HarleyFDMD

Il take the wheels without tyres please. Whats your postcode?

Considering the price of others currently for sale and previous cars that have recently been for sale £7500 is a bargain for someone for what looks to be an incredibly clean original supra

Id be interested

Xs power screamer and an anodized purple billet water pump cover arrived recently all to go in my box of bits

Yes i had read somewhere that occasionally RHD cars have issues with US made manifolds. I did a quick mock up this morning and my oil drain from the turbo looks like it might be abit tricky too

I wondered whether you'd post them on here lol. I love them

I cant help with accountant advice but its good to see your obviously doing well with it. Good on you!

Speak to Jamie Foster, he has them made and are very good quality. Wont be Fia approved though

As curious has said, you have probably unintentionally done a rather intensive dpf regeneration. We get it at work with the diesel mazda 2.2s Run them upto temp and using our laptop you just sit them at 4000rpm for half hour in neutral. It sounds brutal but it actually does them a world of good. They suffer with carbon build up in the cylinder heads and dpf blockages so a forced regeneration aids clearing them out and the extreamly high egt's burns all the crap out of the dpf. We obviously have to sit and monitor oil temp, water temp etc while doing it though

R34 itch that needs scratching?

What?! I pay £360 with footman james on my NA 5 speed with an agreed value of 8k. Im 25 with 3 points and 0 years no claims!

Thats sounds like Robin Milners car

Yes transmission was something i was going to mention next. Unless he is fortunate to own a SZ-R then he will have to consider what he wants to do regarding that. From the way i read the post it was my understanding that he was either looking to boost his ge or do an engine swap for a gte and then single that.. as opposed to selling up completely and buying a TT car.

The bare blocks are pretty much identical to the untrained eye. They share the same crank and rods (non vvti) The gte pistons will cope with 750 but the ge pistons wont, therefore at the absolute minimum your going to have to install gte pistons into the ge block along with the gte headgasket. Ideally though at that power level you should start thinking about forged rods and pistons. Anymore than 750 and i think you start treading on egg shells. If you just do the gte pistons and headgasket then maybe the oil squirters wouldnt be a bad idea (although i dont know 100% that they are essential they are obviously proven at that power level with an otherwise 'stock' block) If you go for forged internals the oil squirters become unnecessary and some big power guys actually block them off to aid oil pressure (or so ive heard)

The things i would be weighing up would be this: A healthy stock gte engine will cope with 750bhp... however, its going to cost you £3500 for the engine and its probably going to have in excess of 75k miles on it and 750bhp is about the limit on a stock block. Compare that with spending £3500 on your Ge block, you'd have a freshly decked and honed block with brand new rings and bearing sporting new forged rods and pistons and possibly even billet main caps. Head wise there are less options regarding manifolds for the Ge but there are certainly options out there. You'd probably want to ditch the dizzy from the ge too.

Thats tyre size not wheel size. I would guess with those size tyres your probably looking at a 9j front wheel and 10.5j rear

Looking to buy another 46mm precision wastegate for my single setup. Ideally im only looking for a new one if someone had one laying about they dont have a use for anymore? Will consider a used/barley used one

I will be using a standalone ecu and either gte pistons or forged pistons

I have been extremely fortunate with some of the parts i have bought over the past year. It really has been a case of right place at the right time! Every deal i have got has come about when i have gone to buy something completely different. Went to buy a black carpet, ended up buying a gte head with brian crower valve train, brian crower cams, whifbitz pulleys and gte loom. Dropped an intake manifold off to someone and ended up buying his R154 box with prop, fly, and bellhousing all suited for a direct swap into a mk4. Then lastly went to buy a spare engine and came away with a brand new virtual works manifold. And for all that i have paid under £1500 lol

I know this isn't a particularly common thing to do, i guess primarily because GTE heads dont come up for sale very often but im sure they're atleast a couple of people that have done it? I just need to know exactly whats required. So far i have: Gte head Ge block Gte engine loom Brand new gte coils + clips Arp head studs I know i need the drive gear that i believe sits behind the crank pulley but is there anything else? Any help would be appreciated!

No problem

Tbh other than the sumps im not entirely sure what else needs to be done to make the aristo work in the supra and vice versa. Iirc theres bit of re wiring for a couple of sensors in the loom and dont know how much of a pain that will or wont be. Im sure someone will come along and tell you for certain. Then you can judge whether it'd be worth it or not to put the ge into the aristo

Yes you need to replace the sump and yes you Ge one will fit. You will have to drill out the oil return though as thats blanked off on the Ge sumps

Couple of update.. one inparticular that i am over the moon with! I havnt actually done much with the car recently. I attended modified nationals afew weeks back on the slammedUK stand in the centre of the show. Unfortunately i missed the majority of the show as i dropped the car off on the friday, then went out and got pissed up and didnt make it back to the show until sunday evening lol.. by which time it had rained and combined with the dust that had settled on the car it looked at complete abandoned mess None the less, afew pictures did emerge on instagram and facebook that i was tagged in. I must confess, the pictures are doing it undeserved justice. It didnt look as clean and shiney as they make it look! Other than that though i have bought a couple of things to aid my turbo build. Firstly a long block GE no pictures of it but if you imagine a dirty old GE motor sitting in a large pool of its own oil in the centre of my garage and yeah, thats that. Secondly, which im rather bloody chuffed with as it was abit of a fluke is a single turbo manifold i have bought. While buying the engine i mentioned to Ben that i was in the market for a single turbo gte manifold and he told me he had one laying in his unit that i could take a look at. I had previously been looking at the Virtual Works Racing manifolds twin scroll and twin gate. A twin scroll twin gate manifold was going to cost me £1700 retail which obviously isnt pocket change! One did come up a little while back that i very nearly bought which was £1200 but i turned it down in the end and decided id just wait it out for a second hand one to come up. Anyway, Ben pulled out this manifold which he thought was a cheap Japspeed manifold as it wasnt his it was one that belonged to someone else that was being kept at his unit and Ben was just selling his stuff on for him. Its brand new t4, twin scroll, twin gate (46mm V band) and looked to be pretty good quality. Clean welds and very tidy inside the collector. I wasnt convinced it was a japspeed manifold as the quality looked too good and id I've only ever heard bad things about japspeed manofold. None the less i decided to buy it for a price i wont disclose as i feel abit cheeky now! I figured if it wasnt right for what i needed id easily be able to sell it on for what i paid. On the long journey home i pulled over at a services for some lunch and to have a closer look at what id bought, the manifold (being new) still had the sticker/barcode on it I typed it into google and boom! Virtual Works Racing!! I couldnt believe my luck!! Turns out its an early model (pre 2014) virtual works, twin scroll, twin gate manifold. It must have been bought brand new and then never used. I dont know how much these earlier ones are worth but the newer later ones retail at £1700 and the only difference is the head flange on the newer ones has VWR engraved into it. Once i got home i measured it upto my precision 46mm wastegate and precision 6266 turbo and everything fits perfect. It does now mean i have to buy another wastegate though lol.