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when you have no cash to fix the blown engine in your supra? gets pretty frustrating not being able to drive it because you have other things that you need to pay for, so the car just gets to sit. only another 8 months to go, then she'll be driving again. i hope. oh well, in the mean time i'll...

what really grinds my gears is having a blown up supra and no money to fix it for about another 8 or 9 months, so i get to just look at it every day sitting in my driveway all by itself.

sorry to bring this up being as it's been a couple months now since the last reply.. but i too am looking at doing something like this for my car when i return from all my National Guard training. The last owner of my mk3 decided to bypass the clutch safety switch, so the clutch doesn't need to...

picked her up a little over a month ago. she needs quite a bit of cleaning up! i'll post more when i get back from basic and AIT. :)

welcome aboard! nice car you got there. i too am hopefully doing a 1jz swap in about a year! unfortunately, my car has to sit until then due to a very badly spun bearing. good luck with all your plans though! keep us updated as you build it! :)

that's always a good thing! best of luck to you! definitely not fun not being able to drive :(

that's what i was doing, or trying to do! but it seemed as though the more oil that was in it, the faster it would leak out. i think i have decided though that in about 8 months or so, when i'm back from all my army training, i'll be getting everything i need for a 1jz swap.

nice! last time i did a burnout, i spun a bearing. oops. guess that's what i get for forgetting to check my oil levels being as the engine leaks from just about every nook and cranny there is on it.

Yeah when I bought it the guy had said he had just recently put a MHG in it, and had never really driven it much. It was his project car originally. He upgraded to the MGH, got the engine in and got the car running, then decided he wanted a different supra to build, so he stopped building this...

yeah that's why it's just sitting in the guys garage right now until he's finished looking at it, then we're going to trailer it home and let it sit until we figure out what is going on with it. My gut tells me its a rod, but i can only hope it's something easier than that.

couldn't be a flexplate, its a 5 spd. but, i've also noticed that since the knock got louder, it seems to have lost some power. when accelerating in mostly just 1st-3rd gear, it feels like it's slipping per-say. not like a transmission slip, but like as if the engine stops giving it more power...

Thank you both for the great advice! I will definitely dig into those! As far as the knock goes, from what I can tell, it seems to be more bottom frontish. we haven't taken a stethoscope or anything to it yet. just haven't had the time. so thats all i can tell from just listening to it from...

also another thing that I have to take in to account is that no matter what I do is going to cost me more because I personally am not going to be doing the rebuild/swap whatever I choose to do. I'm going to have to bring it into a shop. And if I decide to go the 1jz route, or if I get a used...

thanks for the input! yeah, it's a big decision. i honestly have no idea what kind of damage the 7m that's currently in it has. i have a feeling it probably has a lot more than i would like to think it does. for all i know, the whole thing could be shot and not be at all worth rebuilding...

so my car developed a bad rod knock the other day. filled it up with oil and it disappeared. i knew it didn't fix it, but it gave me reassurance. came back yesterday on my way to bringing it to the shop to have the starter looked at. unfortunately today when i went in to answer some questions...

so I started it again today just to check for any other odd sounds, and the knocking completely vanished. I thought it was weird that it wasn't there on start up, so I took it for a small drive. Nothing. I did some pretty hard pulls just to make sure. Still, absolutely nothing. Any reason it...

Thanks all for the advice! I think I'll just rebuild the current motor then! Unfortunately it will be a long time until that can happen.. Sucks the car will just be sitting now until December when I get back :/

Alright thanks for the advice! I have also found I can get the 1jz engine with a 5spd tranny for about $3300. But maybe that wouldn't be the best idea being as it too is on SupraStore.com

Hey everyone, how are you all doing? Hope you've all enjoyed your weekend. Well, I have some questions. So, about a month ago I bought an 86.5 Supra N/A with an 89 Turbo swapped into it. I knew it had many problems with it, such as a knock, leaks oil everywhere, timing is way off, etc.. Lots...

Recently signed up here! Forgot to introduce myself! My name is Cote and I'm from Minnesota. No greater state for nice cars..... HA! Yeah right. Anyway. I just picked up an 86.5 Supra with an 89 7mgte swap. It has plenty of problems but thats the exact reason I got it. I'm looking forward...