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6-3-2012
It was inevitable, I finally cleaned with some Super Clean and a scrub brush. To my surprise there's white paint under all that crap. I still need a tooth brush sized brush to get in there nice a deep like.
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I'm going to have to paint, PO had a battery explode on him and I found some result on the drivers rail. The paint just brushed right off, I'm surprised it was still there. YOu can clearly see where the drips off acid ran down the rail and where it puddled up on top of the rail, basically where the paint is now missing. But the passenger side looks fantastic!
Got some paint on the block as well. I went with gloss black on top of some self etch primer. Crank is all polished and should be going in sometime this week after the day job.
6-10-2012
I also pulled all the crap off the inner fenders because of the battery explosion on the PO, except the brakes and there is primer down now. I'm probably going to spray on some white today. I'll try to get some pics up today. I want to dive in deeper but I got approved to buy a house so a move will be coming up here shortly and I really don't want to move the supra in pieces.
Bottom end is re-assembled, all the big pieces anyways. I still need to do alot of cleaning/sandblasting/painting to all the smaller pieces.
I know this is a controversial subject but let talk "Engine break-in". I've done plenty of research and I've decided on the method of break-in but I am still in a toss up about what viscosity to use. I know I'm using dino/mineral/conventional oil, but every other break-in thread between here and Google calls out the use of different viscosities. What are some of your recommendations? I'm leaning to some SAE-30w for the first 20 miles, oil change then the same to 500, Then ?????
A little tid bit I'm going to add because I haven't read it any where is the j-tube plate, the old 5m fuel pump access hole on the side of the block can be covered with a GM fuel pump block off plate. I only tried this because it looks the same and I had two old plates in the bottom of the junk drawer in the garage. It took a little while to dig them out but they fit, so I bought a new one. 
