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[SupraKid]

Well I am officially back in the t20 game. The supra was sold to a new owner that will really enjoy it 2 days ago. I sold it because the MPG and reliabilty were just killing me, and the age of it was apparent everywhere, but god I will miss that power. After getting the supra cash squared away I took the train down to Southern California yesterday to pick up this with the help of MaskedMan. Then, with the assistance of rags, cardboard, and a trip to home depot, loaded up all kinds of goodies from a st205 clip for the drive home. I took off from Ontario at around 6pm in the rain and darkness and ended up getting home at around 2am(400 mile drive roughly). I got around 31 mpg on the drive home, which was great as the engine is very old and I had a good sized load. Anyway, the car is a fully loaded 94 GT hatch with 251k on it(original engine) that I snagged for a great price(Thanks Mike!). Luckily driving home I did not have ANY problems which surprised the crap out of me as I had around 200lbs worth of parts in the car and the grapevine is one hell of a climb for a car with 250k on it. The car came with a few mods already done, such as slotted and drilled rotors, a header and muffler, painted interior, and a duct taped intake .

Today I was able to tear into it, discovering a few things(nothing too terrible). I found that one of the CV boots is ripped and the joint is bone dry, causing it to make a horrible noise when you turn sharp with the clutch engaged. Two of the motor mounts are cracked badly causing the engine to move when shifting, and finally that the brake rotors were installed backwards and the lugs were tightened with 500 million lbs of torque. HOWEVER, the compression was 180-181 across all 4 which astonished me(i was expecting to have to replace the engine), as well as the tires having great tread all around. The plans for this celica will be revealed when they occur, but just know that I bought the car with MPG and reliability in mind, so the power train wont be touched drastically(like the rest of the car will ). Anyway, onto the buttload ofpictures.

Loaded up getting ready to leave Derricks house in Ontario:

Stopping at the other side of the grapevine to let the car rest a bit:

Loaded up:






Washed and ready for biness:





The short term plan for to get the car running 100% and registered legally. The car was in a front end accident(Pic) so it has to pass a VIN inspection. Also ill be replacing both axles and putting in Kirkosaurus motor mounts. On the train ride down i ordered all kinds of crap on ebay, including a full car LED conversion. sway bar bushings, HIDs, a new escort 8500 x50 radar detector, and some 4" round fogs( ). Tomorrow I hope to install the OEM manifold, pass smog, and be able to prop the headlights in enough so that I can pass the VIN inspection so i can register it all in one day.

This post has been edited by SupraKid: Dec 18, 2011 - 7:17 PM

[SupraKid]

Haha actually any mk4 . But the baltic blue one is a TT with 50k on it. It looks like it just rolled off the showroom floor . Nick, the guy with the 4runner, did the same thing im doing right now. He sold his GSR and bought a 4 runner so he could save up for a mk4 sooner, and now he is about to pick one up, so now I'm all alone with the is300s lol.



That picture was a local meet that is put on by a local ice cream shop that comes twice a year. In the summer it was 300+ cars, bunch of vipers and NSXs, lambos, a few ferarris, subis, evos, a few mk4s, and a bunch of hondas. This year it was 50+ hondas, a few bimmers, and us toyotas, horrible turnout :'(. During the meet some honda douchers came over and told us nice cars and asked what conversion I had done to my supra.... <3



Speaking of which, this showed up, anyone wanna guess the car and conversion?


This post has been edited by SupraKid: Jan 1, 2012 - 3:34 PM