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    Mine's Fuel Hacker

    Hey guys I bought this Mine's Fuel Hacker the other day because i thought it was interesting and found out soon after there is close to no information about these out there. So here goes, it's a piggyback produced by mines in the mid-80's for the 7mgte and 3sgte before they figured out how to...
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    Dimensions of stock brake caliper mounting holes?

    Hey guys I'm just wondering if anyone knows off hand the dimensions of the mounting holes for our stock front brake calipers, I'm looking for the center to center distance. If not i guess i'll go out in the snow and start measuring lol
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    1988 MZ21 Soarer

    Hey guys It figured it's about time i started a build thread for my Soarer. I'm the second owner of the car not including the dealership that took the car in on trade and its in extrmely good shape minus a little interior where and tear So here's the run down 1988 MZ21 -Automatic -Factory Air...
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    Should i retorque my head or wait?

    So i'm debating if i should re-torquing the head on my soarer or just wait till it blows. The soarer is a 88 model with 90k miles and still on the original head gasket and right now the car has zero issues. Other then an Apexi intake the motor is bone stock, even running stock boost and I want...
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    1985 MR2 Project

    Hey guys, I thought i'd take the time and make a little thread about my "OHTER" car lol. It's a 1985 toyota mr2 i bought from the original owner with a blown motor for 300$. The plan was to rebuild the engine and daily it but plans changed and now its got a turbo kit,set of coilovers and more to...
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    So...thinking of buying another supra

    I havn't been on the boards much in the last 2 years because i soild my supra but about 3 months ago i just kinda woke up one morning jumped on craigslist and started looking for another one, I swear supras are like a bad drug i thought i was over them and then all of a sudden i'm relapsing. To...
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    random backfire?

    Hey guys let me start off by telling you about the car, its a 87 turbo with 3' exhaust and down pipe no cat, shimmed wastegate,upgraded boush recirc valve, K&N intake and lower hardpipes. What the car has been doing is when i am in boost and go to change gears as soon as i engage the clutch and...
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    burgandy plastic dye

    I was wondering if anybody knows of any dye that will some what match the stock burgandy color. I tryed the duplicolor burgandy on the replacement panels i got for the car and its way to red the only other dye i could find was the SEM burgandy and it looks to be the same color.
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    strange temp. spikes

    Well i've been haveing some problems with the supra what happens is the temp. gauge is spiking to the red or very close then dropping back down to normal. So far i've changed the water pump and theremostat (clipped the dodad thingy off and positioned the hole at 12:00)but neither helped. I also...
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    sunfire problems... help

    I've been having problems with my girlfriends 99 sunfire lately. The problem is the end tanks on the radiator keeps separating ,the best i can tell the cheap epoxy gm uses to connect the plastic end tanks to the aluminum core is just braking down over time. I replaced the radiator about a year...
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    shock valving

    I was just wondering if any one can suggest any good books that i could read to help me understand shock valving. Its just one of the topics that seem to confuse me lol thanks
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    got board so i changed my exhuast

    Well I have always loved the way my 3" exhaust sounded but the exhaust drone was finally getting to me so i decided to change the exhaust a little so i bought a 3" hks striaght threw muffler from a old school sc300 exhaust and went to work the muffler was really dirty when i got it...
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    Perfect strech of road?

    So I was driving home tonight from the girlfriends house tonight and i found my self going about 10 miles out of my way just so i could drive my "perfect" strech of road on the way home, The road starts at the top of a very large vally twist down with about 3 sharp turns in the shape of a S and...
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    code 51

    So my car had a code 51 and i adjusted the tps like every one said to and it went away but while sitting in the car in diag mode if i cut the ac on the code 51 will come back cut ac off it goes away again. Any one got any ideas?
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    brazing aluminum ???

    I purchased some aluminum charge pipes locally for a good deal and i was wonding if it would be fesable to braze the pipeing togeather in the places where it should be welded. I know brazing isn't as strong as welding but as far as i can see there isn't much stress on charge pipes. What do you...
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    new parts

    Got some new parts in to day kyb gr-2 shocks and tanabe gf210 springs from my research nobody is really running the tanabe springs so i'll keep yall updated on the setup lol
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    out of sync tems?

    So i got board today and pulled the tems off the car because my new shocks are comeing and i noticed that they where way out of sync , when in sports mode one shock was in firm,2 where in medium,and 1 was soft. I wonder if this has been whats making my car ride funny lol
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    I hate advance auto parts

    I just changed out my master and slave cylenders about a month ago and every thing has been working great but now the same damn clutch problems have returned( bad pedal pressure and poor pedal return) so i can only assume that one of the new parts have already gone bad :aigo:
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    charge pipe size

    hey guys i just got an awsome deal on some 3" charge pipes (one of those deals i couldn't pass up) but now that there on the way I'm starting to think they might be to big lol I'm only fabbing the piping from the intercooler to the Trottle body and the car is still running a stock turbo. What do...
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    I hate valve shims

    Well I pulled the vavle covers today to retorque my arps and thought to my self while i'm doing this i'll check my valve shim clearances, now i know that my cars valves have always seemed to be a little loud but i sure as hell no why now. Take a look at the cleaces i measured and see if they...