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  1. 7Matt-GE

    Im an idiot - Transmission issues :D

    i figured it out...the bell housing keeps engaging a gear when we put it down LOL! it's usually the idler reverse gear. wtf? must be a special way of putting on this bell housing...or i just keep hitting an area that keeps engaging it.
  2. 7Matt-GE

    Im an idiot - Transmission issues :D

    yeah, lesson learned. Matthew must think before he repairs things he doesn't understand! Engines? no prob...transmissions? i always wanted to learn them...but i didn't figure it would be this tedious. so simplistic looking yet so complex.
  3. 7Matt-GE

    Im an idiot - Transmission issues :D

    bumpan can anyone tell me where i would find this reverse shift light is? is that the sensor? 8-) im gonna be a transmission expert when im done with this.
  4. 7Matt-GE

    Im an idiot - Transmission issues :D

    no, i made sure that there were no balls laying around. the one that did fall out i put back in. the rest of em stayed in their place...i can verify i just need to remove the torx right? they shouldn't fall out if i were to say open that up... Edit: the one that did fall out i opened that one...
  5. 7Matt-GE

    Im an idiot - Transmission issues :D

    i have a feeling this is what it is, the shift gate is what the shift leaver sits in its kind of a grove between a few shafts right? ill take pictures tonight or tomorrow morning when i get a chance to take a crack at this again. i know i didn't touch ANY of the gearing when i took the other...
  6. 7Matt-GE

    Im an idiot - Transmission issues :D

    Hey Guys, so i tried to re-apply some FIPG on the transmission so i had to completely disassemble which i did according to the TSRM problem is...now that i have it back together (unbolted for the most part because of somthing like this) i can move the shifter back and forth but not up or...
  7. 7Matt-GE

    7matt's WTF am i doing?! BUILD

    just ordered the last parts to get this car runnin! should be here by next friday? :O i do have one request...anyone have one of those banjo pipes that go on the banjo bolt for your oil pan? (for the oil cooler) i need one :)
  8. 7Matt-GE

    7matt's WTF am i doing?! BUILD

    Electrical tape whoda thunk! god i am retarded that would make sense and save me from getting utterly destroyed by those frays.......................................which really hurt and stick in your skin.
  9. 7Matt-GE

    7matt's WTF am i doing?! BUILD

    so everything on the block is done, except for the oil pan which im cleaning right now and then what is the deal with AN fittings/steel braded lines? how do you attach them? every time i screw one on they fall off. what am i doing wrong.?? :) Note ive been trying to test fit it and i have not...
  10. 7Matt-GE

    7mge block and 7mgte block

    you can use your NA's crank and rods if you plan on building that turbo motor! they're the same :)
  11. 7Matt-GE

    7matt's WTF am i doing?! BUILD

    did you immediately switch the oil out after the first warm up? or did you take her out for the 30 mile break in before you did that?
  12. 7Matt-GE

    7matt's WTF am i doing?! BUILD

    From what i researched the general consensus was to "keep it out of boost" some say baby it lots say beat the poop out of it just make sure it doesn't go past 4k. Am i right guys? im noob to breaking in supra engines :)
  13. 7Matt-GE

    7matt's WTF am i doing?! BUILD

    the last shipment of parts is on it's way here (hopefully arriving next week!) once all this stuff is slapped on my engine that's it! she's done! then i commence separating the shell on the transmission and throwing that orange RTV on it (it looks like it desperately needs it.) then ill slap on...
  14. 7Matt-GE

    7matt's WTF am i doing?! BUILD

    the last shipment of parts is on it's way here (hopefully arriving next week!) once all this stuff is slapped on my engine that's it! she's done! then i commence separating the shell on the transmission and throwing that orange RTV on it (it looks like it desperately needs it.) then ill slap on...
  15. 7Matt-GE

    What would your 1st hand gun be?

    i would like a HK23 .45 socom if i could afford it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn5l4wLov7k I own one of these, though i inherited it. LAR Grizzly 50 Cal... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQPfClI7S4o&feature=related I do NOT keep this in my house...i keep it up north with...
  16. 7Matt-GE

    Slotted rotors

    check these guys out they're local to minnesota here. They're called Frozen Rotors, they are a little expensive but if you read up on these guys they're fucking incredible rotors. http://www.frozenrotors.com/
  17. 7Matt-GE

    7matt's WTF am i doing?! BUILD

    I have another pan im slapping on...this one is just for test fit its got a huge dent in it :\ ill have the machine shop do that cause i don't trust my welding skills hahaha. ive been reading up on this EGR block off plate business...im not here to start a flame war SO PLEASE DON'T! they say...
  18. 7Matt-GE

    7matt's WTF am i doing?! BUILD

    thanks to your help i got it figured out! take a look! i need a few parts though :) but those pics are to come.
  19. 7Matt-GE

    Whats the most number of hours you ever worked in a week?

    Never done 93 hours in a 7 day week but i put in a regular 12 to 14 hours a day...simply because i want too...