Teals '89 Supra Thread Complete Tear down

[92TealSupra]

Alright, well I thought I mine as well get a build thread going. I didn't plan to do what I am currently doing, but I got lucky so I decided to make some changes.

I just bought a '89 Supra turbo Auto on March 25, 2009. The car has 130,000 on it. Well when I bought the car I knew it needed some work. I drove it home, and everywhere for 2 days. I put 670 miles on it, no issues. The rear end though makes a good amount of noise...

Also the ABS light is on due to someone cutting the line, I don't know if they did that because it was acting up or what. The car also had a LACK in power I was pretty upset..

It needed a tiny amount of body work, and I just wanted a nice stock running Supra. I decided that because the engine bay was so dirty I would just pull the motor and put new gaskets, timing belt, water pump, and seals on the motor. That includes installing a new HG.

Here is the motor bay as you can see not very clean.

The Journey Begins!

The first thing I always do is remove the hood when I take these motors out, so I did that, kind of sucks when no one else is there with you!

I started by doing the exhaust side first, that is where I have always started..

I got to the turbo I was curious as to see if the fins were bent and if it had any shaft play. Amazingly it has " zero " shaft play, no radial, or vertical.

Of course good luck taking these motors out with a radiator in the way, that was next.

Well since all of my friends truly are never available " conveniently busy I call it " I always pull my motors and transmission by myself. Not very smart, but when things have to get done you just do it.
The motor and transmission are now free.

The engine bay is now without a motor, thank god. As you can see extremely dirty. I guess the owner told me the exhaust manifold gasket went out and put that huge black, grease mark on the back.

What your looking at is the EGR cooler, it covered in oil. The spark plug galleys were full ( to the top ) of oil, the valve cover bolts were so loose I took 3 of them off with just my fingers.The whole motor has oil, and dirt all over it.

I started to take the motor apart slightly just to get it ready for cleaning.

PART #2 (The call)

Amazingly I got a phone call from a ( kid ) selling a Supra. I offered him $500.00 for his manual Supra turbo '88 like 3 weeks ago. I knew he wouldn't take it, but he called and said it's yours if you want it.

I jumped up with cheer. I got the car home on a dolly. He told me it stopped running so I didn't care much I got a '88 Turbo with a manual, and a JDM motor.

The good news about everything is the head was re-done completely. I have a full 3" exhaust, HKS air filter, 5-speed transmission with a mint rear end.

I spent 1 hour and got the car to run, sadly it has rod knock. Darn!:3d_frown:

It is okay because now my plans changed for my '89 I am now doing a 5-speed swap because I have every part!

So Now I am in the process of taking everything out of the engine bay.. I am painting it black, I decided I mine as well paint the car the color I want.

So now I am taking the whole front, bumper, fenders, cross member off.
pictures will be up tonight.

 

[92TealSupra]

Okay well! I started sanding down the engine bay to get it ready for the paint job. It's not bad now, and I have to get more pic's tonight, it's not as good in these pictures but it is getting there!

I have the chain fall holding the body up so I can get the lower suspension and sub frame out of there. It is also easier to work on the car.

I had to add a corny picture...

 

[Slow_Sc3]

hahaha put my car down and give it to me :icon_evil:icon_evil

 

[92TealSupra]

Oh wow, nope I need to build this up. Ha i have never torn into a supra this far this aught to be sweet...

 

[SupaMan]

nice! good luck! nice score on the other car too!

 

[92TealSupra]

nice! good luck! nice score on the other car too!

Hey thanks. I am just trying to see how much I personally can do on this car. I like these cars a lot and this being my 7th one and owning all years 86.5-92 is also a pretty neat thing. I hope that is really going to be a nice drivable car, but at the same time I want to put down 400 Hp.

I have decided on the color I am going to paint the car:

Anthracite Metallic

I hope this will look good on the MKIII.

More details are on there way!

 

[mattsplat72]

Damn! glad you started this. While I was looking at that motor I was cringing man. Bleck I hate to see cars in such a state. Good Luck

 

[92TealSupra]

Damn! glad you started this. While I was looking at that motor I was cringing man. Bleck I hate to see cars in such a state. Good Luck

Yeah, seeing Supra's like this is never fun. I really hope I can turn around everything and create the car I have been wanting.

Tonight the 5-speed, and the motor come out of the '88 so I will have parts to sell to start covering my costs.

