TROLL's Supra: RPS Carbon Twin Disc clutch installed, retuning fuel now

[TROLL]

Originally Posted by trista

You need my awesome mechanic skills again.. That's what it is..

ok deal, lets get her tip top...

Originally Posted by jen.

That does sound frustrating . Our clutches sound similar, so I definitely know where you're coming from! We keep adjusting mine, but I'm still not sold on it. Good luck with the radiator and working through those adjustments on your AFRs!

yeah, hopefully i'll be able to sort it out though. thanks for the well wishes, i'm ready for the car to be 100% and put me back in my seat

Originally Posted by russiankid

Bryan, from my experience that sediment left over in the fluid is not normal. If I were in your shoes I would have bought new fluid. That sediment is most likely dirt and what not that was left in the trans. And since you put new fluid in when you rebuilt the whole car, it cleaned it out and now you drained it so you see the sediment.

you know, you're probably right. I thought that for a moment when I was working on the car but then just moved forward. I think I'll probably order some fresh fluid and drain this stuff just to be safe... hopefully it will result in overall cleaner fluid in there. I guess there's no way to flush it out unfortunately, and also this stupid fluid costs about $80 for 2 liters from Toyota... yargh.

[russiankid]

Only way to flush it out is to keep changing the fluid periodically. Check if any other fluids are compatible with Toyota like Royal Purple so its a little cheaper than Toyota stuff.

[Mitsu3kgt]

Just use an oil that is compatible with lsd diffs. We used valvoline when i worked at toyota and we use pennzoil at lexus

[Zillon]

Saw you creepin' past my place in Yardley this afternoon - car's looking good!

[TROLL]

Originally Posted by Zillon

Saw you creepin' past my place in Yardley this afternoon - car's looking good!

Haha I was creepin'... saw your car outside. Trista said "I didn't know those could look good!" haha, and I agree, I dig it!

We were making a stop at Yardley Wawa before heading out to the CF show today.

[Zillon]

Yeah, I get that a lot - the car does look like a turd in stock form. But thanks man.

[TROLL]

Just a couple idling videos I took of the car since someone asked how the car sounds with the GSC S1 cams... I am also running a full 4" exhaust with a HKS Ti 4" catback, Precision 67mm turbo, Greddy exhaust manifold, etc.
Definitely has a nice lope to it Idling around 1000 rpm by the way.

http://youtu.be/oPyLlYKi8lk

http://youtu.be/PFz152Jz2co

[morla]

damn, sounds phenomenal.

[TalonTsi97]

Originally Posted by TROLL

Just a couple idling videos I took of the car since someone asked how the car sounds with the GSC S1 cams... I am also running a full 4" exhaust with a HKS Ti 4" catback, Precision 67mm turbo, Greddy exhaust manifold, etc.
Definitely has a nice lope to it Idling around 1000 rpm by the way.

http://youtu.be/oPyLlYKi8lk

http://youtu.be/PFz152Jz2co

Sounds great, i would have grabbed some videos last time i saw you in HD (lol).

Hope you get the tune done soon. Maybe get it over to PSI PROformance dynojet in the cool air and make a few pulls. I'd certainly come and cheer you on.

[TROLL]

Thanks! Yeah this was just with my iPhone.
Mmm I've been thinking a lot about the tuning and engine management stuff and I really feel like I'm being held back by the piggyback. I think over the winter I'm going to make some changes and hopefully be up to full potential all around by spring. For fun though I could iron out my fuel top end on the current setup and throw it on the dyno as a 'baseline'.

I could go with an AEM v2 which would get the job done, but I hear a lot of great things about the ProEFI setup and am leaning this direction. I've been keeping an eye out for a used one or a sale cause they're expensive, but its also a very important part of my system and if it means the difference between my car being held back and frustrating vs. it being optimized and awesome, then its worth it.
Also need to decide who I want to have tune it. It requires someone who is a licensed ProEFI tuner to tune it so thats the other obstacle. Some guys fly in regularly to tune so thats an option but if there was somoene within driving distance who was awesome I'd prefer that. We'll see how things go...

