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    #1 plug oil-fouled & can't find the source.

    I'd be digging some more, scrapers lined up shouldn't have been that much of an issue, what were the end gaps of everything on assembly? What was the piston to bore clearance? Have you micced up the bore where the tensioner bolts on?
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    MK3 Torsen diff TBR?

    Not sure at all Jeff, just remember reading it somewhere but I'm old so I wouldn't take it as Gospel. I think shock loading is the key to destroying one, by the time I started using mine the engine and it's power delivery were fairly brutal but this was softened by going Auto and the 285...
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    MK3 Torsen diff TBR?

    Very different, "TOR SEN" Torque Sensing, it will send the power to the wheel that has the grip, park one wheel on grass nail it and instead of mowing the lawn it will smoke the on road tire and you pull away, if both have grip both get drive, on a cambered road it will swap back and forth very...
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    Mk3 with mk4 front cap???

    One and only warning, keep shit civil... :( It's his car if you don't agree say so but this isn't going to degenerate into bullshit and name calling.
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    MK3 Torsen diff TBR?

    1.5 I think... ( remember reading it somewhere) I used one for years gave it shit @ 550rwhp and never broke it, just don't shock load it (Clutch dumps with big sticky tyres) and it'll be fine. Fantastic "Smart" Diff.
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    The FIRST documented 4l80e 2jz-Mk3 Supra build. "56k beware"

    RockAuto have them on sale ;)
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    The FIRST documented 4l80e 2jz-Mk3 Supra build. "56k beware"

    Pity I didn't keep the Struts off my Mk3 when I killed it I'd have donated em ;) (don't like "sticks")
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    The FIRST documented 4l80e 2jz-Mk3 Supra build. "56k beware"

    Just thought I'd check as it was a factor when I looked at using one after killing the 60e 9 times ;)
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    The FIRST documented 4l80e 2jz-Mk3 Supra build. "56k beware"

    What are you doing about the RPM Limitations of the 80e?
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    The FIRST documented 4l80e 2jz-Mk3 Supra build. "56k beware"

    I run one of his Billet Multiplates in my current project car :)
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    The FIRST documented 4l80e 2jz-Mk3 Supra build. "56k beware"

    Thought it was a Circle D Converter :D Chris is a great guy!
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    Mk3 with mk4 front cap???

    Sounds like you have made your mind up to do it, go ahead prove us all wrong and that it doesn't look like total and utter crap and it's not ruining the classic lines of a Mk3...
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    Things that make you go MMMMMM (drift orientated 7m powered ma70)

    A TrueTrac would fit the bill, basically a Locker with none of the Smarts of a Torsen ;)
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    Things that make you go MMMMMM (drift orientated 7m powered ma70)

    Wow there's a Blast from the Past! Whatever happened to Tom?
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    Things that make you go MMMMMM (drift orientated 7m powered ma70)

    They sound brilliant at 8300 ;)
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    What cars made you passionate about them

    Been playing cars for 37+ years now, before that it was motorbikes and toys ;)
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    What cars made you passionate about them

    For me it was anything with an engine I could make faster :)
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    Wtf?

    :: tumbleweed ::
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    Wtf?

    Then again if it gets rid of some members... ;)