Did I mention I am a machinist!!
I was bored and decided to make a new aluminum dipstick handle. Simple little things like this, I feel, add a lot to a cars overall "WOW" factor.
How about a 8an breather line holder/clamp
I was getting really sick of the ugly tan interior and decided to do something about it. New Toyota carpet and some vinyl racing seats. I have also put in a 4 point harness not in the picture
I built and painted my own seat brackets so that they fit right and the seats are straight and level. I have used other manufacturers seat brackets in the past and they have all turned out to be complete junk.
Done and installed.
Fixed the stock rear speaker box and added some new speakers all the way around. I had my interior panels off anyways to pull out all the stock seatbelts
I built a bar that goes across the rear strut tower area and bolts into the old roof holding bracket spot. This is to bolt the shoulder straps of the seat belt to. Primed and painted also. I didn't put the back seat or the cargo mat back in. I am going to make some sort of seat delete kit or possibly incorporate some speaker boxes or nitrous system. Don't really know yet.
Couple views of the engine bay. My friend owns a small nitrous company so he is going to get me setup with a small jet nitrous system. I just want to play around with AEM nitrous controls a little and have decided to have just a small jet (less than 50hp)to help with turbo spool. I am also going to play around with using ethanol with 93 pump gas to try and help control detonation. Theres really no where to get race gas around here besides buying a 55 gal drum.
While driving lately, most notebly after the fuel system was installed I have been hearing a high pitched screaming sound comming from the engine under boost. Asuming that It was a large boost leak at first I pressure tested it and found nothing. After playing around with the chassis ears for a while I narrowed it down to the #2 turbo. The DEATH WHINE everybody talks about is happening. This is a little upsetting since I didn't have the money for a single yet. I mostly just wanted to see how much a could pull out of the stock twins. So the teardown begins.
Getting these mothers out was a pain in my royal ass especially since i decided to do this in my garage without a lift. Ended being about a 6 hour ordeal. look at the pile of parts.
I have decided to go with the PHR 67 single turbo kit. I have only heard excellent things about their turbos and overall kit build quality. The 67 is a perfect blend of spool and total power for a street car not running race gas all the time.
TRD motormounts were installed while waiting for the turbo kit to be shipped. This should keep my nice shiny turbo from slamming into the strut tower.
The back of a supra just screams for a speaker box. I figured I would start on it while I wait for the turbo.
Here is a few pictures of my first fiberglass sub box to date. Many man hours and brain cells were lost in creating this. 2 10" alpine subs will be home here. I wanted to keep if fairly simple and as light as possible (so why did I decide to put subs in you ask??) well, because I love music and love bass and want to enjoy driving this car as much a possible. I will finish painting this when I paint the exterior in a month or so.