[TalonTsi97]

Originally Posted by TROLL

Thanks! Yeah this was just with my iPhone.
Mmm I've been thinking a lot about the tuning and engine management stuff and I really feel like I'm being held back by the piggyback. I think over the winter I'm going to make some changes and hopefully be up to full potential all around by spring. For fun though I could iron out my fuel top end on the current setup and throw it on the dyno as a 'baseline'.

I could go with an AEM v2 which would get the job done, but I hear a lot of great things about the ProEFI setup and am leaning this direction. I've been keeping an eye out for a used one or a sale cause they're expensive, but its also a very important part of my system and if it means the difference between my car being held back and frustrating vs. it being optimized and awesome, then its worth it.
Also need to decide who I want to have tune it. It requires someone who is a licensed ProEFI tuner to tune it so thats the other obstacle. Some guys fly in regularly to tune so thats an option but if there was someone within driving distance who was awesome I'd prefer that. We'll see how things go...

My buddy tunes cars on a regular basis and has been contacted about tuning a supra on a "map ecu" setup i beleive it was. Me and him have been discussing tuning and supra options for the last few weeks on and off and i really feel like AEM would be good to go with. Like you said, it may be expensive but for how crucial it is i would want something that could handle everything the best way. There is also some good AEM tuners in the area that i would trust to do it.

[TROLL]

Yeah AEM tuners are definitely more widespread, but the ProEFI is a pretty badass setup. It kind of bridges the gap between the AEM and Motec.

Check out the feature list here: http://www.proefi.com/Supra.html

[jesse096]

Gotta hear this thing in person, sounds kinda like a SBC in the vid...

-Jesse

[lownslow95]

It really does.

[ambitiousCK]

[denmah]

big cam supras do sound similar to small block v8s when cammed to balls

texas supra meets always had me thinking this same thing.

then they roll into to the gas and move the car and you can hear the inline 6 come back to life

[mAtrixfcuk]

looks incredible man!

[TROLL]

Well... its been a while. Some of you know I moved down to FL a few years ago. I still have the Supra and Subaru, and I also have a Jeep Wrangler for daily driver duty... really fun in a totally different way than the cars, but they compliment each other well because they are so different.
(pic of jeep: https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...16d7821e6d1750)

I don't have any major updates with the Supra because my time and money have mostly been budgeted in other areas lately but I have been working on tying up some loose ends lately and it feels pretty good.
First, here are a couple photos from a meet at Real Street Performance last year in Orlando




I'm taking the car out to FL2K this weekend to have on display in my company's booth (Fuel Injector Clinic) at the event.
I've been picking away at some little projects like:
-fix front speaker that wasn't working (turned out to be something really stupid and an easy fix, but took 10+ hours to finally find)
-reinstall boost controller so I can run 18 psi instead of 9 psi
-reinstall boost gauge
-rewire fogs so they work independently from headlights
-figure out why halogens work in low beams but HIDs dont (polarity was reversed on HID kit, why did it take 3 attempts over a year's time to figure that out?)
-fix alarm horn
-straighten exhaust so its not rubbing EWG and is centered in bumper
-straighten snaggletooth intercooler fins
-oil change, going to run German Castrol 0w-30 this time around with the Toyota V8 filter

All pretty boring stuff, also need to finish replacing my targa seals so I can finally put the carpet back in the car after being out for like 2 years. I just felt like posting because it feels good to be working on the car again, hoping to keep spending time in the garage when I can, even if its an hour here or there and even if I get a little bit less sleep as a result.

Here are a couple more pics of the car from down here





Beautiful sunny FL (did I mention I have a targa leak to fix?)


Big part of the reason I haven't worked on the Supra much... Subaru engine did me dirty


from a few weeks ago


from last night (spent about 2 hours out there, not quite done but man I saved some stuff that looked like it was lost)

[Foolinaround]

I was wondering if you were going to fl2k. I'm stuck up the panhandle and since uncle sam doesn't want to give me weekends off i can't go.

[TROLL]

Ah that's too bad... Pretty far drive but worth it I'm sure if you can make it down next year. I'm taking a break right now but almost have the car all back together, fingers crossed that everything works as planned. Gotta get up early tomorrow to wash the car so it's somewhat presentable out there. Hope to have more photos after the weekend.