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Supra is poorly :(


Gaz Walker
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Its not looking good for TOTB.

 

Supra was at Thor on Wednesday for some fine tuning before the event. Pete was running it up and completed the 1.4 bar run without problems.

 

The 1.6 bar run split the coolant hose off between the block and the heater matrix, spraying coolant over the Carbon/Carbon clutch.

 

The car will start but refuses to select a gear and stalls when the clutch is depressed. These leave us with 2 options

 

1) The clutch is broken

2) We have "crank walk" and the block is gonna need rebuilt. On other cars this isn't so bad as you can drop the bottom end off to replace the thrust washers with crank it situ - with the 2JZ you can't :(

 

As good as we are I don't think were going to get the engine out, rebuilt and back in, down to Thor and remapped then at TOTB on Sunday!

 

So Kevin and Rob set of a 2.30pm yesterday and arrived at Coventry at 9pm last night, loaded the car on a trailer and drove back arriving back here at 5 this morning. They've caught a couple of hours sleep and are now working on the car to get it running again.

 

If its the clutch, RPS are going to step in and deliver all new replacement parts for Saturday to enable us to rebuild the clutch and get it down to Thor on Saturday night and remap so we can run.

 

So far I'd like to thank these guys:

 

Pete, Nod & Tony at Thor Racing

Patrick, Matt and team at Rouge Systems for the use of ramps, support and diagnosis 250 miles away.

Rob @ RPS

 

I thought you guys should know what were going through to get the car running.

 

Regards,

 

Gaz.

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Update folks.

 

Supra seems to be well again. The RPS clutch was at fault which we managed to get bits for locally with a bit customising, so car is going back down to Thor tonight or tommorow for mapping!

 

Fingers crossed.

 

Glad it wasn't nothing to expensive or serious to fix.

 

Regards,

 

Gaz.

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Nice one mate...

 

Wa sit the heat change that broke the parts when the coolant hit the unit ?

 

Well to be honest a bearing was on the wrong way (which broke on the dyno) and it had to come from the factory like that... plus a spring clip and some other small part which we had to machine.

 

The clutch plates seem to have escaped being hit with coolant which is good because carbon, unlike steal, will absorb anything that hits it. Slippy coolant not good for clutch!

 

Gaz.

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Kin ell Gaz - you must be loving all the trips back and forth to Coventry! :(((

 

Good luck BTW - and tell Kev not to drive like a pussy for a change :)

 

 

Paul,

 

Its not me that goes to Thor its Kev ;)

 

He's learnt not to now. 6-7000 RPM launches are the key! :D

 

Gaz.

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