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I bought the jspec spring clip set in via TCB this February, £6.09 each plus delivery.

My car was only up in the air for 4 weeks so was back together a year ago now. I'm planning on having a close look in April next year at the front end to decide if its time to replace all the front suspension arms and associated bushes and bars. Got all the parts together so just a question of when to get it done and whether to do it myself or just get the garage to do it at MOT time. The station bridge does provide good acoustics but my HKS hi Power exhaust is a lot quieter then the system it replaced so I don't feel the incentive to head to Efes just for an excuse to ride the tunnel anymore. Good to see there are a few owners in the Shrewsbury area, seen a black one on the road occasionally but that's been it for the last 10 years. Back then there was someone in Bayston Hill had two parked up by the quarry turn, long gone are those so either sold or owner moved.

I seem to recall my spring clips were much, as in much more than £3 each so assume you are talking second hand fair? They did make quite a bit of difference to the brakes, lot less noise. The new springs compared to the one I took off were worlds apart in terms of springyness. So always best to go for new I recon.

Losing traction on anything other than a wet road or loose stone chip with a dyno 330bhp at the road wheels has never happened to me which would suggest your rear tyres are a bit suspect. I wouldn't boost back as the driving experience standard to BPU is poles apart with usually no detriment to overall reliability. Enjoy each day with or without the Supra.

Did a trawl and looks like pink tops have a higher coil impedance than the grey tops and the ecu is set up to the specific type of injector so you cannot simply swap to a different colour. The higher impedance (later) injectors operate at a lower current so in theory last longer.

I'd assume jspec as it looked very much like my air box.

There was one just sold on eBay for £10. Bit of a bargain I thought.

I have a spare rail with the gray top 440cc injectors but there is actually a pink top injector for sale in the UK on eBay. What is the difference anyway other than the clip colour?

On pre VVTi models there isn't a pairing button anywhere on the remote module to start the pairing process so maybe they were factory paired by Denso and thats it? Talked with Toyota and they were useless. No one has ever managed to come up with a way to pair remotes to the 93 - 96 Supra as far as I am aware. If you have a later Supra then there are threads on how to do this. So if you own an early Supra then you will probably find your only options are to get your original setup functioning again or buy and install an aftermarket system.

If you need the pipe i.d. I can go measure the complete set of new fuel and brake pipes I have hanging in my garage.

I figured its better to add to an old thread than start a new topic on the same old. Things have moved on in the last 13 years though, I'd presume there are many more low annual mileage cars than there were back then and with that increasingly there will come the temptation to lay those cars up over winter to assist in their preservation and also save a few pennies on road tax when the car is unlikely to be driven anyway. The rather sad future for Mk4 Supras all over the World will be ever towards garage queens par excellence and this side of the 40th birthday when road tax exemption will beckon it'd be natural to expect fewer will wants to spend high £'s mile on road tax across a full year tax period? Maybe this will end up with some very nice examples coming up for sale in years to come as people tire of having the space dedicated to a car that largely isn't used and decide instead to cash in.

I've decided for the first time in 20 years of ownership to put the Supra on SORN for 6 Winter months of the year, starting the end of this month. I'll start it every month and let it get up to temperature and just run out of the garage and then back into the dehumidified garage. I'll leave the battery on trickle charge and probably do little more than polish it a few times before it gets taxed again next April ready to get its annual garage visit for a service check over and MOT. It'll be strange having a car I know I cannot drive but fortunately there are a few others here that I can. From a car I would do 12,000 miles a year in once its now struggling to do as much as a mile a day so road tax really has become an optional expenditure.

It all come down to history check. A stamped up service book, though these are going more to manufacturer online records now. So its going more to keeping hold of your invoices for work and servicing done in the future. Then all those old MOT certificates. This car is low mileage, only did 18k in its first three years according to the MOT history so its unlikely to be a ragged every day leased car. The DVLA does say there is one BMW safety recall still outstanding for the vehicle though.

Used these for Supra and other car parts regularly without issue as any errors have always been refunded. 125622150117258338

m3 cutters is the best resource for anything M3 related and has a lot on rod bearing failure and has a good classifieds section to. The rod bearing issue is a common fault but also fairly uncommon which must mean the car overall is pretty reliable. Some discussion on whether using a thinner 40 grade oil helps as the thick 60 weight OE spec oil on cold startup could be too thick for the tight race spec bearing tolerances. Lots of background reading spread widely on the internet available on this for anyone interested. Seems also a lot of owners ignore the 12k BMW service interval and change oil at 6,000 mile intervals to try to avoid any bearing issues.

There is one listed on e-bay at the moment for a 93 - 96.

That's where the drop link from your anti roll bar goes.

If you can stretch to £35k you should seriously consider that car, if its still available. Pictures look amazing and it'd come with some kind of dealer warranty so any little problems should be fixed at no cost other than returning to car to them for the work, so that's going to depend how far 'top secret' is from London. I'd be tempted to go have a gander if it was closer. Supra price rises have slowed, maybe even paused after 4 years of particularly strong growth but the industry has Supra TT6's matching NSX prices in a few years and it also tops the Hegerty strongest interest activity and price rise list. So if its an investment car rather than a car for everyday use then it's unlikely to let you down and if it's an everyday car you are after they are so reliable it's unlikely to let you down.

Looks like new, which is fantastic achievement. I'm trying to get the will together to tackle my front end. Got all the parts just lacking the motivation.

I had a first drive in a Supra Auto only this week and was taken with how smooth the gear transitions are in general city driving. I own a 55 year old auto and a 10 year old auto car myself and they both are good drivers but for those lanes and fast B roads I'd take a manual out of preference for no other reason than gear changing when you time it spot on the sweet spot for engine and transmission in perfect harmony is a pleasure that you don't get involved with in an auto car.

How you sell it depends on how you want to sell it and how quickly you want that sale. Quickest would be an eBay auction if you can stand the fees so better an eBay classified or Piston Head advert. If its a little ropy with a few scrapes then you'd probably be looking low teens thousands on the car; I expect the auction dealer would be more in the sub ten thousand level. If you want a cross section of opinions it'd require a bit more information on service and general history plus and a few photos. To give you a guide a TT6 would scrap these days at over £10k so a complete car with MOT and a good runner is North of that.

If you were referring to the 2019 May Day bank holiday then there may be a trader or two will attend the site between now and then. Keron doesn't tend to do sales though so maybe just one other. You'd be best looking on their web sites or the Scooby forum is usually good place to look for latest discount information from the usual vendors.

I don't understand why people would be happy putting £30 pads onto their Supra, probably allied to £40 tyres.