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  1. amd_hcds

    Alternator question

    Oh here's the deal. My alternator just failed, It charges good but as soon as you put load it goes to discharge and light comes on and voltage drops below 12v. While it's no on load it's charging around 13.5 to 13.00... i found an alternator locally for cheap but it's a non turbo 7m alternator...
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    Oil overfill?

    Okay I have a situation. My car has been leaking oil pretty much from everywhere. You name it every single seal that exists in a 7M. After trying to work on the car to solve the leaks. I came to this. Front main seal,camshaft seal,timing case cover,cps,valve covers,turbo feed,rear main...
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    Need help!

    Hello everyone.. Note: I have read searched and looked around before posting but couldn't find something to help. So I had a massive oil leak that leaked everywhere so I wanted to clean the engine so I wouldn't get a nasty oil burning smell everytime i drive the car. I used an engine...
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    Oily BBQ

    Hello everyone.. I've been a member in these forums for a very long time. I used to have a supra back in 2005-2006 but sold and had to leave the country. Maybe some members would remember a black supra with a bypassed turbo from Iraq? Well I'm back and I live in Chicago IL and just like AIDS...
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    I found this...

    Well after I crashed my daihatsu DD and sold it for 1700$ today I found this car for 1500$...It runs great and imo looks good <---not sure about this.. It's a 1978 323i BMW...What do you guys think for that price? And I gotta say this although I might get flamed...But that M20 2.3L...
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    The worst that could happen

    So I was cruising in my daily beater in the freeway and all of a sudden a tire goes flat and the car flips and goes directly to a nice shaped tree and this is what I got......damn it And this is what it used to look like...
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    JZA80 Vs. JZA70

    Hope it's not a repost! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoOyNJSUIzI
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    My new Beater

    So I parked the supra cause it's not suitable to be a DD anymore and I bought a Daihatsu Charade Turbo! lol a 3 Cylinder turbo car it's a fun to drive car and it's kinda fast comparing to it's engine size and it's an econo-box for sure
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    Canada or Australia?

    Well I'm thinking about immigrating for good from the middle east it's a troubled area and will have problems for ages. No offense to anyone but I think the united states is a first on my immigration list but I wanted to know if the states immigration didn't happen which one is better Canada or...
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    Not a supra video but...

    Well I was searching in some old files and found this video in my old c4 corvette doing some donuts. http://smvideos.suprapics.com/index.php?fileid=9ca00b7be3fd86df57cc86de4bfd285d
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    WTF?

    http://ww.supramania.com/ With ww not www!
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    Rod-knock & Knock sensors?

    Okay been thinking about this. A friend of mine has a 89T auto and he have rod-knock but he never cared about it and it's getting REALLY loud. Will the knock sensor detect the rod-knock knocking as a detonation knock and retard the timing in that case? Cause his car is running crazy rich (black...
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    Coolant temprature light?

    well I was driving in my red N\A 89 auto yesterday and was making around 160km\h(around 100mph) and I noticed a light near the coolant temp. gauge flashing I checked later to see what that light was on the handbook and it says it's the coolant temp. warning light then later I suspected the stock...
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    Progress in my baby

    So I had a nice rod-knock\broken turbo and i thought about changing the whole engine while there and searched in my area for a JDM GTE but failed with that thought about other swaps and all failed because of missing parts on 1jz\2jz-gte. I'm really tired and sick of not driving my supra...
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    Fuel tank?

    Okay droping my tank today to change the bad fuel pump which's causing my car to bog when around 4.5-5 rpm opened the two tank belts and the tank seem to be stuck in it's position after a while of dust eating\under car looking I noticed that I have to disconnect the hose to the tank filler cap...
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    Got a new car

    I bought a 89 N\A supra 5 speed for a good price yesterday but it got a couple of problems most of them seem to be solvable for me but this one hell problem when you accelerate and at around 4k rpm it kinda feels that the car is dying and the power is decreasing and if I keep driving it past 4k...
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    Swap...ECUs?

    I'm swapping my engine for one froma 91 car and mine is 89 the engine I have came with it's complete wiring harness so I wonder if I can use it's harness with my ECU cause I noticed that many plugs are diffrent on this engine than my old engine..So can I use my old ECU with this 91 wiring harness?
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    Fuel Pressure Regulator?

    Hey I got horrible gas mileage! I think that my fuel pressure regulator small vaccum pipe is connected to a wrong place where do that connect? I couldn't follow it on the TSRM vaccum pipes diagram.
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    couple of questions

    Today I was at a friends house who owns a newly rebuild N\A supra auto he wanted to race my supra got no turbo at the time now...So we raced first I hit 1st and 2nd I pulled hard on him then when I shifted to 3rd the clutch just didn't work well it just took time until the gear connected or...
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    R.I.P supra body.....7M welcome to your new Body!

    Today I finally got a deal on a 7M-GTE and with a supra that has been totalled REAL WELL but the engine is not hurt at all and it runs just great but the car......It's really totalled but it's great that the driver survived...I'm gonna swap It's engine which allready got a MHG and ARPs tourged...