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Prt 10 - Cleaning time for the Block, Degreasing. [video=youtube;Dwf2-ij3DMw]

Here comes the Next few parts!, Youtube is more up to date than this page! but i will keep updating! Part 7 Video - Removal of the Exhaust (Fully), Prop Shafts etc, Part 8 Video - The Engine Finally Comes out! So the Engine is out, and Boy does it look discusting, Plenty of oil leaks in its life have left it in a very poor condition! and it needed a major Clean! The Auto Box and converter gets stripped off, never to go back on again! So got it mounted on the Engine Stand, which will become its new home for now! The Engine Bay looks like crap t be fair. Horrible. This is the condition of the Block, with all the oil, dirt and grease all over it! so i stripped off all the Auxiliaries Part 9 Video - Stripping the Auxiliaries The Engine Loom got pulled off the Engine! This is how it looks at this point, all stripped off, but all dirty! Stay tuned for more!

I did mean crank, but ended up making one. If anyone needs to borrow, just give me a shout.

Hey everyone, Anyone have a Cam Locking Tool i can borrow? im based at kirkby in ashfield (East mids) dont mind travelling to pick up. Please let me know.

Ill send you some pictures tonight. No nothing can be seen. Its the undertray of the aero. Not the blade itself.

So we move on with stripping parts off the car. The Lights are off and Split. The rear bar is off and painted and we started with the engine prep, by disconnecting plugs and cables, and removing a few parts. Then we move to removing the radiators and fluids. The Aircon was broken, so didnt have any refrigerant in at all, only traces of yellow dye. I will be removing the Air con anyways, so will not be going back on the car. The Active Aero has been taken off, as i plan to be fitting the Ridox Front bumper, and it wont be needed. Power Steering Pump and pipework gets disconnected. As well as vast majority of the wiring harness connecting the car to the Engine. Leaving me another massive Pile of parts. See you in the Next Post!

Its only been removed proberly 2 weeks. But the cars been off road since november. So thats when it was last working. there is a crease on one of the fibre glass edges. Which i coukd send you a picture of, if your still intrested when im back home from work tonight. thanks

Ok Brill.

Cool, thats better than nothing, was that with torque converter?

Next came the rear strip down, again bumper, lights. Ive since split the rear lights, as im going to make my own custom LED ones, and needed to know all the sizes of the rings to make by using the lenses as a template. This is a longer Episode as theres a lot of chatting, and talking about things to be done. After that we decided to strip the interior out, OMG, never seen such a discusting mess of .....stuff all over the carpet, i ended up finding japanese coins, a foundtain pen and toy, underneath the carpet! horrible fuzzy mold, and god knows what else! the main reason for removing the interior was the mold setting on the seats and door cards, due to the conditions and damp outside and in the garage, so i decided to rip it out and place it in the warm house! Big Pile of Parts! we took the spoiler off, because it has a really bad paint job on it, and im in 2 minds wether to go for a TRD type spoiler anyways. Heres the coins that were found! This is a good Video, and we had a pet dog with us on this one! See you in the next post!

So it came the day to put the Supra Away in its New home, so it had a quick Wash, as it had been stood for a month under a tree. Very green around the spoiler! The Supra was just about ready to be moved, and Click, Click, Click! Bah, the battery was flat! time to be jumped! So that night, my Friends Astra came to help! Eventually, the car ended up in the garage, after getting stuck in the mud in my garden! But we made it! Now the Real Fun can begin! We started off by removing the larger parts of the front end, So bumper, Headlights and brackets etc, indicators and so on. And this leaves us up to this; Stay tuned for more!

Ok thanks guys. Gives me a ball park figure of were to be aiming for. Any news for the gearbox or ac pump?

Hi all. Just after some ball park figures. i have active aero with button and ecu i have NA auto box with torque converter, also have 6x new 1l bottles of toyotas fluid to put in it (i know it needs a couple more) I have air conditioning pump (also have engine bay pipes too? Thanks.

