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Speak to Dave Batchelor about his Walton manifold.. funny actually because he used to sing their praises, i saw him recommending walton manifolds to a couple of people... right up until he tried to actually install his! Then the tables turned. I was very close to pulling the trigger on a Walton manifold one evening and thought I'd just run it by Dave first - he told me to stay well clear due to terrible turbo placement. He said the quality was incredible, but the design was crap. I bought an SRD manifold with a 60mm wastegate and its a work of art

Such an odd situation! James rebuilt my engine for me in March Tbh i think it was one of his last jobs from what I've been seeing.

So here are some pictures of the sills in raptor (minus the part that gets painted body colour) Ive actually decided to raptor all of the inner structure behind the wings and I'll do the lower radiator support too as i know this is a common rust area. Fortunately mine only has surface corrosion currently so I'll be wire wheeling all of that off before applying Jenolite, etch primer and then raptor

Yeah you're probably right.. i was just thinking the 6870 would definitely future proof it for further gains. Im going to be at the top end of what the 62mm can produce. If i was to then want more it would mean re doing the intercooler pipe work and the down pipe

So this will now bring me up to date.. This was the last time the car will ever be an NA Before pulling the engine this is how it looks now.. ive removed almost everything (still need to remove the clutch cylinder) and ive started prepping it ready for paint. Hopefully it'll be painted and have the engine in within 2 or 3 weeks

And while all of that was going on my engine got built at long last! I took it to performance@Hart and James did an awesome job.. sad to hear he's now closed - if that's even true? Hope he's doing ok. Once i picked it up i started assembling all the ancillaries, i then bought an SRD manifold along with quite a few other bits.. So that's the engine. 2jzgte vvti Manley rods, CP pistons, whifbitz 269 cams, BC springs and retainers, king bearings, arp hardware, new oem oil and water pump, oem gasket kit, new oem crank pulley, 1000cc fic injectors, ssi intake, srd manifold, precision 6266 (might buy a 6870) turbosmart procomp 60mm gate. Hoping to see an easy 700bhp

I bought new parts.. Brakes are the Renault Megane RS Brembos with Lexus ISF 360mm discs I bought the power house racing spigot rings and centre caps for the Weld RTS wheels... £600 for spigot rings and centre caps! Sickening I also bought a titanium oil catch can.. Polished mechman alternator..

Regarding the inside of my sills, i removed all the grommets and plugs along the underside and top side and blew them all clean using compressed air, fortunately there was nothing too alarming inside, small amount of surface corrosion but that was all. I sanded as much as i could out at the back where the side pods go as you can get your hand in there Then i blasted corroseal using compressed air through the entirety of the sills to neutralise what ever was left. Then once the corroseal had done its thing i used dinitrol as a cavity wax.

So once the car was all solid i set out to keep it solid. I sanded all the sills and behind the side pods down to bare metal on both sides, treated the raw metal with Jenolite and then primed with Raptor Epoxy primer Then after a few days once the primer had properly cured i blocked it down and gave it 2 generous coats of raptor bed liner. Need to get some better pictures of this but its come out really well and im confident this'll last for years! i also purchased brand new oem facelift wings and applied the raptor bed liner to the inside of them

So once it arrived with Ed my fabricator he got straight to work on the sill and quarter. We were kind of hoping he'd be able to panel beat the quarter out but the lower section was too stretched and there wasn't enough access to get a dolly down there. So he cut it all out, made a new panel following the contours of the body and welded it in - honestly im so impressed with his workmanship ^^compare that picture to this one.. Same on the sill...

Progress! I got my sh!t together since my last posts and have actually come a long way since. I mentioned previously about the drivers side sill and rear quarter.. the sill had a hole cut out of it so we already knew that was bad, the quarter on the other hand.. So yeah the quarter was a mess underneath a lot of filler. Although fair play to whoever did that filler work! I met a guy through a colleague of mine who works for a company called Project Heaven, he's their fabricator and they build all sorts - mostly classic race cars, E type Jags etc so i knew it was in safe hands. On my hunt to find replacement sills i actually stumbled across someone selling an entire centre floor pan including both sills so i bought that and drilled out the spot welds to remove the drivers side sill.. and so i sent it off to have all the rust and damage cut out and replaced with new metal!

For sale is my single turbo kit, its all pretty much brand new. Its for a GTE engine and comprises of the following: Virtual Works Racing manifold, T4 twin scroll, twin gate. Twin 46mm Precision wastegates Gen 1 Precision 6266 PHR 3" down pipe Oil feed and return with AN fittings and flanges Looking for £2900 collected from PE9

Started to slowly refit new sound insulation. Ive used dodo mat as a base and then applied the acoustic foam ontop. Still more to do, its taken quite a long time because im trying to be as neat as possible! I do not want to be removing that stuff again! Also i finally fitted my UK rear bumper. Had the thing for years now and its been getting in the way so figured I'd sell my jspec one and fit this. Nice little reminder hidden behind it too from 5 years a go poor thing needs a respray so bad! I'll do it once everything else is done.

