A few new photos of my ma61

Once again, The Machining wizard that is Dean Pulled out all the stops for me to Modify the pulleys so i didn't have to fork out for a new custom one. Thanks Dude, You ROCK!
Front Aircon pulley removed from the Toyota 5MGE Crank pulley

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(Before v - with the aircon pulley)

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Dean Centre bored to 88 and to a depth of 35mm with a step cleaned up inside on the Toyota Pulley

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Spacer locates inside the step and bolts through with countersunk bolts to the Toyota pulley.

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The Jag xjr -6 Supercharger pulley with One pulls removed & Register machined down to 88mm
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Then shorten to 25mm long

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Jaguar Pulley then slides inside the Toyota Pulley and bolts into the spacer using the original holes

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Like so >



So now the finished item looks like this. Can't wait to bolt it on and get a belt on there B-)

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Progress. Rainer Cliff popped over to make my strange idea's into reality with the door bars. Cheers bro!
Also - massive thanks to Mark and Dean for all their work to get it this far!

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Nice bit of clearance between door bars and my hip and arm now
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The car is a bit of a funny shape, and combined with me having to run the seat rails outboard to get it low enough i didn't have much space between the seat and the cage. I went for this style door bar, and tilted them out to touch the inside skin of the doors

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Bottoms of the cage legs got boxed in with 3mm. I made them slightly different before, but this is how Rainer did it, and it's given me more ankle room


Main hoop legs box gussets and floor plates all welded in
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Shoulder belts will attach to this back tube that mark welded in.
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Door bars are flat in the middle of the door, so should protect me well against side impacts
(not that we want that of course)

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With the dash plonked back in
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And a photo to show the crank pulley mounted on.
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SupraFiend said:

Does the upper section of the header interfere? If its just the lower section (Ypipe back), then take that as an opportunity to rebuild that entire piece. The OBX is decent, except for the fact that the final down pipe is a paltry 2 inchs in diameter, just like the stock exhaust :eekfacepalm:

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It's mainly the back 3 hitting the steering knuckles - call them 4 - 5 -6. Number 3 fouls the knuckle too, just where it crosses under 4 -5-6. Only ones that kinda work would be the first two! In hindsight i maybe should have bought the OBX 7MGE manifold (umm sorry, header ) as that is easier to mod.
And some updates...

I Bought a 4 litre kit of U Pol Raptor Truck bed liner for the underside o the car. Fully impressed with it!
That shits unscratchable it seems, and goes on lovely with a shultz gun on a compressor. Tigersealed the seams beforehand so hopefully it should last

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Used about 3 Litres of raptor on the underneath, so had a bit left to do the insides in places most likely to wear. The footwells have a nice waterproof and grippy surface now. The rest of the inside is going silver.

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I also did the boot floor with what i had left. Quite glad i did as it really tidies it up a lot

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I have started to plumb up the new fuel system. The whole car is using 8mm ptfe lined braided stainless hose & AN6 fittings. All apart from the fuel cell and swirl pot - which are AN8, but thought this a bit overkill and meant buying lots of different fittings and hose, so keep it simple stupid i thought. The Lift pump from the Fuel cell is a Facet Red top, and the main pump is a Walbro GSL392, Which flows 255 LPH

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Placement of the Walbro Fuel pump and Bosch fuel filter is causing a bit of head scratching at the moment. I quite like this position as it's close to the swirl pot, and well out of the way of damage, but will have a play about before i drill any holes!

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I bought some AN6 through Bulkhead fittings for joining up the fuel lines from the underside of the car. I didn't want to run the lines through with grommets around the hose as think thats a bit sketchy. This sits under the diff carrier subframe so well out the way and close to the swirl pot
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Screwed on some 90 deg fittings, but looking at it, Straight ones are better
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Once i figure out where the main fuel pump and filter is going, i'll do the rest of the lines.
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I also made this dry break style filler a while ago. for the jgtc tyte look yo. hehehe:zzzzz:
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Filler neck on the jaz fuel cell is quite tall so might chop a few cm off it to lower the angle
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Did some work to the dashboard in preparation for Car trimming wonderwoman Nicky to sprinkle some skill over it. Ordered a length of Black proper job Alcantara cloth to cover up the skanky old blue, so before i used some of the the dry carbon honeycomb dashboard that Amy's better half gave me, These Holes are for the AEM Wideband and Boost gauge, but have also ordered Oil pressure and temp gauges too.
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Where the heater vents for the side windows used to live, i cleaned up the corner that fouled the cage and boxed it in with some dry carbon fibre. A lot tidier.
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A wider shot so you can see the honeycomb and the tidied up corner
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The underside is nearly there, Just the diff and prop to fit really, but wanted to do the fuel lines first before putting them back in.

