Steve's mildly out-of-control build

[toyotanos]

Got some new rims that should save a lot of weight- shoule be about 40lbs saved from all 4! Also put the hood on to see how it looks, pretty decent if ya ask me along with ~25lbs off

Head will be back on tuesday, block will be done on Wednesday, and I should have it all assembled by the weekend

 

[ryansmith]

Nice shots of the car, what are the wheel specs?

 

[IJ.]

No engine in that shot Steve?

 

[conwinb]

what throttel cabel did you use for your pic in the avtar pic

 

[toyotanos]

The wheel specs:
17x8 +45 in front with a 10mm spacer
17x10 +35 in rear

Tires are 235-45-17 and 275-40-17


Ian- yep, no engine so the front end will set down quite a bit afterwards.

Conwinb- I use a 96 4-cyl Camry throttle cable. Fits really well with the style of manifold I have, but it only reaches to the large vent pipe on the valve covers, so it won't work for many intake manifolds that have the TB further out.

 

[Zumtizzle]

Are you still planning on Aeromotives? I've heard of too many failure to my liking in high hp applications.

 

[toyotanos]

I'm currently using dual stealth 340's, and no issues yet!

 

[toyotanos]

Hooray for updates!

Ordered and recieved my new front swaybar- Tanabe sustec 30.4mm unit. Very light!

Picked up my head from the machine shop and it looks boss!

Block is going to a while I really hope I can make it to powercruise with the car, otherwise I'm stealing a Supra from someone!

 

[hvyman]

Lookin goodz mang.

You have a rear sway bar too?

 

[toyotanos]

No rear bar just yet- I just got the front so we could fabricate/clearance the IC piping without having to change it later.

 

[IJ.]

What did you do piston wise to make up for the increase in CC volume?

 

[toyotanos]

Not a thing, aside from the slight shaving of the head and block to get the surfaces to 25Ra or better. I was thinking about high comp pistons, but at the time I figured this whole rebuild process was going to be done in a couple months and the pistons had a 4 month lead time from JE. It's been a strange process with many turns and quirks, not at all what it was like the first time I build the engine...

I'm going to measure a chamber to do the math correctly; but if my rough figures work, it should be a .3 static CR drop. (cc's were 39.5 beforehand) Bringing the engine to 8:1. I will be double checking all the volumes just to make sure, but that'll have to wait for the block to get back.

 

[IJ.]

39cc? from memory my 7M head was 49cc Steve.

 

[toyotanos]

Hmm, well the original build sheet from the original builder (bad machining dude, so grain of salt I guess...) says Chamber volume is 39.5, total tdc volume was 68.7cc. and 8.3:1 was the indicated CR.

:runaway:

 

[IJ.]

Check for yourself, my memory isn't what it used to be

 

[toyotanos]

Well it runs, albeit poorly atm. But it's together and it runs!

Had a hang-up with the transmission being in reverse when the shift linkage was installed so it was jammed in reverse but I got that sorted pretty quickly. Timing light is coming back to me tomorrow and break-in can begin again!

 

[funky_monkey58]

About freaking time.

 

[leecheater]

Wow, another case of how trying the Supra can be.

 

[toyotanos]

Yup, here's the first startup of the beast last night. Much work to do yet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoWR2eJakW4&feature=g-upl

 

[getzke]

Nice work Steve! Looks sick! Emilio and I will have to come by soon and check it out.