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I'm bringing over 5 service kits - condensers, receiver driers and top up oil for the Denso compressor from the USA. Wont be here till some time in March though as they are coming as part of a consolidated sea container shipment that isn't scheduled yet. I wont know what the final cost is till they have cleared customs and been forwarded to me but I'm going to guess the kit cost will be around £300 that if I was selling onto non members would be minimum £350. If anyone is interested in one of the kits PM me and I'll keep you posted on timings and costs as that information evolves.

It is, as I bought it 18 years ago apart from white side repeaters. I've got a large shelf of parts sitting in the garage from the car that the first UK owner passed on so it'd be no major task to return it to a matching numbers stock Supra (including with its Japanese limited band radio) were anyone wishing to do so. I don't feel the need to do that myself but someone may do, in the future and having the parts to hand will make a big difference there. I've even been buying other parts, like Toyota wheels last year. Not to be fitted but they can accompany the car wherever it goes. It gives any future owner every available option to take the car wherever they wish to take it as is every owners prerogative.

I have had my car a long time and when they were pretty much throw away cheap 8 to 10 years ago I thought long about updating it with £10k of mods that would have included visual and engine changes, to make it more current. I went as far as getting outline quotes. With the benefit of hindsight, I'm relieved I didn't do the mods as I'd now be facing having to spend another £10k to get my old spool in a thousand years turbo and wrong profile cams and old brakes replaced with something a bit more current. That's one massive benefit in the cost of ownership of a stock car, there isn't any requirement to try and keep it current and the car is always there to provide someone, one day, with their own blank canvas to work and weave their own personal style of magic. Ensuring those that remain stock will indeed become fewer and farther between.

Stock Supras are just a blank canvas to many and when you could buy a TT6 for £5k at the back end of the last decade why wouldn't you want to throw a big turbo at it and some big plastic, and a great many did. Things have moved on since then and with the cars now fetching strong money its likely to make people think longer before modifying them to any great extent than they would have done in the past with a cheap Supra. I think there will be a resurgence in stock because as you say stock is very rare and rare usually translates to more desirable. Simple comments like, wow and air box show how few are undeveloped and enhanced upon by their owners. We could even see in the future some of the older modified cars running dated specs being reverted back to stock rather than broken and scrapped. There are quite a few of us around who prefer the stock look. Love your car sir, clearly a very prized asset. Are you looking to sell at any point?

I have a used and a new example surplus to requirements available: New, sealed. £110 + postage (cost dependent on level of insurance cover protection required by buyer) SOLD [ATTACH=CONFIG]216485[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]216486[/ATTACH] Used, £20 including postage SOLD [ATTACH=CONFIG]216487[/ATTACH]

I contacted the US breaker and asked to confirm the spec and part number and said they were off a jspec which is why they are so cheap as they need to go for export. Possibly jspecs are already making their way into the USA ahead of the 25 year ruling to be stripped for parts?

I used these guys and they are still going almost a decade later so must be doing something right as they do stainless exhausts which don't need changing very often. So you'd have to assume they get a fair amount of repeat business. http://www.mijexhaust.com/?gclid=CLG2sMWJu9ECFYpsGwod5PkGXw

From what I was told when I got a bespoke exhaust then number of baffles and packing material largely affect the noise level and then the size of the 'trumpet' at the end affects the tone with the larger the end pipe the deeper the tone. I'd expect the noise level to be defined by the volume of exhaust gasses flowing through the exhaust rather than how quickly the engine rpm and with it gas volume rises.

Why not find yourself a local exhaust fabricator? I went to one in Birmingham about 10 years ago now and all they ask when you turn up (booked in) is what do you want? Anything from F1 screamer to silent and everything in between. I asked for throaty and rumble over roar and rasp and I got a lot of throaty and rumble. The kind people say they can hear coming up the lanes from a mile away in a nice way. Very inexpensive too relative to a HKS or Blitz option which allowed me plenty of savings to head of with my good lady for a nice lunch while it was fabricated and fitted.

