paul mac

give me a shout if you want it

Dan i have a home made tool that served me well when changing the cam belt but as Mig points out the darn posties are a nuisance at the mo, is this the first time the pulley has been off ?

i would be amazed if theres anything lurking in the UK but what did that scandanavian carbon jobby come in at, anyone ?

little spots like this can be decieving, they can show the tip of the iceberg, i had a very small pin prick of rust that turned into this http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=67382&highlight=sill if you do it yourself with no experience of body work chances are it will look like a bodge, and if you miss the smallest bit of rust it will come back, for what it costs get a body shop to sought it

oh dear i think your man has got something sadly wrong somewhere, i have never had any banging gear changes when reseting the ecu so i would discount this, i would get him to reconect everything as was and get the car running right then get someone else to connect your controller as this guy sounds like he hasn't got a clue, he may have left a plug off or have the ground from the controller conected somewhere wrong, the ecu controls the way the box shifts so he may have spliced into something he shouldn't, to make a muff of the electical installation on a boost controller takes some doing, get someone else to do it

wow now theres a project a VSTOL supra , totally agree, complete nonsense, if it worked car manufactures would have done it years ago, how about feeding the cold from the air con into the intake as well, i've heard that works wonders

i think we can all kid ourselves we're a bit of an automotive engineer but when you see it like that it is so easy to understand, i love the bit at the end when the totty and the bloke leap out of the car and start running on the drums attached to the wheels, guess health and safety wasn't as tight in them days , so next challenge the limited slip diff

love the Nurbergring vid, it must be very satisfying to go round the whole circuit and not be overtaken once, good job fella

my concern with this approach would be if the car has been maintained so poorly that the welch plug has rotted through it must be only a matter of time before another goes, then another, etc, personally i would just buy all the correct ones from Toyota (their peanuts) and replace the lot

couldn't have put it better myself

it really does depend on what kind of power you are going for, and i think your quite fortunate being a girlie you haven't got flamed for asking this question , seriously, you need to do some more research, look at members cars/garages and maybe get a ride in a single with the kind of power you are looking at, if you keep the power to around the 450-500 mark you can get away with keeping the budget well down and still have a car quicker than 95% of whats on the road, if budget is not an issue go for it. Granted i am in the middle of spending a lot more money on my car (this is choice not necesity) but have a look in my garage at its current spec which has been running without any major issues (touch wood ) for 4 years on a budget at least half of the figures i have read in this thread:taped:, the other thing you would need to do if you cant/dont have time, to do it yourself is find a reputable garage that is not going to do shoddy work or rip you off.

no its defo yours this time, i'll drop it off with the wedge this weekend

great job Ryan, my maths is shabby but that looks very near to the elusive 50/50 weight bias, i'm sure someone can work it out

i have one you can have gratis

welcome aboard and a contructive and well written first post (unlike some 15 years olds round here )

oh Ray, baby, your the exception to the rule, i'll give you a buzz

ere Ramondo, you up my neck of the woods at weekend i'll drop that money off i owe you, interest should have it into 3 figures by now

spot on Gav, buyer beware, i would not like to see the result of a manual ecu fitted to an auto and vice versa, it probably wouldn't be pretty, if the cars even started at all

i presume you do not have instructions in Norwegian, the profec is one of the most easy to tune boost controllers if it like the older model i have, all it will have is dip switchs on the back which you need set to internal wastegate, the boost should have high and low settings and a control for gain, the gain is what controls how your wastegate opens, either (in basic terms) fast or slow, set the gain to mid way and try it from there, if you set low boost to say 1 bar adjust the gain down (or up) till you achieve this figure

feel for you mate, i think this has to one of the supra ownership nightmare scenarios, if this happened to mine i would have to bite the bullet and buy new, it just wouldn't be worth the risk of a second hand or repaired one

shouldn't you be tucked up in bed in your jammys with teddy by now, are or you hiding under the covers making tents

:rlol: oh dear, never mind back to school in September

its quite amusing these n/a threads that claim all this power pop up with boring regularity, can we see a dyno sheet of your 270 bhp TT killing beast and could you tell us exactly how this air filter and "extra fuel" is going to hike up the power, yes your right all those thousands of pounds and the development i put into my car to get it to the power it is wasn't a challenge at all and was to use your words was a "boring no-brainer", oh why did i bother i should have concentrated my efforts on the exciting world of the n/a and just pose around driving it trading off the image and reputation (for being fast) that the TT built up, welcome to the club newbie

not being funny mate but do you actually own a supra, because if you do you will know you dont have to go to all this trouble to see off a Nova, and what ecu and engine internals do you have, to run an 8500 rpm rev limit

the larger one is the feed to the filter, one of the smaller ones is the return to the tank and one of the others is a vent that goes to the charcoal caniste, you will have to trace them back to figure which is which