Toyota Supra SZ-R (slightly modded)
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Yes, Works are nice wheels and personally i like them a lot. Need to think about it.
First start today. Did start very badly, squeels like a pig and bummm! It started and runs very well, but.....
This little f
ker literally walked away from engine room. Crank pulleys in 2jz usually last 20 years or so, but this was changed like 3 years ago. My car was in local indy for cambelt change +other stuff. He called me that " crank pulley is in bad shape, i have better one for you, should i change?" Well, it wasn't THAT good i can tell you that. fkkkkkkkkk. That is the only expensive maintenance part in 1/2jz engine, costs like 400 euros or so. Overall not that bad, but it messed my plan little bit.
I forget to add that we have a second dog. She is one year old:
Sleepy bds 
First start today. Did start very badly, squeels like a pig and bummm! It started and runs very well, but.....
This little f
ker literally walked away from engine room. Crank pulleys in 2jz usually last 20 years or so, but this was changed like 3 years ago. My car was in local indy for cambelt change +other stuff. He called me that " crank pulley is in bad shape, i have better one for you, should i change?" Well, it wasn't THAT good i can tell you that. fkkkkkkkkk. That is the only expensive maintenance part in 1/2jz engine, costs like 400 euros or so. Overall not that bad, but it messed my plan little bit.I forget to add that we have a second dog. She is one year old:
Sleepy b
ds 
Mid refresh update.
I did change that blown crank pulley and bad valve cover gaskets. Then i re-painted few parts by myself and send all injectors for full service and rebuild. After that i did clean and polish the whole intake. Side mirrors were painted by professional and i did take out old headlights and put the new ones on. I also cleaned door cards but they are still in bad condition. Better what they used to be tho... Lastly is did re-spray intake kit and i cleaned engine bay little bit. She runs well now and i have driven it like 30 miles or so.
Tomorrow i will change engine oils+filter and in tuesday she is going to MOT test. After that i need to change cat back, exhaust manifold and install AEM Uego Air to Fuel-gauge+wideband lambda sensor and AEM v2 ecu. When all of these things are made we can go to dyno and tune this car. Everything goes quite slowly because everything is new to me and i'm doing this project in my yard. However, i'm going to make all the exhaust things in my mates garage, there is a proper lift and so on.
Few pictures:
Removing the old crank pulley.
Old and worn headlight.
Dirty intake
Goodies from Opie oils and RHD japan
Now she looks like this:
Sorry about bad lightning, those two photos were taken in midnight. More pics to follow when i have more time, this was just a fast recap.
I did change that blown crank pulley and bad valve cover gaskets. Then i re-painted few parts by myself and send all injectors for full service and rebuild. After that i did clean and polish the whole intake. Side mirrors were painted by professional and i did take out old headlights and put the new ones on. I also cleaned door cards but they are still in bad condition. Better what they used to be tho... Lastly is did re-spray intake kit and i cleaned engine bay little bit. She runs well now and i have driven it like 30 miles or so.
Tomorrow i will change engine oils+filter and in tuesday she is going to MOT test. After that i need to change cat back, exhaust manifold and install AEM Uego Air to Fuel-gauge+wideband lambda sensor and AEM v2 ecu. When all of these things are made we can go to dyno and tune this car. Everything goes quite slowly because everything is new to me and i'm doing this project in my yard. However, i'm going to make all the exhaust things in my mates garage, there is a proper lift and so on.
Few pictures:
Removing the old crank pulley.
Old and worn headlight.
Dirty intake
Goodies from Opie oils and RHD japan
Now she looks like this:
Sorry about bad lightning, those two photos were taken in midnight. More pics to follow when i have more time, this was just a fast recap.
Heaveho said:
Love the car. I used to work for Toyota when these came out, and I thought they were great to drive.
Whereabouts in Finland are you? I love the place, we had our honeymoon in Helsinki, and visit the country as often as possible.
Sorry mate that i didn't answer sooner, i somehow missed your reply. Thanks for your compliment Whereabouts in Finland are you? I love the place, we had our honeymoon in Helsinki, and visit the country as often as possible.
I live in middle of Finland, if you are coming close to me send me a message if you want to have beer or something with fellow petrolhead. Edited by LasseV on Saturday 23 June 13:07
Now our backyard looks like this, so it is time to put old lady to sleep. I didn't put that AEM and new exhaust manifold to the car, because i was lazy b
d and now the summer is over.. 
I did play with engine management little bit, but car didn't run properly. So in next spring first thing to do is put those bit's and pieces on (AEM v2, AEM UEGO wideband sensor and new exhaust manifold) and get it mapped properly by professional. Yeah, i'm lazy This happened in summer:
This one is feisty:
All of those puppies are reserved already and all of them are very interested about birds and other game. That's a very good thing!
Drive safely
LV
My snowmobile
So, next summer i want to have a little bit of more power. Should i go to turbo route or should i stay in NA form? My mind changes all the time. I usually prefer na lump over turbo but on the other hand, Turbo Supra sounds quite cool and if i want to make it now it is time to do it.
Eh??
