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Hodge, ive just noticed your using Mikalor clamps for all your IC pipework, which are the same clamps i've just replaced all mine with. But when fitting mine, i found that these are quite a heavy duty clamp and its quite easy to over tighten them and start to distort the pipework. So was wondering if when doing yours you will be doing them a little over hand tight? Or will you be using a certain torque setting? Obviously yours will need to hold ALOT more boost than mine ;)

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Hodge, ive just noticed your using Mikalor clamps for all your IC pipework, which are the same clamps i've just replaced all mine with. But when fitting mine, i found that these are quite a heavy duty clamp and its quite easy to over tighten them and start to distort the pipework. So was wondering if when doing yours you will be doing them a little over hand tight? Or will you be using a certain torque setting? Obviously yours will need to hold ALOT more boost than mine ;)

 

I just wrenched them up as tight as I could mate. None of the pipes crushed or distorted at all. I guess you must have arms as big as my legs lol.

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OMG... And I'm spent!

 

Has to be one of the best supra engines I have ever seen. I love how clean and simple it looks. Original colour combo too. Top effort bud, cars really coming together. :thumbs:

 

 

Cheers bud. I think that's all that's goingvin there. Maybe the PAS resevior to go in but I'm not sure. I'm looking to try and fit a N/A resevior straight on top of the pump but I need to measure up if there's enough room between the plenum and pump. If it won't fit or I can't make it fit it's going in the inner wing on the passenger side.

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Glove Box :)

 

Cheers fitz, yeah it's in the glovebox, I'll dig a picture out mater on tonight.

 

Sneaky :sly:

 

No ABS anymore either John??

 

The car never had ABS to start with mate. I bought it forcthat reason as I didn't want the ugly pump in the engine bay. Although I am going to try and retrofit the ABS hubs from a TT so I can get the traction control on the solaris to work.

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The car never had ABS to start with mate. I bought it forcthat reason as I didn't want the ugly pump in the engine bay. Although I am going to try and retrofit the ABS hubs from a TT so I can get the traction control on the solaris to work.

 

I had to fit abs hubs to the rear of my n/a in order to fit the bigger diff casing for a 6 speed and associated driveshafts. Once I found out what I needed, it was a direct swap of the hub. Only issue I had was to bugger the ball joints on a couple of suspension arms trying to remove them, so I decided to replace the lot with new oem.

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OMG... And I'm spent!

 

Has to be one of the best supra engines I have ever seen. I love how clean and simple it looks. Original colour combo too. Top effort bud, cars really coming together. :thumbs:

 

100% agree thats the best engine bay i have ever seen, top work mate almost seems unreal that its a running engine in there, awesome;)

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The car never had ABS to start with mate. I bought it forcthat reason as I didn't want the ugly pump in the engine bay. Although I am going to try and retrofit the ABS hubs from a TT so I can get the traction control on the solaris to work.

 

 

To be honest mate it looks so much better without the ABS junk in there - i debated for ages with Lee about removing mine but i wasn;'t sure how the car would be without it!! :)

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I had to fit abs hubs to the rear of my n/a in order to fit the bigger diff casing for a 6 speed and associated driveshafts. Once I found out what I needed, it was a direct swap of the hub. Only issue I had was to bugger the ball joints on a couple of suspension arms trying to remove them, so I decided to replace the lot with new oem.

 

I've also got a large diff casing to go in mate. So to get this all to work I'm going to need 2 new driveshafts and 2 TT, ABS hubs.

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