David P

You're not having it back. Now I just need to kid Noz into popping round and give these Thunder Pipes a good bulling up.

I darn't admit the huge amounts of pain killers I've popped during the past few days and after yet another sleepless night, this morning in desperation I used the wardrobe door handle as; The finger of God to lean apon, and eased apart the offending vertebra, ten minutes of this firm and gentle prying and Bingo, a self taught, self administered Osteopractor hits the jackpot. Ding-Dong! It's the SARD exhaust system. I've been laid out like a hunched corpse for three days and needed a reality check which I received from having to visit nine Motor-Factors to find and buy 5 gaskets then popped into my local friendly garage at 4pm. There I watched 3 of them wrestling for 45 mins changing a back box on a little white van, then it was my turn. "What fit that lot! it's a bit late for that", he said. "Trust me", I replied, as I emptied the pile of pipes and "things" out from the back of my Supra van. Just as the lift was up to working height the phone rang. "Back in a minute" he said. 10 minutes later he returned to find that the Leprechauns had been and done it, and swept up, and I was waiting to scrounge a cable tie to secure the wide-band sensor. My miracle back cure hit the ground running and I unleashed a bucketful of frustrations, with the car up on a lift, in 12 minutes, a born again cripple achieved what would have taken half a days grovelling around on Bob's drive. It worked out to cost me a pound a minute and is the wisest £12 I've spent for a long time. I've nailed it straight on as is, to see how it sounds. At tick-over, it sounds like Barry White, softly humming a ballad up a drain pipe. At light throttle when normally aspirated, it's around an average Scooby-Growl volume. Cruising at motorway speeds, it's a gentle purr without drone. The last sounds on the list should be WOT but is more apt. Apply boost and the God of Thunder is unleashed, instantly, give it WOT and all his Thunder Mates join in, it almost drowns out the supercharger, it's awesome, maybe just a little bit too awesome, but great fun. I popped round to visit a pal, when I left, I did a slippery 0 to 20 launch in the 20 limit, he was standing behind the pipe at the time and the boost is instant. He called me later to say it nearly blew him off his feet and the sound could be measured on the Richter Scale because the ground was shaking. I managed one pic of the system fitted, it shows the Y section I plan to replace with another incorporating a small resonator, to tame it just a little. I'll get a vid clip when I come across a petrol nerd during daylight hours.

As can be seen in the pics linked, I gasket matched mine without dismantling and the rubber bungs used to keep the filings out of the engine restricted the depth I could work. Without this restriction you'll find that the flappy wheel will naturally form a blade between the ports and keep them nice and uniform too.

A 25mm 60 grit flappy-wheel will make a far better job than that instrument of Dental butchery. http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?233707-Project-Supracharger&p=3418427&viewfull=1#post3418427

The state my back is in, I can barely visit Mr Crapper. Pressing buttons is about my limit and have found these items on ebay to play with when I feel up to it. Incorporating these will increase the bore of the first section by 10% and match it up to the mid pipe size, provide a mounting hole for the wide-band sensor and take a smidgeon or two off the dB's. It might even pass off as a cat decoy too. Then all I need to do is find a stainless gluer with some clothes on.

Any chance you could nibble one into shape and stainless glue it into place?

I need to modify this 'new' exhaust system. Presently it begins with a 72mm ID (3" OD) and I plan to re-fabricate using 76mm ID. I'm looking for a foot of 76mm ID stainless steel pipe with a flange and hoping that someone somewhere has a dead mid-pipe or exhaust system that could donate this section. Thank you

I need to modify an exhaust system. Presently it begins with a 72mm ID (3" OD) and I plan to re-fabricate using 76mm ID. I'm looking for a foot of 76mm ID stainless steel pipe with a flange and hoping that someone somewhere has a dead mid-pipe or exhaust system that could donate this section. Thank you

Lee Marvin and Barry White yodelling in harmony through Tibetan Horns, I'd guess to be around around the size of it?

Here's a clip of it on a BPU T.T. @ 89dB, quiet as a hurse. Without a turbo or two to break up the sound waves it'll be a different animal, I'll post up a taste the difference clip.

Boosted up-to 1 Bar through Autobahn88 headers with no cats and a 3" un-baffled system on an "N/A". Making/finding/modifying a system that ticks all the boxes and produces a fruity sound that doesn't make your ears bleed is mostly untrodden ground. Splitting into 2 unequal length pipes and back again removes circa 7dB and creates a convenient place for a resonator which removes another circa 7dB. With 3 resonators and the twin-tube trick, maybe this could be; The Holy Grail for Supercharged Supra Pipes. I'm keen to find out what noises Cinderella's Growler will make?

It starts off at 3" then splits into 2 x 2.5" and back to a 3.5" - 4"? This gradual volumetric increase prevents back-pressure from cooling gas density and makes a 3" system think it's 4". It's so quiet on a T.T. I'm confident it shouldn't be too loud on my "N/A", I just hope it's not too "Lee Marvin".

The spiral mufflers are free-flowing, small enough to be fitted almost anywhere and take out 7dB each, I like them. My back is still on the condemned list. You don't need one of those. When you have one of these.

The time is drawing near, for repair/rebuild of the exhaust system, I planned to remove the ferrous Spiraflow and replace it with two more in stainless, re-welding with stainless wire. An extra job sneaking back onto the list and with a higher priority than other things I'd sooner be getting on with when circumstance allows. I'm about had enough of having to make 'things' and want to get on with the final nuts&bolts jobs and fortunately, at the right time this Sard A-rouse system came up for sale, which looks too much like an "off-the-shelf ready-made Baby-Bears-Bed supercharged-Supra exhaust-system at the right-price" to be ignored. I'll just need to weld in a wide-band sensor-fitting for a plug&play fit and it'll save me a lot of work. On a BPU T.T. it's 89dB so I reckon there's a good chance it'll sound a 'respectable' Mutts nutleys with my set up.

One day it'll be a VW Beetle.

Supra model codes are gibberish to me without shuffling them.

Run it without the auxilary belt for a few seconds and see if you can hear it then or not.

Blind guessing, I'd be suspecting the water-pump.

You'll get one here. http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/member.php?676-keron

http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?232980-Premium-horn-kit&p=2954231&highlight=Stebel+Nautilus+138+horn#post2954231

You need a Supra super seventh sense to twig mine.

After popping a full ration of anti-reality pills, maybe that's who I see on cloud nine, just before I pass out?

Sleeping.

Thanks for the link Morph. I haven't even given the unit a full inspection yet, I have trapped a nerve in my back between my shoulders, it's like sciatica down my right arm and I'm in a right old mess at the mo. It's only an oil spout, maybe it could live without it, or repair with the liquid metal I used inside the rocker cover which has proven to bond efficiently. I'll look see when I feel up to it.

Just desperation caused by *uckwit delivery drivers, I searched every property no. 5 within a 3 mile radius. The valve-body is continuing it's wind-up, not only do Yanks need teaching to address packages properly, they also need wrapping lessons too. I found a chunk of aluminium inside the box and outside of the envelope, the casting is broken and the pan filter squashed flat.