You may want to check if your insurer is OK with it first.

If you want a relatively quick and you'd hope relatively painless entry to ownership particularly of a TT then the favoured dealers would be the best option which means placing a 15 mile exclusion zone around High Wycombe. Which with Supra price inflation being what it is may actually be a cheaper option to finding one yourself in many months time.

Bargains can still be had, bought a fuel rail full of injectors from a US breaker for $49. When they arrive I'll send them off to get cleaned, tested and resealed so I have a rail ready to simply swap out whenever.

Call Paul at Whifbitz, I'm sure he will be able to tell you the difference.

Probably best if you mention which model they were purchased for, pre or post VVTi and if the gaskets are still with the pipes.

Thanks Nic. I had a useful chat with mrinjector who does a lot of seal kits but not for these. He did mention that the side injectors can be really difficult to part from the fuel rail and quite often one or the other gets damaged. He did mention the Denso viton O rings are the best in the business and often he sees them as good as new even when 20 years old. So the recommendation was if it isn't broken don't look to fix it. I'll probably buy the seal kit, Whifbitz stock them, and leave doing anything until the seals fail. With mrinjectors comment about damage, would it be wise to have a spare fuel rail to hand? I'm sure someone who has done an injector or seal replacement would have an idea on that.

My injectors have never been touched and as far as I am aware they are running fine with no fuel leaks and power output seems fine. But with 20 year old seals fuel leaks are likely to start sometime, anytime. The Toyota part number for the injectors is 23209-49025. Does anyone know what volume these injectors are rated to? Also, if you replace with say a larger capacity injector do you then need to also have the car mapped for the higher fuel delivery rate. But would the fuel injection rate vary significantly if you are still running the original fuel pump? Aside from those questions the price on OE injectors ranges wildly online but is seems you can get a full 6 set (remanufactured) for around £225 delivered taxes paid. Or you can get the O ring set to change on the existing injectors for around £50. Would it be better to buy in a new set of injectors ready for the day when the old seals fail or would a simple seal kit be the prudent option to keep everything running as before?

And be worth almost twice what you paid for it. Not a bad choice for all the right reasons. I think the stock look is a classic look and 040 is a great colour. Definitely one of the most desirable Supras in the country. Look after it.

No, its was like that when I purchased it. I am the second owner following its import. You don't need any reversing lights for the MOT so you could use both as fog lights with red bulbs but I live miles down single tracks so the reversing lights are essential reversing aids when its dark so I am glad I still have two of those that I have fitted bright LEDS to. No one who didn't know a jspec has 4 brake lights would ever know it had 4 brake lights at one time.

My jspec has what I think is the neat option with the two of the four brake lights (inner pairing) are given over to fog lights. So no bumper holes required and retains two bulbs for all the other light functions.

I just bought a few smart chargers, CTEK MXS 5.0 models which are around £60 each through Amazon which are doing what they are supposed to do. You can leave the charging leads hard wired to your battery and just snap plug into the charger lead plug when you get home or it has the normal croc clips; assuming you don't live on a high floor of a block of flats. The advantage of a smart charger is they charge then maintain the charge so aren't on unless the battery is actually being charged. May be worth you looking into that as a means to maintain a ready to go charged battery through the higher power draw winter months?

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As usual, you overlooked the OP's posting. Nothing new there. It related along the lines of winter storage. I think you just like to over engineer and an aviation thick gloopy product appeals to you. Some people who actually do use their motorbikes in winter swear by it compared to WD40 because its gloopier and doesn't wash off as easily. Now if you refer back to the OP, they are looking for something to largely act as a moisture repellent for winter storage. They are not going to be driving at 37,000 feet or thrashing around an elements exposed 12,000 rpm screamer. I think the cat litter in socks is a fantastic idea, has to be some tantric crystals at 5 times the price somewhere though.