I loss a lil faith in my solara today

[RandySolara]

I cant say or tell for sure, since every driver has their own experience with their vehicle, thats why i said up there its a naturally gain recommended by Toyota Canada "one of a dealership mechanic told me" but for mine car, i fell it gained a little HP honestly, only a little, not much....To me, the weight sometimes not a big deal for Stock vs Stock, Mod car ofcourse its a deal.

[Chinky420]

if you lost to a tC, then you shouldn't rag out your car for a while, until you figure out why you couldn't use all your engine power.

stock for stock, the auto v6 lara should be able to take a manual 4cyl tC.

even a lightly modded tC would have trouble taking out an auto v6 lara (it would probably be doable for the tC depending on the mods, but it'd be close)

sounds like you're having tranny problems, if you ask me.

OD on/off and 'shifting' in an auto shouldn't effect the outcome against a tC, you should have been able to beet it just by mashing on he accellerator and holding a straight line while in D (you would need to turn off trac control, unless you wanna spin out when you launch). just so long as you keep the gas mashed down, it should redline normally (for an auto).

now, if you spun your tires and stood still when you launched, that may account for some of the lost advantage you should have had with a bigger engine.

but if the engine sounded good, and it just didn't shift correctly, i would check out the tranny before any more spirited driving.

[JvR]

curious as to what sensors should be cleaned and with what?

I cleaned the MAF + IAC + the rest of the sensor on the throttle body.
After that i cleaned every connector that i can find under the hood.

I used brake cleaner...but on your own risk

Don't forget to disconnect the battery. This will reset the ecu so it can learn again. (after cleaning the sensors it will measure different values, because of the cleaning)

good luck

[trd4life]

I would use electronic cleaner and or MAF cleaner. I can't imagine brake cleaner is ok to use on electric stuff

[redgen1]

if i put mine down in second I have NO problem takin tc's, ESPECIALLY from a roll, leave that sucker down there to 5000k like someone said earlier in the post and you will def. pull... makes me glad though that I have a car with a real 5-speed to drive on the way again

[kenlrw39]

Ok so I looked all the hoses over everything looks good I'm gonna try cleanin my sensors tonight. I wasnt tryin to rag on my car I love my solara just wasnt planning on that run turn out the way it did, but i think by august I should have it swap to 5spd.

[RandySolara]

OD on/off and 'shifting' in an auto shouldn't effect the outcome against a tC, you should have been able to beet it just by mashing on he accellerator and holding a straight line while in D (you would need to turn off trac control, unless you wanna spin out when you launch). just so long as you keep the gas mashed down, it should redline normally (for an auto).

Ive tried that too but it not always as i wanted, sometimes 7-8 seconds it hit 40 to 55 miles right away smooth, sometimes it wont go and the engine makes more noise, also when this happen, i need to O/D on right away cause of the engine revssssssssss.....whenever i am on Premium fuel, most of the time i hit 60 miles in 5-6 seconds.

About the Traction control, thanks for the advice bro, my Traction always on, no wondering all the times when i hit hard, the car seem not stable.

[Chinky420]

^^ sounds to me like you're messing up your car's tranny too. you should look into that before shelling out advice.

sometimes it wont go and the engine makes more noise

...and 0-60 in 5-6 seconds in an auto.....i'll believe it when i see it. the 5spd with a professional driver was able to get 0-60 in 7.1s or something like that. show me drag slips and a list of modifications done to the car, and i'll retract my disbelief.

realistically, the v6 auto can count on about an 8 - 9 second 0-60....maybe 0.5 - 1.5 second less with mods, but without a retune/heavy modding/supercharger, i doubt it could crack into the 7's, much less 5's or 6's



btw randy, you ever take those pictures of all your toyota's? the solaras and the camry and the celica? i'm still wanting to check out all these rides of yours.

[GreenSolara01]

http://autorepair.about.com/library/a/1h/bl750h.htm

might help ?

