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mkIII Supra Turbo [pics]Robinxr4i
@robinxr4i
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My favourite Supra shape, proper medallion man chest wig motoring. Completely underated IMO nice to see one that purposeful, those are some proper tyres!
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Sierra - here we go again! He has an illness, it's not his fault.
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eurogranada
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To tinker or not to tinker, that is the question...
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Beautyful! Love everything about it. Still a magnificent car!
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nofrills
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my wings are made of Steeeeeeeel!!!
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Ka POW! dbizzle does it again, that is all kinds of awesome and i would love to have it just as it is on my drive love this shape!
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Oct 12, 2012 11:31:08 GMT
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MkIII Supra; what Michael Knight would have driven if he'd needed to go round corners.  That is almost perfect. Personally I'd drop the back an inch or two to lose the rake, but that's all I'd change. |
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" East bound and down, loaded up and truckin' "
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EmDee
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Committer of Autrocities.
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mkIII Supra Turbo [pics]EmDee
@emdee
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Oct 12, 2012 12:26:09 GMT
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Lovely, but it'll be tough to make a subtle looking bonnet that fits over that Garrett! Personally I'd drop the back an inch or two to lose the rake, but that's all I'd change. You'd change those lovely tyres then? Not me  |
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Oct 12, 2012 12:41:39 GMT
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Looks manacing!
Never been a fan of that shape Supra - but that has changed my mind!
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Current retro - 1996 Alfa Romeo GTV / Daily - 2016 Nissan Qashqai
Previous retros - Prelude, Integra, XR2s, XR3s, Orions, CRXs, Sylvia S12, S13, Pulsar, ZX 16v, 205 Gti, MX5, MR2 etc
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Oct 12, 2012 14:37:18 GMT
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Last Edit: Oct 12, 2012 14:42:00 GMT by shagracer
Please don't throw litter, take it home.
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CIH
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Those wheels immediatly remninded me of "Exclusive" Opel Mantas...
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crazymonkey
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ummm....what was I doing again???
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Oct 14, 2012 12:06:33 GMT
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love this generation supra anyway but you don't often see them without the spoiler. think I actually love the spoilerless look.
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whoever said dogs were man's best friend....obviously never heard of cable ties
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RobinJI
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"Driven by the irony that only being shackled to the road could ever I be free"
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Oct 14, 2012 12:57:07 GMT
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Lovely looking car, I've always liked these 80's wedges and that's a particularly fine one.
buuttt....
They've got that harness mounting really quite wrong! That little loop they've clipped the harness's to is not designed for them to be mounted to at all, that type of bar is designed for the harness to be looked around the entire tube, and joined back to its self, the small bar it's been clipped to is just there for neatness to stop them sliding along the tube when you're getting in/out or working on the car, it's not intended to be structural at all, and isn't strong enough to mount the harnesses to, especially as they're free to slide up it putting quite a leverage on it if they do.
(The fact the harness bar has multiple butt-welds in it is far from ideal in it's self, but as long as the welds are good then it's a pretty small issue compared to they way they've been mounted.)
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if the bar is welded properly it would be stronger than the pipe iteself! . I'm really liking that, and the size of the turbo is just madness  , very nicely done, |
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Oct 15, 2012 11:54:50 GMT
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My favourite Supra shape, proper medallion man chest wig motoring. Completely underated IMO nice to see one that purposeful, those are some proper tyres! You appear to have fallen into my signature ;D |
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...proper medallion man chest wig motoring. |
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RobinJI
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"Driven by the irony that only being shackled to the road could ever I be free"
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Oct 15, 2012 18:09:14 GMT
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if the bar is welded properly it would be stronger than the pipe iteself! True, and a stronger (i.e. stiffer) region mid-span of a bar will create an uneven distribution of strain around it, resulting in a concentration, and therefore increase in the stress placed on the softer metal either side of it. You don't often see welds crack, but you very often see the metal directly next to them crack  Like I said though, done properly it's not a huge concern a decent TIG weld will minimise the issue by matching the surrounding metal closely. A strong weld bead does not equal a strong joint, it's why fillet brazing can make such strong joints, it increases the relative strain on the joint compared to the surrounding metal by being softer than it, which concentrates the stress on the fillet of the braze where the cross-section's thicker, and therefore away from the edges of it where the metal's thin. I was much more bothered by how the harnesses are mounted to the bar anyway though, so I'll shut up and stop the geek rant now |
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i take it your refering to the HAZ?? , without doing tests no-one can really quantify what the steel properties are doing.
Although I don't think the welding is a problem , that nice sharp edge from the steel plate at the end of the bar would worry me more,
seems an odd design that piece behind the seats,
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phil73
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cool car. mate had a 2l twin turbo that went like the clappers.
What sort of post processing did you apply? Really makes the car stand out. Matter of fact, a thread on photographing cars would be very useful for idiots like me who can point and shoot but that's about it.
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What sort of post processing did you apply? Really makes the car stand out. I used the copying-and-pasting-other-people's-photos-from-the-internet method. |
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What sort of post processing did you apply? Really makes the car stand out. I used the copying-and-pasting-other-people's-photos-from-the-internet method. HAHAHHAA love it !! |
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RobinJI
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"Driven by the irony that only being shackled to the road could ever I be free"
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Oct 16, 2012 11:03:29 GMT
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I take it your refering to the HAZ?? , without doing tests no-one can really quantify what the steel properties are doing. Although I don't think the welding is a problem , that nice sharp edge from the steel plate at the end of the bar would worry me more, seems an odd design that piece behind the seats, Nah, I wasn't really meaning the HAZ, the point I was trying to make was that any change in material properties, regardless of whether it's increasing or decreasing the strength of that region is a bad thing, a decrease is an obvious problem, but even an increase in strength (if localised) will cause a stress raiser at its edges by causing an uneven strain distribution. But yeah, like I've said a couple of times, it wouldn't worry me much anyway as long as it's been welded well, I was just saying it wasn't 'ideal'. Yeah, that sharp edge is pretty sketchy! I think I'd be rounding that off ASAP. The real issue I had with it is clipping the harnesses onto a small bar that's only designed to stop them sliding around, not to actually take any loading. |
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, very nicely done, 
Like I said though, done properly it's not a huge concern a decent TIG weld will minimise the issue by matching the surrounding metal closely. A strong weld bead does not equal a strong joint, it's why fillet brazing can make such strong joints, it increases the relative strain on the joint compared to the surrounding metal by being softer than it, which concentrates the stress on the fillet of the braze where the cross-section's thicker, and therefore away from the edges of it where the metal's thin. I was much more bothered by how the harnesses are mounted to the bar anyway though, so I'll shut up and stop the geek rant now 