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You should read up this, it was a hoot with all sorts of banter around hearsay versus actual data on brakes. You will hear one thing, data says something else. For track use you definitely need to go big or ceramic discs in order to dissipate or counter the heat generated. Understanding big non OE brakes

I found when you do a project thread its like baring your soul, open to ridicule or encouragement or disinterest and you have to be prepared for it all. Baring your soul does leave a bit of you behind for the future when people will be heading down the same path and they might hit on your word through a article search. My project was on refurbishment and as these cars get older big turbo builds are going to give way to thread on just keeping the cars roadworthy. I can't say I enjoyed doing the whole write up and picture size manipulation bit but I felt it could be informative and maybe even educational for others and that was motivation enough. This forum is to often a clique though, I've seen the pack approach, against myself as well as against many others where the hyenas circle, giggle a lot together and howl a bit. That's probably a maturity thing at play though, or lack thereof. I don't see forums are about finding lifelong mates or organising socials for the vast majority of members and those who do participate in these events often lose sight of that. I'm more than happy for the social side to disappear off to FB or whatsapp which is what those formats were designed for. If you want to see a really busy forum go check out the USA based but global appeal MG forum. That forum look like shit but is rocking and they haven't been making proper MGs for near 40 years. There are no Las Vegas meets or anything like that its just people enjoying their car or asking for support. It must be because MG owners are all to old to have ever managed to grasp a smart phone, except for me of course.

If money is an issue then I'm sure lifetime membership could be replaced by a loyal member reduced subscription. My feeling is the lack of activity isn't going to get new potential members excited. Having stickies from almost a decade ago offering up good latest 2010 iphone or android apps just looks, well really. It just looks like there is no housekeeping and that suggests no active moderators and admin and if neither mods or admin is active then it really is a sign things have moved on, maybe elsewhere but not here. The lack of new sponsors isn't as worrying as the old ones that don't bother any more which isn't as worrying as the old ones that don't bother anymore being still here in the traders section as expired membership. Expired traders were today JM and Opie, but seems like JM have fallen today. Hopefully we can get a new dynamic set of mods up and running who can lead the forum forward. I think there is a great revenue potential in this site just charging visitors for access to the technical documents. Translate those into however many languages and let people buy them. I'd happily pay for how to docs, I buy workshop and Haynes manuals after all so why not? You can tell from the number of hits some threads get the site has a lot of lurkers. 20,000 for Bitcoin in 3 months, the most popular thread on the Supra forum by far. Got to love it, next week how to make a lemon sponge.

Can you PM me your number again as I changed phones. I think they are on whatsapp so I'll see if you can touch base that way.

One of my mates (former employees) is a driving instructor and another (former employee also) is a driving instructor turned examiner, I can have a word with one or both for you if you want and see if he/they would be happy for you to have a chat with him/them.

Thx - PM sent - let me know if it didn't come over as having BB issues today and had to reload browser screen.

Toyota dealer was no fukkin help with this. Anyone?

Arrived today and looks good enough to me, its the rear Corolla badge! For those wondering at the picture, its not fitted, just sitting on top of the currently fitted badge.

Anyone have a part number or know of where the routing clamps that carry the ignition cable along the top of the engine to the coil pack connectors can be purchased? Changing my plugs found a couple have gone brittle/disintegrated.

I have a spare set of injectors I was thinking of getting new seals and flow checked then swapping with those in the car at the moment so thought it could be an interesting read if it covered injector swap out.

Link no longer works, rather links no longer work.

We all see that the interactive footfall on the forum has declined to a trickle in spite of Mk4 ownership never being higher in the UK. The site does have a distinctly dated feel and showing a lack of maintenance which might not be attracting new participants. There are group buy stickies from years ago and trader sections from 'membership expired' traders and in this section we have the essential 'recommend me android apps' from 2010. I have no idea if anyone is tasked with site development and maintenance but it has the feel of terminal decline about it. There was talk of new blood and revamp last year but there is no apparent sign of it. I do hope the site does remain open and available for an archive reference of technical information if nothing else but it could just become a zombie site with cobwebs clearly on show until it finally becomes phone browser incompatible.

