Cam27

Had the car out for it's first event this year, 200 mile round trip and to stretch it's legs. It ran perfectly and pulled like a train, happy days. I thought I would share a couple of shots I like:)

On Thursday morning all the last jobs for preparing the car to run were done. Fuel lines were clipped up, exhaust refitted, gearbox oil changed, brakes bled, coolant system filled etc. The car fired up first try, excellent. There was a small leak from the fuel filter, but that just needed nipped up. It was quickly apparent that the car was badly overfueling and after a quick investigation the cause was found; the nipple had broke off the filter for the vaccuum line to the map sensor! A quick call to Toyota and a replacement arrived the next morning. With the replacement gas filter fitted the engine was fired again, this time no problems. There was a really annoying rattle which was traced to the wastegate actuator linkage, a small adjustment sorted that. After a short test drive it was time to fit the front bumper, which looks great after paint. I am really happy with the colour coded lip as well, but I will have be carefull not to ground it! Also fitted the LED indicators, which i love! Really modernises the front of the car:) It was then time to take the car home! It has been a long winter without it, and a much bigger job than I intended, but it feels good to have it back. I have a bit of fault finding to do as the car is running a little bit rich. There has been so many things changed i want to rule out the little things before resorting to a mappable ecu. On the drive home i gave a good hard pull and the cap blew off the breather port on the plenum, which was an easy fix. Also the boost controller was going nuts as it had resorted back to the factory settings when the battery was disconnected. I have re-entered them now. The new clutch is lovely, such an improvement in feel and engagement over the old one! The engine bay looks great now, i just need to give the car a thorough clean and polish now for my first show this year this weekend.

New brake lines were made up today. I decided to just make replacement hardlines out of cupro nickel rather than braided due to time and cost basically. Quite a fiddly time consuming job that i am glad is out the way. Installed the new braided fuel lines as well. I just need to fasten them up along the body. I thought it was best to leave it until i figured out the best way to go about it to get a neat finish, as they are too fat for the stock brackets. New downpipe is also on now, i had to tap the holes on the flange as the threads were stripped, typical! Haha. I am pleased to have a flexi section in the system.

Thank you mate. Yeah it was a lucky catch, when we went to take the brake lines off there was a leak as soon as they were disturbed!

Today it was back to working on the car after nothing much happening for the past week. I picked up new fasteners for the front bumper as well as the seal along the top from Toyota, as well as the protectors that sit under the spoiler legs as I think i will put the stock spoiler back on for a while. Also new fasteners for the arch liners off ebay. I went a run up to Glasgow to get a few bits off my friend Michael as he sold his Supra. New intake, airbox bracket and used but good intake pipe to replace my cracked one. I am fitting T bolt clamps on it as the stock double wire clamps look terrible and rust like hell! Also got a set of Heckler LED facelift indicators. My front bumper is back from the paint shop, but i am leaving it wrapped up until it's ready to fit. The lip has been painted body colour apparently so looking forward to seeing it! The bonnet is back on the car now, so we took it outside to run the loom back through the bulkhead. I spent the day prettying up the engine bay, giving it a good wipe down and re-routing hoses, as well as fitting the new intake plastics. I also had an idea to put the hks logo on the flat bit of the upper timing cover, i found some genuine metallic decals online and it worked out awesome, i love it haha. I feel the amount of hks parts on my car it warrants a decal. The engine bay is really taking shape now. Tomorrow the fuel lines should be run to hopefully start the car:)

Deposit taken, sold pending payment.

Some good updates today and some not so much. The good news is that the ancilliaries are pretty much all on and buttoned up. Still a few things to tidy up and get how i want, mostly with the routing of hoses. The loom has been tidied up around the timing covers and looks much better. After removing the plastic covers to remove the old fuel lines and run the new ones, the brake lines were found to be in shocking condition! So they will have to be replaced, not sure whether it will be with braided lines or fabricated hard lines yet. The paint job on the front bumper is a little more involved than first thought as well. I had hoped to get it back today but the old paint was covered in micro blisters so has had to be sanded right back which obviously is taking more time. Hopefully be done beginning of next week. So on the to do list for the beginning of next week is: Fix leak in PAS line (just replace rubber hose i think) Fix leak on AC line union Finish installing fuel lines Replace brake lines Fill with fluids Re-fit front bumper Replace intake pipe from airbox (found a crack on the back side) Straighten the sills Free off seized coilover and set the ride height I think we should be ready to fire the engine on Monday or Tuesday:)

