Bye Supraforums HELLO Supramania !!

Element256

Bickaty Bam !!
Jul 17, 2007
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I've been banned of SF and frankly I'm sick of it to begin with (LONG story)
and I'm joining this community now.
I realize this is a MKIII forum BUT I have a surprise.
I'm swapping in a R154 tranny to my auto TT MKIV :aigo:
Since my 2 days of joining the site I've already obtained more "useful" knowledge of the tranny\setup than my 2yrs on SF, so I'm here to stay.

I guess this is the best place to do the buildup\progress thread (if not point me to the right place) so here we go.

Bought the car last winter stock from FL with blown engine. It had been wrecked on the front\passenger fender and had just been sitting at some mechanics shop for the last 2yrs collecting debris\hurricane damage.:cry:

Since then I've started revamping it in its entirety starting with a JDM shortblock and new brakes and seats.
Also while the engine was pulled I put on a SP57 single turbo and all the fixings. Spools at 3k and hits max boost\power around 4100rpm and holds there with a slight increase all the way to redline.
Power was at 419whp\397tq @ 0.8bar psi during dyno tune. I've since street tuned it and bumped it up to 1.1bar so should be pushing around 470whp. We'll see what happens @ SILV Dyno day. :)

R154 swap is being done by your boy Aaron @ driftmotion, where I'm also picking up the Custom Action clutch and LWFW as well for amazing prices, so if you need a new one hit that man up !

Also going in for a respray later this month since hurricane Katrina wasn't too kind to the car.

That's about it for now. Here's a few straight off the trailer to current status pics and I'll update further as progress is made on the car.

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s!ke

JDM Tyte Yo!
Jun 17, 2006
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awww, you and your wife have matching rims.... how cute. :)

and a build up thread goes in the buildup forum. :)


love your car, me=jealous.


edit: and how cute! you have your name as your license plate... awww. haha
 

ForcedTorque

Join the 92 Owners Group
Jul 11, 2005
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Welcome to the site man!

There is a lot of information here, and way better than what I can find at SF without a search function. Don't think you are alone in beeing banned at that dump.

As long as you aren't thin skinned, you should be OK here. You will find a lot of harsh comments about the MKIV crowd on this site. I for one have never met a Supra owner of any generation that I didn't like. But we love our MKIII's around here.

We do have a build up gallery as a part of the general section. It is the most visited part of the site. I would imagine your build would be a pretty popular one.
 

BorHor

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I mainly use SF for their regional section and Off Topic. All I get from their tech section is ass hole replies half the time. Oh and DD Supras are the best.
 

Element256

Bickaty Bam !!
Jul 17, 2007
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Hahahaha OT is what got me banned.
They hate me there and a 4sale deal temp went sour cause the buyer is a little bitch and then the OT trolls came into the thread and basically tore me apart with BS