Best bang for your buck aftermarket supra parts

[87MGE]

Originally Posted by Idaho

Yes by us si the same..Many "users" buy Supra, drive it and immediatelly ask me for more power - how to upgrade, which turbochrger to change , inejctors etc..

everytime I answered, "at first you must take you Supra to good condition, and you will see more power.."

My expierience is, that most of buyed supras has blown head gasket, or bad piston rings and about 90% has crankshaft bearing and crankshaft damaged...

TRue!! 1rst of all Im a Newbie I've had my Mk3 for about 1yr. I was debating on wether to get a 1jz or 7mgte. I decided to rebuilt my 7mge and port polish the head (BASIC) i Replcd the following: Oil Pump, WP, Pstn Rngs, Rd Bearing, Main Brngs, Power Honed the Block, Sent the head to get resurfaced, and all the fluids etc..... For my oil Im using 10w30 fully synthetic oil what do you think? my next concern was to either get coil overs of tokico struts with lowering springs? oh last thing, sicne i ported out the head, and i dont have headers is that an issue?

[TONY!]

If u got a NA dont expect alot of power. Intake, exhaust and tune-up will maybe give u 10-25hp more. Oh and hi-octane. he-he. Fun.

Eh, that is a misconception: high octane does not give more power, but it only decreases the likelyhood of detonation.
High octane is needed in supercharged cars, and very high compression motors because forced induction and high compression ratio engines are more likely to have detonation problems.

[mrnickleye]

^^^ This is true. But...7mge has 9.2 compression. You can run regular 87 octane under normal conditions, when the outside air temp is below 100*. The knock sensor will let the computer know if your getting any pinging, and it will back down the timing to stop the pinging, which is HP loss.

I've never heard it pinging, no matter what fuel I use.

In the summer it gets over 100* here most days. My a/c is on, day and nite, so I run 89 octane to keep the pinging away, and my timing advanced, thus keeping my HPs up.

I can tell the power difference between 87 and 89. Can't tell any between 89 and 91, so I must not be getting any timing retard with the 89.

BTW...I run my timing at 15*.

[Bullz_EyE]

Someone should sticky this.

I disagree about the earlier statement about cams. From what I've gathered, the cams in the 7M are robust enough, in both the NA and the Turbo motors, to support high HP.

Besides maintenance issues, this is where I would search for "inexpensive" HP in an NA:

1) Intake
2) Exhaust
3) Header
4) Ignition
5) Fuel
6) Electric Fan
7) Flywheel
8) Underdrive Pulleys
9) Ceramic Coatings
* 50-80 Shot Dry Nitrous setup

This is for going all out:

1) Headwork
2) Cylinder Overbore
3) Rod/Piston Upgrade & Compression Bump
4) Tuning
* 90+ Shot Wet Nitrous setup

[Isphius]

Originally Posted by mrnickleye

^^^ This is true. But...7mge has 9.2 compression. You can run regular 87 octane under normal conditions, when the outside air temp is below 100*. The knock sensor will let the computer know if your getting any pinging, and it will back down the timing to stop the pinging, which is HP loss.

True, But i know wit my friends camaro, tpi and running 10:1 pistons, on regular gas you never hear a ping or knock or anything, it runs beautiful. its just because the knock sensors and computer are fast/good enough to prevent it. but like you said there is power loss...so it does help to run higher octane if your compression is higher than about 9:1. But my point is (to others) that just because you dont hear the pinging, doesnt mean its not retarding the timing.

[iNtAlps]

Originally Posted by mrnickleye

^^^ This is true. But...7mge has 9.2 compression. You can run regular 87 octane under normal conditions, when the outside air temp is below 100*. The knock sensor will let the computer know if your getting any pinging, and it will back down the timing to stop the pinging, which is HP loss.

I've never heard it pinging, no matter what fuel I use.

In the summer it gets over 100* here most days. My a/c is on, day and nite, so I run 89 octane to keep the pinging away, and my timing advanced, thus keeping my HPs up.

I can tell the power difference between 87 and 89. Can't tell any between 89 and 91, so I must not be getting any timing retard with the 89.

BTW...I run my timing at 15*.

what about from 87 to 94 octane, would u notice a difference? Here it doesnt cost much more, and at some stations 90 octane is considered regular :S

[j_moy_08]

Ya ill probably have to just start out with some of those things that you guys suggested but like i said right now im broke. mostly because of the fact that i just spent all my money on that car and because im only 16.

[JoshUsherwood]

Originally Posted by j_moy_08

Ya ill probably have to just start out with some of those things that you guys suggested but like i said right now im broke. mostly because of the fact that i just spent all my money on that car and because im only 16.

your gonna be even more broke if you have to pay the insurance. haha.

[yuuki32]

does anyone know a good place to pick up a MSD system and a writeup on how to wire one into a 1988 GA70 supra with a 1g-gte engine.

thanks

[obrut89]

get a lexus afm