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I cranked it like you said Mike, and on the four time I got oil pressure. Only about 10psi though. It sat at about a third way between 0 and the fist line. I'm assuming the first line is maybe 25psi. The second line reads 40. Is that good?

EDIT: What in the heck are you guys doing up so late??

Tomorrow I'll try to get out to my friends shop and correct the downpipe angle. I'll try to load the base fuel table on my MAP ECU by Wednesday and start her up. I can't believe it.
 
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starting it!? :yikes:

good luck.


today i am fixing my turbo to first coupler boost leak.
i am also cutting the pipe and getting it welded to give it more angle.
 
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I didn't go and fix my downpipe today. I stayed up so late last night that I stayed in this morning and caught up on my sleep. Will try tomorrow.

David, how much angle did you need to change it? Do you have anymore curved section of aluminum? Who are you going to have weld it? Is he reasonable? I can help you with the cutting and fitting if you like. Not with the welding cause I don't have mad welding skills.


EDIT: You know, it may be cheaper just to buy that 45* bent coupler that you were asking for. Probably easier too. Can't you get couplers like that through your job? Special order kind of stuff?
 
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i just need about 20deg so im going to have a guy next to my work weld it.
he will do it for cheap and do it right....he has 3 drag cars in the back of his shop and knows what he is doing
 
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David: Good to see that you've got that covered.

Mike: Did you capture some good footage on your camera phone? Lets see.

Not much progress here. Put the spark plugs back in. Timing cover back on, belts back on, radiator back in, and swapped my starter back in. It cranks over too, so that's good. Looking to get that downpipe corrected in the next couple of days. Hopefully have it started by this weekend.
 
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No footage, apparently that's frowned upon.

Let me know if you need help with your car. Bet you feel a lot better now. So you never had the positive connected? I should of said something when you said the nut was loose. I was wondering what you ment about that.
 
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The wire that I said felt flimsy was the thin one that goes into the main harness. I was wondering why it wiggled so easily on the terminal. I'm used to the positive cable going to the starter much thicker and not as easy to wiggle around. Well, the damn thing was hiding under the intake manifold. I never noticed. I was undereath the car messing with the starter and suddenly I spotted it just dangling there.

Speaking of dangling... where did you go see a peep show?
 
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I went to my friends shop to use his welder to correct my downpipe angle this morning. I waited there only to realize he wasn't going to show up because he had a cycling accident. He collided with another cyclist and dislocated his elbow, and it poked through his skin. I found out when a customer of his called him while we waited at his shop. So I went to go visit him in the hospital. He's going to be out of work for a while. Needless to say I need to find another welder I can use to finish this dang downpipe.
 
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Yeah. I think I'm gonna get the fitting on really good, mark where it needs to be welded, and pay this welding shop to do it. He's reasonable, and can run better welds than I can. Then again, I think anyone can weld better than me.
 
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You should check out noribilt, they are the best fabricators in SA no lie. They put out some amazing work. They can also do just about anything else. The only thing they don't do is build engines, they send it off to their machine shop they use. They have a dyno, a badass tuner, fabricating skills you name it.
And very good pricing. I got my stage 4 clutch installed; parts and labor for 640

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hey hey just stopping by to say HI!!!!. I just moved to Austin about a month ago... a little ways from SA I know =O. Anyways, I'm slowly but surely getting to know a lot of supra ppl around here. Met up with the DFW bunch during TX2K11. tbh, Now that I see so many mk3 guys in texas, I'm rather surprised I didn't see more mk3's at TX2K11... then again, I always forget that ppl do have a little thing they call "a life" lmao *sigh
 
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lithium you made it. we've kept this thing going for a while now. could always use some new blood. I went to TX2K10 and it got rained out! no car this year, maybe next? What are you doing in Austin anyway I forgot to ask.

Any progress Rufus?
 
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