jay_NW

Great result Kaan, look after her Good job by everyone involved

Hello guys, First of all, I'd like to thank all of those who took their time to send me well wishes. Each and everyone of them meant allot to me. I am posting this to prevent myself from repeating myself every time. I appreciate there are many who want to know, so this way it should clear matters up once and for all. 'What an event' was an expression I was going to use before it actually ended. Now, somehow the phrase doesn't do justice to what actually occurred. Certainly what could have. In any case my passenger and I are recovering well. I was battered and bruised more than anything. Passenger Ben has a cut on his face which a plastic surgeon has operated on, a broken back, broken right through the spine T12 but luckily stayed in the same place so he needs to stay flat for it to heal. Spoke to him recently and he should be out of the hospital in 2 - 3 weeks time. The build of the Supra and specifically the cage installed without question had saved our lives. Thank you SRD, Lee, Ashley, Ryan, Simon, Colin everyone who worked on the car. Many have asked me what happened, so in a nutshell.... My day was set. Run the lambo, get a fast time. Run the LFA for paps, run the Supra for the love. Day done thank you ... If only... Loaded Lambo and LFA in the truck and drove the Supra: Lambo was readied, I was excited and nervous. However maybe not as nervous as i should be. But the lambo is planted, it did it's job and does it well. I ran it around 2 or 3 times, slowly cranking up the power. Constantly hitting 219 in half mile, only geared to do 220. I am starting to get a real feel for her.. I then Ran the LFA. What a fun car that is. The sound is addictive, the drive is exciting. Then, I felt the Supra itch calling. Racefuel was being prepared for the car. On my first run as I was accelerating up the strip, she didn't feel as stable as I recall on the road. However the surface runway was not the best. I ran to approx 180. My penultimate run was of similar results, however I started feeling more at ease and we hit approx 210mph. So... Onto the run that was to be the Supra's farewell... She felt perfect, the surge was smooth, I felt confident, passenger Ben was reading out the speed from Vbox, I concentrated on the road ahead and was zoned into a tunnel vision like perceptive as I could see the braking zone on the horizon, Ben read out 220 mph a few moments before I felt the Supra give way. I felt a sudden pull towards one side, there was nothing I could do, I recall the first flip (one of four). I then woke up to Axle, Darret, Ibo and few other mates trying to get to us to make sure we were ok. Safety crew were trying to get them away from reaching us but couldn't. I now know they were concerned about the car igniting due to the race fuel. I recall I passing my keys to the other cars then the air ambulance arriving. The rest is more then a blur. I have mini flashbacks. I remember small scenes here and there. Every few days more and more comes back to me. Craig and rest of the Vmax crew done well to get us safely out of the car. The response was as good as it possibly could have been. So there we have it, my love for all this started with the Supra. Indeed it was just metal, health is the most important factor and one which cannot be purchased at any price. However as poetic as it may seem, I thought the Supra's farewell was running one last time up the strip, however in actual fact, the Supra's final performance was to preserve my life. For that, I am forever grateful. You won't keep me out of a Supra that easily.

It will be worth the wait mate! I was there at Lee's last week and got to see the car, looked very nice, looking forward to next year.

4 members drag please.

Front bumper is back to stock now, Thank you Simon/Baldy and Colin for doing a great job as usual.

Beautiful, Looking forward to see this car in any of the meets.

Thank you guys , appreciate all the nice comments Had good day yesterday, Thanks to SRD - Lee and Ashely, and Ryan for looking after the car as usual Thank you mate, I think you left as soon as we drove in? Didn’t get to say hi. Was good to meet you yesterday mate, Thank you for the fuel. Nice to meet you and your buddy as well mate. Good to see old Jamie's black beast still around Was good to meet you big guy Have a video of you from yesterday, PM me your emil address I will send it over Couple of videos from yesterday : http://instagram.com/p/m0vIGtrdKN/ And some random pictures

Sold for $45 AUD by the looks of it : http://www.supraforums.com.au/forum/topic/74294-fs-syd-my-supra-restored-and-built-from-the-ground-up/?hl=inferno If I knew I would have bought it as well. One perfect Supra.

Very nice colour choice, good job on the engine bay as well. Must have taken allot of time but end result is beautiful

I'm proud to be part of SRD history. Thank you for all the work you guys carried out on the car. Looking forward to the summer. Thanks for posting this up Jamsey, good to see all the nice projects in one place. Thanks for the heads up, need to update the PH post

Thank you for all the nice comments guys Just want to say huge thanks to Lee and Ashley from SRD, Simon and Colin from ABS and Ryan G from 2BarTunig and everyone else who helped me towards this project. I am going to use the car throughout the winter and take it back to Lee for more work as he has lots more plans to make this car even better. Small video:

Thanks guys Thanks John, Thanks to you my wallet is empty as I told Simon that I want an engine bay like yours. I think we are almost there. Cheers Rob, can't believe both of you are selling your cars. I don't blame you though as GTR is a nice car Hi Stu, heard yours is getting SRD treatment soon as well. haha true, doesn’t look too bad next to that Beetle

Thanks guys, will possibly go this route in the future " stock front bumper, stock rear wing and some CCW LM5 wheels"

That was Lee in the Porsche, he tried

This might work :