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!

[Bitter]

Well I have no idea, I'd need to ask him what he'd want to sell it for. It's parked on the corner rack with no engine or trans in it or hood on it. All the parts are in the car. There's a JDM 2JZ with no turbos, 2 JDM turbos of questionable quality, two trashed USDM turbos to be used as cores with this place https://www.speedforsale.com/supraparts/spe...rwhp-p-553.html because the owner wants to keep it all stock as possible. It's an automatic, red, with some body kit and some axle back exhaust, some ugly wheels and crap for tires. It's got around 200K miles or 220K miles on it, all from the original owner. The USDM engine is no good, there's damage inside the block and I wouldn't trust it. It went kaput once, he had it 'rebuilt' and within 5K miles it tossed a rod bearing pretty hard, there's no hole in the block but there's a lot of dents inside where things whirled around.

I'd value it as it sits now the whole package around $7,500(???)just because of Supra tax and the spare engine/head. I'm shooting from outer space though, I have no idea what these things are worth when it's a situation like this. It's a project for sure! Also a free drivers side front fender because I backed a big pickup truck that was missing a mirror into it in the parking lot while it was sitting here, new from Toyota primed and ready to paint. I ate that ****up myself.