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Installed my 19" wheels. They're Sportec made in Switzerland (?). I think they look pretty nice, too bad 19" tires are so darn hard to find and our roads are so bad.
Nice within spec oil pressure.
Rear suspension feels much better.
Engine still sounds bearing/rattley at idle. Sounds like an air cooled on revs. Contrary to the tiptronic which is dead silent.
New diverter valves — I ultimately needed to lower the engine a bit and pull the air box to allow access to the house clamps. Once that was done, it was a surprisingly easy job. The honking is gone. The boost builds much quicker, and the car runs great. One thing I found helpful was to remove the rear valve first and then remove the F hose with the front valve attached. Replacement was the reverse of removal.
Also did the clutch accumulator a few weeks ago. The key for me was to grind down a 27mm crow’s foot wrench to fit the accumulator. It turns out that the modified, cut down thin wrench which I specifically ordered for this job did not allow me enough torque (I suppose that I am too weak) to loosen the accumulator.
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While I was grilling the turkey I decided to tackle the master and accumulator. Master sure is fun in that tight spot. Accumulator stubby wrench and freezer bag trick were great tips picked up on the forums. Turkey was done so have to wait on the bleeding but hoping the motive bleeder makes it easy as I have seen. Happy Thanksgiving!
:O an MK4 supra... that was always a dream car of mine until the movie made it every fanbois dream...
:O an MK4 supra... that was always a dream car of mine until the movie made it every fanbois dream...
Yes, that movie ruined many good Supra’s and FDs by putting them in the wrong hands but it didn’t make the cars any less fun. Have had mine for a long time before all the hype and plan on keeping it long after.
I have the H&R with B8 setup. It ended up at below GT2 ride height by about 5MM. I made spacers and got it back to just barely in the lower end of the GT2 spec. Yes you will scrape the aero spoiler A LOT. I am on aero lip #4 in as many years and it just got destroyed last nigh. On to #5 Here is a snip of the ride height data i put together when i did mine
Keep in mind you can not directly correlate rear TT and GT2 ride height measured off the service manual locations due to different subframes on the two cars. Set to the same physical ride height with 315/30/18 tires, a TT will measure 7mm lower than GT2. (I.E. 126mm TT = 133mm GT2). Based on your chart you may have already taken that into account on the GT2 rear measurement.
Here are the official published #s:
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11-26-2021, 05:49 PM
