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

[Tyrie]

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

those spanners are worth some money on ebay

[Cplus]

those spanners are worth some money on ebay

more than they are worth at super cheap?

[takai]

How much are they on eBay.... more than the $4 i spent on them at Supercrap?

[80DGY]

hrm, I have a set of them too

pretty colours!

[Cplus]

How much are they on eBay.... more than the $4 i spent on them at Supercrap?

hmmm, we could make MILLIONS!!!

[Tyrie]

How much are they on eBay.... more than the $4 i spent on them at Supercrap?

you are getting them much cheaper than I am, but I am still doubling or tripling my outlay

[takai]

Lol, meh, i CBFed dealing with retards on eBay, ill leave them in the car, and hopefully never touch them, and then sell them off in 20 years for eleventy bilion dorrah

[Gammaboy]

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?

Yeah, doit.
There's no way to drill the zig zag of galleries required without using the plugs, so there will be gallery drillings there - remove the plugs though, there will be accumulated gunk in behind them.

[takai]

So i finally got them out, and it was actually really clean behind there. But a crapload of thread sealant gunk holding it in place
Looks roughly like this:

And those gallery plugs:


There really isnt much meat behind the capscrew socket so what im going to do is get new bolts in those sizes and turn them down to size on the lathe before putting a fitting into it. Should be pretty good imho.

Also got a chance to start fitting up the gauges into the replacement cluster. Just have to enlarge the speedo hole to suit and she is all apples:


Also almost finished off the engine ready to put into the car. Popped the blingy flywheel on, and a new spigot bearing:

Full organic clutch plate:

And then quite possibly the gayest clutch cover ive ever seen, so gay that i dont even have a photo of the gayness.

Finally im almost finished making the flange for the exhaust secondaries, and after the F1 Qualifying is over ill be back out in the garage finishing that off and then maybe tacking together some pipework for it

[Jason Broadhurst]

Is that you babs

Are the old tacho/speedo marks getting painted over?

edit: actually, cf film would actually look pretty good in this case.

[takai]

Yeah, will either be painted, or CF filmed, and i care not about originality. Its not as if these wernt a dime a dozen .

[Jay_G]

wouldn't it be better to take the oil temp from somewhere in the middle of the sump? giving an indication of the temp of the bulk mass of the oil?

[Peter...]

wouldn't it be better to take the oil temp from somewhere in the middle of the sump? giving an indication of the temp of the bulk mass of the oil?

Wouldn't the oil flow back and forth be at pretty much the same temp anyway?

[Euroboost]

Pretty sure VDO have sender adaptors that would screw into the fittings.

[Jay_G]

Wouldn't the oil flow back and forth be at pretty much the same temp anyway?

Not really, it is going to get hotter in certain parts of the engine, the process of the oil pump pressurising the oil is going to make it hotter, along with heat soak from the block/oil filter housing. it might only be a couple of degrees but who knows, if he also runs an oil cooler the bulk amount of oil in the sump is going to be cooler than after it has travelled through the pump and galleries to the filter housing where he is putting the temp sender.