LV
Drive safely
Summer can't come soon enough.turboflutter said:
That engine in that car with a manual gearbox was always asking for a turbo 
What spec/parts etc you gone for?
That would be a sensible choice for sure. I'm not sure would i love power delivery from turbo engine, so i listened Pantera's Walk-song and i went full retard...What spec/parts etc you gone for?
I'm going to invidual throttle body setup with standalone ecu and performance headers. These parts i now have. Then i hope that i can have more aggressive cams too because there is the power gains. Little bit of short in cash at the moment, because that ITB-setup wasn't exactly cheap one :P I'm not sure yet do i go E85 route because of reduced range. I would need to change injectors and fuel pump and fuel hoses, so it would be like 600€ or so more.
Anyway, it should sound little bit like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8eQ3Emkng8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu5cHqAKsuo
That engine is carefully built high end unit and makes 300rwhp with E85. Mine is more like hill bill engineered by drunken finn -kind of engine. I want to have reasonable powerful engine which is highly reliable so i can rev it day after day.
First start after long winter was little bit of painful. Alternator went bad and i tried to rebuild it and failed. I did get wrong parts from local spare part shop and things didn't go well. I ordered rebuilded alternator and i changed that and everything works again! Luckily they promised refund my parts so everything went well.
These kind of roads my cars need to handle at the moment:
I think that this picture shows well how big new cars are...
Anyway, next week is MOT and after that we will start to make those modifications. I did find more aggressive camshafts for reasonable money so now i have almost all the parts. There is a few issues which i need to resolve, but nothing major.
Prius was good winter beater, but we need more capable off roader because bad roads. It needs to be a SUV or similar because we have a two dogs. Problem is, it needs to be a cheap one, any suggestion? 2nd Gen RAV4 is in my mind or Land Rover Freelander I.
Drive safely,
LV
Edit: Oh, i truly hate this forum photo upload thing.
These kind of roads my cars need to handle at the moment:
I think that this picture shows well how big new cars are...
Anyway, next week is MOT and after that we will start to make those modifications. I did find more aggressive camshafts for reasonable money so now i have almost all the parts. There is a few issues which i need to resolve, but nothing major.
Prius was good winter beater, but we need more capable off roader because bad roads. It needs to be a SUV or similar because we have a two dogs. Problem is, it needs to be a cheap one, any suggestion? 2nd Gen RAV4 is in my mind or Land Rover Freelander I.
Drive safely,
LV
Edit: Oh, i truly hate this forum photo upload thing.
Edited by LasseV on Sunday 29th April 17:52
Hi again.
Long time since last post, but i think now is good time to make a small update.
I did paint exhaust headers with proper high temperature paint
After that i wrapped them with heat wrap and installed them.
As you can see, i have an aftermarket intake kit at the moment. It is next to useless i think, but hey hoo. At least it is washable filter I also installed an AEM AFR gauge and wideband lambda sensor.
Yesterday we installed new camshafts with my friend. Everything went well, this is actually a very easy car to work. I learned a lot and it was fun project. We installed Brian Crower camshafts BC0314: http://www.briancrower.com/makes/toyota/2jzgte.sht... They are mild street cams which are plug and play application. Anyway, stock ecu can't use these cams full potential. Rev limiter is too low, mapping is too rich and idle is too low. Nevertheless with this setup this engine gives you nice amount of power when you drive like 85-90mph.
We did have a small problem tho, i ordered high quality adjustable cam gears but shop did send us wrong ones. So now i have stock cam gears, which is not a good thing in NA engine.
Next thursday is a tune and dyno day. Tuner seems to be a very good one and he knows AEM products, so i have a high hopes for that day. AEM EMS v2 should be a good aftermarket ecu and in general i have good parts in my engine. I'm hoping that in the end of the day i have a good engine for the fast'ish street car.
Drive safely,
LV
Long time since last post, but i think now is good time to make a small update.
I did paint exhaust headers with proper high temperature paint
After that i wrapped them with heat wrap and installed them.
As you can see, i have an aftermarket intake kit at the moment. It is next to useless i think, but hey hoo. At least it is washable filter
I also installed an AEM AFR gauge and wideband lambda sensor.Yesterday we installed new camshafts with my friend. Everything went well, this is actually a very easy car to work. I learned a lot and it was fun project. We installed Brian Crower camshafts BC0314: http://www.briancrower.com/makes/toyota/2jzgte.sht... They are mild street cams which are plug and play application. Anyway, stock ecu can't use these cams full potential. Rev limiter is too low, mapping is too rich and idle is too low. Nevertheless with this setup this engine gives you nice amount of power when you drive like 85-90mph.
We did have a small problem tho, i ordered high quality adjustable cam gears but shop did send us wrong ones. So now i have stock cam gears, which is not a good thing in NA engine.
Next thursday is a tune and dyno day. Tuner seems to be a very good one and he knows AEM products, so i have a high hopes for that day. AEM EMS v2 should be a good aftermarket ecu and in general i have good parts in my engine. I'm hoping that in the end of the day i have a good engine for the fast'ish street car.
Drive safely,
LV
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