Andy Blyth

I'll have to have a bit of a wander round site, see if I can leave a calling card. I'm champion in myself. Just plodding through life waiting for Japfest! Looking forward to the BIG Bristol meet too. Will be nice to have a meet closer to home. Spent £45 in petrol for the last Weston meet I've been doing a little playing with my car since the last meet. You may remember me having trouble with my 1st turbo. I put it in TTC mode and it boosted nicely when holding the revs at 3000. Putting my foot down in 5th would get it to boost to 1.2 bar before falling back to 0.9 bar a couple of seconds later. To me (frankly a beginner at this stuff) this proves that the 1st turbo doesn't have as much oomph as the 2nd (as the wastegate is fed with a boost reference from the compressor housing of the 1st). All this is pushing me to start to look at a fix, using hybrids of course! I want a bit more power but nothing close to the level of a single. And to me, the sequential system is the raison d'etre of the Supra. Hope you are doing well, been following your gearbox / clutch threads with interest. I'm going to be going round changing all the fluids in my car soon. After speaking to a friend who works in a BMW garage, he reckons the M3 and the M5 has the same Getrag V160 gearbox. I'm going to give their gearbox fluid a go.

About 6:40 tonight driving past the New Tech Centre. Reg: L*** SNO I _think_. I'm not very good at this game!

Leave the M5 at J21 and head towards Weston (i.e. turn right if you've come from the North). At the first roundabout you come to (about 1/2 a mile?) turn right. You can't miss it from there!

A cruise through Bristol sounds pretty good to me. Saves driving all the way to Weston too! Should be available for this one, especially since there's more than 13 mins notice to get there!

Haha, I saw you driving mate! Came down Ralph Road, saw your car parked in the depot and had a preminition I'd see you soon. Two seconds later and there you are! Didn't react quick enough to flash my headlights at you, had to resort to my hazards after I had passed. Would have beeped back if I didn't have such a girlie horn!

As far as I know at the moment, in the bin! I can only see the stainless ones in there at the moment. I haven't had a chance (or a need) to take the dials apart yet though, they could be hiding behind there.

Can these EL-GLO dials be fitted with nothing behind them? If so, they'll be free to a good home.

Nee botha. These things happen. Looking forward to getting them fitted before Japfest. Not too fussed on the stainless dials that came with the car.

Just sent you the extra money by Paypal.

I'm well up for this - can't wait! 1: Wile e Coyote (at plymouth) OK 2: Blackie (at tiverton junction 5.45) OK 3: DodgyRog+Jennie ( Exeter services 5.35) OK (I guess) 4: SL4444 (at tiverton junction 5.45) OK 5: Edge (Morrisons M5 J21 6.35) OK 6: Juimsupra (Morrisons M5 J21 6.35) OK 7: Dcarrter21 (Morrisons M5 J21 6.35) OK 8: buster123467 ( shell ashburton 5.05) OK 9: Waderz06 (Morrisons M5 J21 6.35) OK 10: Knightrider (exeter services 5.35) OK (via pm) 11: L33 (Morrisons M5 J21 6.35) OK 12: supramatt ( ? ) 13: Marco79 ( M5 J19 Sliproad ) 14: andyb2083 (Morrisons M5 J21 6.35) OK

Hi lui, could you add me to the list too please, 1 stand pass and 1 entry ticket. Money has been sent by Paypal. Cheers 98. andyb2083 (1 club stand pass with 1 entry ticket please)paid via paypal 99. m_life (1 club stand pass with 4 entry ticket please)paid via paypal

Sure, why not. After all, I've done quite a bit of work on the car since last time!

Oops! Yeah, I meant piston. For pictures of them, see this thread. I guess the easiest way to see if this is the problem is to go for a short drive (a few miles maybe) without using the brakes too much. When you come to a stop, go round to each wheel and try and judge the temperature of the brakes. (be careful not to burn yourself!) Often, just getting your hand close to the brake disk will be enough. If one of the brakes is significantly hotter than the others, it could be pointing to a siezed piston.

I've had a similar problem with a previous car. It turned out to be a siezed piston in the brake caliper. Might be worth checking out.

It's the one closest to the New Tech Centre. Handy for getting to the M5 when the A38 is busy. Where do you park nomally?

The red one seems to park in the NTC car park (as I do). I think I've seen the black one once before too. Although I couldn't say if it were black or dark green / blue. It was too dark to see! It was definately a TT though, it almost reached the sound barrier coming out of the west gate.

'Fraid not mate. This was a blonde haired lady from the half second glimpse I got. I think I would have recognised Jim's other half from the Weston meet.

I left a card this lunchtime. Guess we just wait and see now. It was a nice looking red spoiler-less Supe. I'm guessing it's an N/A due to lack of SMIC. I think its a facelift model but I'm no expert yet.

I saw this car today at Airbus in Filton (with the foxy lady driver!) If I see it in the carpark I'll leave a calling card.

Silver, just off the M32 here

Cool - Hi! Haha you should try catching me again! Since putting my subs in the boot the car now weighs about the same as a bus! Just without the torque of a 10 litre engine I doubt it could keep up with an N/A now

Looked pretty clean to be honest... may have just been the orange streetlights though I had a feeling it was Twin Turbo Jims car. Thought I'd seen it before at the Weston meet back in Feb.

Loving that spoiler, one of the few aftermarket ones that I like on the Supra! Saw you 9pm tonight on Glouscester Road, near Blockbusters in Filton.

I've spent a while searching for an answer to this but found nothing yet... As I understand it, the boost produced by the first turbo should go up to and hold at 0.7 bar until the engine reaches 4000 rpm when the second spools into play. What I am looking for is a description of how the first turbo comes in, e.g. at what engine speed does it start boosting and by what engine speed does it reach full boost? I ask this because I believe mine is boosting particularly weakly. For example, if I cruise at 2000 rpm in third then open the throttle, there is no spooling sound or movement of the boost gauge until at least 2500 rpm, maybe 3000 rpm. After this the boost increases fairly linearly (although sometimes there are oscillations of around maybe 0.2 bar superimposed on this, intermittent) to around 0.5 bar at 4000 rpm. Of course, after this the second turbo comes online and the boost raises quickly, and peaks at 0.9 bar. For reference, the car has a second decat and a custom 2.5" decat back exhaust. Also, pulsing the throttle with no load on the engine never results in any boost; the BOV makes no sound. BOV operation is normal when driving under load. Am I entirely mad in thinking my car is a little less responsive than it should be? Thanks for any help guys!