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    help! hard starts, bogging down...

    Hi guys, i just did a search and found out my problem may be fuel related, but im not sure. (this is a 1990 7mgte, basically stock: test pipe, k&n fipk, turbo xs bov) So this just started happening this winter so i think it might have something to do with the weather. The car starts...
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    starts hard when warm?

    Hey guys you've helped many many times before maybe you can again. So my 90 7mgte starts up great from a cold start. But, when i start it up while the engine is already warm, like after going to a restaurant and coming back to my car, it acts strange. The idle will sort of sputter, and...
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    89 mk3 red. turbo?

    hey guys, i need a quick hand. My buddy is looking at this supra on craigs list http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/car/701424917.html im not sure whether its the 7mgte or 7mge because it doesn't say in the description. In the pictures you cant see the boost gauge because of the steering wheel...
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    torque hex vc bolts?

    real quick question. i just got a set of those hex vc bolts from club mr2. Dunckel told me to make sure i find out what to torque them to. I texted him back and asked how to tell what the torque is with an allen wrench. neither of us know. so any help would be.....helpful :icon_bigg...
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    someone stole my test pipe

    not really. Dunckel and i were bored so we took out my test pipe. He's driving in the video because i wanted to hear it from outside of the car. http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee126/cry4me_sky/?action=view&current=100_3197.flv
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    mouse troubles

    so i noticed the other day that there was a small pile of dog food in the little spot by the oil cap in my car. so obviously i cleaned it out. Then i got out some simple green and started to clean as much of the engine bay area as i could reach for a while hoping that the mouse would find a new...
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    Guitars

    Hey who all on sm plays a guitar/bass i want to see some pics. actually any instrument would be cool (besides a honda kazoo:sarcasm:) ill get mine up pretty soon ^^warwick thumb bolt on neck 5 string. this is my 5-string fretted bass me and my gpa built. tiger maple, a custom inlay...
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    ice (woohoo)

    ok so there was ice on our blacktop driveway this morning (which is a big steep curving road that goes up the side of a hill to our house at the top) and it was scary going down that hill. at the bottom its like a 990 degree turn left or right to get on the road and if you cant stop you go past...
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    reno 911

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=cfl6TEUQMaU i just thought that was funny
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    oil leaking/burning

    ok so my car smelled strange when i got home just a second ago so i popped the hood and i have a little oil leak. it is on the turbo side of the engine.... its sort of under the stock bov right across from the turbo on the engine where this bolt is.. there is a bunch of oiled that leaked out...
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    Sawblade stripping

    ok so i saw a few threads about stripping our stock sawblades, which i decided to do. i got the blue can of aircraft paint remover and used ilt like the threads described. they said to leave it on for 2-3 minutes and thaqt the paint would come right off. well after 3 minutes i started...
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    real quick bov help

    k so i just got a bov from someone on supra mania.... its a turbo xs type something. jit doesnt hook into the 300 piip or into the ic pipes or whatever like the greddy type s one duckel let me use did.. I think it goes in place of the other bov, but it only has one hose going in and then a...
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    stupid lying pre-owner...Pictures page 3 added.

    ok so i had the day off so i decided i'd clean up the car a little bit. i changed the oil, and then i got some rain-ex and some back to black and some other cleaning stuff and started making my car look pretty... the drivers side of my care looks good.. nice and shiney. so i go around to...
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    exhaust dilemma

    okay so here is the deal... i recently came upon $150 in extra cash and i want to bump my exhaust up to 3".. the shop i went to said that for $120 they could go 3" from the cats back. it is not mandrel bent and it is aluminide pipeing.. then they said that they would put on a turbo exhaust...
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    signature

    hey i've been seeing this cartoonish signature that shows an mk3 from the front and the sides... one guy had one that had a red fender because his supra had a red fender... is there somewhere online that offers these signatures.. i want one.
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    96 v6 camaro vs my 90 7mgte

    so there is this dude i know who just bought a 96 v6 camaro and is talking all kinds of shit about my supra, and how he could smake it... he says that it is slow because it's an automatic and that any stick could beat it... anyways just wondered what you guys thought... her is what he said...
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    smoke?!?!

    ok, so i made a huge mistake last night, i let me retarded friend drive my car. It was already warmed up by the time i got to his house, but he ran it prety damn hard, he got it up to 80 pretty quick on a short little straight away, turned around and came back going 80, went up his driveway and...
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    strange sound..

    Ok so at around 1.5k rpms my supra is making sort of a metallic ratteling, almost grinding sound. It's not really loud, and doesn't sound like bad grinding, but grinding none the less. It only happens when the car is driving, it won't do it when i rev to 1.5rpms in neutral. Also, it...
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    embarassment

    lol so i was drivng with my gf today, and we were waiting at a light to get onto the freeway. From the light its a left turn onto the freeway and both lanes can turn left. well i was in the right lane and a golf rolled up in the left one. I wasn't gunna race it, i was tired and im sick, i...
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    auto tranny, shifting hard

    Hey i just got my supra like a week ago and i've noticed that the transmission feels like its shifting harder than it should. Is this normal? when i took it to a mechanic before i noticed this he said doing anything to the transmission would be a pain... i found some lucas (idk exactly...