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baby steps... it's not welded yet but it's a snug fit now. You can see the supra xmas ornament my lady made for me in the background in the above picture. This one just shows up close that the gap there is pretty much gone.

Why not? They look like they're designed like stock with a bonded sleeve that wont allow the LCA to shift on them, which is the root of this problem as I understood it.

I swapped a 2wd chevy colorado trans into mine. It requires either a shortened input shaft or a 5mm trans-to-bellhousing spacer plate, a custom driveshaft, and something to move the shifter backwards like 4-5 inches - custom mounts, or a custom shifter. (or there's the pontiac solstice...

Yeah if they said 86.5-92, that's their problem. Part not as described / inaccurate listing, whatever. If it was made to fit an 89+, it sure as shit won't fit an early car. You are owed a refund/return. I think if you needed to you could get refunded through paypal buyer protection or...

They should probably mark it clearly as being for 89+ cars... but it is well known by people in the community that the subframe changes that year. some products are built for the early style subframe and some for the late.

I haven't installed and driven on mine yet, sorry... I did install some of the rear ones into my last rust-heap supra, but I never even got it out on the road before buying my current car, and I haven't swapped any of them into the new one yet.

Those look just like stock - bonded to a sleeve which is pressed in, which means they wouldn't have the problem the ES one does. I wonder if they're stiffer rubber than stock or just designed to be oem replacements? I didn't know they existed... it was a few years ago I was shopping for...

update! This part has been a pain. I could have probably made a jig of some kind and done the work on the lathe but that felt like it was going to be just as much work, so I did it manually with the dremel using cutting wheel + sander attachments. The Y-pipe that joins the compressor outlets...

Thanks, mr. pi. I have the full ES set, but I think I'll probably leave my stock front LCA ones alone until they become a problem.

I've been hunting around for more info about this.. do you mean the arm manages to squeeze its way around the face of the bushing? Someone have a link to a thread about this issue? I haven't been able to find anything.

Thank you, Rollus, for your continued thread patronage and encouragement, haha. I can't wait to have it together either. I'm working on getting access to a TIG welder at a local "maker space" (http://artisansasylum.com/) to speed up the project since I have to travel a long way to use my own...

The intercooler cores and throttle body got their lips cut off to fit the v-band flanges. After the flanges are welded on I'll go back and blend the edges inside.

Yeah, I have a buddy who had a 3" aluminum shaft explode underneath him from spinning it too fast. Knowing the critical speed is verrrry important to avoid that. I wish there were some aftermarket 2-piece shafts...

Came down with a cold just in time for my work-on-the-car vacation, so I didn't get as much done as I hoped. First thing on getting there the car wouldn't start even though the battery had a good charge. Checked the spark plugs and they were wet. I put a fresh set of spark plugs in, installed...

Haha, I have a friend that jokes about putting 1uz's in everything. So far he's done a 70s celica, an sc300 and a pickup, if I recall correctly. Nothing wrong with doing that swap a lot -- they're great engines and you get the most out of your previous experience. It looks like good work and...

This is a spare set of turbos I bought from a member here. I ground off some casting flash and smoothed the bumps on the turbine housings, just because I can. I've also done a little bit of porting on the manifolds and plan to do more. Tonight, these will get boxed up tonight and mailed off to...

is that a base map thats freely available? or should I be bugging you for a copy since I plan to hook a ms3pro to my 1JZ soon?

going carbeurated? supercharging it? ummm... e85 conversion? How many guesses do I get?

The aftermarket ones also have a little more dampening ability, compared to the stocker, I think. That would mean if you swapped in some monster injectors, the aftermarket AFPR would be able to keep the pressure in the rail more stable as the opening and closing of the injectors creates...

Haha, very close. My rears are actually orange! I got the orange steering rack bushings too, though they are not pictured. My reasoning for the rears was that while the durometer of the orange polyurethane is not that much higher than OEM rubber, the OEM bushings have air gaps in them to allow...