Everybody goes Turbo here - Can N/A Supras be fast?

[lifesnotfair]

Yeah, thanks for your opinion, good one.

The 7M turbo looks very tight in the engine bay, but have you seen a 1JZ in there? It really cleans up that engine bay. I'd love to have a 1JZ supra...

The bad thing is, in here, most shops that install the 1JZ, they WELD the engine mounts somewhere. I don't like that. I know of a guy who did a much cleaner engine swap, no welding. I don't know exactly how he did it. I've heard that with an 89+ crossmember one can do the swap without welding anything, the engine just fits perfectly. That engine has a reputation for never breaking, just like the 2JZ. No head gaskets, not anything. I'd love to get my hands on a decent-mileage 1JZ... 280HP STOCK? Are you kidding me? One could get over 300 to the wheels with cheap mods and I'd daily drive the fucker. =) That's my dream :P

[Isphius]

If you want to dosomething for free, not really recomended thou. The front of my stock air box was broken, so i decided to cut it out completely, so now the front of my airbox is just an open cylinder, and i have a k&n filter already. this made a pretty noticeable increase in power, and it sounds awesome. it has that 4 barrel v8 intake sound right around 3k rpms. It might get annoying to some people but my exhaust is pretty loud though so i dont really care.

[j3pz]

so basicly its just a open filter?

[Isphius]

Yes, but with a shroud around it.

[lifesnotfair]

I need to change piston rings on my N/A. I think I will stay N/A. I have invested some money in my car, but all exteriorwise and suspensionwise, and rimswise.. heh. If I'm gonna spend money on an engine, it has to be on ONE engine. So if I spend even the most little amount of money on an engine, I don't want it to be an engine I wont use later. This is my ONLY car, and daily driver.. so I'm not gonna go turbo. Not for now... maybe in a year or more, when I get another car, newer, to drive daily, and this is just for kicking ass on the weekends.

Since I'll have the engine opened up... I was thinking of doing a few mods. First I wanna go manual tranny. I'm already looking for the parts. All my previous cars have been manual, I like manual. plus, I've heard that the 7M-GE manual is smoother than the 7M-GTE, heh, that's actually good! ...

I was thinking of going with those OBX headers that I once saw people discussing on this same forums. That, and an improved aftermarket air filter... should I do the air filter pipe too? Which one is good? Can someone give me a link or something? Remember I'll be N/A.

I already did the 2.5" exhaust, with two resonators and a crappy muffler. I think the downpipe is stock, does this affect in anyway?

Besides the headers I want, and the air filter, the other upgrade I wanna do is the ignition. I've seen sone MSD units, and MSD 8.5mm cables, and Iridium spark plugs, in 935motorsports... they make it sound as if it improves fuel economy, throttle response, and pretty much everything. Is this true? If it is, and if I'm stay N/A, I can afford to do this few little BPU's (less money than getting turbo engine and turbo tranny).

I just want the car to move "nicely", ya know... not incredibly fast or anything, but not as slow as my mom's Daihatsu Terios and it's 1.3 liter engine.

Can someone point me to somewhere where they sell a TOYOTA seals/gaskets kit for the engine rebuild?? (online store!) .. and if someone has a link for any of the other stuff I mentioned that I want, that'd be awesome. Thanks..