Supra Owners Build Thread

[Snaps]

I really haven't done all that much yet haha, haven't had the money to I've basically had to take a loan to afford the car in the first place (from the parents haha :P ), so all of my play money has gone to paying that back!

Edit: Hang on, I have done some DIY-kinda stuff. I'll post it up

In the Beginning:





Painted the headlights:



Removed the sub and amp.

Swapped out the crappy old unbranded pod filter for the stock airbox with paper filter, required some modification (i.e. heat gun and a little bit of force)! Also swapped out the ugly blue battery for a smaller black one, along with moving the overflow reservior (made a small bracket to hold it there).

After:



Since then I have gotten a new battery (left the boot open overnight and it left the battery flat XD), which is too big so I've had to relocate the radiator reservior once again - it's now underneath the passenger side headlight. Haven't got any pics of either of them...

Since then I have just been doing small things: Hatch rubbers, cheap-ass boost gauge (Will be getting a better one eventually. At least I can see roughly how much I'm overboosting now XD), brake pads and rotor's for the front, and just generally cleaning up the car here and there. Relocated the alarm siren because it was getting wet (and causing it to go off) where it was.

That's about all I've done really

[Midship Runabout]

^ what's up with the horns on the bumper?

[Snaps]

They're headlight washers. Specific to UK-spec Supra's ONLY. Designed to clean the HID's that were also UK-spec specific

[BoostJunkie]

I actually replaced my resivour with a Honda accord resivour for a late 90's model, it's small and fits great

[BoostJunkie]

UPDATE
Well as some of you know I had some cooling issues during Tx2k11, actually a funny story, Friday night, ran awesome had some pulls with some other BPU Supra's and a light weight APU and beat all(I was on 50/50 race gas mix ) Saturday on the way back from watching the test N tune had a couple pulls with mullet's GT and a Cobra, basically mullet handed my ass to me, and the cobra just walked me(new it was coming) Saturday night, on the way back up to Frankensteins to meet a buddy, I was on I-10 and out of nowhere I look in my rearview mirror and there's this f@&$ing Kia, ridding my ass as if we were in NASCAR. This is what gets under my skin, so I let off the gas and coast to a slower speed, and he gets even closer. So I continue on down to a blazing speed of 45mph, he can not pass as there is to much traffic, finally my exit comes up and I get over, still cruising fairly slow as he comes up beside me and just as he passes me water covers my windshield and comes in the drivers side & passenger side windows which are down. Startled I hit my wind shield wipers and slow down, then realizing that he just threw a water bottle of some sort that was open at my car I become furious and fly up past him and slow way down almost brake checking him, i pull into the turning lane for frankNsteins and see that he is passing me on the right side, deciding to return the favor I grab my water bottle, and throw it out my pass window(poor laps in judgment) and just barely nick the trunk of his car, as it does he hears it and rips the e-brake sliding his car sideways in the middle of the three lanes and proceeds to climb his big FAT ass out of the car stomping towards mine as if he's going to kill me, I chuckle(for those of you who met/know me will understand why) I also climb out of the car enraged that this guy has the balls to get pissed at me for something he started, I stand up immediately moving at a fast pace to meet him past my car, as he starts to notice that I'm no rubber band man and that it looks as if I work out 7 times a week(really only 4), he quickly slows his pace and the demeanor on his face quickly becomes "oh shit" he asks what happened to my car, in which I replied you threw a f@&$ing water bottle at me! He replies, I certainly did not, I look back at my car to point out the water on the hood and in the car, and that's when I realize the white steam pouring out of the vents, seems a radiator line blew off just as that guy had passed me and sprayed backwards through the vents to cover the window. Realizing this I told him that it seemed that is was not his fault and told him that we should both return to our vehicles before both of us get arrested, startled and relieved he sighed and said your probably right and got in his Kia and sped away, I hoped in the soup and pulled it in to the parking lot, only to find the culpret then. I reattached it and filled it up with water and met my buddy to eat and told him what had happened...

