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

[Bren]

they look like 180sx type x rims. probably the same as a stagea.

No they are not 180SX Type X rims. Nothing like them. For a start these are 5 stud not 4.

Lately I have been really into MA61's, and I have been reading your thread for a long time. I love it!! One day I would like to have one myself!!

[townie :)]

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

get a side handle, i used to hand drill alot of stainless at my old job, with bigger bits aswell, when I was a first year apprentice, i ripped a ligament in my thumb, ever since then, used side handles for everything.

[takai]

So after getting this all together i took it for a drive on Saturday, and found that im getting a nice knocking/clunking noise coming from the passenger front corner. As such all of the front suspension will be coming out for a check. I suspect its just the cambertop spherical bearing, but it cant hurt to check.

[takai]

Finally got around to sorting out the knocking, was a combinaiton of a few things.

Anyway looks like this now:




Looks quite high at the front, so i think ill need to sort out a lip there. But it handles like its on rails, although ill need to figure out the dampening as its a bit over damped at the moment.

Currently im patching up the aerial hole and waiting for the coat of bog to dry over the patch. After that it needs a wheel alignment and ill drive it around for a while as it is to let stuff settle in.

[Asteroid]

Looks good, give it a polish.

[takai]

Got the Supra wheel aligned today, which it didnt come in too badly at. -2mm toe out at the front, 1mm toe in at the rear, 2deg neg at the front and rear. Pretty well sorted.... at MIN castor though its still running 5deg castor Win.

[takai]

Not much done over the last little while. Alarm installed, but no pics of that for obvious reasons, just driving it around a bit.

However ive started workign on the 2JZ to get it ready to go into the bay soon. Now that my timing belt and bits have showed up i got them installed:


Plus while i was cleaning things up i popped the cam covers off to put new gaskets on, and wrinkle coated them:


Plus i picked up the bits for my new exhaust, thanks to Drew at AAA Exhausts and PLAYA for the ECV:


Oh and a cheapo set of spanners to leave in the car

Once the wrinkle coat dries ill be able to pop the cam covers back on and put it all back together again, but that can wait for a bit. The weekend has pretty much been spent on the AE86 anyway. Ill probably start the 2JZ conversion in April as thats when my wife changes rotations to a more single car friendly roster.

One thing i do have to do before then is figure out how to cut this:

Basically i have to cut it down to just before the injector mounting bosses. Ive given an abrasion cutting disc a go, but it just tends to cake up. Ive heard that using soap on the disc helps though. Maybe ill try that, anyone have other suggestions?

[OKE020]

5" 1mm cutting disk + wax, should cut like butter

[Gammaboy]

aluminium specific 2mm thick disc worked a treat for me.
Know anyone with a bandsaw?

[Jason Broadhurst]

You have probably thought about it, but you should really have covered spade connectors for the batt side at very least. If they fall off it won't end well.

Also, crimp connectors look like puss Try get some black covered ones, it'll look a million bucks.

[takai]

Yeah, i probably should. But ive already heatshrunk those, so im not overly concerned about it. Probably sort out some better stuff when i do the 2JZ conversion.

Speaking of which, i seem to be alternating my time between the Spoonter and the upcoming Supra conversion atm. Last night i spent a bit of time getting the Supra stuff sorted out.

First thing last night was getting the engine mounts sorted out:

Thats the fourth pair ive made, and hopefully the last, getting sick of cutting steel into smaller bits of steel and welding it together like some modern art piece.

Next up was getting all the engine back together, which went quite smoothly:

Ancillaries are all on, just need a belt for them, but that can wait for a bit, as i want to run it without the PS hooked up at first to make sure all is ok. Plus the PS there is attached by only two bolts, one to a thin tab on the engine and the other to a bar which leads back across to the intake mani reinforcement. To say im a bit sus about that is an undestatement, so ill be adding a third attachment point where the aircon compressor used to sit. Probably do it out of 10x25 bar Alu as i have some around.
I also repaired the wiring on the injector rail, and cleaned up the cam covers and painted them wrinkle black, replaced the cam cover seals, spark plugs and a few other bits.

Started work on the exhaust manifold too:

I havnt drilled the holes yet as my holesaw arbor snapped, and ill need to get a new one before i can drill them out.

Plus i built a simple merge collector:

Not the best welding in the world, as i kept blowing through, so i was moving quite quickly. Should have switched to 0.6mm wire, but i dont have any handy. Wish i had a TIG....

Oh yeah, this is the exhaust manifold im using:

The stock 2JZGE VVTi manifold is really quite a nice piece of kit.

Now while i had the oil adaptor out to put the engine mounts on i noticed these couple of plugs in the casing:

Im guessing from their location that they go straight into the gallery behind it. Im currently wondering whether i should simply tap a 1/8NPT hole into one of them for the oil temp sender, and tap the other for a fitting to attach the oil pressure sender.
Thoughts? It will be certainly much easier than welding a plug to the sump. I guess the real question is do those plugs actually lead to the gallery behind?

And finally:

Thats the 2JZ inlet manifold compared to the RB26 one. Dave of the Tomato has suggested that you can simply swap the runners in a 1/6 and 2/5 fashion and it will simply work. If i do that itll be a matter of figuring out how far down to swap them. Ideas?

Thats about it for now. Just gotta clean up the wiring on the engine, and sort out what will be plugged into the body loom, and terminate them into a plug for the body. All looking quite on track for an April start to the actual conversion.

[Norbie]

Im guessing from their location that they go straight into the gallery behind it. Im currently wondering whether i should simply tap a 1/8NPT hole into one of them for the oil temp sender, and tap the other for a fitting to attach the oil pressure sender.
Thoughts? It will be certainly much easier than welding a plug to the sump. I guess the real question is do those plugs actually lead to the gallery behind?

Oil filter sandwich plates are cheap as fuck on eBay and they're already tapped with the correct thread for your temp/pressure senders. That's what I'm using anyway.

[takai]

Yeah, but that just means more stuff cluttering up the engine bay. Im already using filter relocation bits.

[doctor ed]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJwjHg5XM58

[takai]

Sounds good, the 20v setup is a bit painful though. Gotta look at making those GTR throttles work.