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I apologize in advance if this is posted in the wrong section. I currently drive a tired 89 supra N/A. I was planning on selling it until I checked out a car today. I found a rust free 89 Turbo auto identical to mine, but it has a spun bearing. He wants 1200 for the car plus an extra 7m-gte...

That's encouraging. Any tips on where to look? And my N/A was stolen too. That was long before I owned it though.

Awesome response! And I should have known. Well, the 240 is pretty much ruled out. S14's I'm just going to assume are far out of my budget. The s13 might be a possibility but I highly doubt I'll be able to find one DD worthy. So that leaves the Supra vs. The miata. While this thread...

Yep. I think I know what I'm looking for now. Thank you SM!

I drove my buddy's mx5 5-speed and I was really impressed, but it needed more power for my taste.

Thank you. That saved me a whole lot of thinking and planning. I'm not really looking to build the car I buy though. Honestly it's just a fun daily. I think what everybody has been trying to tell me is that I need to drive a Honda and keep a supra to build in the garage which is what...

Thanks for the quick feedback guys. You're right. The Supra community is incredible. Honestly though, the reason I don't want a Honda is because I love RWD. I've literally grown up with it. I also passionately despise FWD in anything but a snow storm, actually....nevermind. I love...

Well, I think the time has come to let my mkiii go. With a $2500 budget, I don't have many options, so I came to the trusty forums for advice. Here's the background, I bought an 89 NA 5 speed stock at age 15 for my first car and you could say she was rough. After 3 years and plenty of...

I'm with this guy on pulling the plugs. Believe it or not I had a noise develop that almost sounded like an exhaust tick. One day the plug popped out and almost wrecked the threads. I never thought to check their torque. My noise disappeared after tightening all the plugs though

Good to know! Thanks guys.

Hey guys. I have a stock NA 89 5 speed basically stock on 93 octane. I'm running a ghetto/leaky test pipe, bosche wires and NGK irridiums. Other than that its totally stock. Every now and then if I get on it a little and run it into the 5-5.5k rpm range i can hear an occasional pop with the...

Exactly the answer to what I was wondering. Just for clarification I'm assuming that you're talking about the Eibach lowering springs that drop it 1.5" in the front and 1 in the rear? Or does Eibach make OEM replacements? And does anyone have any idea on how 91-92 springs would do being an inch...

Haha thanks. Yeah I might have to price compare the tokicos vs. The KYB's. I drive some nasty Rockford IL. roads and I'd had to start messing up components because I wanted to lower it an inch or so. I think I'm going to be very happy when this is done from the sounds of it.

I seriously might do that. How stiff are those compared to stock (not blown).

thanks. I know I will definitely not be cutting the springs now after hearing that. Haha

I like this idea a lot. I will probably do that. On a side note, there's not a chance that the same Tokicos were used on TEMS and non TEMS Supras and short term I could try manually stiffening them till I get some that aren't blown is there?

Well, my struts (most likely OEM) are completely shot all the way around. Since sport driving is just flat out dangerous when your car handles like a Crown Vic, I hope to be replacing them soon. Yes, I know coilovers are the way to go but I'm on a budget and quite frankly the car isn't worth...

Alright. As long as my tranny isn't going to blow I'm not so worried. I'll wait until I can get some cash together and probably switch to the MT90 oil. Thanks guys. I'll try the double clutching idea too.

I can drive without doing it as well, but it's harder to when cold. The part that's weird is I don't seem to recall it does it downshifting. Just upshifting while she's warming up. I could try downshifting and I'm guessing it would, but I rarely ever downshift cold due to my driving patterns...

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh crap. The friction point is probably 3-4 inches off the floor (according to my muscle memory office chair clutch work lol). It's not right off the floor though.