Part 2

Later that night around 2am me and another BPU Supra(2MuchHP) were making some runs in Mexico against the GT500's he posted about in the kill section. After we had drug the GT500's out of their socks we pulled o er to a gas station so I could fill up, no sooner as I turned the key off, did that same line pop loose again sending water and steam everywhere!!! I knew the problem and poped my hood, after further inspection I realized that instead of piping off this time, the 1" plastic union that held the line to another had cracked in half and was not big enough to fit both lines back together, it seemed I was stuck on the east side of Mexico city in one of the bad parts(I know it's bad as I'm from Mexico city...), as I'm cursing myself and the car, a bum comes up to me and the group that is with me and starts asking us for money, enraged I told him I had enough problems to deal with, hinting at the steam and water that was still plentiful around the engine bay, he then asked me what was wrong, I showed him the fitting and he asked what size is it, I replied 1", and he said, give me 10 min... Puzzled and not believing him at all I laughed along with the other guys, he jumped on his bike and was off, we stood there letting the car cool off wondering WTF was I gonna do, next thing I know here he comes with an intence look like he was on a mission, he jumped off his bike and handed me the exact 1" fitting I was needing, astounded&shocked I pulled my Wallet out and gave him a 20, then he proceeded to help me put it on. Only at tx2k11 can you find stories like this. After we finished I thanked him and hoped back in the car and went back to the hotel to find out that cops had busted up the burn out contest that had taken place(jk). Anyways the next day I drove home after the drag day only to find that the car kept over heating all the way home. I found that the water pump was dying and leaking water and putting air into the system causing the pressure that blew off the hose, which brings me back to the build.

Hope you enjoyed the story, forgive any spelling errors as this was done on an iPhone.

So with the car torn apart and after stumbling accross some great deals I'm going back with
Mezier Elec water Pump W/relay kit
Mishimoto Dual Elec fans W/aluminum Shroud
HKS Turbo Timer
APR CF radiator cooling plate (to help keep the air passing through on the radiator)
And a 61mm single turbo with eBay mani that I stumbled across
680cc injectors
Titan MS Fuel rail

All in which I will be installing this weekend, here's some pics before they go in

Still have to completely finish pulling the stock Turbo's...these are a pain in my ass for sure, but only 4 bolts to go!! Will update at the end of the weekend

[ichitaka05]

WOW~ I'm seriously envying you. Your Supra getting nicer and nicer by every post!

[BoostJunkie]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

WOW~ I'm seriously envying you. Your Supra getting nicer and nicer by every post!

Thanks ichi, don't get set on this turbo though, it's just a temp so I can build up my fuel system to be able to hold the big boy/mani!!

[BoostJunkie]

Update!! Holy shit removing the Stock twins was a pain in my ass, took 1 1/2 days just to get those things out, but the single went in so quick an painlessly! Also pulled off the broken stock water pump and old fan shroud here she is for now...





Will post somemore after I get the Elec pump in and wired up along with fans


Oh also heres the inside of the old pump and the new one

[Dimman]

What kind of shape are your stock twins in?

[BoostJunkie]

Originally Posted by Dimman

What kind of shape are your stock twins in?

Pretty good, I need to check the shaft to see if any play, everything else seems good, they are fairly new, when I bought the car 106k miles, the turbos were only 10,000 miles old, so now the are like 30,000miles old, what'd you have in mind?

[BoostJunkie]

Ok well I did a quick startup last night at 1230 to see if everything was gonna work, also I just kinda missed hearing the sound of the car running, anyways this was a big mistake as it seems I missed an oil line somewhere and even though it was only on for 2-3 seconds, I heard a swishing sound, turned it off, got out, and there was a giant pool of oil under the car .... .... So then I cursed my self and the car, looked for a line that I must have left off but couldn't find anything, I'm kinda puzzled, so here's what I got, the bottom line that connects to the oil pan(return line) is connected. The small line that is connected towards the back and runs to the top side of the turbo(feed line) is also connected, what else am I missing, I didn't touch the oil filter or and other parts to put in the single, thoughts?!?

[BoostJunkie]

Well i finished it up this week, ran it Friday night, noticed boostcontroller vacuum lines were not correct, fixed it Saturday went for a test drive, one word, nasty! Can't get on in till it gets tuned but I took off down the road and it hit 27psi like it was nothing, not good, but man is it fun to drive and sounds mean, I'll post the start up vid and a couple others

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/IMG_5314.mp4



Yesterday I was headed back home after going to the store, I didn't even get full on it and I heard a pop like a back fire, the AFR went fairly rich, I let off of it and noticed a higher then normal temp. But not over heating, then this morning it over heated pretty bad, so I turned it off and parked it till I can go through it, hopefully it did not detonate and crack a cylinder I'll keep ya posted

[Snaps]

Just painted my brake calipers!

Before:


After:


Near-future mods (hopefully :P ):
-Get stock wheels professionally refinished (remove curbing, repaint)
-Wheel spacers to get the repainted stock wheels to sit flush with the guards.
-Window tints

[BoostJunkie]

Very nice, what color you gonna get the wheels painted?