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The facelift second cat is less than half the new price of the pre-facelift second cat which tells you a lot. A new pre-facelift last time I checked was around £1,400 and facelift was around £600. If you look into the second cat chamber its a ceramic honeycomb in the pre-facelift and a void in the facelift. As for base price then there are companies who recycle scrapped cats so they can be contacted for a scrap value which for the pre-facelift Supra I'd expect to be around £60. You could contact these and others for a scrap price.

Unless you are referring to simple drive on ramps, all hydraulic ramps need to be fitted to a flat surface and usually one with at least 9 inches of concrete to support the post bolts meaning most driveways would be unsuited. Before I had my own 2 post ramp fitted I used to borrow a scissor lift at the local garage and bung the owner some beer money. That made certain jobs a lot easier and the owner would even give me a free hand on some 4 hand jobs but it was obviously limited to when and for how long. With local garages just ask, what is the worst they can say - no?

Word is its been bought by a Chicago Toyota dealership, probably as a prop for the MkV launch. I was told that Toyota UK are after a red MkIV Supra to. So maybe its just a red thing?

http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?343946-1993-Supra-TT-BPU-Auto

Its not really half price but its a good £10 cheaper in store for 4l than usually available online so I grabbed myself a load for my Range Rover - while stock last.

I have run my car with its jspec brakes to 158mph on the gauge and never had any issues pulling up on the Autobahn when the Polish wagon doing 50mph pulls out in front. The big brakes = better stopping power is largely a myth. Big discs just dissipate heat faster than smaller discs so can withstand repeated use longer before fade sets in. Multi pot brakes tend to reduce the effort required in braking more than stopping you in a shorter distance. So, unless you are planning to go track racing then you would probably not notice any difference beyond pedal feel with big brakes over small brakes and not actually reduce the stopping distance in a emergency braking situation appreciably. More effective braking, as in shorter stopping distance, is tied much more to your tyre and brake pad selection/quality/newness that it is to big brake or small brake.

If you are concerning yourself in any way with resale value then you probably shouldn't bother. 5 years ago singled TT6's were fetching two to three times what the stock cars were. Today they fetch the same with stock TT6s an easier sell so the direction of price travel is evident.

I bought one of these a couple of years back from a Toyota Genuine Parts dealer for 60% of the price of Toyota Oxford. Probably worth checking out US supplier options if you aren't in a real hurry even though the exchange rate is a little lower than it was when I bought my one. From memory it was about £65 delivered back then, genuine Toyota.

Facelift or pre? The pre-facelift actually has a cat element. I'll be swapping out my two cats next May if you are still looking then (pre-facelift).

There looks to be a part number under the bolt - uncover that and do a search and that might identify what it was originally intended for.

I think there is one running on eBay, or there was yesterday.

I recon a OEM original fit set of wheels on a pristine stock car will be worth at least £2k on the asking price of a car in a few years time as most got binned and that means (once the wheels are discontinued) most Supras wont have access to a set of stock wheels. That's a problem as the wheels are a big visual part of the stock look that historical auto investors strive for. If they don't get £600 now its only a matter of time till they do and with Supra parts inflation that's not going to take too long at all.

Wondered what they look like - here is the advert address

I'm sure there are clauses specifically concerning false information about owners, main drivers, addresses, where it'll be parked overnight etc. that would invalidate any insurance.

I doubt any insurer would provide cover for you to self export a vehicle. That'd leave them wide open to fraudulent claims of oh it got stolen somewhere en route. You can get transit insurance which costs 1% of value insured and then arrange your own 20 foot container shipment port to port. So long as you do it before March 29th there won't be any major paperwork issues whereas after that date there may be. PS - The transit insurance I arranged in the past had a 30 day term.

No one can other than to add to existing threads. It seems when there was a mini site tidy up about a year ago the Projects section lost its new thread capability.

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As Supras are old cars now there are plenty of them out there that could do with a bit of back to metal TLC, though from their exterior you'd probably never think that. That's both the good thing and also the not so good thing about the car, it still looks good after 20 years and hides nasty things like rust very well. If you are good enough and brave enough to tackle anything then there will always be the car that needs a lot of TLC coming up at relatively cheap prices. One of the main issues with tackling a project Supra these days is availability of new old stock parts as more and more are discontinued in the OE supply chain by the day and Toyota has been ramping up prices of whats left. So new parts, if they are available, have become very expensive to where they were a little over 5 years ago (tripled on some parts) and this price inflation has fed through to recycled parts to. These cars are now not just expensive to buy compared to just a few years ago but also quite expensive to refurbish especially if your set on OEM. There are a refurbishment and rebuild threads from members in the Supra Chat and Projects sections here so if you give those a trawl you should be able to pick up on what to look out for with a Supra. Good luck with your search.

http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?351418-Front-UK-Supra-4-Pot-Brakes-Fully-refurbed-and-painted-with-decals Then you could sell on when you are finished with them.

I think, and I have to caveat that it is speculation, the initial wind up petition would have come from HMRC due to non payment of VAT. Thats a common cause of these events. Then HP probably appealed for time to pay and have then failed to meet their commitments again. Pure speculation but its a typical way these things unfold. I would strongly recommend you don't take your car anywhere near them. As Scooter says these things can go from bad to worse when garages have closed and cars there only for a service have been seized as assets and possession is always 9/10ths that'd leave individuals then fighting to get their car back.

The writing has been on the wall in big bold print for a while.

I'm intrigued, the OP posts up 6 weeks after his first post to says he is a happy chappy and its sold and you say he sold it on the first day. How would you happen to know that it was sold on the first day? Also, what evidence do you possess to suggest its a piss poor valuation. I'd say only Keron could possibly comment on that because he pitched up; saw how much work it needed, paid over his cash and then trailered off the car. Happy seller, happy buyer makes for everyone happy I think.

These only fetch about £50 on forum or Facebook. You'd be best listing on eBay where they don't actually come up that often but are listed regularly for £150 to £250 and they do disappear off listing so that would indicate they could well have got themselves sold if the seller didn't decide to just keep it.