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My bro has an ST205 GT4 and I gotta say in most situations performance wise there isn't a lot in it. For example, the GT4 in standard form did a 13.702 1/4 mile at Crail Raceway - the best I managed in my Supra (std) was a 13.812. I drive both regularly and would still have the Supra TT over the GT4 but they are different kettles of fish in that the Supra is much more of a cruiser. You can throw the GT4 around a lot more but in terms of speed through corners I'd say the Supra is the faster of the two in ideal conditions............ anything less and you have to slow down in the Supra because that 2nd turbo kick is always playing in your mind. Then when you think about mod potential........ the Supra is easy to get a lot of power out of. Both excellent cars......... depends what you want at the end of the day.

Isn't edzel a fair bit further to get to tho? p.s. dan like the avatar lol - where'd you get it cos I used the same smilie on another forum earlier today

Hi m8, Aye was planning on going up, but in the SX for some drift action All depends on me getting my big brake kit fitted to it in time, which depends on my wheel spacer kit arriving tomorrow. (see my knockhill thread in chat for what happened to the brakes lol). Cheers, Brian.

Sorry to read this far Hope all goes well with the insurance etc. My veilside has Bridgestone 'Grid' tyres on it................... came like that from Japan. You'd expect Bridgestone's to be sticky but these have far less grip than the Kumho 712's that were on my last supra. I can get sideways at 80mph when the 2nd turbo comes in with these, when it's slightly damp. Such a hard compound. Could feel the difference when launching on the strip too.

lo m8 lookin good, but a set of chrome rings would make it look even better re: the uneven light - did you put the new dials on top of the old ones?

S13 200SX is the way to go

No John you did the same sum as me and yes it makes 4 I remember the car as well like I mentioned

I know of them but not dealt with them directly. A friend contacted me asking me my opinion on the car you have now bought. Hope it all goes ok for you!

Wouldn't have anything to do with Power Vehicles of Edinburgh would it Lackie? Was your Supra the fettled one that was for sale through JVS of Edinburgh? Think it was white.

Best thing you could do for those pot holes is to fit lardy soft UK spec suspension, then you'll just wallow over em. TBH a strut brace will make your problem worse if anything, most likely will do sweet f*ck all tho!

On point no.1 - the Jap car does not have 40 less BHP. Power figures in reality for JDM and UK cars are almost identical. Officially the JDM has 280BHP, unofficially it has 323BHP - this is what my bog standard GZ produced on the dyno not long after I imported it. It's certainly no biggy going for the JDM, in fact it's the quicker car out of the box (dons flameproof suit) due to the faster spooling ceramic turbo's. The only problem may be insurance, you need to shop around on the phone to get a decent import quote - online quotes are useless.

Don't know, never looked at them apart from like a stunned rabbit when a HID equipped car is coming towards me! :flame Dev

Facelift was in '96...

The ends of appropriate wiring looms from Toyota? Possible to use one of these connectors and have it copied?

Possibly, not sure about the compatibility of this though. I heard that there was a problem with HID's passing the SVA test.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Nope, it's just that you're an............ http://www.kulthea.net/images/attentiongirl.jpg

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You just 0wned yourself by proving your inability to accurately interpret a piece of written English. Silly boy.

Further to the above, it really needs to be a UK spec Supra on the std 17" wheels / tyres combo for a true reflection of accuracy.

I think a UK spec Supra would be a good guage of the true innaccuracy of the Supra Speedo as it is unmodified. Any UK spec owners who have had their speed readings verified via GPS or similar care to comment?

If you read my post correctly you'd see I said "not correctly zeroing the needle when fitting the chip and in my case 180mph speedo face" I installed the chip and speedo face so of course I know it doesn't go inside the speedo Why do you disagree with innacurate speedo's being down to poor quality chips when this is what alters the original speed signal going to the speedo? :baa:

To pass an SVA test the speedo has to be accurate to actual speed to within 10% on the optimistic side and it's an instant fail if it's at all pessimistic. Not sure how some of your cars got through the SVA test! Innacurate speedo's on jap imports are down to poor quality chips being fitted for conversion and / or not correctly zeroing the needle when fitting the chip and in my case 180mph speedo face.

It's a bit of a dodgy game to play because you are effectively tampering with the odometer. I was told by someone local that seemingly serves the majority of the local importers ( ) that they could take the odo for a couple of days and basically pulse it right round to the desired display for miles. Getting it to display the miles light indicator instead of km is the easy part, as documented on the http://www.trlperformance.com site. With my silver supra (which I imported myself), I chose to convert to read up in miles (and show mph, derestrict; all are functions of a decent chip for conversion) on the odo but just leave it at that and obtained a documented mileage certificate from the chip supplier to show the details of the car and when it was converted and also how to calculate it's current mileage from what was displayed - the difference between what's on the display and what that converts to in miles, so therefore for me it was 45,000 minus 17,000 = 28,000 miles (rough figures). This way you're not tampering with the odo and you have documentation to prove how you calculate the mileage and what's on display. I also had my original jap auction sheet and Jap service history to back this up. Indeed, jap imports don't leave Japan clocked - unscrupulous UK businesses clock them when they get here. Hope this helps, Brian.

You're gonna melt some pistons if you don't fit a restrictor ring, never mind blowing the turbos.