1987 Toyota Supra

7MGTE Hatchback

3.0L Straight 6 Cylinder Gasoline Fuel

Manual

JT2MA70L3H0054219

Salvage

custom

Gasoline

3dr Liftback 5-Spd

1987 Black Toyota Supra with Programmable 7MGTE and Autronic SMC Controller. Rebuilt 7MGTE JDM Motor -- rebuilt head and deck were hand lapped to polish surfaces; flatness was checked to 0.0001" Turbonetics T61 Turbo, trimmed for wide RPM range power, more for road racing than dragging. Dyno-ed about 300 hp with 8-9 pounds of boost. I expect rear-wheel Dyno runs of 450 HP with sufficient boost. Engine is just broken in (carefully, only by me); you get to turn up the boost (carefully – one monitors the exhaust gas temperatures, AFRs, etc.)! Autronic SMC Programmable Engine Controller interfaced with wideband O2 sensor and Autotune features. 850 cc/min. Siemens 3105 injectors Spearco intercooler plumbed with 3" aluminum piping. Apexi Boost Controller MSD Ignition Ross forged pistons HKS head gasket HKS Blow off valve Clutch Masters 6-puck clutch -- very aggressive grab, but reasonable pedal force. Fidanza lightweight aluminum flywheel Slotted Brake Rotors Suspension Techniques Sway Bars and Lowering Springs Tokico TEMS shocks Large Aluminum Radiator Aeroquip plumbing for fuel, turbo and oil cooler. This car has a modified fuel injection system, sold "as is" without smog certification. Intended for recreational tuning and programming for track use -- or laws-permitting, street use. (To my understanding, this car can only be used on a track if it's in California – I don’t know about the refereeing process for attempting to smog the car. And perhaps the laws are quite different in Florida, for all I know.) Some have told me I SHOULD be able to get some sort of refereeing in California, since it can pass a tailpipe test and still has the Federal smog equipment – this was not originally a California car; it was purchased new in Colorado. It is programmed to maintain 14.7 AFR under most non-boosted conditions after warm-up. Federal smog equipment is still on the car including the EGR, huge catalytic converter (one, not two as in stock), charcoal canister, etc. I have not pursued the "red tape" to get this street legal in California -- I would think someone in another state will be in an easier position to drive it in their state legally, but here's my disclaimer: I'm no lawyer so please investigate this issue for your location first, or plan on getting a trailer and showing it off at "street" events at your local track. That was then... I bought this car brand new in 1987 with about 3 miles on it. When I asked the dealer why there was three miles on it the salesman said all the Toyotas did because of the mileage due to movement from plant to storage to various transports. So I was told. Nevertheless, it’s been mine since it had three miles on it. I took compulsive care of it, with many oil and filter changes, etc. At about 44,000 I modified the car with an HKS kit that boosted power to the 300 hp neighborhood. The kit added a Garrett turbo to this naturally aspirated car.. At that time, I replaced sway bars with Suspension Techniques sway bars. I also installed lowering springs from S.T. with Tokico TEMS shocks. All of that is still on the car. Has a nice sun roof too. At about 136,000 miles I sold the original engine and transmission and I just sold the HKS turbo on eBay! This is NOW: JDM TURBO motor rebuilt with Ross forged pistons, stock rods resized, rebuilt head, HKS metal head gasket, finished compression ratio 8.5. Turbonetics T61 turbo and Siemens 850 cc/min. injectors controlled with an Autronic SMC fully programmable ECU -- the ECU is quite sophisticated and flexible. The T61 was chosen because high power is attainable over a wider band of power, if I'm not mistaken, especially in the lower and mid range. Boost controller is older Apexi. The car has an MSD ignition box. The intercooler is Spearco, with 3" piping. Intake is 4" with high flow K&N air filter. The aftermarket oil cooler, turbo oil and fuel rail are plumbed with Aeroquip AN fittings and braided hoses Stock fuel pressure regulator -- I'll throw in an aftermarket one if you want to deal with programming it. I played with water and alcohol injection for a while too, but that was before the rebuild. I will throw in the water injection system if you want it; it retailed for $500 -- it is not installed in with this new engine. I've installed aftermarket slotted brake rotors. Clutch Masters six-puck clutch grabs suddenly (it is not as "driveable" as stock clutch, you'll