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Define what you're describing as surge. Are you talking about this kind of sound?

That isn't the case, at all. Or how come well modified series 1 E-Types can reach £250,000, when many equivalent stock examples are going for £150,000? (That is of course discounting the extremely rare, limited production models, which isn't applicable to Supras anyway, or an original condition, delivery miles car) And even now, the very nicest stock US spec Supras are only just starting to reach the money Ryan Woon got for his highly modified blue (RSP?) Supra 10 years ago. Thats a very simplistic view, and of course, false. I've had 4 Supras, the modified ones have been every bit as reliable as stock cars. It all depends what has been done, and how. And BTW, there is nothing "timeless" about the performance of a stock TT Supra. It was a supercar slayer when new, now many repmobiles will embarass one. Very poor choice of investment. A well maintained Supra will cost more to own than you will gain in value, when you account for fuel costs, insurance, servicing etc. These cars are getting old, and some of the 'wear and tear' parts prices are becoming insane (priced up any suspension parts recently?) The best you can hope for is owning a car you love, while the increasing value 'offsets' some of the overall cost.

Depends on the car. If its great condition, low miles, and stock-ish, it wants leaving as is. But there will always be those wanting high end modified examples too. Personally I couldn't have a stock one, unless I had also had a modified one, even 'just' BPU dramatically improves the character and performance of the car.

Does it run rich all the way through the rpm range?

Was the emanage remapped when you fitted your new gearbox? Its a bit beyond my knowledge, but the way that high stall torque converters and shimmed boxes work, they change the way the engine comes under load, thereby increasing low rpm spool, which would require additional fuelling to prevent running lean earlier in the engines rpm range. A skimmed exhaust manifold would also have an impact (albeit, I suspect a very minor one), and things like your intercooler and wastegate too, unless changed for exactly the same items.

No mention of your current ECU?

Read fault codes

Some garages do full alignment checks, some don't. But yes, thats likely to be excessive negative camber. I assume the car is quite low?

I love a nice Evo, preferably a IV, V or VI, and especially a rare one like a Mak or RS. However, as you said, all of the ones I see regularly are chavved up VIIs, VIIIs and IXs, with matt paint, rota wheels and awful sounding fartcans.

Think I still have mine from when I went single. Ill have a look over the weekend. Injectors had circa 80k miles on them.

We'll have to wait and see. Without any physical changes to the car, the engine and gearbox mapping could make a relatively drastic difference. May be looking at different tyres too?

Evo's, like Imprezas and even Skylines to an extent are not as well built as our Supras, as ultimately they are based on cheap cars, the Supra is more bepoke, and what it does share are high quality components from other great cars (GS300/ Aristo, Soarer etc)

Who's going to be bonkers enough to take their own car?? Someone has to Would love to go, but not allowed time off work in September

Nice looking cars But dont deserve mentioning in the same breath as proper widebody cars, with correctly, expensively widened tracks (Impreza 22b etc).

The look fantastic Still got them Did toy with the idea of selling but I would only regret it, especially having done all the heated seat wiring.

No. The rails on the OEM Recaros don't fit the Trendline seats, and probably others. Bride rails should fit pretty much anything with a little fettling.

I have these in mine. They wont work with oem runners. I used Bride ones from Whifbitz, and had to cut the rear horizontal brace bar on the subframes to clear the seat base (which is low). They look amazing though, very oem looking and really gives the interior a touch of class.

Lovely car with a great turbo setup Those brakes are pornography

The pillars and windscreen are identical (as are the wing mirrors), so the car is likely far more than mere 'platform sharing'. Information on the wheelbase etc of the two cars should indicate how much they share. At the moment i'm guessing the relationship between the Z4 and mk5 Supra will be like the mk4 Supra and the jzz30 Soarer.

Me too, but that isn't going to happen.

On the plus side, even if these are auto only, manual swaps should be pretty straigt forward given that engine is available with manual gearboxes in other cars, and used ones will be plentiful by then. But from what I gather these autoboxes are so good that BMW is considering dumping DCT boxes altogether. - - - Updated - - - 4 cylinder bashing is the new NA bashing

The GTR is £80k... might as well say the GT86 and MX5 are competing with the GTR.

Given the reception that many so called enthusiasts have given the car, I wouldn't be surprised if Toyota decide against selling it in this market.

Why would they want to compete with the GTR? The Z / Fairlady line is what Supras have always competed against.

Volk are the lightweight wheel division of Rays, I believe all Volk wheels are forged, while both Rays and Work wheels are on the whole high quality cast wheels, with some exceptions in both ranges being forged (such as the forged optional Rays wheels found on the 350z)