 

[suprahero]

Good job Eathan. Looks like you got a lot done while doing it by yourself. I don't work by myself too good. My ADD kicks in and I start losing focus.
I love the Anthacite on the MKIV's, but I like the grey on the MKIII's. I'm sure the anthracite will look good though.

If there is no shaft play in the turbo, why do you think you were down on power? Did you do a compression test on it before you pulled the engine? I know you said you were going to replace the hg, and some seals, but you didn't say anything about rings and bearings. Just curious.

 

[92TealSupra]

Good job Eathan. Looks like you got a lot done while doing it by yourself. I don't work by myself too good. My ADD kicks in and I start losing focus.
I love the Anthacite on the MKIV's, but I like the grey on the MKIII's. I'm sure the anthracite will look good though.

If there is no shaft play in the turbo, why do you think you were down on power? Did you do a compression test on it before you pulled the engine? I know you said you were going to replace the hg, and some seals, but you didn't say anything about rings and bearings. Just curious.

Hey there Jay. Man talk about A.D.D i have plenty of it. I do get off task quite a lot. I will be working on the car and then more over to the engine, then Ill start taking off the rear end. Ha.

The power loss I am sure is now due to a inter cooler pipe. When I was taking apart the car there were many things that were not put together correctly. The top inter cooler pipe is three pieces, when I took it off I could spin them and you should be bale to to. I looked at it and there was oil vapor on the outside. So apparently it was leaking from there and I really didn't know. I feel like that was the power loss, and I understand that leak was big enough ( under pressure )

The car felt like it had like 200 hp, but now that I went through the car it was easier to find a lot of things that were not tightened like the CPS I could adjust the timing without even loosening the bolt :rant2: I was not to happy about this. he also said the timing belt was replaced. Good thing I looked into this because it was cracked all over and covered in oil.

The HG by the way was ready to blow into pieces as well. I will have pictures of that up tonight. I was so worried about the car, and it was a good thing I was. Like I said the copper on the stock HG's as bent in and it was so bad on one it looked melted. I had a orangish color in my coolant, maybe I already had a BHG?

Tonight I am focusing on getting the Rod Knocking jdm motor out of my '88. I need to sell some parts so I can get the body worked fixed.

More pictures will be on tonight.

 

[iMike_G.]

looks like fun.. good luck

 

[Mo87NA]

Looks good, but why wasnt the '92 Teal the car you wanted?

I still don't understand why you parted it out. That car was gorgeous :nono:

-Mo

 

[92TealSupra]

Looks good, but why wasnt the '92 Teal the car you wanted?

I still don't understand why you parted it out. That car was gorgeous :nono:

-Mo

You know I have had a lot of people ask the question. " Why did you ever part out that '92 Teal Supra "

Well the answer is I dumped a lot of money into it. I bought a 1jz for it, and I spent over( 60 ) hours doing the wiring on it to fit my '92. The whole summer that was all I did was start to build it, and I wanted to do other things.

I also wanted to drive it and got impatient. At times I wish I kept it. I always wanted an '89 really bad. I like the steering wheel they give you.

I don't know if the Teal owners feel this way but I do, once you have something rare like a Teal Supra it doesn't feel rare. It only feel rare to the people that don't own it. The Teal Supra's are not as special as you may think. The only thing I really enjoyed was the Shadow Gray interior, which I still think should be called black.

Anyhow I hope that this will be a nice car for me. I don't need to make huge amounts of power, I just want to know I myself can build one by myself.

-Teal

 

[Mo87NA]

You know I have had a lot of people ask the question. " Why did you ever part out that '92 Teal Supra "

Well the answer is I dumped a lot of money into it. I bought a 1jz for it, and I spent over( 60 ) hours doing the wiring on it to fit my '92. The whole summer that was all I did was start to build it, and I wanted to do other things.

I also wanted to drive it and got impatient. At times I wish I kept it. I always wanted an '89 really bad. I like the steering wheel they give you.

I don't know if the Teal owners feel this way but I do, once you have something rare like a Teal Supra it doesn't feel rare. It only feel rare to the people that don't own it. The Teal Supra's are not as special as you may think. The only thing I really enjoyed was the Shadow Gray interior, which I still think should be called black.

Anyhow I hope that this will be a nice car for me. I don't need to make huge amounts of power, I just want to know I myself can build one by myself.

