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Hi guys, I'm now running in permanent TTC mode and have removed everything that I no longer need. I'm a little worried though that the wastegate is not being operated by the VSV, as I only have one hose on the back of the VSV that runs directly to the wastegate actuator. Does the top vac hose that runs from the turbo to the top of the actuator take care of the opening and closing of the wastegate or does the VSV need to perform the task? Any help would be great! Matt

Looking good mate, like it!

Nah mate, it's matte! Like this:

It's wrinkle finish paint IMI, looks great in the flesh, but hard to capture on camera!

Here's how the engine set-up currently looks with everything removed!

Cheers for the comments guys, much appreciated! I'll try to keep this up to date as much as I can. Off now to swap over my starter motor, wish me luck

When I started working for Redline Magazine as a 20 year old numbnut who was still a little wet behind the ears, I got my first taste of just how awesome the Toyota Supra Twin Turbo really was, and after taking many a passenger ride in our Castrol graphic smothered project car, I'd fallen head other heels for one of the greatest cars to come out of Japan. The one sore point in my otherwise flawless fairytale, was that until I was 24, I wasn't allowed to get my sweaty palms behind the wheel for (which was probably a good thing at the time!) Apart from thoroughly pissing me off at the time, the rejection just spurred me on even more to one day have my own Supra and be able to stick my middle finger up to the powers that be who ran our magazine car insurance. Night after night, I'd been dreaming about driving around in my own Supra and even became a member on this very forum around 7 years ago just to get my fix. Thankfully, last year, the planets aligned and all my dreams came true, I finally became the owner of '93, J Spec TT Supra that I could drag back to my man cave and lavish all my time and attention. I bought the car last June for a very good price that I dare not repeat, but with the bargain price tag, also came a hefty list of things that needed doing to bring it back up to scratch with the VSS at the top of the list. The car already played host to most of the HKS products catalogue and rumour had it that it was running BPU at around the 350-380bhp mark. This is yet to be confirmed thus far, but even in the 7/8 months of ownership, I've done my very best to improve on what has taken place before, and make the awesome JZA80 into something I'm really going to be proud to pilot. Below are a load of pics I've taken as I've gone along sorting little jobs here and there and generally trying to tidy things up a little. Hopefully my little descriptions will give you a little bit of direction as we go. Hope you like it as much as I do! Matt When I got the car, it looked like this, active front spoiler, 19inch HRE wheels and factory boot spoiler, the latter was the first to go. The Supras 'ashtray' sorry...interior had seen better days and the owner seemed to flick his fags out wherever he could, I got to work sorting this first! When I got it Plasti dip interior panels New Momo wheel and flocked gearknob New headunit The engine wasn't in such bad shape, but I still had my own vision of what I wanted it to look like. It went from this: With a bit of this And this To this On the outside, I removed the rear spoiler to look like this Added a front intercooler and some more breathing like this And with the addition of some Nismo GT-R vents and a new front splitter, the front end currently looks like this Carbon wrapped low level spoiler from Ibraar added Showing off I've just finished converting the car to permanent TTC and I've removed all of the hard pipes, butterflies, actuators and hoses that aren't needed anymore, I've also wrinkle finished the cam covers and replaced the gaskets, just need to get a few pics of the setup. I'll keep you posted!

Looks awesome mate, top skills!

Is that it? We want longer vids

Not to mention all of the water that will find its way into the engine bay! Looks great as it is

Very cool, nice work!

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Brilliant, thanks mate!

Any chance you could list the bolt sizes buddy, I've always wanted to replace my old ones for new! Matt

FWIW, I think the splitter looks much better with the ears on too!

Great thread mate and top attention to detail, hope I can get mine looking anywhere near as mint as yours!

Just taken it for a run and it seems to have died down quite a bit, but is still noticeable at low speed turning!

Everything's worked fine until now mate, even before I painted the pot and had my my intercooler installed!

I didn't take any pipes off of the pump, I painted the reservoir a couple of weeks back! Bled the whole system, stopped the volcano, but now it won't stop juddering and whining, yep full and kept full! Very strange one! - - - Updated - - - Was pretty constant and kept the reservoir topped up!

Hi guys, I'm sure it's come up before but no previous posts seem to cure my problem. I have bled the system by raising the car and topping up/turning left and right then starting up left right etc but my power steering is now whining and juddering like mad. I have cleared the air from the system, at least it's not spluttering out now, but it is whining like mad and I can't seem to sure it! Is the pump totalled? The steering is actually okay albeit juddery! Anyone got any ideas? Will it disappear? Please help! Matt

You only have to look at the price! Real Brides are anything between 2-3k each

Looking good mate! A real blast from the past with that kit, but one of the only Veilside kits I actually had a soft spot for. Will be interested to see how this turns out, loving the green cage against the white.

Surely it's a while away yet, but yep I'll be coming down!

Keep the updates flowing mate! Matt