Hello everyone,
So my name is Sean, I am a soldier in the US Army, a mechanic, stationed in Fort Bragg, NC. I bought a 91' Toyota Supra Turbo MKIII, it is white with blue interior. When I bought it, it had around 280K on it, and he said that it was rebuilt about 30K ago. The PS pump belt was missing, the AC needed to be recharged and the turbo needed to be rebuilt, so he bypassed the turbo and was just using a filter.
When I first got to it.
I took it for a test drive and it was amazing. Even without the turbo it was so fast. I revved it up and popped the clutch out of a stop and there she went, broke loose all the way through the corner. I was very excited about it.
Well, wouldn't you know that even with a rebuild it just couldn't last. I was driving it home from Charleston, and made it almost 200 miles. First it was just a tapping. I heard it over the music and immediately stopped. I was hoping and praying that it was valve tap, I could handle that. But for some reason the starter went out as soon as I stopped. Well after adding more oil, and refilling the antifreeze. (I think it burned oil, and overheated, so it drained a bunch of coolant.) Well like I said the starter went out, well there wasn't much I could do about the engine regardless of what it was. So I pushed this 3500 lb car (+ or -) down the side of the highway, and got it push started, it started up and the tap went away. So I was hoping it would make it the last 80 or so miles. Well about 10 miles down the road it started loping and losing power, so I popped it out of gear and it stalled, I coasted for a few seconds, put it back in fifth and slowly pulled the clutch out. As soon as the gear caught, "Clunk, Clunk, POW!" Well that was that, and there I was coasting to a stop as the oil poured out of the pan. I got a body down with his trailer and even then we needed a Highway Patrol to come help push the car up into the trailer. So I got it home and parked it.
I put the cover on it, because it rains a lot here.
I put all my engine parts in the back. To make room for the work. But before I could get to work, I had to clean up the garage and make the room.
So I spent the day cleaning up while the car sat in front of me teasing me. Yes that is my truck and frame, I was rebuilding it, but now I am working on the car and the truck is put on hold.
Well after the garage was all cleaned up, I got a little bit of work done.
I always thought that this was pretty cool.
I love getting parts in. It is one of the best feelings ever.
Well I realized that it took me four hours to take off just the front clip and bumper. Because my tools were so unorganized that I couldn't barely do the work I was constantly looking for the tools. So I decided the next day that I was going to organizing my tools.
So then yesterday I finally really got to work. My intention was to get the engine pulled, and I almost got it, but we were having a barbecue and so I got all the way to the engine mounts. It is sitting on just the mounts, with the tranny on a jack, all I have to do today is hook up the lift and pull it. So here you go, the rest of my pictures of what I did.
All the oil on the ground came out of the inter-cooler. I was so surprised, I wasn't expecting oil to come out I didn't have the pan ready.
Oil cooler, PS Fluid Cooler, Inter-cooler, Radiator, Condenser...this thing is all about the cooling.
The exhaust was a son of a to pull out.
My buddy came over late otherwise, but he still helped out. I was hoping to have him over earlier, to get it pulled but family is family and his wife had stuff to do.
And then once again, at the end of the day as I was cleaning up to go in, the mailman brought me more goodies.
The mailman even messed with me and even though she was parked in front of my house, she took all the other packages first just to mess with me because like I said, I love getting packages in the mail. I am waiting for all the goodies to come in so I can completely rebuild the engine, and get it ready to put it.
The engine that I am putting in is the 1UZFE, 4.0 32 Valve DOHC All Aluminum V8, they come out of a Lexus. Mine came out of a 95' SC400. Like I said I am completely rebuilding the motor, so I bought all the parts for that, then I just need to buy the bellhousing and flywheel kit to mount up the R154. Well thanks for reading, I will be posting more tonight after I pull the engine and start cleaning up the bay, also I should be breaking the motor the rest of the way down soon. So watch, hopefully this should be done in a month or two. Wiring and money are gonna be the killers here.
