What did you do to your Supra today?

[nanaisu]

Finally ordered the trim piece that has the button to toggle heated steering. Hands are no longer toasty after a long 8 or so months!

It's been a long couple months of traveling for work, and I think I've got a couple month break.

Side note for anyone trying to replace this trim piece:
- Remove the airbag
- Remove the paddle shifters, behind them is a screw
- unscrew that and the trim should pop out easily
You don't need to take the wheel off. Don't overcomplicate it like I did.

I also discovered the buttons in my wheel aren't OEM valeo. Tempted to swap my OEM valeo in there to see if they're plug and play
OEM Valeo:

Included with the wheel:

Both are multi-media controls. China wheels have an impressive amount of engineering put in them.

Anyways - now that I'm home, I should be able to wrap up some logging for retuning

 

[Gabe]

Decided to do this today.

YouTube: don’t fail me.

 

[razorlab]

Decided to do this today.

YouTube: don’t fail me.

You're going to love them. Especially on that bumpy ass FL track you frequent.

 

[Traxion]

Decided to do this today.

YouTube: don’t fail me.

Undo the screws that hold together the fender liner at the top of the front fender well and then pull them back. It gives you a ton more room to swing out the original shock and swing the new one back into place.

Also for a starting point on the locking collar positions, my front springs were 6" and I had around 18 threads showing from the bottom. I can't find what my rears were but they were definitely higher than that. It's a bit easier to lower the locking collars than it is to raise them but on initial install it's not too bad either way since they aren't bound up by debris yet.

 

[Gabe]

All done. Thanks for the tips. Dealing with a wheel speed sensor and a parking brake error now (I installed the RSR

 

[RedSupra]

All done. Thanks for the tips. Dealing with a wheel speed sensor and a parking brake error now (I installed the RSR

@Gabe Let me know if you will be selling your MSS springs.

 

[sabrownfl]

New plugs and coils. Got almost 30k miles on the ones that came in the car when I bought it. Figured it was time.

 

[Mattboyd]

Got it towed to a mechanic lol. See post.

 

[Mattboyd]

New plugs and coils. Got almost 30k miles on the ones that came in the car when I bought it. Figured it was time.

How often are you supposed to change plugs and coils?

 

[sabrownfl]

How often are you supposed to change plugs and coils?

I believe the manual says every 40k miles for the plugs... no idea on coils. I'm MHD Stage 2 tuned, heavy into autocross about to do my second track day. Plugs were an easy decision, and since I had to remove the coils to change the plugs, just figured I would do it all at once.

 

[Mattboyd]

I believe the manual says every 40k miles for the plugs... no idea on coils. I'm MHD Stage 2 tuned, heavy into autocross about to do my second track day. Plugs were an easy decision, and since I had to remove the coils to change the plugs, just figured I would do it all at once.

Ah ok, makes sense in your situation

 

[razorlab]

How often are you supposed to change plugs and coils?

70+ track days, 600whp+, original coils. No reason to change them unless you are having issues, although I do understand preventative maintenance.

 

[itzTang]

How often are you supposed to change plugs and coils?

Spark plugs are maintenance items not the coils. Wait til one coil goes out and you can change them all out the same time if you like.

 

[Mattboyd]

Spark plugs are maintenance items not the coils. Wait til one coil goes out and you can change them all out the same time if you like.

Thanks. Good to know.

 

[i3igpete]

Quick note for the MHD flex fuel kit, highly recommend getting a pick tool set with bends and/or hooks before starting

This dude has the only youtube video installing the MHD kit on a Supra, and at 3:45 glosses over unclipping the connector which was the longest part of the install for me. On other b58 cars, the connector is easy access on top, but on the Supra they put it behind the DME Splash Shield.



You will need a hook tool to grab the bottom side of this connector. I couldn't get a good angle to put pressure on the bottom squeeze tab

To get to these panel mount releases, I had to use a straight pick for the top two and a 45 deg bent pick for the bottom one. Top two you push down, bottom one you pull up.

There seems to be two ways to mount the ethanol sensor, you can either mount it high or low. But I wasn't able to mount it low without stressing the DME harness. Maybe you need to unplug all the DME connectors to mount it that way, and then put them all back. (?)