From High Wycombe to.

If I wanted a BMW M3 engine, I'd buy a BMW M3 to go with it.

Resurrecting an old post with a comprehensive list available. Love the prices! supra parts.pdf

You cannot get the internal trim any longer other than from a donor vehicle so cut interior panels to accommodate a cross member is likely to present a problem for anyone seeking out a stock car. Your car actually has quite a lot inside the cabin that isn't stock which is unfortunate as that is increasingly where the market is focused and heading. If you can restore the car with OE parts from a breaker then that will only help you to achieve something like the sales price you are looking at and sooner. I trawled the Japanese dealer prices this weekend and the prices are rising strongly monthly at the moment. A stock 120,000km TT6 is being offered up for export at US$30k. Your pricing for a stock car is ahead of the market today, here in the UK anyway, but probably not too far ahead in time frame if you were to revert it closer to stock. That steering wheel doesn't look an upgrade to me.

I have only bought classic cars on the basis of parts availability so have sitting in my garage or barn a MGB roadster, A series Land Lover and a vintage Ford Mustang. There is only one part you cannot buy today for the MGB (heater controllers), you can buy everything for the Land Rover and you can buy lots more parts for the Mustang than were ever factory original. It's simple to come up with a reason why these cars survive with pattern parts suppliers and that's over 10,500,000 of these cars were built and lots are still running around. Small volume production cars have no hope of building a strong aftermarket parts industry. It's only ever going to be specialist recycling centres and bespoke solutions for the Supra Mkiv turning it increasingly towards a garage bound curio. Toyota is a volume car company that sells largely metal boxes to the masses, the chances of them catering to a tiny niche is absolutely zero. Unless owners want to keep their cars forever, really they should be selling while the market is good. Classic cars are an era thing, and their appeal (and with it the cars value) is expected to die out as the old petrol heads die out. Todays kids will only know electric and petrol cars will be smelly museum pieces, the mechanics of the future will be armed largely with screwdrivers.

You'd probably be better comparing pricing to other RHD markets like UK, Japan and Australia than the LHD Euro or USA. Though the Swedes in particular do seem to like their RHD Supras and have a stable Euro exchange rate (making it more affordable) so that could be a good market to target being an easy drive from Denmark these days. Good luck with it.

Ad reads very third party, reads like you have just acquired the car and you are probably a trader? Whichever, its a big ticket price for no mention of mileage, you are right in the lets import a low km car from Japan to the UK for that price so, for a silver, it'd need to be very special. Japanese limiters are set to 112mph rather than 70mph which is plenty for UK roads. I was anxious my jspec had not been 'corrected' when I first took it to Germany but thankfully it had. Is that a Celica or MR2 steering wheel?

There is a pair of speaker covers for sale on eBay, or at least there was yesterday from the breaker boys.

You can get a TT6 for £18k but it'll be a high miler by Supra standards or not in the best of shape and if you were looking at a fresh import from Japan you'd now be be North of £25k. If you want a clean tidy TT example then £18k would certainly get you a very nice auto, possible even a UK auto. Compared to an Evo a Supra needs less and less expensive servicing, a Supra is pretty much bullet proof as well if its been maintained through its life. Have a read of the Crossy wanted thread in the classifieds. Most wanted threads go ignored but he must have gone about it the right way and had lots of help from members and finally landed a members car that was never advertised for sale. If you want a good car with documented history on the forum then there is no better way to go about it.

You just want to sit a bathtub in that engine bay otherwise, when would you get to admire it?

Checked recent Japanese parts auctions and the last one I found that sold, in December, went for Y5,000. That's about £32 so may be worth looking over there.