All this work ment i could take the car on the track! and have some fun! So i took it to a JDM Meet/ Track day in september, Currborough Sprint course! which was a wicked day out to be fair! i have mashed up 4 laps into 1 video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVaXrPUu_rg At one point i got a little to excited, i hung the back end out round a corner, and it snatched back coming off the corner! this was the result! Video shows it all the best, as it happens! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUC1FRo2dQ Luckly no damage! other then a bruised Ego lol! There was another Supra There that day, a TT6, and i asked for a ride, and of which he accepted, this supra is running approx 600 BHP give or take and was a beast on the track! this is what made me want to Turbo mine! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxM0633R6hY After the track day, it all came to a standstill for a month or two for the supra, as i had a bigger project to attend to! This picture shows you the size of the garage that i was building, i had done all the ground work in the last year, and just had the concrete laid for my garage, 22ft wide by 20ft long, The NEw home for my Supra. Few Weeks Later and this was here! as if like magic! So this is my First Post in my Biography. will keep this going with Pictures and Videos (im sure some of you will have seen my recent progress who follow my videos, But i will update this as regularly as i can ) Hope You guys Like, Comments Always Welcome. Bluudy

Hello and welcome to my First ever major Project, and first ever Supra! i have bought the supra june/july time 2014! Goals for this Project are as follows: Manual Conversion Status - Completed Turbo Conversion Status - 90% fitted, inter cooler to fit, oil feed to fit, then get running and map. Bodywork Status - Ridox front bumper and skirts, with Trial rear bumper, also have stock spoiler and Grams Styling big wing. Paintwork Status - Painted red. Currently look like this Started like this A Pretty Typical NA Auto with a few silly things done to it. It came with Active Aero, Facelift Interior cloth seats, a Motoria Exhaust, Some Silly 17inch Alloys with red brakes and Red painted bolts...... dont get me started. Other then Servicing the car, oil and filters, plugs etc. i changed the rocker gaskets, as it was knackered and leaking oil from everywhere! I Changed the Exhaust and fitted a 2.5" Catback (Powerflow), which was quieter, as the NA wth a 3" was so loud! it had to change before i got pulled for the noise. This is changing the Exhaust! I then had to change the interior clock, as for some strange reasons the buttons were missing, so i couldn't actually change the time! Next was the steering wheel, The wheel was a cheap £20 quid ebay special! it was so cheap and tacky, it could actually bend on the coloum! so that had to be changed for safety reasons, this was replaced with a standard Supra wheel, which looks so much better! Last thing to do before chucking it back on the road was change the Rear Track Rod ends! simple enough with an angle grinder!

Striping off parts of the block!

ok, i definitely plan to! this is what i need to know...

Right, thanks for that, i shall investigate!

Ok brill, i had a play with the cover, im assuming it just prises off? tight bugger lol! I do agree that welding in a new one would be the better option. But its not something im set up to do, I.E no welder or experience welding yet. So im going have to go down the persuasion route, i know people have been down this road. how much clearance is needed for the W58? how much bigger can the W58 be?

Hitbox - I dont mind doing it, But if its not needed the £200+ for the gaskets could be used elsewere thats all. Trebor69 - few people have said it can be persuaded! lol

Hey all, Ive got the engine out and mounted. Questions are as follows Is it worth splitting it all, and re gasketing it? there are no new leaks, just an old one from a rotten Cam cover gaskets which were old and brittle, These have been replaced and just need the block cleaning. I plan to do a NA-T conversion, is there anything i can do while its drained and out the car, for preperations for a NA-T? or just leave it and pull it out at a later date? I will be fitting a W58 (just took off the Auto box), What work is needed in the bay and tunnel? how much persuasion is needed lol with a hammer to get the box to fit? Should i block all the ports before cleaning (Planning jet washing and degreaser) or will this be as it is? Anything i should be doing, as its in the state? Can someone tell me how to remove this auto tentioner so i can replace it? If you can add any insite id appreciate it! Thanks

Engines out!

Part 7! The Engines nearly ready to be pulled out, this episode we get more ancillaries off, Full exhaust and manifold, and prop shafts!

Latest PArt - Got 2 more to upload this weekend!

I appreciate the advice. But im not bothered by the re sale value. As im not planning on selling. Im not bothered by the labour input as im a mechanic by trade, so that is no issue. If i have to weld intercooler pipes, then ill learn Ebay kit is 1k, wereas whifbitz is 3k.im not saying that whifbitz is not worth 3k, but 3k on a turbo kit which cost more than the car cost me is the issue for me. If the kits supplied have most items needed to make a working na-t, if the turbo was to fail, then i could juat get another decent turbo from turbotecnics for £500 quid or so? if the manifold cracks i can just purchase another one?