I bought this conversion as I was planning to go single, but ended up not going ahead with it so I have decided to put it up for sale. The entire kit was bought from Hidden Performance and includes the following: Getrag 420G 6 speed gearbox (from an E46 M3) with new bellhousing PMC Motorsports 1/2JZ adapter kit which includes: Engine to gearbox adapter plate, lightweight flywheel with spigot bearing, all mounting hardware Auto ring gear and flex plate (this is needed if your car is manual) Sachs 240mm clutch Clutch fork New Shifter which has been extended for the Supra New selector rod and mounting hardware (not yet been extended) Clutch master cylinder Clutch Slave cylinder Gearbox mount to fit Supra I am looking for £2700 Collection is preffered, or i can meet part way within reason. Shipping will be possible at buyer's expense. Cheers, Cam

Thanks very much mate. The thread is just for me really but if it helps other people out then that's awesome. Yeah the seats are going to need retrimmed tbh. I got in touch with the company i bought them off, sent them before and after pictures and the response was "you shouldn't have left your car in direct sunlight". Total joke! The seats themselves are really comfy though, and look great. I think with bride rails they would go in perfect without any messing. They do them in leather but you are looking at mega money for those. It all just came down to money with the engine build, I did as much as i could afford. Like you say the supporting mods are in place for down the road and the engine will be healthy and fresh. My mechanic think the spec 3+ will be bitey, as it's a full face semi metallic, i have my fingers and toes crossed it is good to use, cannot be worse than the cc stage4! Surely? Haha. I will let you know how it goes. There is a 500 mile run in period apparently.

Cheers buddy Yeah now is the good part where we get to put all the fancy dress up parts back on!

Back where she belongs:)

Looking forward to seeing these completed Tim, great work!

Yes mate, not too long now hopefully! Once the engine is in and plumbed then it's just the new fuel lines to run:)

Looking great buddy! Really starting to come together now

Today was spent preparing the car for putting the engine back in place. As my car was na the loom ran over the driver's side wing, which was directly in the way of my catch tank. So the first job was to move the loom inside the wing like on a tt, I may have underestimated how much work was involved slightly! After removing the arch liners we unplugged the loom from the driver's footwell, then removed the wipers and scuttle panel to get the wiper motor wiring. Eventually the front bumper and driver's headlight were off as well for access. Once the bonnet release cable was disconnected the loom was then run back under the wing. We hit a snag in the fact the wiring for the brake fluid level sensor and the wiper motor were now too short and had to be extended! It was a time consuming job but worth it. I had wanted to tidy up the wiring in the engine bay as it was ugly with old brittle insulation tape wrapped round everything. Scott had ordered nice black braided sheathing to do the loom on his drift car but it is being used on the Supra instead! Please excuse how dirty my car is, it has been sitting for a while now so there is a fair amount of dust and dirt on it. After the loom had been tucked Extended wiper motor wiring Tidied up with new sheathing Sorted Brake fluid level sensor and wiper motor reconnected Also did the cable to the alternator When the scuttle panel was off it revealed a rust patch where water had been sitting, not good. It couldn't be left as we all know it will only get worse so it was sanded back and etch primer applied. I forgot to get a picture before it was sanded back, luckily caught it before any damage was done. Whilst the front bumper was off i fitted the new intercooler. It's a 4" 3 row SRD boy so had the same size piping as the old one which was handy. It's a good bit bigger as well so pretty much overkill, but Lee says on the website it's good for bpu up to single so that's good enough for me. It has a beefier tab welded on as the old one had sheered. I took my time to make sure it was mounted straight and level as the old sat a bit squint! I decided that the front bumper can't go on with it's current paint condition. It is peeling in the valance and has spiderweb cracks from grounding so it is being collected tomorrow or going off to be resprayed. I am not sure whether to get the lip done or not, as it is flexible I am worried the paint would just crack if it caught on anything. I am going to get the car resprayed when i can save enough money, the paint lets it down i feel. Last but not least i replaced/fitted a bunch of hoses on the engine, which i also forgot to take pictures of! I did however remember to get one of Hodge's -6an fuel feed hose. Tomorrow Scott is attaching the loom to the engine and tidying it up, and hopefully dropping it back in.

