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Toyota is screwing up not selling a image vehicle that showcases build quality, value and performance like the Supra has done for many years. The MRS was a feeble attempt at best, and a terrible sales platform. Why is it that the worlds best car builder can't see this is beyond me, but I...

I'm with IJ, why? Let me ramp this up some, What are you thinking? Seriously. (Ok, so there is a teenybopper fasincation with the RHD stuff, but when you actually drive it on the road here where everything is LHD based, your going to hate the car in a hurry. Let's think about some...

Nice one. I was totally pissed, dropped over to SF and found out the joke was on me. MA7088, nice tushy shot. :)

Ok, this thread is cracking me up. (Seriously.) Folded towels? Cork spacers? Please people, this is not the way to go. Here is how it's done. 1) As I've mentioned before, YOU DO NOT PUT THE HEAD STUDS ON THE BLOCK UNTILL AFTER YOU PLACE THE HEAD DOWN ON THE GASKET. 2) If your using...

What gap are you running? Also what heat range iridium plugs? (Any time your pushing this much, you might want to run one range or two colder than stock anyhow.) I've run Iridium plugs, and if you don't detonate, and run a .28 gap, they do not misfire at all in my experiance. Run a...

Ok, last I heard, the idea was to meet this year in Vancouver? I know a few people were discussinig a Vancouver meet, but I have not heard anything else about that since Portland. (Boise is available if you guys want to come out this way, and Portland was a great time last year.) So...

This is very tempting. Buy the Ebay Masterpower turbo, use the Ebay manifold and wastegate, and use the money I've saved v/s the GT4088r turbo and go with the MS standalone. (Once they have the CPS possible software upgrades, or daughter board etc.) No more AFM, the ability to tune based on...

So, we can use the stock CPS, ISC, TPS, a GM MAP sensor and IAT sensor and if we want, run COP for the coils, or use the stock ones with a seperate box to control them? Sounds too good to be true at the prices being discussed. No need to create an ignition trigger would be a huge time...

I know Duane's car has the bell crank pully machined to create the trigger wheel, but you'd need to know exactly where to cut the "6th" notch before you machine it as there would be no going back to change or adjust it later. (Unless you make the mount adjustable, that would allow for minor...

My IC pipes are powdercoated hammertone white/black so you get a "silverish white pipe as a result. I like the way it's held up over time too. My intake, head, block and other engine parts are themal dispersant coated to help them reject heat as much as possible. (The exhaust manifold is...

Every stock rod that I've seen fail, has failed at one point. The drilled hole in the shoulder that sprays oil on the thrust surface of the bore. Even with ARP hardware, cyro treatment, and peening the rods, your still dealing with a design that has a hole and other material removed in a...

Just a thought, but combine your underdrive water pump pulley with a overdrive (Smaller than stock diameter) pulley for the alternator would be very nice. (Slightly smaller, say about 5 to 10% at the most. I think most of us would like more amps at idle or other low engine speeds if we could get...

I think for the money, the Pauter's will compare to any rods out there. (You can get them in Ti if your so inclined, but I don't really see any benefit unless your trying to build a 7M that will hold up to very high RPM, or has the lightest possible rotating assembly.) Ti also has some fatigue...

Now I'm worried, I did not check to make sure the rods were instaleld in any particular order, but the pistons were all installed with the valve pockets correctly, and the entire assembly was smoothly rotating when installed, so I hope I got it right.. LOL The Pauters have no oil squirter...

Wow, even as an insurance adjuster, this one goes on the wall of fame.. (Photos of inconcievable losses...) Just a guess, but your house repair is going to run you 12k, the Nissan about 3500 and the Supra will need a new right quarter, repairs to the left quarter, replace the hatch, rear body...

I belive the targa v/s non targa cars are more of a difference than the "official" numbers to be sure. (Toyota admitted that in the intrest of safety and long term strutural reliability, they over built the Supra, especially the Targa version. This was from the guy in charge of design, in a Car...

What I'd love to see, but would never spend the time doing is a mod with the 3000GT flush mount lamps on the Supra. (They would fit, but it would be a bugger to mod the header panel, hood and core support to make it all work out right.) Either that, or just use the bubble idea, custom form...

Here is what I did. (I was also looking at the pump/cooler idea, and ended up not going there due to complexity and cost issues.) I had the trans completely rebuilt. Second gear was shot, so it's brand new. I looked at adding 5th from a toyota truck, but the cost v/s slightly higher top...

They guy at crankshaftspecialist in TN was pretty proud of the hard chrome process they do. It adds hard chrome to the journals, then they machine them back to specs, so you keep the more flexable forged crank material where you need it, and only add a layer of very hard material where the...

I have to second the Pauter comments. Mine were/are perfect in every way. (Except that Flatlander ordered them the wrong size.. so they were the perfect wrong size.... LOL) Thanks Phil.. :( After Pauter resized them for me with new bushings on the pin bores with the right hard bronze...