Supra Modifications
Since purchasing the car, I've been playing with the
following modifications
Phase I Description:
(Completed in 2006)
Engine and Transmission
- Single turbo conversion (Image
1)(Image
2)(Image
3)
- Turbonetics T04 60-1 HI-FI with .058 A/R undivided turbine
housing, Stage-V turbine wheel
- Directed Engineering cast manifold for 2JZ-GTE
- Turbonetics Racegate wastegate
- Wastegate returned to downpipe
- Custom downpipe and mid-pipe
- Braided stainless oil feed and return lines
- Boost Logic T4 turbo blanket
- T-bolt clamps on all intercooler plumbing
- Remove EGR and install block-off plates
Electronics
- HID low-beam bulbs and Philips ballasts on relayed harness
- Shorty radio antenna
- Cianci Performance hardtop specific A-pillar 60mm gauge pod
- 60mm Blitz BLM gauges (Boost, EGT)
- AEM WBO2 controller and display (52mm for clock location)
Cooling
- Carbon fiber cooling plate
- Brushed aluminum intercooler grill guard
Suspension, Brakes, Wheels, and Tires
- Goodrich braided stainless brake lines
Engine pictures as of 5-20-07 (Image
1, Image 2,
Image 3,
Image 4)
Phase II Description:
(Completed in 2007)
Engine and Transmission
Electronics
Cooling
- Power steering cooler (B&M SuperCooler)
- Billet aluminum coolant catch can
Chassis
- Slotted front and rear brake rotors
- Speedbleeders on all corners
- Removed windshield washer tank
- Altstadt 2-piece wheels (18x9, +45 Front, 18x10 +50 Rear)
- Bridgestone RE050 Pole Position tires (265/35 F, 285/30 R)
- Auto-x/street brake pads - Hawk HP+
- Track brake pads - Hawk HT-10
- Track brake pads - EBC Yellowstuff (no good worse fade than
HP+)
- Commuter wheels (17x7 +38 Front, 17x9 +38 Rear)
- Commuter tires (215/50 F, 255/40 R)
- Custom trailer hitch like Uhaul vertical receiver
(Uhaul Images,
Uhaul Stinger,
AutoCAD Drawing,
My Hitch,
My stinger - side,
My stinger - below,
Stinger)
Phase III Description:
(Completed in 2011)
Engine and Transmission
- Turbochargers:
- Turbonetics 62-1 (journal bearing, new style P-trim F-1 turbine
wheel, 0.58 A/R exhaust housing)
- Precision Turbo T67 (journal
bearing, P-trim .68 A/R exhaust
housing)
- New intercooler (Treadstone TR1035, core size 22
x 10.5 x 3.5, baffled tank design)
- New aluminum hot-side IC piping
- Stainless V-band downpipe and recirculated
wastegate
- Wastegate adapter, Stainless 38mm flange to 44mm
v-band (Vibrant Performance 1427)
- Tial 44mm wastegate
- Tial 50mm blow off valve (black)
- Shortened lower waterneck
- Billet aluminum crankcase catch can
- Stainless T-bolt intercooler clamps
- Hard aluminum piping to IACV
- 4" exhaust system
- Replaced transmission with new-style V160 from
97 Supra TT (40k miles)
- RPS Max clutch and sprung clutch disk
- RPS aluminum flywheel with segmented wear
surface
Electronics
- GReddy Profec Type-S boost controller
- Removed stereo head unit, three 52mm gauges in
place
-
Auxiliary input to OEM amplifier
- Abaco programmable MAF sensor
- Odyssey PC680
battery installed
- Innovate Motorsports data acquisition (DL32,
LC-1, two TC-4's, and SSI-4)
- Innovate Motorsports XD-16 gauges (AFR, EGT,
Coolant temp, Oil temp, and post IC temp)
Cooling
- Power steering cooler (B&M SuperCooler)
- Billet aluminum coolant catch can
- Enclosed ducting from bumper inlet to radiator
core
- Additional ducting in bumper for intercooler (Photoshop
image)
- Larger oil cooler, ducted to passenger side
bumper
Chassis
- 2-piece DBA brake rotors
- Speedbleeders on all corners
- Hawk HT-10 brake pads
- Enkei PF01 wheels (18x9.5, +45 Front, 18x10.5 +38 Rear)
- Bridgestone RE050 Pole Position tires (265/35 Front, 285/30 Rear)
- Four OEM rear TT wheels (17x9.5, +50)
- Hoosier R6 racing slicks (275/40R17)
- TSW Snetterton commuter wheels (18x8 +20 Front, 18x9.5 +40 Rear)
- Commuter tires (225/40R18 F, 265/35R18 R)
- Official U-haul trailer hitch
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