stall a couple times getting used to it, but it grabs very well, nicest clutch I've used, I think. Flywheel is a lightweight Fidanza aluminum flywheel. Turbo version transmission installed. Throttle response is very quick, in my opinion, compared to stock. Attempts have been made to meet federal smog standards in this car, although it fails the "visual" inspection in California for having modified the stock fuel injection configuration. (Ha. No kidding.) Please understand: I interfaced (ok, this meter I bought constructed and tested -- but I had to modify it to interface it to the Autronic 0-1V analog input. I added an adjustment to calibrate the Autronic PC O2 reading with the physical meter's reading -- should not drift, unless you completely change the grounding scheme for the meter and computer. I'm an R&D engineer; this is what I do for a living, humble as it is.) a wideband O2 meter with the Eugo sensor and interfaced its output to the Autronic controller so that you can run fully closed loop with programmable loop dynamics (damping factors and decay times). So this car, with its big catalytic converter in the exhaust, and the ability to have a target A/F ratio table programmed to 14.7 AFR, the car can be programmed to pass a tailpipe smog test -- which I recommend -- it will run very well, not foul, polute as much, etc. as it might if you tended to run as rich as one should while under boost, which should be about 12 AFR or less. This SMC controller is version 1.99 so it has AUTOTUNE which works nicely if you can go to a track or somewhere to maintain steady rpm/load combinations -- traffic is not a good idea. I have not touched the barometric pressure or altitude tables. So expect to use Autotune a little especially at first to get the mix perfect in all conditions. Perhaps I could help with the programming, but not on the street in California. The injectors are the newest addition, so I'm only up to about the warm-up table, and enough base-fuel table cells get going. It needs to be driven around with Autotune and held at each cell site a few moments with a stable AFR reading, then the cell site will program itself for the target AFR -- this is done in open-loop control so the feedback isn't correcting -- this open-loop programming is accomplished to within a few percent of target, then when run in closed-loop mode later, the feedback system has only a few percent correction to accomplish. The Autronic website is: http://www.autronic.com.au/ you can download the software for the SMC there. Long Good-byes... I am selling this car because I really wanted to be able to smog it and have an everyday driver 500 hp Supra. But, there is NO WAY this car will pass smog in California. I suggest you buy it as a TRACK CAR, and have a whole, whole lot of fun with it at public drag events and open tune days. Trounce your buddies with Mustangs, etc. But it will need a bit more tuning. But that said, I only got a little online advice and was up and running with Autronics Autotune features. Its pretty cool, really! You can drive around and when you stay constant conditions long enough to stabilize in a table cell, it will tune the cell-site for you in the base fuel table. Ignition settings are probably fine where they are, but tweeking will require changes to the base fuel table. So, iteration brings optimization. I think people at GM have careers doing this. Autotune requires a real-time wide-band O2 meter reading of air-to-fuel ratio. This configuration can run Autotune (and closed loop for that matter) because I designed the interface between the O2 meter and the Autronic SMC -- other wideband O2 meters with easily configurable outputs are available today for a few hundred dollars, if you ever want to change out my electronics for some of yours. Brand new broken-in engine, partially tuned, ready to finish somewhere it can be driven (it was tuned on the street with temporary stickers -- that's how I broke in the engine. But DMV refuses to renew them anymore -- and I have these new large injectors installed that need new tuning.) I rubbed the paint with some 3M swirl remover for dark cars, then some 3M paste wax, before I took most of the photos. It needs a paint job -- an expensive one -- to get it to show car status. Please send me your questions. I have a lot of documentation that is included. Let’s discuss the critical things, whatever they are to you, before the purchase. Email me if you're serious: I will give you my phone number so we can talk in person. MAKE ME AN OFFER!!