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haha who told you that rubbish. it looks like stainless bar welded to stainless can with mild steel mig. thats the most amateur weld there is if it can't be replicated i'm a monkeys uncle lol. i'd just clean it up and go over it with Tig and stainless rod Tim TB Developments

Every tubular manifold will eventually crack doesn't matter who made it or what. its all down to the laws of thermal expansion and the fact you've got a heavy turbo hanging off the end. if you address that by hardmouting the turbo and bracing the manifold it'll crack with there isn't enough room to breath so when it gets hot and expands it'll crack because of that. can't win. the only manifolds i've never seen fail from heat expansion and weight were on f1 and topfuel drag cars where the manifold is bolted to the head, and the tail pipe bolted to the chassis. inbetween there are tripple slip

web address doesn't exist mate unless you mean .com address? Tim TB Developments

I've had turbo's fail from it, and i've been building engines for 15 years and a dealer of garrett turbochargers. low boost isn't going to do much but 2.5bar is a different story mate Tim TB Developments

its more of a case of cleanliness most of the engines i have to rebuild that people have done themselves or had a specialist do and its had issues were down to it not being assembled in a clean environment. scores to the bores, bearings and journals are all down to a poorly cleaned engine. and with an old oil pump your never going to be able to get it spotlessly clean again so i'd wait and just do it properly Tim TB Developments

3sgte do as well on the crank got em instock for that engine if needed Tim TB Developments

well actually its because meth has a higher effective det suppression level so allows you to run more ignition advance in the timing which leads to more power. i used this on my mr2 and without any other chances apart from upping the timing on the ecu went from 308bhp to 325bhp. i have the same kit on my glanza but yet to get it working and dyno'd so can't tell you any results yet Tim TB Developments

yeah but theres another silver one appeared in kiddy/stourport thats stock from what i can see Tim TB Developments

dunno mate been seeing a silver glanza going about quite regularly at the moment. seems fairly stock Tim TB Developments

just route it back into the downpipe best of both worlds then. best boost control and no extra noise. i've got external wastegate on mine and running it back in, i don't feel the starlet is fast enough to warant that kind of noise coming from it Tim TB Developments

blitz uk can get these on order as i've just reordered all the gaskets needed on my K2 turbo kit which is basically a tweeked K24 wasn't much either, think i paid a tad over £50 for all the gaskets on the turbo kit, plus a new wastegate diapham which was the most expensive bit Tim TB Developments

this is a common wear item on the 3sgte gearbox as well that i deal alot with. i'm just about to release a product that actually replaces that solid block with a nice little roller bearing washer that stops it from wearing i'll post it up once i get some in again Tim TB Developments

no good buddy. surely they have to give you a reason why it went up that much, and much difference in price between the glanza and the GT? Tim TB Developments

that thread is utter rubbish. its been going around for years and wasn't actually done by anyone on the supra forum, its been taken from another forum (forget which one) to promote apexi filters for sale through there website. They also ran a full on drift car which was sponcered by.................have a guess................apexi lol I'm a dealer of most of those on that list and used all personally, and have no affiliate between companies and the only one i don't like is the K&N because the fitting kit for the cars i specalise in is rubbish, but the others are still good. will admit

what happened to it mate? looked like an ongoing project when i spoke to you in the petrol station that once. Tim TB Developments

am i just getting old but i never saw the appeal of the stretched tyre look Tim TB Developments

some wall flex is a good thing mate. it needs to be able to move around slightly over being rock solid because its already overly stretched. This is why manufactures don't recommend running widths over or under certain sizes as it effects the way the wall reacts and compromises its performance Tim TB Developments

why would you want to mate it just gives crappy handling Tim TB Developments

the 2nd picture is the new version reloaded style filter. it does look silimiar to the older style but the mesh is to thick for a genuine item. i would say its an older generation hks copy. the hks aren't that bad actually. you just need to keep ontop of there maintance, they recommend an element swap every 15k, which most people don't bother with and then they get brittle and fall apart and then people moan. remember all filters don't last for ever, only one i found doesn't need replacing is the blitz stainless type but then again they aren't the best filtration type in the world either, bu

its alright mate didn't take it as a dig just answering with an inform response ;) Tim TB Developments

doesn't really make a difference where it is aslong as its in full line pressure. the turbo feed is to tapping a 1/8th" npt into the top of the banjo bolt was a 2 minute job and didn't cost anything so it went there Oil temperature i like to fit these into the sump to give an overal temperature reading. i just drop the sump and weld fittings into them, then repowdercoat when i've done customer cars in the past Tim TB Developments

if you've lost the aircon you could do what i've done. which is to tap the top of the turbo oil feed banjo bolt with the sensor thread. does 2 things, one gives overall oil pressure but also assures me the turbo is getting a good supply. plenty of room to mount it there with the aircon removed. Tim TB Developments

didn't say it can't be done its just really a bad way to do it. Ok fuel cut defenders work in 2 ways. they either add a resistance into the map sensor voltage so the map sensor never really sees its true reading and never hits fuel cut. or it clamps the voltage just under 0.8bar. either way the ecu needs to see an accurate voltage from the map sensor to calculate air/fuel ratio, plus because ignition advance/retard map is worked out on rev again pressure alternations to the map current affects timing advance as well. so now you know FCD will mess up the ignition curve, look at how you corre

as long as you stay under fuel cut then you'll be fine to throw what you want at it. stock ecu has fueling and ignition maps for under fuel cut. so if you can solve your boost creep issues to under fuel cut you don't need a better ecu, not unless you want more power and more boost in the future Tim TB Developments

you'll probably find that because of all the extra intake piping the pressure pushing on the BOV isn't as high as the TMIC so the bov wants softening off a bit. or a good clean as i find the blitz is a very simple design and sometimes gets gunked up with oil residue etc. Does it vent when you lift off from full boost so it only chattering at low psi then venting higher up, or doesn't it open at all? On the differences sorry to disagree guys but its both the same thing of varying degree's. surge is basically the compressors inability to maintain an increased pressure on the compressed side of