What did you do to your Supra today?

[TheangryEngineer]

Installed the battery cable to the engine bay battery charging points. The supplied clamps with the ctek were too big to connect and close the bonnet so I was able to use a torx socket and remove the positive and negative terminals so that the ring terminals could be secured. Now all I have to do is connect the Ctek when I won’t be driving for a while. When not needed it’s an easy quick disconnect and I can leave the terminal safely connected in the engine bay.

 

[J29DB03]

Installed the battery cable to the engine bay battery charging points. The supplied clamps with the ctek were too big to connect and close the bonnet so I was able to use a torx socket and remove the positive and negative terminals so that the ring terminals could be secured. Now all I have to do is connect the Ctek when I won’t be driving for a while. When not needed it’s an easy quick disconnect and I can leave the terminal safely connected in the engine bay.

Just an idea, I attached the other ring terminal to the bolt circled below instead of the post. Reason being, I’m anal, and I didn’t want any of the seal being smashed in any sort of way when it was hooked up. When it’s connected the hood is latched only in the first spot (so not fully closed) and wires come down the front. In case you’d rather it.

 

[razorlab]

Just an idea, I attached the other ring terminal to the bolt circled below instead of the post. Reason being, I’m anal, and I didn’t want any of the seal being smashed in any sort of way when it was hooked up. When it’s connected the hood is latched only in the first spot (so not fully closed) and wires come down the front. In case you’d rather it.

Yea, was going to say the same thing. I ground it in the engine bay. There is a handy ground right in the top left compartment under the mesh plastic.

 

[Blindspot]

Nine hundred kilometres today, most of which were amazing… aside from discovering that my favourite old twisty highway got half washed away last winter. So many gravel sections while it’s getting fixed. Probably added over an hour. I need to prepare more haha

 

[jtsang25]

Nine hundred kilometres today, most of which were amazing… aside from discovering that my favourite old twisty highway got half washed away last winter. So many gravel sections while it’s getting fixed. Probably added over an hour. I need to prepare more haha

What road/ highway?

 

[EvilMKV]

Tonight I installed my Extreme Online Store A91 style carbon spoiler as well as my Ebay mirror cap replacements. Love the new look. My TuxMat floormats arrived today as well.

 

[Blindspot]

What road/ highway?

The majority of it was on the 8 between Merritt and Spence’s Bridge, but there were a ton of other spots on the surrounding highways still being worked on. Same with 5 from Princeton. My favourite roads but they’re usually either washed away, under snow, or closed because of raging wildfires.

All the road conditions are online, I just didn’t look ??‍

 

[jtsang25]

The majority of it was on the 8 between Merritt and Spence’s Bridge, but there were a ton of other spots on the surrounding highways still being worked on. Same with 5 from Princeton. My favourite roads but they’re usually either washed away, under snow, or closed because of raging wildfires.

All the road conditions are online, I just didn’t look ??‍

What site? Driving out in a couple weeks.

 

[Blindspot]

What site? Driving out in a couple weeks.

https://www.drivebc.ca/mobile/events/index.html

Here’s a video showing some of the destruction from a year ago:

 

[FLtrackdays]

Just an idea, I attached the other ring terminal to the bolt circled below instead of the post. Reason being, I’m anal, and I didn’t want any of the seal being smashed in any sort of way when it was hooked up. When it’s connected the hood is latched only in the first spot (so not fully closed) and wires come down the front. In case you’d rather it.

Damn I love learning new Supra ? … What does this bad boy do? I got a battery tender that I easily hook up to my wife’s GTI, my MX5 or kids cars. I haven’t tried it yet on the Supra and want to get the lithium Tex (something) battery someday that Bryan found for us on another thread.

Is this what we need to do to hook up a trickle charger? Again, I’m used to just lifting the hood and connecting the terminals to the battery. Thanks

 

[J29DB03]

Damn I love learning new Supra ? … What does this bad boy do? I got a battery tender that I easily hook up to my wife’s GTI, my MX5 or kids cars. I haven’t tried it yet on the Supra and want to get the lithium Tex (something) battery someday that Bryan found for us on another thread.

Is this what we need to do to hook up a trickle charger? Again, I’m used to just lifting the hood and connecting the terminals to the battery. Thanks

Yep, under the hood is the recommended location for a battery charger (jumping the battery as well). I feel the ring terminals are an easier way of hooking up than alligator clips and they look cleaner too, but personal preference. Suggestion: until you install the lithium battery I would get a charger with an AGM setting. Then once you install the new one change it to a charger for lithium batteries. For a visual here’s my setup.

 

[Supra_UK_]

Yep, under the hood is the recommended location for a battery charger (jumping the battery as well). I feel the ring terminals are an easier way of hooking up than alligator clips and they look cleaner too, but personal preference. Suggestion: until you install the lithium battery I would get a charger with an AGM setting. Then once you install the new one change it to a charger for lithium batteries. For a visual here’s my setup.

Pretty sure the CTek MXS 5.0 does AGM as well as non-AGM?

 

[J29DB03]

Pretty sure the CTek MXS 5.0 does AGM as well as non-AGM?

Correct, that’s the one I use.

 

[S2k]

Today I be mainly making the super dim display brighter!

Bimmercode + iCar Pro = Nice bright display at last where I can actually read the time without having an accident which has to be a good thing! ?

I should have done this months ago! ?

PS I don’t suppose there is a way of displaying the time in a bigger font? (like replacing the date with the time)

 

[MyCorolla]

Pretty sure the CTek MXS 5.0 does AGM as well as non-AGM?

I use this one, which manages AGM an Lithium batteries.

https://www.amazon.com/NOCO-GENIUS5...-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1