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Looks like a nice car. Owner seems to know his way around it, which is a good sign. Front leather seats. Good colour, bodywork looks standard which tends to be a plus. I'd say £6k is fair if it ticks your boxes (you like the colour, stock style, etc).
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That suggests you either hadn't returned the wiring to stock correctly when you removed the speed converter, *or* the speed sensor is faulty. Do you mean you checked the wiring with the speed sensor still removed? If so, you can disregard my comment about stock wiring above. If you mean you've checked the wiring with the converter in situ, be aware that it's usually the internals of the speed converters that go faulty, and you can't usually fault-find them by inspection. -
Am I being stupid... Why can't I turn off my heater/blower?
stevie_b replied to gordy.r's topic in mkiv Technical
This thread explains what me and Ian C are talking about: http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?49871-Heater-Maximum-Output-Temperature-Too-Low Like I said, the symptoms of this not working are usually that you only get cold air. But it's a quick thing to check. -
Am I being stupid... Why can't I turn off my heater/blower?
stevie_b replied to gordy.r's topic in mkiv Technical
2 possibilities spring to mind: the heater control panel (not sure if that fits in with you having fan speed control though), or the mixer flap control rod underneath the passenger-side dash (when that fails though, it usually gives you nothing but cold air, whereas you've got nothing but hot). The Off button not working suggests it's the heater control panel. -
Need pics really to assess this.
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starting from a base NA\TT to a single turbo fully built
stevie_b replied to mpobor's topic in Supra Chat
I'd advise you to buy a TT6 from the start. It'll be cheaper (I don't know what average prices are in Italy but this is true for UK market prices). You can then replace what needs replacing, when it needs replacing. As for having a zero miles car, I don't think that's right. The chassis, body panels, suspension components etc will still be 20+ years old. You mentioned a Getrag for 5k: presumably that's a 2nd hand part that's 20+ years old and has done lots of miles already. The same goes for engine, diff, etc, unless you buy everything new, which would be really really expensive! -
Interesting, I didn't know this. I've had my aircon topped up at least twice, and each time it's only lasted a few months max. What's thje symptoms of not changing the dryer?
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You probably are looking for trouble if you increase the power*. From what I've read on here, the W58 5 speed box seems to be able to handle stock TT power, but not much more. *Bear in mind that it's torque that tends to kill gearboxes not power, but I know what you mean.
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Are you measuring the voltage with a standard digital multimeter? If you are, I think you'll struggle to do any diagnosis, and you could get any kind of (false) readings. Multimeters can measure either a steady analogue voltage, or a 50Hz alternating voltage (maybe assuming a sine wave): i.e. mains voltage. What input are you feeding into the converter for your test? To do a good test you'd have to feed it a pulse of known frequency, and measure the input and output with a oscilloscope.
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I've never tested one, but I do know that the speed signal is a square wave pulse, not an analogue signal. Hence, to convert from kph to mph (i.e. divide speed signal by 5/8), it won't scale the voltage like a standard op-amp circuit would, but it has to fiddle with the frequency of the pulses, and presumably leave their amplitude untouched. Not sure if that helps, but if you're testing using a multimeter, the pulsed signal might confuse it.
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Looks like one of the gunmetal colours, not MSB.
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S2000s don't do anything for me. It's not just the smaller size of it: I'd rather have an MX5 than an S2000. Subjectively, not swapping for an S2000 is a no-brainer for me. The Honda just doesn't seem to bring anything worthwhile to the table to make a swap palatable. If you really like the look of them, then that changes things somewhat. That's one of the main reasons I have a supra and intend to keep it.
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Hmm, pics not working. Congratulations on the license though!
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My guess is starter motor contacts need replacing. I had starting problems once, where leaving it for a few seconds would mean it would fire up strongly. See here: http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?70712-Car-reluctant-to-start
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Lovely looking car!
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I've briefly looked into using a spare slot in the fusebox for an extra circuit. I've fitted air horns and I wanted to run the feed for the air compressor via the fusebox. I gave up on that idea having seen the nest of wires below the fusebox, so just used an inline fuse connected to a +ve rail in the fusebox. Describing it like that, it sounds like I was 90% of the way there and it *shouldn't* be too hard to fit a new fuse, but I remember being stumped by it and giving up on the idea.
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Probably the top criterion for most people.
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I hope so, it would make for some entertaining racing against some of the higher-powered supras.
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Wing mirrors please if Westy doesn't take them
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That's a shame. Looks like an unmolested one. Thorin: I think they call it "stanced"
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Good one Branners!
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They can suffer from a tiny crack in the PCB the lights are mounted onto. Repairable with a soldering iron if you've got good eyesight and a steady hand.
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When people see "what MPG does a supra give?", they seem to read "I'm completely skint: what MPG does a supra give because I need a car that'll do 500 miles for £20?" But that's often not the case. Asking how economical cars are or how much things cost, doesn't mean you'll struggle to afford reasonable costs. A slight tangent, but do you think someone like Alan Sugar asks how much things cost before committing to buy them? I bet he does, even though he could afford it pretty much whatever the answer is.
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One of them's here: http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?311616-Come-on-own-up-who-was-it
