[Alex L.]

As some of you saw, I recently upgraded my Supra from a PHR 2+ turbo kit to a custom S480 kit courtesy of Mike aka BADABING on here. The kit fits great, works flawlessly, and is quite impressive to look at.

Now that I finally have my big turbo, it's time to start upgrading everything else. I'm doing the tuning, welding, fabrication, and installation of most everything from hereon out. I'm not going to release many details right now, but rather update this thread as pieces come in/work gets done on the car.

Stay tuned, I will have updates starting early this week.

 

[57trimMKIII]

:worthless

 

[Alex L.]

Here's the car. It still looks the same outside for now.

Engine bay before/after:

 

[mjrsplat]

Looks slow.

 

[mjrsplat]

cr stock?

 

[Biggu]

AJ do you ruin every thread your in?

 

[Alex L.]

These came in today:

 

[GodeepGTS11]

looks great... i love a clean alpine

 

[Arthur]

Looks good, what size injectors?

 

[Alex L.]

looks great... i love a clean alpine

Thanks, me too.

Looks good, what size injectors?

The injectors are the big FIC Bluemax 2150's. I went with this large of an injector so it will be the last set I'll ever have to buy. In my dealings with FIC, I have been supremely impressed with their intense product knowledge and excellent customer service. In speaking with Jens and Mike, I felt like I was dealing with a couple of friends rather than company representatives. When I buy a part as quintessential as injectors, I will go out of my way to find a bad review or complaint against the product (you're only as good as your worst, right?). In my search for negative reviews, I wasn't able to find any ills against FIC or their injectors.

I'm really looking forward to tuning with these injectors. I could have bought any set of injectors on the market, but I ended up with FIC's for a reason.

 

[Alex L.]

Here's a few more pictures.


Before/after:

Redone gauge setup (there was a blue Innovate where the boost gauge is in these pictures):

Exhaust courtesy of 955Speed (thanks again, Sebastian):

Vibrant race muffler:

I had to modify the exhaust some to get it to fit which was expected. I was almost done with it last night and ran out of gas for my TIG. Once I have a new bottle tomorrow, I'll finish it and get a sound clip. Once the snow falls, the real fun starts.

 

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love the alpine supras! the silver looks so good, nice car man. looks great

 

[Alex L.]

Thanks.

 

[Biggu]

Alex, FIC treated me very well as well.

 

[Tres]

Looking good Alex!

 

[Alex L.]

Got the car detailed and finished the exhaust.

A good friend of mine who does detailing as a hobby wanted to try and restore the paint on the car. The hood and spoiler were badly oxidized and it had been awhile since the car was washed. Chris managed to get all of the oxidation out and make the car look like new again.

It's a shitty cell phone pic, but you can see how bad the oxidation was:

 

[Biggu]

Alex bring the supra over, I wanna hear the new exhaust.

 

[BADABING]

Can't wait to see this car done and putting down some serious numbers. Good luck with the rest of the build Alex (assuming plans haven't changed ) Keep the updates coming.

 

[Alex L.]

Thanks Mike.

 

[Alex L.]

New goodies came in today. Thanks Brandon (06 MR) for these: