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I don't know about the radiators specifically, but I have a godspeed intercooler and it has nice welds and has held up to boost for over a year.

2_TonedMKIII: Yes, you can run the car without an O2 sensor as long as you have the maft-pro with the wideband. It will throw your ECU into open loop at all times and cause your CEL to be permanently lit, but it will allow the maft-pro to have much more control over the fuel delivery and...

I went out and spent about 1/3 a tank of gas tuning the supra tonight. I ironed out some of my boost control settings, but fuel cut is starting to rear its ugly head. I have a 10 psi spring in the wastegate, and boost control is set to hit 12 psi. Logs: This one has two boost cuts (I...

Hydrolock is when an incompressible fluid (i.e. water) gets into the cylinder, causing the cylinder to be impossible to compress. It's basically like a brick wall to the internals of your engine. Water gets sucked in the intake, the piston tries to come up for the compression stroke, only...

Yeah, don't forget friction (try hand cranking a rebuild engine :P), slack in the drivetrain, and sound produced along with all the heat. If you do the math for the pure physics and thermodynamics of a gallon of gasoline's energy content acting on a light car at constant highway speeds, you'll...

Wow, just read through the thread. Definitely props for saving an otherwise crushed supra! Get it towed to your place and break into it from there (with or without the CAA :P). Seriously, after all this, you should be the rightful owner. Great project car or just a simple parts car / track...

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I had a SPEC stage three and loved how it grabbed, until it exploded/failed in the exact same way that many others have encountered. I will never use a SPEC clutch again.

Just got done doing it for the third time. Old and worn out motor mounts makes getting to the bolts on the top of the transmission easy when you unbolt the rear transmission mount; new, stiffer MKIV mounts makes it a bit harder (:P). The hardest thing to do is getting at those two bolts up...

Oh, I forgot about the river boat with a 7M on it :P. Anyone have that picture?

ARZ here on the forums has one in his 280z. There are a handful of pickups that have them. Also, like stated above, the 4runner guys like to put them in for off-roading. Here is JBL's 76 Celica with a 7m: http://www.jblmk3.com/cars/celica_main.php And a z car...

Heh, I had a similar thing happen to me. Long story short, I blew the 100 amp fuse and my dad went to get a new one before the store closed while I waited at the house. It took him a long time to come back. Apparently he went and got the fuse, replaced it, and took it for a spin. He walked...

I'll be interning with Devon Energy doing stuff with gas/oil well productions. I've interned with them before in Artesia, NM and Bridgeport, TX (pop. 12k and 5k respectively). Both times were field internships. This last summer I interned with a much smaller company called Mewbourne Oil in...

Well I guess it wasn't really the missed shift so much as the fluctuating full power applications with an upgraded clutch.

Got some new pics up on the original post. Amazing how similar it is to 90T04's failure. As a follow up to what I posted, I ended up not getting the transmission out before summer, only just now (was in Texas for an internship). Also, I ended up buying a 2003 Tacoma prerunner (most well...

Is the car actually running rich (black smoke, smell slight gasoline, etc.)? If the wide band is reading rich, and you are obviously running rich, then the wide band is most likely not the problem. I had the exact same thing happen to me, it was so rich that it wouldn't even run. It turns...

Ding ding ding, there is a study floating around (sorry no references, but IIRC, it's a prestigious university that did it) that states that the overall ethanol process might actually be using more energy than it creates; a net loss of energy. Also, Ethanol has less BTU's than gasoline, so...

I've lined up an internship for next summer in Houston. I'll only be there for 3 months or so and then I'll be coming back up to school in Norman. I'll be working in central downtown, anyone have any suggestions/warnings on any specific places to live? I've only been to Houston for TX2006, so...

Wow, nice supra! Hood reflections always show off the paint well :).

I've never seen this video before, and I did a quick search (mostly build threads came up :P). Found it while browsing streetfire. http://videos.streetfire.net/video/8-Sec-XS-Power-Supra-run_177120.htm