-Teal

To me, it's not the fact of it being "rare." It was just overall a nice looking car. With any build, you need to learn to be patient. Mine is going on 4 years and it's just starting to get to where I want it. I still have so much more left to do.

If you liked the '89 so much, you could have just swapped out the steering wheel :sarcasm:

Anyway, best of luck with your project. It's a marathon, not a sprint. Everything takes time and patience.

-Mo

 

[92TealSupra]

To me, it's not the fact of it being "rare." It was just overall a nice looking car. With any build, you need to learn to be patient. Mine is going on 4 years and it's just starting to get to where I want it. I still have so much more left to do.

If you liked the '89 so much, you could have just swapped out the steering wheel :sarcasm:

Anyway, best of luck with your project. It's a marathon, not a sprint. Everything takes time and patience.

-Mo

Ha, I wanted an '89 to be exact, not remove some stuff from one. I could make this a teal car, but this doesn't mean it is an original

Yeah this car is my daily driver lol.. This is why I am working so hard on it.

Lucky for me I have an extra car to use while I do this.

I will be taking my time and no short cuts will or 1/2 ass things will be on the car.

Thanks again, and I guess we'll see where the car takes us.

 

[92TealSupra]

Alright well updates are always a good thing arn't they?

Today I just pulled the 7m-gte out of the '88. Out of all the motors I have pulled for some reason this was the easiest one so far to pull.

Of course transmission fluid smells great! :3d_frown: Here's some pictures of from what I pulled.

I also worked on the engine bay slightly, some new updated photos, it's not really much of a difference but it is getting there!

I thought it would be fun to get some neat photo's as well.

The next task I am going to do is to put the 7m and transmission on the floor take them apart and then start taking apart the 7m to inspect the rod knock. I also will be selling every part off of it. I don't need much considering I have about 3 of everything for these motors.

 

[92TealSupra]

Alright time for some updates!

I finally got the '88 JDM motor apart. Good news the smart person had ARP head Studs on it, so I can re-use them of course.

Today I got the retarded sunroof out. My car was a hard Top from the factory and then someone down the line said " wow this car would look good with a sunroof. Idiot..

I took it out today, because it had a little rust around it, and I want it repaired the sunroof was so " janky it was not even close to funny:3d_frown:

Here are some pic's of the rust and the sunroof coming out.

Sadly now the metal is only 1/16 so it's very flexible, not so good. I am having metal welded back in to make this a hard top like it should be. It might cost some $$$ but well worth not having a leaky sunroof.


Here is a picture of my JDM head off the '88. As you can see it has a scratch on it. I don't think this will hurt much because it does not go into the combustion area.

AS you can see from this pic it looks like a chunk of the chamber was taken out?

Also the 018 does that mean .18 was taken of the head when it was resurfaced?

The head was redone, I even looks and the valves were re-ground which is good, also they were cleaned well.

 

[iMike_G.]

That sun roof looks like shit. How much it gunna cost to fix.

 

[92TealSupra]

Sometime next week I will figure out how much it will cost. I cut a section of my '88 Hardtop out if the shop wants to use it.

I like the hardtops a lot more then rusting sunroofs that are glass? A glass sunroof looks horrible. I had a '92 Teal Supra with a sunroof, and that was very nice. it was a full sized one as well.

I bet I will end up pay around $1000.00 to have it fixed, and reinforced. I am not happy about it, but it is that or a rusting section of my roof, then water leaking from the already leaking sunroof, and then eventually the roof..

I am trying to part out my '88 Supra and make some money to pay for the repairs on my '89, I hope I can keep selling bits of the car, and other pieces.

-Eathen

 

[92TealSupra]

4/16/09

Alright well I have no more room! So I am taking as many parts off my " parts car " I have and then getting rod of it. The front bumper is not coming off it.

I went under the car and the rail in which the front bumper slides into is moved back about 101mm's!!!

So I can't get the bolt out really, and there is not much i want in the front if I have to take a saw to everything I will.


So tomorrow I will be completing all of this and getting the parts car out! I am trying to save anything remotely used.. basically everything

I will be hopefully getting the sunroof looked at next week so I can have a hardtop again.

I think my progress so far is decent. This Supra is my daily but I am using a civic right now. Someone in my family really doesn't need it currently so looks like I have a car.

More updates will come, thanks!


-Eathen