[Chinky420]

i think by august I should have it swap to 5spd.

i'm gonna go ahead and throw this out there now, it'll be easier (and probably cheaper) to sell the lara and BUY a 5spd.

the amount of work involved in doing a swap is immense, and you'll end up dropping almost as much money to swap as it would cost to cover the difference of a 5spd solara.

also, sourcing parts is problematic, unless you already have access to the manual tranny parts, i.e. from a decommissioned 5spd solara, or another toyo/lexus that uses the same tranny....

do a search, it's been discussed many times over....as well as been done a couple times. check out txbumblebee's thread about his tranny swap, and you'll get an idea of how involved a process it is.

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let me put it this way: i had the opportunity to do a swap, i blew my auto tranny, and was going to have to put the car in the shop anyway. i was seriously considering doing the swap....like you are.

after hunting for parts, and a shop that could handle the swap, the projected cost for a tranny swap was around $4-5k USD, while my salvage auto tranny (with only 67k miles on it)+labor cost me less than $1300 total.

plus, putting in the new auto took about a week (less than, really), whereas doing a swap would have kept the lara tied up for at least a couple weeks upto a month.



in contrast, you could probably sell the lara for about $4-5k, depending on condition of the vehicle, and then find a 5spd for probably less than $8k from a private seller (or on here!). so if you sell it at 4k, and find one for 8k....that's 4 grand spent, which is about the same....except there is no downtime while your car is in the shop.



and if you do the swap, then you have to worry about fabricating parts, making sure everything is done correctly, and that it'll all hold together once you get it on the road. while buying a whole car has the benefit of having been designed as a 5spd. while the differences aren't night and day, there are enough differences to make it difficult, or expensive to do a swap.

just some food for thought. i'm not trying to discourage you from doing it, if you really want to, then you should. but if you're still on the fence, these are some points to consider before committing to a serious mechanical project like a tranny swap.

[kenlrw39]

Yeah i know what you mean I'm plannin on doin the swap myself I would say I have the mechanical skill and knowledge after building a mid 13sec all motor civic hatch. My plan was to buy all the parts first then garage the solara while I drive the corolla.

[Chinky420]

well at least you have a plan about it.

start looking for the tranny parts now, they were harder for me to find than expected (and costlier too).

good luck in the project....take pictures and post to us about the progress when everything comes together.

[kenlrw39]

you guyz will know all my progress I'm gonna have to put some picture up of my ride let yall see what I'm drivin.

[RandySolara]

^^ sounds to me like you're messing up your car's tranny too. you should look into that before shelling out advice.

sometimes it wont go and the engine makes more noise

...and 0-60 in 5-6 seconds in an auto.....i'll believe it when i see it. the 5spd with a professional driver was able to get 0-60 in 7.1s or something like that. show me drag slips and a list of modifications done to the car, and i'll retract my disbelief.

realistically, the v6 auto can count on about an 8 - 9 second 0-60....maybe 0.5 - 1.5 second less with mods, but without a retune/heavy modding/supercharger, i doubt it could crack into the 7's, much less 5's or 6's



btw randy, you ever take those pictures of all your toyota's? the solaras and the camry and the celica? i'm still wanting to check out all these rides of yours.

Yep ur right basically V6 Cam engine 3.0 is 8-9, thats why i said most of the time when on premium fuel, maybe my count to me i thought it was 5-6 but it was really faster than 8s bro.

Its summer here now ill take some pic of my Camry 94 mom, Solaras wife/sister n my summer Celica. Ive had hard time with parking, got parking ticket over 1000$ this year with this Celica, thinkin of sellin it. Toronto is stupid, ur property u pay tax u maintenance n u CANNOT park !

PS: Swap tran to 5speed ? oh my god, i used to drive Auto for years, i did not do Swap i traded it in for 5speed, faster better less cost n reliable.

[kenlrw39]

ok well I decided to just solve my problem with nitrous i got a NOS kit for cheap and im gonna run a dry 80shot