HarleyFDMD

Very impressive work!

Today i replaced the clutch master cylinder finally. It was definitely due! used the Motul RBF700 and adjusted the clutch pedal accordingly. Really pleased with how the clutch pedal feels.. its always a worry when you fit a performance clutch as to whether the clutch is going to be too heavy or snappy or both. This spec 3+ is perfect. Light pedal and you can slip it whilst pulling away. After some spirited driving i do get some noise through the V160 with the Spec solid flywheel but its not terrible. One thing i have noticed is some vibration at 75mpg and upwards. Pretty sure its the propshaft and i think this is because i accidentally separated it whilst i was installing it and i've thrown the balance out by not putting it back together in the same position.. so that'll be the next job!! Also today whilst i had the titanium catch can removed i polished up the top and re-burnt it as beforehand it was pretty dull!

The detail!! Honestly the effort you're putting into this makes me feel ashamed of myself I like to think im doing a good job of my car.. until i read your updates.

I've had an issue with my clutch over the past couple of days. It keeps sticking to the floor. Seems worse during the first few minutes of driving whilst everythings cold. Im 99% sure its the master cylinder and i have a brand new oem one to fit. I would assume the one in the car currently is original and so 31 years old. So that's my job for the weekend and i bought 1.5L of Motul RBF700. I also bought a couple of decent quality .50mm T4 gaskets and 2 oil drain gaskets incase i blow one again. a few weeks back i also bought some titanium coloured mikalor clamps, i may have mentioned before but my plan is to get all the boost pipes re made in titanium. Still need to order a few more of the clamps in different sizes but i think they look pretty cool.

VID-20240325-WA0132.mp4 Ahh Mexico.. gotta love it 3 people deep, rear tyres down to 20psi. Mostly hooks in 2nd but still a fair bit of wheel spin.

Once I'd pretty much finished everything (with the exception of fitting the rear wheels, engine undertray and one of the clutch inspection covers) i fired it up to make sure everything was as it should be.. select all gears / check for noises and leaks etc. Everything with the gearbox was spot on. No issues at all and i was about to throw the rear wheels on and take it for a spin but i noticed the engine note sounded a bit different to normal. Sounded like the manifold was blowing, and sure enough it was Typical! The turbo to manifold nuts had come slightly loose and blown the T4 gasket. So i began to strip that down... fortunately i had a spare T4 gasket and oil drain gasket so i managed to get it all built back up. I had some locking turbo nuts too so hopefully they'll help prevent this happening again didn't get a final picture but it all went back together easy enough and i then got the wheels on the the other small bits finished and took it out for my first drive as a 6 speed! Clutch is smooth and light and the flywheel doesn't make any untoward noises (being solid rather than oem dual mass) so all in all very happy.. obviously it'll take a few miles of driving before its properly bed in so this may change! Still need to fit the new clutch master cylinder but I'll do that in a few days. The car feels faster than it did before, not sure whether thats because of the difference in gear ratios or maybe i just need to get used to it again. Being March.. meaning colder tyres and colder tarmac may have contributed but it was spinning the tyres much more than it did before.. just ripping!

Got into work early this morning to get this finished, removed the transmission mount first so i could finish the floor pan. Whilst i had the mount off i ran it through the aqua blaster to get it looking new again the rear discs were also looking worse for wear, they are probably 7 or 8 years old now but have covered very little mileage. I'll be buying new oem discs and pads soon but for the meantime i cleaned these discs up in the aqua blaster too and then re painted the edges. Then continued to get the last few bits done, heat shields, exhaust, driveshafts etc

Thanks mate I have that reverse light switch plug on my list of things to do today

I always find myself venturing off on some sort of excursion away from what i had originally intended

I then made a start on the ARP rear wheel studs. I decided to tackle this first as it was the job i was dreading most although it actually went very smoothly with the help of an old thread on here that i followed step by step. I also got the diff and shafts installed before tackling the clutch and gearbox I had some ARP bolts which i believe were designed as turbo to manifold bolts but they also happen to be the perfect size for transmission mount so in they went! Love a bit of overkill! Drained the old oil from the gearbox which fortunately was very clean, Good signs!

