The 24 Hours of Lemons Forums → Lemons Newcomers → Fellow 1982 Toyota Supra teams
We are just getting started at this Lemons thing. We overpaid for a free '82 Supra. Yeah, in rough shape.
Are there other Supra teams out there we can get some advise from? Not smart enough yet to know what those questions may be, but if we had someone we could bounce some ideas off of it would be sweet. Thanks!
My fav Heroic Fix involved an 82 Supra. Race was Lemons first true 24. Supra gets a rod knock about 30 minutes in. The Reno-Fernley track is in BFE so no local parts stores have rod bearings. They find a Cressida in a DIY junkyard a couple hours away. Place has no hoist so they cut a hole in the oil pan of this 200k mile Cressida and remove rod bearings one at a time thru the hole. Put them in the race car and rejoin the race after midnight. Immediately throws a rod out the side of the block. They get all the pieces out of the pan, wrap a beer can around the crank where the rod was, use expanding insulation foam to fill up the block holes and disable the injector on that cylinder. They go out with 10 minutes to go in hopes of taking the checkered flag but engine locks up solid half lap in.
You maybe want to look at those bearings.
Check out Hong Norrth racing https://www.facebook.com/hongnorrth/ they pretty much solved the Supra issues.
One quick tip, you can run 300zx calipers with redrilled Mazda MPV rotors. This is a simple upgrade calipers bolt right up to the Supra.
Appreciate the replies. We will heed the advise about the bearings. Never leaving home without beer and insulation foam again. FYI, absolutely nothing heroic about our group.
Will reach out to Hong Norrth, they sound like pros.
Seriously, appreciate the brakes and bearings info. That's the kind of stuff we need to know.
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