wheel nuts, But they'll be replaced in due time. Some of the rust coming through on the tailgate nasty paint flaking on the bonnet Front bumper fitment issues, and a slightly foggy headlight. The first task was trying to clean up those foggy headlights. Here's the N/S headlight once I'd removed it from the car. In a right sorry state. Splitting was a pain, as it was the first time I've tried it. But it came apart eventually. As you can see, it's horribly yellow and foggy. I picked up some megs headlight restoration plus. This stuff cleaned up the plastic lense really well, comes with some really fine sanding pads that cleaned up the outside lovely. That's after one go over. Here's a comparison of the O/S and N/S lights, now that the N/S had the once over. While she was sat on camp, I ordered up an intercooler from Nengun and sat waiting patiently for it to arrive. The old intercooler was pretty beat up, and with that DL Copy bumper I wanted an intercooler to fill the gap. Once it arrived I waited till the weekend and had it on in a couple of hours. While I was away enjoying 6 months of sun, sand and explosions this summer I got the car up to the house, and into the garage. Space was made, grudgingly as it's a "German only" garage. My guess is they're just scared of some jap power. I'd ordered up some bits for me arriving back, including BPU kit from Paul at Whifbitz and set about installing stuff slowly over my leave. I also ordered up a cheap and nasty ebay strut brace, which I have no shame in! We tinkered with it a bit though... Old filter was a right state! Lovely shiney 3 inch decat pipes. mmmmmm. While the car was in the air I got all four wheels on. I'd swapped a set of mondeo calipers, pads and discs for some Team Impul Racing Aura SR-08s. I just had to get rid of those wheels. Give me an impression of what she'll look like with them on. I reckon I need to space the rears out a bit, But I'm happy with the way things are now. When it came time to change the plugs, the coil pack connectors disintegrated. And the cam cover seals were leaking, so I decided to fire the covers off and replace the plugs. So first things first, with some help from Al in return for help on his GTR, we got the bonnet off to give us room to move.

Been following this on facebook. So clean. Jealous. K Sport brakes look brilliant.

Hey folks. I'vev been thinking about this for a little while, Has anyone every tried to change the indicator and wiper unit over, or even just the stalks? I've noticed that more modern cars have big chunky ones and to be honest, I think they look better than the older style. Was thinking of maybe trying a change over. Cheers Scoot

What Ric said. I did this instead of unbolting everything. Much easier.

We've done all sorts over here. Just finished the BMW Compact Cup Championship season a couple of weeks back. It's worth the money, just so long as someone doesn't bin it into your car...

I've just changed mine. 10 quid a gasket and 1.95 a washer at my local Toyota. Can't remember if that was with VAT or not though.

Save yourself the money and get to B&Q.

Anyone?

Okay so I started the car up today and the gauge just snaps to zero. Does nothing. Anyone?

So I installed my gauge at the weekend, all wired in correctly and powers on fine. However, normally on this gauge it does a full sweep when the gauge powers on, then returns to zero. Mine doesn't. See the video. Lifting it over the stop, it just mirrors. http://vid7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/JimsBoaby/20141022_183622.mp4 Has anyone had the same issue, or got any clue what's going on? I've tested the sensor with the sensor off my mates car. His gauge works fine and mine didn't. So I don't think it's the sensor.

No smoke on start up Ric, I'm not too sure on the level of oil in there though. My heart sank when I saw that and I just gave up for the day. Looks like a trip to toyota for the seals and washer tomorrow then. Mad Hatter, I just broke that plug about 5 minutes before taking this photo. It was stuck in place and no amount of pulling was going to help! Cheers guys.

Hi everyone. Changing over plugs today for some nice Iridum ones. Only, the first plug I removed was soaked in oil. And upon looking into the chamber, I was greeted with this. Now, a search on the forum suggests this could be the cam cover seals, But that amount of oil? Really? Anyone have any thoughts?

Not this one! It's covered in stickers because I couldn't stand having a standard fiesta... Oh well!

I should be back from tour and back home in Glasgow that weekend. Supra isn't on the road, but anyone mind if I pop along in my hideous Fiesta?