Alex (Got_Boost?) Offered to help me out with my car when I was rebuilding, turned out he lived 5 mins away, then when he came over he invited some other kid on here I didnt know or anything I was like WTf? haha Turned out well though, were all good buddies now (the other guy was Steven89)...
Alrighty so I measure each one, lets say a few are over and under, then I take them all out and measure their size and calculate how low and how over some were, mix and match with math... and replace... got it....
lol fuck.
Well, good thing is all the shims are the originals, I just...
Well on saturday I plan to straighten out my whole wrong sized shims problem...along with a few other minor things. Its a tiny problem, really not much noise, but its enough to make me wanna fix it. I just want to know a few main things...
When using the feeler gauge to measure clearance, is...
I honestly believe I messed up as little as possible, i had tons of odds against me, but like I said, now that im on my own, have a lil extra cash, I wanna make the rest of this car right, strong, and just make her what she is dyin to be.
haha EDIT: I know you were messin Ian, youve been a huge...
Hey Ian come on haha, you know the story with my supra, I took nothing and made it into something with pure determination, thats gotta count, and I learned ALOT!
I plastigauged all of it last year when I did my rebuild *8k miles* everything was dead on perfect almost, including all the cams. Main bearings, rod bearings, all good, like I said, its the rest of the engine thats a little half asses, I hadno money left at the time and everyone except my mom...
Well I work with a lot of knowledgeable guys at work in the shop that I trust, so Ill get them to help me out with all this. I guess I just dread tearing down the block to bare and sending it off with crank and all to some shop... $$ bye bye money again, if I decided to do this. What I really...
Oh, alrighty then... that makes sense lol. Well see how it goes, I just wish I could do all the grinding myself, I just hate sending off any part of my car for someone else to mess with, I always feel like "its a supra, its not a normal operation!" hahaha
Anyone else feel that way?
OK Guys, Im about to have another car to use soon, here, so I want to MAYBE, MAYBE tear down my 7mGE and rebuild it PROPERLY. I didnt do a few things I sort of regret now.
I was lookin at an Engine Kit from a recent post...
What I dont get is where all those lil ricer kids get them from all the fuckin time. I swear they feed off shit like that under the hood, I just need something to connect my FRIGGAN INTAKE PIPING!!
Hey guys, I got a straight metal pipe for my intake to replace the accordian hose. Its 3" all the way but now i need couplers, a 45* and a straight, both 3" in /out. I cant find them anywhere, where can I go?
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