So my name is Sean, I am a soldier in the US Army, a mechanic, stationed in Fort Bragg, NC. I bought a 91' Toyota Supra Turbo MKIII, it is white with blue interior. When I bought it, it had around 280K on it, and he said that it was rebuilt about 30K ago. The PS pump belt was missing, the AC needed to be recharged and the turbo needed to be rebuilt, so he bypassed the turbo and was just using a filter.
When I first got to it.
I took it for a test drive and it was amazing. Even without the turbo it was so fast. I revved it up and popped the clutch out of a stop and there she went, broke loose all the way through the corner. I was very excited about it.
Well, wouldn't you know that even with a rebuild it just couldn't last. I was driving it home from Charleston, and made it almost 200 miles. First it was just a tapping. I heard it over the music and immediately stopped. I was hoping and praying that it was valve tap, I could handle that. But for some reason the starter went out as soon as I stopped. Well after adding more oil, and refilling the antifreeze. (I think it burned oil, and overheated, so it drained a bunch of coolant.) Well like I said the starter went out, well there wasn't much I could do about the engine regardless of what it was. So I pushed this 3500 lb car (+ or -) down the side of the highway, and got it push started, it started up and the tap went away. So I was hoping it would make it the last 80 or so miles. Well about 10 miles down the road it started loping and losing power, so I popped it out of gear and it stalled, I coasted for a few seconds, put it back in fifth and slowly pulled the clutch out. As soon as the gear caught, "Clunk, Clunk, POW!" Well that was that, and there I was coasting to a stop as the oil poured out of the pan. I got a body down with his trailer and even then we needed a Highway Patrol to come help push the car up into the trailer. So I got it home and parked it.
I put the cover on it, because it rains a lot here.
I put all my engine parts in the back. To make room for the work. But before I could get to work, I had to clean up the garage and make the room.
So I spent the day cleaning up while the car sat in front of me teasing me. Yes that is my truck and frame, I was rebuilding it, but now I am working on the car and the truck is put on hold.
Well after the garage was all cleaned up, I got a little bit of work done.
I always thought that this was pretty cool.
I love getting parts in. It is one of the best feelings ever.
Well I realized that it took me four hours to take off just the front clip and bumper. Because my tools were so unorganized that I couldn't barely do the work I was constantly looking for the tools. So I decided the next day that I was going to organizing my tools.
So then yesterday I finally really got to work. My intention was to get the engine pulled, and I almost got it, but we were having a barbecue and so I got all the way to the engine mounts. It is sitting on just the mounts, with the tranny on a jack, all I have to do today is hook up the lift and pull it. So here you go, the rest of my pictures of what I did.
All the oil on the ground came out of the inter-cooler. I was so surprised, I wasn't expecting oil to come out I didn't have the pan ready.
Oil cooler, PS Fluid Cooler, Inter-cooler, Radiator, Condenser...this thing is all about the cooling.
The exhaust was a son of a to pull out.
My buddy came over late otherwise, but he still helped out. I was hoping to have him over earlier, to get it pulled but family is family and his wife had stuff to do.
And then once again, at the end of the day as I was cleaning up to go in, the mailman brought me more goodies.
The mailman even messed with me and even though she was parked in front of my house, she took all the other packages first just to mess with me because like I said, I love getting packages in the mail. I am waiting for all the goodies to come in so I can completely rebuild the engine, and get it ready to put it.
The engine that I am putting in is the 1UZFE, 4.0 32 Valve DOHC All Aluminum V8, they come out of a Lexus. Mine came out of a 95' SC400. Like I said I am completely rebuilding the motor, so I bought all the parts for that, then I just need to buy the bellhousing and flywheel kit to mount up the R154. Well thanks for reading, I will be posting more tonight after I pull the engine and start cleaning up the bay, also I should be breaking the motor the rest of the way down soon. So watch, hopefully this should be done in a month or two. Wiring and money are gonna be the killers here.
