Curious to who owns it I've never seen it at any meets or on the forum, ill post a pic as soon as im near a computer. Ill do my best to describe it.
Pre89 Silver MK3 with bomex whale tail, rear skirts, sideskirts too looked like. Also looked rto be a 3" Exhaust with a canister. Still had...
His oil was at the Full mark on the dipstick, only thing i noticed was the oil pressure gauge sat above the first "tick" mark from the bottom mark at idle. The story on this car is that when they got the car the motor was already blown they had found another used 7MGTE and swapped it in, the...
*Update*
Well its toast
Ssides 1990 Turbo Supra
July 1990 - September 30th 2008
Cause of death Rod Knock
Time of death 9:33pm
So...........time for a rebuild!
Everything but those nasty taillights the car looks good. Im not sure what he was going for with those lights unless it was something like this,
http://www.supercars.net/carpics/1917/2002_Mazda_RX7SpiritR1.jpg
If im not mistaken all JDM cars excluding the Factory modded ones have speed limiters at 112mph (180km/h). By law this is what it needs to be which is why even the mighty GT-R is limited to 180km/h on the streets.
Ok he had kept the car on the way home at or under 1500rpms never went over it got quiet, went away at times, came back loud, went away, came back quieted down got loud again and went away. Im gonna diagnose it today.
Well as i stated before when he was running 87 he was pushing the car pretty hard quite a few times going past 5000rpms. He has an EGR, i havent ruled out rod knock yet but im just trying to help him with the easiest fix first. Over said 2000rpms often as soon as it started he started trying to...
thats the plan, i had told him, i was looking for someone elses advice who perhaps has more knowledge on this than me. So thank you 92TealSupra and Hvyman.
Im actually posting this for a friend, he called me this morning when he arrived at the university that his engine was pinging/knocking and was inttermittent in sound sometimes it would be quiet so quiet you couldnt tell it was there and then sometimes it would be loud. I told him hed have to...
Sorry to hear about your mother may her soul rest in peace.
Im with you though its nice to see a supra that hasnt been modded up the ass. Id do bolt ons but keep the original parts.
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