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Shifts like a truck.... Funny, Toyota and others use this very trans in trucks... :) It is because it's a very durable trans, and they needed something to hold up to the power/tourqe of this 7MGTE engine.. (And it does that on the stock engine very well.)

Hey, this could be the new "cut off your old hole, weld on a washer way to shim the wastegate mod..." Just kidding! Another option is to remove your actuator, and replace it... Short of that you will need three things. Anvil. Hammer Drill. Remove your actuator. With the hammer...

I agree hydrolock would have enough force to crush the ring gap, but generally, there are many other weaker points that would fail first. (Like the rods for example, or the center of the piston crown, where it is thin, would deform down before the ring gap would be affected. However, if the...

How much money this car has consumed, and the fact that I have to put it back together again to drive it!

Ok, I teach the advanced refinish class for the insurance company I work for, so here is reality, and a short education on finishes. 1) Your stock paint code is the first step. 2) The painter then pulls the varient book for that code, and compares it to the car/panel that has to be...

Nice. :)

I have a set of the Delphi 780's with both a sticker and the scribed flow and date on the. Bought them off Ebay, from PTE direct. They look exactly like the Delphi 680 that Dr. Jonez posted, but I think the color is different. Now I wonder if I should flow test them... LOL (I belive...

Come on guys, for the money, the COMP cams deal can not be beat. Stock is more money, HKS, TODA or Ferrea are all more money. (And not just a few bucks, but hundreds of dollars.) The Comp setup has the same resistance to failure as the stock design. (Single spring.) They have higher...

I was just shooting a Bushmaster Carbon 15 Pistol... Oh that's a fun one for sure, but you have to use good ammo, the Wolf stuff sticks in a hot chamber on this pistol. My 9mm Tarus PT99 only had one failure to chamber, and that was due to a RamLine mag that I will be replacing ASAP. (POS for...

Techlinecoatings.com I coated my own. (You will need a sand blaster with aluminum oxide grit.) Do not glass bead. :( (Unless you really want your coatings to fail for some reason I suppose.) Check around on the net, there are many coatings places, some/most use Techline products for...

Crap, for all the work of hollowing out the stock cat, and then trying to shove a 3" pipe through a 2.5" hole, why not JUST BUY A HIGH FLOW CAT OF THE 3" VARIETY? Just thinking outside the box here gentlemen. The PD will not fault you for having a AM cat. "These are wear items Officer, and...

I agree that the ross pistons are loud, but they are also thicker than the JE's. Not sure that anyone short of 700+hp will need that much metal however. Stock rods with ARP bolts should be fine, but for a level of insurance, there are alternatives, but they are not cheap. Eagle as noted...

From everything I've read, the turbo needs a constant supply of oil, but that does not mean it needs more than what the restrictors allow. (Especially if this is a ball bearing turbo, they need less oil as a rule.) I had a DBB CHRA turbo that would smoke under boost, but only on the uber oil...

When I add an oil temp guage, it will be assimilated into my "sweep" routine of all gauges... Resistance to the Supra is futile...LOL

I run iridum plugs, gapped at .28 This cures many 7MGTE's of the spark blow out that happens at high rpm, under boost. Seen it "cured" a few times. :) No problems with the smaller gap. It still lights off the air fuel mixture just fine in my opinion. And it's much better than the miss...

17 lower, and 19 upper. Measured in thousands of an inch. (.17 on the feeler gauge... and .19 on the feeler gauge...) Last thing you want is the upper ring to seal more than the lower one.. this will cause the pressure trapped between them to flutter the rings, and could cause them to...

Here is an interesting note, and why I used the oil cooler from a turbo charged RX7 from the 80's... The Wankle motor has few moving parts, but those that do move, have some interesting oil needs. The "rotor" is a 3 sided piston that spins around in a elipical orbit. This creates quite a bit...

Looks great! Removes the banjo bolt setup, a good possible source of restriction, and allows for other mods if so inclined to remove other possible bottlenecks in the volume going from the pump, to the actuall main galley. (my goal when I setup my system was to try and remove all passeges...

Pistons are generally made out of aluminum alloy. The forged ones are "pressed" or forged into a slug/blank, then machined into the final part. The forging process aligns the grain of the metal, and actually forces the molecules into a more concise pattern. (And one that is denser than the...

Thanks IJ, that helps explain why the stroker is such a cold slapper.. :) The pin is very high, up into the oil control ring actually.