5m-ge future engine mods?

[CanadianBak'inSupra]

540 for there cams and a 250 core deposit on the cams.
i asked 2 days ago

[mechrider89]

Well i'm finally movie forward on the supra a little bit, I ordered the new rotors and pads all around, just need to figure out why my wiper motor wont work now.......starting to piss me off because its going to be my dd very shorty as I'm parking my new car, and I need it for rainy days as I'm riding my motorcycle on the sunny days.

As she sits now:

Gotta finish removing the paint on the hood, prime and then repaint yet; so it looks like shit but oh well. Planning on having it read next month as my friend, little brother and I are making the drive to the open track event next month, Hopefully have some vids to post up after. The cars we'll be driving are 2000 bmw 325i (grey), 95 mazda miata (red), and my 84 supra (blue) should be a hell of a time!!

On a side note I got the talon shell its already been stripped cleaned and interior basically all re-installed, just waiting on the engine harness yet then it's time to drop in the engine and tranny. (tranny's actually in front of the supra in the pic)

[CanadianBak'inSupra]

new brakes are nice.

[mechrider89]

Little update, brakes are all done along with the front wheel bearings and hubs repainted. Most of my focus has been on the talon of late (it is my dream car....). I've narrowed down the wiper problem to the wiper motor for sure now so that will soon be fixed. Sadly though it seems for me that I fix one thing and another thing goes wrong. One of my gaskets blew on the engine, looks to be one of the 2 piece valve cover gaskets which seeps coolant onto the exhaust manifold when the cooling systems pressured up. Got the parts ordered for that now and I'm doing the timing belt at the same time for good measure........so much for beng my dd for the time being.

[CanadianBak'inSupra]

let me know if you "really" can't find a wiper motor think i have a few in the warehouse.

[mechrider89]

Originally Posted by CanadianBak'inSupra

let me know if you "really" can't find a wiper motor think i have a few in the warehouse.

Honestly its bone dry out here for parts man, I've checked out every scraper in my area and even begged a couple people to sell me theirs off there car cuz they weren't driving it.

[mechrider89]

Ok well of course problems come in three's soooo, as they sit right now I have no wipers, a leaky gasket on the exhaust side of the engine along with a crack exhaust manifold, and I electrical problem. The car doesn't want to stay running unless you rev it, its like its not getting power. I took the alternator off and got it checked out, it was good (better be cuz its brand freak'n new!) and I'm skeptical on the battery being the problem but all I can do is hope that's it.
Also looked into maintenance which I'm surprised I didn't do yet (other then an oil change). Found that my spark plugs we're beyond done, and the crush washers we're sealing anymore so oil gas and carbon had formed a crusty paste in every spark plug port and my plug wires were so old the bottoms had decomposed (forgot to take pic's). So far I Clean all the spark plug holes and replaced the spark plugs, cleaned the distributor cap and check to make sure that part of the system was in good working order; so now all I have left is to replace the spark plug wires.
Also looked into my intake system and was blown away..........how my car ran as good as it did I cant fathom! From the filter back was just gritty and slimpy. So I pulled the intake system up to the manifold and started cleaning.
Heres what it all looked like:


Then I got an idea.......why not polish the MAF housing to help with air flow and make it look better, so that's what I did. After 10 hours of wet sanding with 400 grit and 800 grit metal sand paper and the polishing here's how she looked.



Still not totally happy with it so a revisit will be in order down the road.