Supra (2JZA61) daily project - Its alive... its ALIVE!

[takai]

Yeah, its an Otomoto kit, really well impressed. Grant is a nice guy, communicates well as when i ordered they didnt have any 51mm sleeves in stock, and they are good quality.
The only thing you need to know is that you have to bore out the upper hat hole to suit, its supplied with a 10mm pilot in the top, i had to bore to 22mm.

[BMWTurbo]

Great timing, I stumbled across the Otomoto sleeves last night and was about to order a set, just deciding on spring rates.

The little steel spacer you made is to allow for clearance at the strut top?

[tim510]

Yeah, its an Otomoto kit, really well impressed. Grant is a nice guy, communicates well as when i ordered they didnt have any 51mm sleeves in stock, and they are good quality.
The only thing you need to know is that you have to bore out the upper hat hole to suit, its supplied with a 10mm pilot in the top, i had to bore to 22mm.

20mm for me... i really need to setup my drill press. the hand makita bit in hard and nearly snapped my wrist doing this...

[takai]

Yeah, hand drilling that size is nasty. I did it in the lathe.

The spacer at the top was to put the shock loading onto the bearing so it can rotate and pivot rather than putting it onto one edge of the upper hat which would foul on the camber top.

[Gavatron]

Made my rotor spacers yet? Might actually work on mine this weekend.

[takai]

Will have made the rotor spacers by this weekend

Not much news on the Supra as ive been working on the Spoonter. Just finished the steering spacer though:


Pretty simple.
Gotta pull the whole rear brakes apart though because i forgot to adjust the handbrake before i started... DOH.

[takai]

Last night i got around to pulling apart all the brakes and adjusting up the handbrake. Unfortunately i have found that the entire cable has stretched so much that even with the cable adjuster wound all the way in and only about 0.5mm between the pads and the drum it only just engages, and is sloppy as.

Thinking ill have to pull the tbar out and see if i can get it recrimped shorter.

Which is another pain in the arse as its hard to get there due to the tailshaft in the way. Seriously considering just backing it into the garage and using the tailshaft as an excuse to shove the 2JZ down its guts.

[Norbie]

Thinking ill have to pull the tbar out and see if i can get it recrimped shorter.

Fuck that. Just carry a block of wood around with you.

[takai]

Hahha, dont quite need to do that. I do live in Adelaide after all, pretty flat here.
5M is asthmatic though, and doesnt like me much.

[takai]

So speaking of the 2JZ, i got started on pulling it down last night. After an hour or so it looks like this:


Nothing too drastic found. Couple of leaking cam seals which have spilled oil down the entire block, and worse in the spark plug valley.

Found that at some point in the past a wire had been crimped between the manifold and the plenum:

So ill have to solder that up before i get it going.

Oh and the one bit i already knew:


Plug is broken off the VVTi solenoid, so that will need to be replaced.
I have a new timing belt, exhaust cam gear and water pump coming for the engine, and soon ill pull the sump off to weld in an oil temp sensor bung.

All in all it needs a tidy up, but nothing drastic.

[Norbie]

Didn't realise you were going VVTi. That will be an epic skid machine!

[takai]

VVTi NA though, picking up some goodies for it tonight too.

[takai]

So last night i ducked out and picked this little guy up:


Ill shelve that for a bit later, about when it gets some 272deg cams and an aftermarket ECU...

[fury]

Interesting ... so is there an adapter plate you can use, or are you going to make one?

[takai]

Nah, this one will be custom. Gotta make 2 of them, one for this engine and the other for Gavatrons