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On a bit of a tight budget this month for progressing with the supra, but really needed to paint the interior so the loom and everything else can go back in to get it running. Didn't have access to a spray gun and any decent paint so had to resort to silver alloy wheel paint in rattle cans. 8 for £28 got the job done and racecar innit!

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Doesn't look half bad from a distance, and blends it all together a bit better.
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The door bar tops will need a bit of protecting from scuffing i think, so might use either a bit of raptor or some vinyl 3M i had for the roof.

Up to the final skim on making it look like a non sunroof car. Used a combination of fibreglass bridging gunk and filler mixed up to give it some strength, then built it up in thinnish layers and sanding down with a long block



The boot floor is masked up where i sprayed the black raptor, as are the front foot wells
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Will let that dry and get to work putting the loom ect back in the car tomorrow

CLToy said:

Amazing build! Will be going back through this again as well. I want to make a differential cooler as well and would like to see how you mounted the lines, rad, and pump. Is there a need to do something similar for the transmission?

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I still need to rig mine up to the diff tbh, M18 Banjo's if i remember correctly!
The Nissan 240sx (we had the 200sx in jolly old england) diff cooler and pump set up has been used on a whole heap of other cars, and if you did suffer from baking hot transmissions you could certainly use it for cooling both.

Here are some photos i found from a R35 GTR with a similar set up.


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Right, Onto the cars present state... (Gone back to Flickr As a host now so hopefully the pics shouldn't disappear anymore!)


Been off the supra for a few months after we had to give up the old workshop, so while the suns briefly out i decided to fit the Greddy (trust) manifold i ordered.
Fits like a dream around the Steering column. (OBX ones don't fit on RHD cars as it turns out - expensive faux pas!:SM130 (1)
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The Airflow meter will be replaced with a Map sensor eventually, when i invest in a Megasquirt DIYPNP 52 standalone ECU
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It looks a bit more together than it did, and tried to put some paint on it before it went into winter hibernation

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Door opened to show the door bars - Door cards are out & are being replaced with Carbon Fiber ones. Black Alcantara for the soft part on top.
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Seats, dash and wiring back in, just needs the dash covered in either alcantara or flocked before the screen can go back in

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Center console switches. The Electric window switches had to be moved as they are mounted on the door cars and fouled the cages doorbars

Had some Dry weave carbon from an old BTCC touring car Dashboard my friend rescued from a junkyard years and years ago.
Was too good to not do anything with! Sides will be trimmed with carbon too, Using the offcuts from the door cards.
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The welded up sunroof didn't turn out too shabby in the end. A few low spots but the body shop will have to address that anyhow when it goes in for a repaint hopefully later on this summer

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Been waiting for a Samco Profuel filler pipe for sodding ages,so can't yet connect up the fuel filler, but ordered up the correct banjo bolts and fittings for the fuel rail now. m14 x 1.5 as it turns out
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I have been through a few old computers since i started this thread, so won't have all the old photos, but will try and edit as many previous posts as i can to get them up and viewable again for ya'll

SupraFiend said:

Looking good!

Another Trust header, would love to try one out one day. Its the only M motor header I havn't owned.

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Yeah, i'm well happy with it. Worked out not too bad cost wise too. i bought it on a site called "Buyee" and got a 50% off shipping deal so was £650 in total for the manifold and downpipe inc shipping and taxes ect. Was £414 for the manifold and downpipe together though, so i've done my bit for the economy!

Considering buying one of these Ultra racing braces from a AE86 just for finding out if they will fit on a celica Supra. I could always just send it back if it's too far out, but would probably be able to make it work if it doesn't wind out enough.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/182365766764

Got lots of other stuff on my ebay watch list at the moment, but gone a bit crazy with the carbon trinkets this month so better calm it down haha