Recent content by bdashrad

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    Motor Mounts

    make your own, specs are in the faq
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    MK3 Classic Car Insurance for $12.50 a month

    unless you have a perfect driving record, you'll pay a TON more in insurance. competitive systems mean that they can deny you coverage if they feel like it, in massachusetts they can't. My dad is an insurance agent and we've discussed this, so i'm not just bs'ing. for example, if i was to...
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    New England Members

    matt's friend from wpi.
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    MK3 Classic Car Insurance for $12.50 a month

    we can't get them in mass kurt... damn standard insurance rating system.
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    bdashrad's rebuild / supra story

    what can you do, you were a lot closer than i remembered!
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    bdashrad's rebuild / supra story

    found it! deck height is 198.5... needed this because i don't know if the block i have has ever been decked before
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    New England Members

    you know me but... lowell, ma 01851 supra lives a town away right now though
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    bdashrad's rebuild / supra story

    block and head are going in to get milled/decked/lapped on monday... gonna cost me 140, i don't need to bring anything besides the lower timing cover do i? maybe upper when i do the head? also, does anyone (i'm looking to IJ on this) know the stock block height? i know he had it off his new...
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    bdashrad's rebuild / supra story

    i was thinking about that, but i already have the two DSM IC's... do you think i should just split the IC piping and run to each one in parallel like jblmk3 did with the dual stockers or run them in series... i was thinking parallel because they have small inlets and outlets coming off the end...
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    bdashrad's rebuild / supra story

    i know it's been a while since i updated, had to pay some bills and what not but now i'm back in action. i'm giving myself till may 1st to get the car back on the road, but it's looking like she'll be done a lot earlier. just bought arp headstuds, rear brake calipers (my sliders were...
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    automatic rpms

    of course they are different, they are different ratios.
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    Gauging Interest: Another Batch Of MK3/ Im Single Shirts/Hoodies

    i think i have some friends who would want the i'm single shirts as well, i'll let you know.
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    Official NE rollcall;)

    Brad 89 Turbo Targa Lowell, MA (car lives in Dracut, MA until it's running again though)
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    bdashrad's rebuild / supra story

    so spent some time today cleaning up the block and head with some break cleaner and elbow grease... not the smooth finish i'd love to have there. now my question is at what point is the surface too rough to get by with just the brake quiet spray and i should just get the block and head...