This week the plan was to get the turbo side of the engine buttoned up. I had to order more gaskets for the intake side of the turbos from Whifbitz, I wish i knew about the turbo gasket kit as it would have saved a lot of messing around. Also changed the bearing in the serpentine belt tensioner, it was on it's last legs. Then it was on to the fun part of putting all the pipework back on. It's starting to look like my engine again! There are a few hoses i will change as they are old. I forgot to take the back turbo intake pipe home to polish so it will stay dull for now haha. Engine is going back in on Monday! My car is in Japanese Performance Magazine this month! Cheers to Westy for the heads up as I would be none the wiser!

Turbos are back on:d

Haha yeah eventually mate! Thanks mate, yeah they do look good! Thanks for the info mate, i think i will do that. I don't think i will bother messing with the setup just now as I like the way the car drives:)

This week i finished up overhauling the turbo pipework. First up was sourcing a new pair of turbo to manifold gaskets. Toyota only had one in their stock and a mid march eta to get another! Luckily Whifbitz had plenty in stock and were delivered a couple days later, thanks Paul! I am a bit annoyed at how Toyota are pricing our parts now, £54 for a couple of 2" metal rings is steep! The rubber link pieces on the turbo pipework looked ok externally, but i thought i would take them off just to check as there was some cracks visible on the ends. I was pretty shocked at when i looked inside, both pieces were completely collapsed! I replaced them with silicone joiners and new clamps as well as the rubber joiner on the boost pipe. Once the pipework was dismantled i noticed there was a fair bit of oil, so a thorough clean was required. I also dismantled the reed valve to clean (which was quite dirty) and checked the operation of the (bypass?) butterfly valve. I gave the vsv bracket and throttle cable bracket a freshen up with some matt black as they were looking a bit tatty. Also carefully cleaned all the dirt and grime from the vsvs. I tried my best to polish the pipes back up, but years of neglect left some pitting that couldn't be completely removed at home. I did sand them back with 1000, 1500 and 2000 grit before polishing though, they are much better than before. The vsv that sits on top of the pipe has been linked out with short vac hose, does any of you Supra gurus know the reason for this? I am guessing its to do with raising the boost limit? I don't mind as the car performs well, just for my curiousity! Scott was meant to be running the new fuel lines and mounting the new intercooler this week but with Cumbria being hit hard by the beast from the east he has been flat out doing recovery work and i haven't been able to get down. Anyway, not the most exciting update this time, but the good news is that with the hot side ready to go back on, the engine should be back in the car next week!

My new TB Developments 1st de-cat arrived while I was away. I have to thank Tim for the great quality as always! I am happy to have the flexi piece in there as well, take some of the stresses out the sytem. Some good progress has been made over the past couple of weeks. The cold side of the engine is mostly back together with all new seals and gaskets, as well as the new Spec stage 3+ clutch installed. Most of the front end is now back together as well, with new timing covers and crank pulley. I am really glad to get the orange painted ones off! I will need to pick up a new auxilliary belt tensioner as the bearing is on it's way out on the current one. We have a slight hold up because the two turbo to manifold ring gaskets are not included in the gasket kit, and i don't want to risk the old ones leaking and having to pull the turbos again. Toyota only have one in stock and have a mid March ETA for another one so I will try source them on Monday. Once we have them then the engine will be ready to button up and go back in! The turbo pipework was getting some surface rust so i brought it home to clean and polish. I will replace the rubber joiners as well I think.

Got an update today on progress with the engine. HKS camshafts and cam gears installed as well as Gates racing kevlar timing belt. New water pump and tensioner as well. My single turbo kit I sold is still at Scott's as he will be installing it for the new owner. Before fitting my hybrids back on he did a sneaky mock up on my engine! I am gutted as it looks amazing! Hopefully should have it fired up in a week or so though, exciting!

That looks epic mate! seeing huge turbo always males me smile lol, and the fab work on the compressor outlet looks awesome! Hope the install and mapping goes smoothly:thumbs:

Looks to be a great car for a project, congrats. 1A1 is a really desirable colour! Engine bay cleaned up very well, good job!

Really well written thread mate! Kudos for the hard work to restoration, great to see a car being brought back from the brink:)

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