Finally brought my Supra home!, '97 TT 6 speed Options

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As much as we all dream of picking up a twin turbo Supra, Brigette and I were able to make it happen this weekend. Things started falling into place a few months ago so we sold our 350Z to make room to bring home my dream car. I still miss the 350Z on a daily basis, don't get me wrong. I loved that car and I plan on picking another one up in a few years, but I'm not in a place where I can have two RWD sports cars so I had to let it go. But I believe this is worth it. HUGE thanks to Dustin and Stef for going to check this car out for me before I flew up to Boston to pick it up! They were VERY thorough with the car.

It's a bone stock 1997 (so 15th anniversary limited edition), twin turbo, six speed, Targa top, 77k miles on the clock, Deep Jewel Green. It has some minor imperfections, but it's exactly what I wanted. It's a car that I'm not afraid to get out of the garage 7 days a week, rain or shine, and daily drive. So without further ado, PIKCHARS!














Of course, I wasted no time in yanking the stock radio out and putting a Pioneer touch screen in. Hey, it's a long drive home from Boston. Gotta listen to the music on my phone somehow, plus the stock radio is lame. Truth be told, I ordered the radio, soldered the harness together, then shipped the radio up to Dustin and Stef and installed it right before the CSP meet. Then we got home a little earlier today, and I put some LED's from Diode Dynamics in the license plate lights. I've had a 7th gen steering wheel sitting around for a few months waiting to go in this car. I was going to do the same project as my Celica and make the E shift buttons work as volume control for the radio, but I may end up selling this wheel and buying one without the buttons. I'm undecided.




Along with the car, I got an insane amount of documentation. Stef printed off the Carfax and the Toyota dealership records for the car, which is pretty comprehensive. Targa seals recently replaced, tail shaft seal replaced, pretty new clutch and rear brakes. What I didn't know is that the seller had receipts and invoices for all of this, as well as the original window sticker, wallet key, a Carfax from a few years ago, the brochure for the car bra that came with the car, and loads of other goodies. So, with everything set in place, Brigette and I bought some plane tickets and flew up to Boston to pick the car up, just in time ti catch the CSP meet. All in all it was a great trip, the car drove fantastic, and I couldn't be any happier.

So with all of that said, I'll go ahead and answer the inevitable questions in advance.

How much did you pay for it?
Enough to bring it home.

Is it fast?
Oh yeah, it hauls. It won't blow your mind, thanks to a 3,400 lb curb weight and 320 hp stock. But a few basics free up a decent amount of power, which totally transforms the car.

Are you going to build it to a trillion horsepower?
Highly unlikely. I'm leaning towards leaving it stock. If I do anything to it, it'll be BPU so I can easily return it to stock.

So now that you own a Supra, are you going to become an a**hole?
Not at all. It's just a car, no reason to think it's better than anyone else's car.

Can I have/buy your Celica?
GTFO with that talk. The Celica is still my baby, and is still going under the knife for some more improvements soon.

So, there's my new toy. Enjoy!

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Long time, no reply! It's about time for an update. I've started on the power adders. I ditched the stock intake box in favor of a cone filter. The butt dyno shows no improvement whatsoever, but it certainly sounds better! I'm sure it added a couple of ponies considering two turbos need a lot of air to breathe, but I can't feel a difference. I had a wastegate helper spring on it for a short while to see if I have a leaky wastegate. That definitely made a difference, but until I have a boost gauge to know what's happening under the hood, it's best that I don't tinker with it too much. Granted, it'll hit fuel cut at 18 psi and the helper spring is only good for about 2 psi, but I'd like to know what I'm working with before messing around too much.

Anyway, onwards and upwards. I knew when I bought the car that I would needs new tires and it definitely needed new brakes. The tires on it were summer tires, dated 3202. Manufactured the 32nd week of 2002. Needless to say, I was less than comfortable riding around on those, even though they had 75% tread life left. They made some scary noises on the highway. So I bought a set of BFGoodrich g-forces and decided to find a closed road and have some fun with the old tires.






After five solid clouds, there wasn't much left of the tires, so no videos available. Of course, keep in mind that I need new brakes anyway. I have paperwork and receipts showing that the rear brakes were replaced by Toyota not long before I bought the car. However, the rust on all four rotors, coupled with the grooves in the pads and rotors, tells me that these brakes have had a hard life in the few thousand miles they've been on the car. I thought I heard a caliper dragging last weekend so I took everything apart today to try and find the issue. Fortunately for me, my very expensive calipers are all in top notch shape. They need fresh paint, but all the slider pins move freely and none of the calipers are seized. However, I did find that the driver side parking brake is seized. I wasn't able to remove the rotor. Given that all four rotors have grooves, I decided to bite the billet this evening and spend nearly $500 on OEM pads and rotors for all four corners, as well as parking brake shoes. Pretty expensive, but the tests on a '93 TT showed a stopping distance of 102' from 70 mph. Impressive by every measure, especially considering the 3,400 lb weight. It's a very capable braking system and I see no need to upgrade, so all OEM components are going back on. Hopefully the new parts get here this week so I can install them next weekend.

Side note, the rear rotors on this car are huge in comparison to what I'm used to seeing.

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It's a very capable braking system and I see no need to upgrade, so all OEM components are going back on. Hopefully the new parts get here this week so I can install them next weekend.

Bullsh1t! Z06 calipers or bust. kthx

Side note, the rear rotors on this car are huge in comparison to what I'm used to seeing.

That's what she said.