Guigsys single... finaly working properly.

So, since i got my unfinished single project a year or so ago and ash got it up and running for me, and he did a great job. But it was a bit of a rush job to get it all mapped and running for suprapod. So i never had anyone take a very deep look at the car... well it slowly started developing problems and things went wrong. The ecu and dli getting fried being the most costly. Then it developed a misfire on boost. Then it started shredding aux belts.

So before dragonball i booked it in, Hoping I would get it back in time for a quick visit to the bodyshop while i was away in florida. Well It didnt quite go down that way. So as a lot of people know i ended up not taking it on dragonball. So figured i would tell you all the story...

I booked it in with Dan Turner at Advanced Motorsport and Engineering in at Silverstone, they have a great setup and do some awesome work and have some very interesting cars in.

When i dropped it off they had a Aspira F620 sat in the workshop

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and when i picked it up today they had this 695 bhp supercharged viper

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They also upload pictures of the work they are doing onto facebook. So you can keep up to date with whats going on. Which i have never seen anyone else do and i love it. its great.

Well, when i got up to take it in there was still snow on the ground. So I had to clear the snow off the car and doing so with my ice scraper i chiseled the Toyota badge off the front bumper... balls.

Then i popped out to the local cash point and snapped my carbon greddy lip in half on a snow bank in the carpark... cock.

So i left it with Dan feeling pretty sorry with myself and fed up with the car.

I left him the following list.

Fix misfire. I had got a set of good 2nd hand coil packs just in case.

Fix the belt shredding issue that caused me to limp home from the previous dragon ball in Holland.

Fix cold start.

Fit new cam covers and catch can.

Fix a leak fron the turbo drain. I baught Mr Whiffins oil drain kit for this. Looked like a nice piece of kit!

A few days later Dan calls with some details. Compression on one of the cylinders was way down. It was like this when i first picked it up and ash fixed it. But if it was the same cylinder i don't know. So this news wasn't a big worry at the time. I let Dan get on with it and i got another call a few days later...

One of the exhaust valves was bent and the head would need to be rebuilt. I toyed with the idea of getting a 2nd hand one but after weighing up the options and the risks i decided to have it rebuilt.

By this point i was due to go away on holiday. So Dan was to message me on Facebook with any decisions that would need to be made.

Despite checking Facebook daily while on holiday i didn't get a message. Which was odd. Then after about 8 days of being there i noticed Facebook wasn't alerting me of the new messages and had just filed them away! so now i was a week behind and very unlikely to get the car back for dragonball . Anyway i had the option of a port and polish or upgraded components. but due to the holiday credit card bills i knew i would have and the mounting cost of all the work i decided not to take that option and just go for the "standard" rebuild.

Well in the meantime i decided as they had it off already the intake plenum was looking very scruffy. it has been painted in some odd black sticky paint. so i asked them to strip it and paint it.

I returned from my holiday and work continued with regular updates on facebook and by phone. Which.. because we all like photos ill start posting. They took all the photos and iv linked from there facebook page so i hope you can all see them...

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When they removed the turbo one of the studs looks like it had been rounded.

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The turbo oil drain gasket wasn't being clamped fully giving an oil leak, the bolts were about 1mm too long.

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I popped over just before dragonball to take the radio out of the car to put into my UK car to take on dragonball. While i was there Dan raised a mild concern about the turbo. It felt ok when you held it and span the blades. but there seemed to be a little too much rumble for him to be 100% happy. So as i was on a day off i ran the turbo over to turbo technics in northampton who took a quick look and gave it the thumbs up. and the very slight rumble you could feel was just due to the lack of oil as its obviously off the car.

At this point they were finding a lot of little things wrong with the car that will be outlined below. So i decided to just leave them to it and fix everything that needed doing!

Apparently the bores are in good condition.

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head back and on.

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cams in

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They found this. Some boost pipe for the waste-gate was cable tied to the steering column. Also... note the pipe in the top right... more on that later.

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A nice ugly manifold

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Lower intake manifold painted

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The put a bead on the turbo for me as i didnt have one.

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The oil drain extention bit at the top of this pic didnt fit my garret turbo so it couldnt be used. They refabricated the existing one and made a nicer pipe.

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Installed

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Inlet side going back on

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Idler bearing is noisy and had play so a new one was orderd

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1 x broken injector connector, 1 x broken cam position connector

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This coolant pipe mentioned above. It had been resting on the downpipe. Only the wrap on the downpipe has stopped it melting completely and spraying coolant everywhere!

Its a 4" downpipe so there isnt much space back there.

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Plenum painted

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almost there

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The cause of the fraying belt... The ati crank pully. It was a very tight fit.

ATI hole diameter 34.95mm

Toyota Stock crank Pulley 35.04mm

The ATI had been fitted with an interference fit!!! New one ordered from Toyota.

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nice big breathers

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The fuel rail was installed without spaces to give the fuel return line clearance. This was fixed.

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Previously the car was running 1.2 bar and that made 520 at the fly (i think)

The car was then given a map tweak.

This run was 1.2 bar and it hit 520 at the hubs. Click for the vid.

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Its now running 1.4 but i forgot to ask what the final number was

The car still has a little cold start niggle that Dan was sure he had nailed so im taking the car back and he will be fixing that FOC for me.

Along with all the above its had a new set of plugs and a tonne of new gaskets. Also there was a couple of little oil leaks that were sorted out. But i dont remember where they were from off the top of my head.

Im sure they also did some other bits and pieces. i cant remember. Ah yes. The oil pressure warning light on my SPA guage wasnt working. that was just a dry solder joint. which they fixed. and they also made my pillar pod allign up properly.

So i drove the car to work after i picked it up yesterday and i it drives like a dream. Boosts great. and i feel like i can drive it and enjoy it with no feer of it blowing up like i always did before

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i recomend the vid at the end. i love the noise

hopefully ill update this with more pics when i get it to the bodyshop. i have a abflug type 1 bonnet and rear bumper to go on that have been sat in the garrage and a load of interior bits.

The bay is far from perfect. its still a bit ratty and neads a clean.

Im waiting on some nice red ajustable cam pulleys from Titan, and i have a clear cover for them and i have already painted the spark plug cover white.

So happy for you mate and glad all sorted and you can enjoy her. Some if those problems are appalling

yeah. glad they found that pipe on the down pipe. you couldnt eve see it in the position it was down there.

Good job you caught the problems when you did, matey.

Engine's now looking sweet!

Nice thread and looking forward to more updates, great work

Nice one matey, she's looking good, can't wait to see more updates

Who tie tags a hose to the fecking steering column!?

Nice to hear all went well.

Who tie tags a hose to the fecking steering column!?

That was the best bit of the thread

Pleased for you

Nice work!

Nice write up, good to read you're enjoying the supra again.

I love this Supra story !! great read! btw: sounds very agressive