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All batteries have a capacity rating of amp/hr and that is the number of amps to drain the battery in one hour. So if you divide your battery capacity by the drain rate you will get the time taken to drain the battery. Any current will drain the battery, its like having a full tank of liquid with a leak. The battery capacity needs to be well above the drain point to turn a starter motor so its not really much use determining the battery life anyway.

If you want a new one you will probably be best looking to buy via the USA or Japan. The part is around $220 in the US from discount suppliers. You will probably need the two tank supporting straps as well and they are around $50 each. You may want to consider replacing the bolts to, at the same time. I've used this company a few times and its always worked out. http://www.toyotaonlineparts.com/oe-toyota/7764114100

There was one on eBay a couple of months back that I don't think sold (seats and carpet item number 182280199497). May be worth contacting the seller to see if he still has the carpet. A fair number of the beige carpets would have been dyed over the years so its probably going to be a rare offering. It might be best just lodging an interest with the main scrappers of Supras and just waiting for one to turn up on a car they are stripping.

I have my Supra TT6 through LV Classics and asked for a quote on an additional modified 600bhp single. I asked if they wanted the spec sheet emailed over but they said no and quoted me an annual £280 for £21k agreed value (as opposed to £220 for the standard TT6 on £18k agreed value). I was surprised they didn't want a rundown on the mods but happy with the quote. So looks if you are old enough and have a good driving record they don't have an issue with higher hp modified cars. The classic policies are all limited mileage though they don't go below 5,000 mile policies and do require the insured has a separate daily driver. LV top the customer satisfaction surveys from claimants too so if they will quote they are really one insurer that should be contacted.

Seems mates, as always, know best. You really should chill a bit. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, even yours is valid, Word of advice though, turn down the sensitivity gauge otherwise you may find it played with a little.

Greg, you are a special one for sure. Someone called you a bell end in another thread. I though that was harsh, but you never know.

If you replaced all the rubbers on the hatch then as Ric says start with the lock adjustment. I'm surprised that replacing the hatch rubbers didn't sort the creaking out though, did you replace both the side and lip rubbers?

I've been reading up a bit on single turbo conversions ready to go look at one with a view to purchase and it probably comes down the horse power you are throwing out. The Larger diff with the 220mm crown seems to be the recommended one if your are going North of 550bhp. Particularly if you also opt for an aftermarket traction control that has a launch option. Another thing you need to consider is the V161 mount and how stiff or solid that should be which again comes down to the horse power you are going to be putting through the transmission. You'd want to tie that into any modifications that you or others have made to the engine mounts regarding their solidity. It really is a case of how much power you tend to or have the capability to apply.

I'm sure if you stuck a £1mn diamond onto the gear stick you could sell the car for £800k.

I'm sure if you stuck a £1mn diamond onto the gear stick you could sell the car for £800k.

There were reported over $80,000 of mods to that car. I hear TT6 Supras used to sell routinely with no mods for £41,999 in the UK at one time to.

We are close to seeing $100k ads for Surpas now. They are a different car and era to etypes but on the value stakes the etypes are kind of where they are at. Supras are catching up fast. It'll be interesting to see if the first $100k Supra is a 800bhp version or a boring 325bhp version. I have my hunch but its only a hunch.

Its hardly relevant to the side discussion if you are a member of the 2CV owners society. Take a break and return to the topic in 10 years time.

Could anyone foresee a DB5 reaching £1mn? Or even a humble Toyota 2000 reaching top side of a £1mn as well? Some cars are just destined for silly money and I wouldn't be as dismissive of the Supra prospects as you are. Already there are prices regularly over £50k in USA and even now appearing in Japan ads. Its always going to be a desirable car as any car with film pedigree is and I for one bought mine before it became a cult car. No one buys a nearly new car for 'the money' so I never bought into a Supra because of the smoking YouTube videos that weren't around back then. No one is going to want to buy a car that was heavily modified a decade or more in the past which means the modders will need to keep on spending big money to keep their creation current. Those with the boring stock cars just need to keep them looking good and running good and sit back taking in the view. Here is a forecast from owning my Supra for almost 19 years and having several older classics, stock TT6's are on trend to be fetching in the UK regularly £35k to £45k in the next 7 to 10 years unless there is a general market downturn. The ceiling, that could be anywhere but its going to be pushing the e-types hard all the way and maybe even beyond. So, as an investment that you can have some fun in, a stock TT6 has got fantastic potential and no one can knock a car that will give cost free fun motoring with probably more on top.

