Chris and Alana

Well i do tae kwon-do twice a week wich is pretty good exercise and it also good for self defence , I also have tropical fish . (Alana).

I'v got my self a nice collection of brake stuff sitting in my bedroom (for a J-spec) and would like to get them on my car this weekend. I'm fitting. Goodridge Braided Lines (front and rear) 3G grooved and dimpled disks (front and rear) CW Fast Road Pads (front and rear) and filling up with 5.1 fluid. Are there any 'special tools' I'll need to fit this lot (Like wierd sized allan key's or sockets)? Also is there a walkthrough on here that explains how to change them (disk's mostly)? Thanks guy's.

Well i got mine from diamond iam 23 and have 2 years no claims. I have insured all mods and it cost us £978 fully comp for 12 months for me an my partner (chris). It was the cheapest we could find by far

If it was me I would trade in the laguna and get a 2.2 vectra SRi, the older type (02-03ish) for about 4K (not the best cars but good or 4k, half leather and nippy with stiffer suspension etc), that leaves you with £14- 15k which with a little patiance will get you a nice single turbo supra for the weekends thats what my plan is, but I can't do it for a couple years until I get more pay

£100 delivered and I'll have it

Hi there, I saw a silver supra parked in Blockbuster's car park in westerhope at about 1:10pm today. Reg no. M849 ***. I'm sure there was a blonde lass driving and a lad in the passanger seat. The car had a vailside front bumber, vailside side skirts, standard rear spoiler, aftermarket wheels and rear tinted windows, looked nice. Anyone from here? I was in the big blue british gas van parked two cars to your right

I believe that on a turbo with less backpressure being a good thing and that exhaust system design isn’t quite so important as it would be on a N/A then a powerflow exhaust would probably do. However, if you value your hearing I wouldn’t bother. I had one when I was slightly younger and although my car back then only had 1250cc and no turbo the exhaust note droned like hell, to the point where I felt like ripping it out I also believe that powerflow can only bend 2.5" pipe and ideally you would want a 3" system as a minimum. Actually I may know someone who is selling a Super Dragger exhaust (second hand) I'll see if I can get in touch and find out if he still has it and if he will post it. Where are you from?

Just incase anyone might be interested, My RLTC seems to be working spot on. I had a fiddle with the dat file in the middle of the week and tried it out in the dry, it was simply amazing, wouldn’t let the backend go anywhere I had to wait until it was wet to test it properly though (today was that day) and oh my god I never realised just how much the back wheels slip when the roads are wet. I again took it to a nice quite spot of tarmac and tried to spin the car, RLTC takes a sissy fit but controls the rear end a treat. I simulated a 90degree turn as if I was pulling out of a junction a little to quick and it worked really well indeed, again controlling the backend and keeping me on the road. I then floored it in a straight line and there was no back end stepping out just the odd occasional soft misfire keeping me pointing in the planned direction I am a very happy chapy that things are now working as they should and I would have to say that it is a MASSIVE improvement over the standard 'slip control' I wish I had bought it earlier. Also a big for everyone's help, especially terminator who helped me along in my times of need.

Oh, thought I better mention I have a TT auto (GZ) and to the best of my knowledge it has a LSD.

Is it ok to use a slightly thicker gear oil? if so I might just use the castrol stuff

I'm wanting to change my diff fluid soon and was wondering if Halfords 75w90 gear oil (part synthetic) would be fine to use. They dont seem to sell a fully synthetic version but it's only £6.99/litre I'm sure it's going to be better than whats in there seen as I dont know when it was last changed and it's probably going to be filthy.

I done mine black with a white 'Supra' decal. Subtle but I like it

I forgot about that one

I have the sensible option Phil and Yeah the engine did cut like hell with the back wheels off the ground so everything seems ok there. I did think myself that the launch control shouldn't affect the car but when I turned the adjuster off and on it would cut my engine dead and not allow it to fire up until I set the adjuster to off. Anyway I changed it to 10000rpm and it didnt happen again. You'll see in the file I sent what I've done (hope I didnt make a mess ) Do you know what fuse I can pull to disable the standard traction control? or is it a case of press the button everytime I get in.

The Blitz nur spec R with double decat is pretty loud, although I believe the RSR maybe slightly louder, either way it makes the supra sound very nice indeed

I like the ones in the 2nd pic and the 4th pic, nice selection of wheels though

I'm always in two minds when it comes to a spoilerless supra, sometimes I think it looks ace, other times I think it really needs a spoiler. When I eventually get a re-spray I think, well so fa,r Im going to keep my TRD spoiler (it's my fav spoiler) and get the badges and brake light taken off. I think If you go spoilerless and smooth the whole car needs to have the same look from front to back to really pull it off. Mind you though, I think a very, very smooth supra would look the dog's and bring it bang up to date in relation to other supercars. At the end of the day though. . The decision is yours.

I think it would look nice if those sticky out bits on the side were cut off

Oh forgot to ask, can you adjust how sensitive the 'wet' setting is or only the other settings?

Update. . . I jacked the back end of the car up, put it in drive (adjuster set to wet) and pressed the accelerator and guess what, the car starts to cough and splutter so everything works fine there. However I did notice that when I changed the adjuster to check the other settings (dry, 10%, 20%) they all seemed to cut in at the same time. Is this just because the wheels are spinning so quick being off the floor? Another thing is that in the wet it didn’t seem to do it's job yesterday, maybe a job for terminator. oh yeah, when I pulled the traction control fuse to disable the standard traction control my O/D light kept flashing on and off (also turning over/drive on and off as the engine revs kept fluctuating) I pulled the little 7.5a fuse in the fuse holder in the engine bay (3rd one up, middle row I think) Is this the right one to pull? Thanks for all your help so far guy's, you have to love this forum

the only limiters I have changed were 4 RPM settings in the launch control menu. I changed them from 0rpm to 10,000rpm after reading older threads regarding engine cut on auto's. It solved the problem but I cant think why that would affect the operation of the traction control. I have felt it cut the injectors before I allocated the wheels as they were all allocated wrong for my car from the old dat file so it was cutting quite abit. Im confident the injector wiring is fine. The car wouldnt start if that was wrong either would it? Oh the joy's of modern technology. . . .

Ian just answered my question Thanks I did have the standard traction control turned off (by the button in the car) when I first tried it but it still didnt work I'll see what I can do later today and post up on my findings.

Hi Phil I'm going to jack the back end up later today after work and see what happens when I spin the wheels (in gear and engine running etc) to see if it cut's in. If it doesnt I'm going to adjust the launch control settings and see if that helps. If I get no joy I'll send you the dat file I'm using. Thnaks for offering to have a look, your a big help Does the standard traction control fuse need to be pulled for RLTC to work? Or as long as it's switched off? In other words if the standard slip control was left in the on position would it stop RLTC from working?

Yeah I thought it should keep the back in track but it doesnt And yeah my tyers are fine. They are Goodyear Eagle F1's with over half the tread left all over.

I put the standard traction control on and left the RLTC on its wet setting and on the way home I put the foot down on the dual carridgeway and the back slid out and the standard slip control came in first there must be something not right. Im confident the wiring is fine and I know it pics up all 4 wheel speeds and RPM. The car drives fine aswell it just seems that the RLTC isnt kicking in. Could it be because I altered the launch control rpm settings?