I am in search of a pair of interior quarter panel plastics if anyone has any? The are the large ones that house the speaker covers as per this picture: If anyone has any please let me know!

Yeah unfortunately - the misses was very patient but inevitably she got sick of it and i had to drag it into the garage the sound deadening was painful to say the least!

Honestly you never need to worry about whether its being looked after or whether i still have it or not - i may lose motivation occasionally but i'll genuinely never sell it or neglect it. In fact me and the misses are currently looking at selling our house and up sizing, my one and only 'must have' is a double garage that is attached to the house so i can extend the central heating into it lol! Its also good to see you're still here and apart of the forum! The supra does need a bit of love and its a shame about the sill and the quarter panel, but it'll all get sorted eventually, the sill will need a new one welding in, the quarter im going to sand back to the bare metal and see what it actually looks like underneath the filler, i dont think its too bad as i can feel the inside of the panel from inside the car, its rippled but not dreadful - im actually really missing driving it, i put it away October 2018 and it hasn't been on the road since.

Forgot to mention previously - How's this for a nightmare... Sound deadening. Any one ever tried to remove this stuff during the summer with a heat gun and a 99p homebase scraper? 10/10 would not recommend. Basically at some point in its life someone had covered the entire inside of the car in sound deadening - like literally front to back. Now that's great and all but what was constantly niggling at me was the fact that it wasn't all that neat. It looked like tin foil patchwork. So i figured I'd remove it all and start from scratch.. with nothing more than a heat gun, a scraper and a tin of thinners - i know it sounds exhilarating but trust me it wasn't. Once it was all removed (which took days, not hours) i got it in the booth, wiped down, masked and primed Once primed i got it all flatted back down and based in Mercedes obsidian black - no pictures unfortunately but tbh it just looks kind of factory. I chose Obsidian black because that's the colour I'll eventually be painting the rest of the car. I like the car being black but the factory 202 is too high maintenance. It looks good for 1% of the time, for the other 99% its covered in water marks and swirls - you ask any 202 owner and they'll agree, but that's the nature of straight gloss black. Obsidian black is metallic and the metallic does a good job of hiding fine swirls while still maintaining depth. My S class is Obsidian black and i can wash it without the need to polish it straight after - something i could only dream of with the 202 on the Supra.

What a journey! Cars looking awesome now though. Love the colour!

You must be the first person to remove a TT lump in favour of an NA looks like a proper project - mind you i bet that would look like a completely different car with nothing more than a good wash!

So this is how it looks tonight.. The worst its ever looked since the day it arrived on a low loader out the back of my parents house 6 years a go. Its going to be a slow process because i feel like I've taken on too much to soon. I now have the engine i still need to get built, sills to have rebuilt and a rear quarter that inevitably going to require work, a respray and interior stuff that i started and didn't finish. Really i should have just focused on one thing at a time but my impatience got the better of me and now I've likely made the whole thing take longer. See you all again in 2022

But.. back to why the car is in a bit of a sorry state. While doing the subframe i noticed a small patch of the sill was starting to bubble. 'Nevermind' i thought.. 'I'll just sand/cut it out and do a small local repair" so i started sanding... and i wish i hadn't. Filler. Lots of it. So my shiney show piece NA5 had been hiding a little secret all these years - at one point in its life it had suffered a bit of a knock on the offside. The outer skin of the sill towards the front had been pushed in and poorly patch repaired. The patch that had been welded in still sat half an inch or so inwards so filler had been applied over the top. The patch had then started to rust from the inside out and eventually through the filler also. Which leads me to my current position... Not ideal, but not life threatening i guess. Everything beyond that outer skin is clean and straight. Finding replacement sills is proving very difficult though so i think its going to be a custom job. The rear quarter on the same side also has filler in it, probably from the same incident. But I'm yet to delve into that just yet!

Also here's a complete waste of time - I had a pair of UK spec rear calipers that i purchased years ago and have been meaning to fit ever since, so while doing the subframe i also stripped and painted them in nissan GTR burnt orange before installing them with chris wilson pads, do-luck braided lines and slotted discs. Then i took the car home, put it in the garage again and then bought a set of wheels that mean i cant use UK rear calipers They came up for sale in the UK at a very good price and i just thought i couldn't pass it up! They're brand new - were still in their boxes un opened when i collected them. But yeah, the UK calipers are now rather redundant!

So since rediscovering the forum last night, this evening i dragged the supra out the garage to show you guys the sorry state it has become.. During lockdown i took it into work and finished rebuilding that subframe that i had laying around for ages! I fabricated a jacking point into the bottom of the subframe to prevent me from having to jack the back of my car up on the diff - as diffs are damn expensive nowadays! The aqua blaster at work made light work of the control arms Then it was out with the old and in with the new.. While installing the new subframe i also replaced the diff with an A02B LSD

First time back on the forum in ages! But yes i do still have her! Not much has changed. Still haven't sorted the GTE engine out lol

Slow progress recently but this evening i got the head stripped down and one bank of core plugs replaced on the block