Thx all - I'm running the 2 pots and will order some new bolts as well.

You despair too much. Even the e-type jag members get their £100k roadsters out each year and head off for a European tour. There are lots of people who only do shows, does that really make them unenthusiastic owners? I don't think so. You just have two types of owners, those who like to have someone tinker and get some phenomenal BHP out of something that resembles a Supra but then how many of those actually use those cars as daily drivers? Then you have the owner who buys into the marque, appreciated the design that the manufacturer ploughed into the machine and intends to maintain it to the best of their ability. The latter is a real enthusiast and if it only comes out for shows and Sunday drives on a sunny day, that's the owners choice. Its whatever ticks the right boxes which for every individual is unique. Money always follows the marque though and after almost 19 years in the seat of my Supra I've been entirely unenthusiastic, I haven't changed a thing since I bought it in 1998.

Thanks Nic, do you have the part numbers for the jspec 96 TT6 shields? They are the ones I'm after.

There are three options on stock engine mounts that I have come across. I assume from the description it'll be the top one for the later Supras. I believe it is best practice though to change both rather than one side. There are a few one and two mount sales running on ebay.com.

I have the following part numbers for RH and LH brake backing plates for a TT6 Supra. 47781-14160 and 47782-14160 Question is does anyone know if his dust shield apply to both jspec and uk spec cars? If not does anyone have the respective part numbers.

For what its worth I do think original TT6s will overtake in money terms single modded cars in the near future. Will people really want to keep on updating a 20 year soon to be 30 year old car with big money mods and upgrades or will they just break the current ones and sell the parts including the shell as often happens already and go instead for a modern chassis and drive train over some piece of ancient technology in a pretty body?

So you'd be at £22k in 6 months time as well then. I haven't seen the price/desirability difference pre facelift to vvti cars that you have, lots of the top Yen cars in Japan at the moment are the early cars. The vvti for me would be less desirable being an interference engine but that's a personal call.

Absolutely, the insurance value is your replacement cost rather than your retail price. Though they both, naturally, are relative figures where if one goes up so does the other and vice versa.

Well we are heading into the insurance section here. Last year my agreed value insurance level was £12k. As things stand today, I'll be looking to raise the agreed value insurance cover to £22 to £24k in May next year for my TT6. All I do is print off ads showing similar value for usually kitted and blinged cars and say look at my stock example, isn't it a fantastic matching numbers example of the most desirable variant within the Supra model line up and look what these modified cars are being advertised for. Never had any insurance broker or company do anything but sign off with my valuation.

Last 12 months I spent £1/mile on my car and it went up £5k in value more than I spent. Fear of repeating myself here but anything that rises in value is by definition, investible. Of course, if my car was a 10k miler it would have risen in value closer to £15k judging by the low milers being advertised now in Japan. If a museum piece is worth £100k then even a dog example of the same car will be worth £10k which, in the instance of the Mustang I linked to shows how much rust can be worth allied to the right VIN plate. No one is asking if that Mustang has done 10k miles or 250k miles. Or even what condition it is in. They are bidding only on the VIN plate. All Supras will be worth something, those with the right VIN will be worth substantially more than those without a desirable VIN. That's just how things go in the investible car market.

I am. Any car that is rising in value is by definition investible. And, even modified cars are rising in value although not at the same rate that stock ones are or will in the future. The VIN plate determines what the car can be returned to one day should anyone wish to do that via a stripped rolling shell or as a project so is a valuable asset even on a modded car. Here is a good example of what a VIN plate is worth on an investible car: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1968-Ford-Mustang-63-A-Fastback-Bucket-Seats-/132027618049?forcerrptr=true&hash=item1ebd759301:g:cJIAAOSwo4pYPwHe&item=132027618049