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Unless anyone knows for sure with a vernier check the info from restoration forums is Toyota trucks used 20 gauge and cars used 16 gauge steel in the 1990's. On that basis it should be 1.5mm steel.

What are your plans for the car when it's done? A museum piece? Or a show queen for the fine Summer days? Or a garage queen that rarely sees the light of day? Or a regular out and about tourer? It's likely to be a tough call. When I took my Supra to the club stand at the 2016 NEC Classic Car Show there were a bunch of Toyota GB guys dropped on the stand. The leader of the pack bounced over and said to me, right colour and to not use it except to run down the MOT station once a year. It's been pretty much like that for the last 8 years but I'm looking forward to taking it on a 3,000 mile European tour this Summer. More nervous about how it'll hold up on the Autobahn than I was when it last travelled there in 2002 seeing it's all original under the bonnet baring the usual service items. It's a nice kind of nervous though, to get the excitement back. A proper grand tour accompanied by my petrol head daughter who I'll be adding to the cars insurance for the first time. I found spending so much time and effort and money on the car in 2017 made me reluctant to dirty the underside. Hopefully you won't gain the dirt and puddle phobia that I fell to and find the time and desire to use the car to it's fullest potential; just wincing only a little bit as you pass through that unavoidable puddle. Part of the grand tour has me heading across a number of passes in the Alps, one being where the Top Gear bods stood looking down the snaking road when in search of the best driving road in Europe. That is right on the Swiss/Italian border so the plan that day is breakfast in Switzerland and lunch on the Italian peak. I'm planning to get a good photobook of memories with the car and daughter then I'll print that off into a booklet. Then, it'll probably be back into the garage to rarely see the light of day. Or, hopefully not and it'll become a more regular travel partner. Or my daughter can take it on, she was 3 months old when I bought the car so it's been a constant for her and a driving desire. To sum up, cars are more than metal and the Mk4 Supra is no ordinary car. Enjoy.

When you fit the subframe it is tempting to grease up the nuts and threads but it is important to resist the temptation as all Toyota torque specs are on dry threads. I applied liberal amounts of grease to the bolt heads after tightening to prevent future corrosion but I doubt you'll want to dirty yours like I did mine. The badly corroded bolts I found when I did my rear end work were the 10mm ones at the rear end on the tank guard and exhaust hanger. So those got big globbings of grease on the renewed bolts. I used to work in the oil industry and there is one additive used as an EP additive in some gear oils, amine phosphate, that blocks rusting like you wouldn't believe. You only need 0.02% in a base oil and coated steel never rusts even bare metal sprayed with hot salt water. I've often looked for somewhere to buy the stuff but I only ever come up with Chinese sources in big quantities. I wish I had grabbed some when it was an on the shelf bottle. It's so good it should be an off the shelf item at Halfords. https://www.unpchemicals.com/ep-aw-additives/amine-neutralized-mixed-phosphate-esters-psail-2280.html

I've booked my passage for The Grossglockner High Alpine Road for an Alpine and Dolomites tour in June in the Supra. I'm looking forward to getting a good set of pics of the road trip through the mountains of Austria, Italy and Switzerland and the Italian lakes. I've booked a hotel for a first night stop in Limburg on the way down to the Alps.

These were last available in 2021 and Denso USA listed the product code as discontinued so I wouldn't hold out much hope of seeing a new production run unless Toyota GR Heritage twist Denso's arms.

I've bought one of those really cheap kits for travel around Europe, it also has breathalysers; a requirement these days in France. I have routed the tour to avoid all toll roads on the Garmin DriveSmart 66 I've just bought, other than the Grossglockner High Alpine Road in Austria. The Garmin basecamp route planner software isn't particularly user friendly but I have mapped out the planned route totalling 3,000 miles on my PC and load it onto the Garmin. I hadn't read about headlights on being mandatory in Switzerland. Last time I took the car to Germany it was peak Summer so I didn't bother with beam deflectors as I never ran in anything other than daylight. I suppose I should fit those this time if daytime headlight on running is required. The once I got a big brown bloom flash was in the Netherlands I never received anything from that so hopefully it'll be a fine free tour and that the Supra, that has never missed a beat doesn't miss a beat.

Well, it's on. Scheduled for the second week in June since not all the Alpine passes open up before June. I've sorted the RAC European zone 2 cover and booked a flexible ticket on the Shuttle. Hotels are all identified and will be booked during January. It's cut across the Austrian and Italian alps to spend a couple of days on the Italian lakes then into Switzerland for a few days running a few Alpine passes then returning via Lake Constance. I refurbished an OEM set of road wheels a while back now. They will finally gain some new tyres in the New Year and be put onto the car so we will be set for fast running down the Autobahn on new rubber. It seems that the only manufacturer for same tread pattern premium tyres on staggered OE 17" wheels are manufactured by Michelin so there isn't much choice available.

Not unless WW3 breaks out then 1BTC will be worth one loaf of bread. It's a good time to realise any gains.

If you do go with a trader be careful if it's a cash payment, there are a lot of fake notes going around. We had an instance locally, reported recently, where some Brummie boys were trying to pass off fake cash for a car purchase. If receiving cash direct to your account then ensure it is by faster payment (pretty instantaneous) as a BACS payment can be same day recalled. Ideally, check any payment with your bank has cleared and cannot be reversed and record that conversation.

Sounds like you have a servo issue. These are available from Whifbitz for £1,400 or you can seek out a cylinder rebuild kit: https://toyota.epc-data.com/supra/jza80/94022/chassis/4702/04493/

I'm looking to do a hose refresh on my TT6 and need to track down NOS on the following part numbers. 16264-46030 HOSE, WATER BY-PASS, NO.2 16283-46030 HOSE, WATER BY-PASS, NO.6 16284-46020 HOSE, TURBO WATER, NO.1 16284-46020 HOSE, TURBO WATER, NO.2 16286-46010 HOSE, TURBO WATER, NO.3 16287-46010 HOSE, TURBO WATER, NO.4 16295-46040 HOSE, WATER BY-PASS, NO.7 If anyone has any of these sitting around new and unused and is happy to sell them on to be used then do DM me with a price.

There are different part numbers for the number 1 vacuum transmitting pipework on VVTi and pre-VVTi engines. These are discontinued but not gaining a set shouldn't be a ball buster. it wouldn't be difficult to replicate/fabricate the tubing yourself from a 3m length of mild steel tubing. There aren't that many turns on them. All you need is a set to template from or a good eye and a ruler for following a picture topping off with primer and shiny black paint.

The internet is your friend, this thread might help you out with a trac ECU wiring signal hack. An alternative would be a GPS signal but I'm not sure if GPS speedometers are legal in the UK which could lead to MOT/insurance problems. https://www.supraforums.com/threads/rhd-jza80-a-t-to-6-speed-manual-bmw-e60-gs6-53dz-hgd-conversion.1113877/

Andy Ven sorted it out, you can PM him as he is a member. Reasonable prices to.

I applied the silver POR15 to my underside when I had the sub frame off, also to the drive shafts after cleaning those up. I was surprised just how far a small tin of the stuff would spread, being quite thin you cannot slap it on thick or it just runs everywhere. I did paint on top of the PRO, a couple of coats of matt black. I did my underside in 2017 and clean the underside with a damp rag every year pre-MOT and it is holding up well to this day. I also applied some USA rubberised arch spray to my rear wheel arches and that is holding up well to. I used ABRO U-60 undercoating spray for that, it has a good reputation amongst US restorers.