David P

A one minute job to nip up a 6mm bolt and everybody's happy. http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?284893-Apexi-spring-loaded-tail-silencer-115mm

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/330684118150?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

This trapped nerve is getting beyond a joke now and I haven't been up to much Supra stuff, but have given the broken valve-body a good clean and inspection. The pan filter I've declared a write-off yet I'm confident that the damage to the casting has gone no further than can be seen and as it's merely an oil squirter I've straightened it up, keyed-it, cleaned it with methanol and repaired both inside and out, with Plastic Padding Super Steel.

Use a T.T. engine loom, fit a couple of sensors and Bob's your Dad.

I hope you catch the/if backfire on video. Good to see alternative ways and means of skinning the cat.

P.m. dr_jekyll, alias Craig recommends somewhere new had opened and were good with N/A-T but I can't remember who/where? He's near Newport. Where in the Devon are you? and how far will you go? There's a link to a video of Craig's 500 bhp N/A-T dyno-run, and another of a high-speed tunnel-run in it after mapping, both are on the A343/0E Hybrid Transmission Group video page, there's a link to it in the Drive-Train section of 'my garage'. It's not called "The Labyrinth" for nothing. The studious path is a resource of Supra 2JZA80-GE Go-Faster information. Or be random and follow the 'magic-finger'.

Thank you, I hope some day to give you that blast in it I promised. Suck it and see. If it continues to make a noise you'd sooner not hear, with your Tinker's skills you could soon knock up a sexy in-line baffle.

Fabulous work, I can see lasers in your eyes. I think you should knock-up a 100 whilst your jigged up for the job.

Double post.

That open-filtered idle-control valve will, emit a "moderate" sucking sound at tick-over when the engine's warm, yet a cold-start cycle with the bonnet open will shrivel your ears. It did mine, but I'm an Old Fart who doesn't like fingernails scratching on chalk-boards either. Hands-on bespoke builds are far more interesting to me than wallets-on plug&play builds, you're making a really nice job of this. I follow your progress with interest and think this N/A-T build should be moved to Project Cars.

It needs more "Afters". Put the gasket in place and scribe with a sharp implement a mark within it, then keep nagging at it with the flappy wheel until the scribed line is gone.

Supra Gaz, good handle. I ran LPG on a V6 4Runner for 70k miles with an oil drip-feed system and experienced no problems whatsoever.

First dry calm day I can catch a petro Nerd camera man in the daylight hours, I've found some agricultural tunnels under the A14 to go and have a play in.

Sorted man.

Between stock T.T. and BPU at the mo? I like my Oompa Loompa's. Yes, but not until the nuts&bolts jobs are jobbed. Thank you. I'm itching to get a decent fly-by vid-clip but yesterday was Guano day and today was sleet and strong winds. My garage has details of all present and planned specifications. I plan to wring another 100 bhpftlbs out of it yet, auto is quicker than manual and flappy-paddle gear-changing is fun. I'm degenerating into a grim state with this trapped nerve and my Old Fartness is shining through. Nevertheless, I still managed to pick up and carry my end of Dave's transmission to load it into his Jazz. Then in my Supra, managed put the willies up him before I'd even changed into second, so there's life in the Old Fart yet. Those flappy wheels will make the job a lot easier, you'll be amazed how much material they soon shift, I prefer the ones that have double that depth of abrasive. The sounds are coming together nicely, the supercharger whine will be a tad higher when the smaller pulley goes on and should then sing a harmony with the SARD pipes. The looks will be a lot better once it's sprayed Aston Martin California Sage metallic. I need to swap in a 4.083 Torsen, repair and fit the reworked valve-body and complete the water/meth installation upgrade. Then apart from a few maintenance jobs and electrickery conundrums to attend to, it'll be ready for the 3.6" pulley and another session on the dyno. I'm looking to access a Workshop with a lift, to allow me to cheat the weather and complete most of this in a day. Today, Dave The Plethera turned up to pick up a transmission, wearing a T shirt that I'm sure had "I'm Anal" printed on it? My efforts to convince him that he must prove his Supra Nerdness by standing beside the road in rain and wind to record a fly-by clip, had to include a promise that he wouldn't die. However, the wind on the microphone was louder than most of my Supra's noises, but it does show a constant-thrust/constant-traction 2nd to 3rd gear-change.

It's intimated to be a U.K. spec, but I'd wager a pint it's an N/A. http://regarchive.com/plate/K327MCL

Thank you. So do/did I, I didn't know it did that, I wonder if some local cyclists have managed faster times with the hairs singed off their legs? I've always been 'anal' with my pipes. The sounds of the cars I tinker with are important to me and this time I have induction sucking, supercharger-whining and exhaust-pipe growling to play with. Lexus sent the LFA to Yamaha, I'll see what I can do in Bob's shed. It looks like my 18 years old N/A auto has lost her flaming virginity.

Supra Bogging Drag Racing, on ripened bovine slurry blended with good old Northamptonshire clay. Santa Plop maybe? It was like a RWD Class Rally-Cross sprint and great fun, it looks from the clips it was doing 0 to 60 in around 6 seconds which is amazing, because I darn't go past 80, but I couldn't resist a return run, which caught up with the Sh!t Cart so I called it a day. The greater the speed the lesser is more-r and 80 Leptons required Hovercraft Piloting skills to flow the kinetics for a gear change and keep the sharp end floating forwards and the blunt end wafting between the verges. I've been laid-up with that trapped nerve for what feels like for ever and now I'm up and firing on most cylinders, I needed to blow off some steam/cobwebs? On the open road it sounds the Mutts nutleys I'll catch a nerd in the daylight and plot a fly-by clip. However, the only option to navigate Kettering from one side to the other, is by means of One-Way single-track Rat-Runs through double-parked Victorian Terraced Streets. I have to be careful not to venture over 3k, even un-boosted, because the dulcet note leaves a trail of car alarms behind it. I've done it on purpose a couple of times, because I can, and just for the hell of it, I'm sure I cracked the 100 a minute barrier, just to get it out of my system of course. It's hilarious. A supercharger conversion front resonator box is on the list, it'll knock about 3dB off which should mean that it'll only set car alarms off when I want it to.

I was wearing my Wellington boots whilst driving, so my right foot was in auto cowshlip traction mode. Don't try this at home folks, but it was great fun.

I've been to visit my parents and have multi-tasked the trip with a video fest and some pipe chaving. I found a discreet and isolated location, to scare every creature away from whilst performing this nerdish activity and found without the tunnel acoustics of terraced streets, the thunder is not too far off the mark. I then went for a play on a couple of my private rural drag strips This clip was taken by my Dad and it's a good job for a technophobic 81 years old who was wrapped up like Scott of the Antarctic. No double-braking and a clean launch with good traction on dry road down the middle at around freezing point with just a little chirp into second. On my way home, the weather had turned to light rain and Farmer Giles had spent all day generously and repeatedly spilling smelly fertiliser cows guano slurry along the whole length of my other private, drag it if you dare strip, which even in the best of conditions requires attention to keep pointing in the direction you want to go, constantly compensating for the uneven undulations of this play ground. I had set the camera up before I left my parents home and didn't want to waste the effort so I gave Giles a run for his money. First run began in the thickest of it, Supra bogging, watch the road for the larger plops and generous stripes of it, you can hear it splattering into the wheel arches. Second clip was the return run, 80 leptons were enough to scratch that itch, I should have left the camera running, at the end of the clip you can see I've caught up with the guano cart who's cup floweth over. Is 0 to 60 in 6 seconds with a max of 80 Leptons ran in both directions on a cow shit strip a World Record?