The following day i seam sealed the areas that i had previously epoxy primed. The tunnel itself would have been a waste of time to strip all the oem underseal off as it was pretty mint so i just gave it a top up coat of Buzzweld WAR. Tomorrow I'll also use WAR on the area i have primed once the seam sealer has set

When i removed the old gearbox i went on a side quest and started stripping part of the floor pan. I finished off removing this section of underseal and wire wheeled any surface corrosion down before using Jenolite to tackle anything that remained. Once that had worked its magic i used Por15 metal etch and then epoxy primed it I will eventually do the whole underside but its very time consuming so I'll be doing it section at a time. Whilst waiting for the Por15 to do its thing, i also got the new flywheel on using 271 loctite so it could then dry over night.

Some updates from the past few days.. Firstly, got the driveshafts finished. After aqua blasting them i painted them in epoxy primer and then used buzz weld WAR as a top coat as i had some left over from my truck and thought it was good stuff! Then last night we got the car loaded back onto the trailer and bought back into work

I'll be on my honeymoon then

Cleaned up the driveshafts last night, used our aqua blaster which always does a good job of things like this. Used it on a very low pressure mind you and aimed it in the opposite direction of where the CV boots seal! This evening I'll use some Por15 metal etch on them and them paint them. Should look nice and new then

Ok thats good to hear! I haven't fitted mine yet, it was just my expectation that the flywheel would be noisy with it not being a dual mass. Should have mine fitted at the weekend. Its all brand new, i have a stage 3+ clutch so I'll let you know what thats like!

Hey Peter, i had another read through this last night and noticed I've bought the same flywheel and clutch (i think) as what you have. How do you find it? Especially the flywheel.. is it super noisy?

Really loving the oem spoiler again

Probably not exactly what you had in mind to the beginning of Supra ownership! But i should imagine a lot of Supras suffer with this sort of wiring.. i removed a lot of similar wiring and connectors from my dash loom too. Post some photos of the car so we can all see your new purchase!

Got the spoiler painted today at last. Forgot to take a photo of it once it was finished though.. also had a TRS steering wheel cover arrive and some ARP wheel studs as one of my rear wheel studs sheared off and i hadn't even been driving the car particularly hard. I did some research on these beforehand though and discovered that they are actually for a lexus IS300. They do fit Supra but the initial part of the stud where it presses into the hub needs to be shaved done a touch.. theres a very useful thread on here that i followed. I put a drill in a vice with a cable tie around the trigger, put the stud in the drill and using a mini belt sander shaved off the bit that was necessary. Worked perfectly. Did all 10 studs in about 5 minutes.

Haha! Hey bro! Nah im sending this once its built again! Didn't launch it once last yeah because i was scared of breaking the R154.

As Cillian has said, arp headstuds would be a good upgrade whilst the engine is apart. Although with that being said, i know years ago arp had a bit of an issue with their headstud washers. They were manufactured a bit too small and so people used to bin them and use the oem washers with the arp studs. That was years ago though and I'd assume that problem has since been rectified

Another day of new parts.. Flywheel, clutch, V160 oil, spoiler grommets, clutch master cylinder and under bonnet insulation all arrived from Whifbitz today. reallllyyyy want to get back out in this again now! Just want to get everything bed in nicely and then launch the shit out of it!

Been polishing it so hard it went blue!

Finally got my oem spoiler painted today, one of my guys at work owed me a favour so i said he could paint the spoiler for me as payment.. 3 months of pestering him to do it and he finally did it today. I waited around for it to dry this evening only to discover the paint had reacted and blistered a long the bottom. Not pleased.. so i think I'll likely just do it myself now. Tbh i dont really know why I've waited so long for him to do. Should have just done it myself weeks ago. whilst i was waiting for the spoiler to be painted and then dry, i polished up my HKS Ti exhaust which came up nicely, i then tried my hand at colouring the tip which turned out pretty good. Took me a couple of attempts, each time you have to polish off the colour before starting again. The very back of the back box doesn't look very good so I'll get rid of that tomorrow, But im pleased with the tip! Not to everyones taste im sure, but i have big titanium plans for my engine bay!