Well well well... Where do I start...
"It's Story Time!"
I bought my car back in July of 2005 2 hours north of where I live. It is actually about 5 minutes from my cottage. I didnt know much about Supra's at that time. Unfortunately I payed a pretty penny for it and alot of what the guy sais wasnt true. It was upgraded with this and that. He said it had 500 horsepower. Hey... I believed him. Stupid me. The only thing done to it was an apexi filter, and a 2.5" catback replacing the one cat. Almost 500
. The day I bought it, on the way home the radiator overheated. I felt so bad... I noticed when I looked in the overflow, there was nothing in there. The idiot didnt even fill it up! To top that off, he leaves a full bottle of transmission fluid in the engine bay. :aigo:
Here are some pictures on the day I got the car.
This is pictures from home the next day.
Since these pictures, the entire stereo system and the tachometer were removed thankfully. Nice clean carpet in the back finally enough room for the targa.
The car needed new brakes so we had that done a couple days later. The next day around 7am we go to leave for the cottage again. We look on the driveway and there is a small puddle of power steering fluid. Uh, this is turning into a nightmare on the second day already. We drive it back up monitoring the fluid level. At this stage my dad is building our new cottage with a contracting partner. There is noone near by that seems reputable enough to leave my Supra with. :biglaugh: My dads partner says that about 20 minutes from here he knows a guy that will take good care of it. I trust him so I give the car to him to take up. Weeks and weeks go by and I dont have the means to pick the car up because I dont know how to drive stick. :icon_conf (dont ask) So my dads partner was nice enough to take it back to his place. At this point it is winter and it is snowing all over my car. OMG!!! Around the January time, my dad and his partner get into a fight over money and my dads partner is using my car for ransom. LOL.
Fast track to about April. I finally get my car towed from a government compound. My dads partner gets charged with theft. It isnt really persued any farther. When I got my car back there was a 4 foot long key scratch on the passenger side, massive scuff marks on the rear bumper and the clutch pedal wouldnt engage. Well you could say I was royally pissed off.
Here are the pictures after a nice bath.
Ebay BOV installed with silicone seal by the previous owner. Cool eh?
manual boost controller which I couldnt find.
From July till now, the car has been driven a total of probably 400 km. One problem right after the other. Some of you may have seen my most recent thread about my car problems. If not, please take a look.
http://www.supramania.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24521
You are probably saying to yourself, why is this idiot going T4 if his car isnt even fixed yet? Dont worry kids, that will be done first.
I somehow got in touch with the owner before the guy I bought the car from. He is a member of the Toronto Supra Club. We got talking about tan leather seats and how that option is rarer than most of the other interior options, especially on a black car. I told him I had front cloth seats and he said he used to also. I described my car to him and told me that this is indeed his car. I was very excited because I could finally find out what was put into this car. (See Uprades in my sig) I was very happy to find out what was really done to my car.
Well here I am today. I have a thread up now selling most of what I have for performance upgrades. I decided to go T4, this probably wasnt such a good idea, but I am too far in to stop now. I have never purchased so many things in my entire life than I have in the past couple weeks.
I will be updating the thread with pics as new parts arrive. I have never taken apart a motor before and removing things like the PS resevoir and the valve covers will be a tough challenge for me. Give me the power!
"It's Story Time!"
I bought my car back in July of 2005 2 hours north of where I live. It is actually about 5 minutes from my cottage. I didnt know much about Supra's at that time. Unfortunately I payed a pretty penny for it and alot of what the guy sais wasnt true. It was upgraded with this and that. He said it had 500 horsepower. Hey... I believed him. Stupid me. The only thing done to it was an apexi filter, and a 2.5" catback replacing the one cat. Almost 500
. The day I bought it, on the way home the radiator overheated. I felt so bad... I noticed when I looked in the overflow, there was nothing in there. The idiot didnt even fill it up! To top that off, he leaves a full bottle of transmission fluid in the engine bay. :aigo: Here are some pictures on the day I got the car.
This is pictures from home the next day.
Since these pictures, the entire stereo system and the tachometer were removed thankfully. Nice clean carpet in the back finally enough room for the targa.
The car needed new brakes so we had that done a couple days later. The next day around 7am we go to leave for the cottage again. We look on the driveway and there is a small puddle of power steering fluid. Uh, this is turning into a nightmare on the second day already. We drive it back up monitoring the fluid level. At this stage my dad is building our new cottage with a contracting partner. There is noone near by that seems reputable enough to leave my Supra with. :biglaugh: My dads partner says that about 20 minutes from here he knows a guy that will take good care of it. I trust him so I give the car to him to take up. Weeks and weeks go by and I dont have the means to pick the car up because I dont know how to drive stick. :icon_conf (dont ask) So my dads partner was nice enough to take it back to his place. At this point it is winter and it is snowing all over my car. OMG!!! Around the January time, my dad and his partner get into a fight over money and my dads partner is using my car for ransom. LOL.
Fast track to about April. I finally get my car towed from a government compound. My dads partner gets charged with theft. It isnt really persued any farther. When I got my car back there was a 4 foot long key scratch on the passenger side, massive scuff marks on the rear bumper and the clutch pedal wouldnt engage. Well you could say I was royally pissed off.
Here are the pictures after a nice bath.
Ebay BOV installed with silicone seal by the previous owner. Cool eh?
manual boost controller which I couldnt find.
From July till now, the car has been driven a total of probably 400 km. One problem right after the other. Some of you may have seen my most recent thread about my car problems. If not, please take a look.
http://www.supramania.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24521
You are probably saying to yourself, why is this idiot going T4 if his car isnt even fixed yet? Dont worry kids, that will be done first.
I somehow got in touch with the owner before the guy I bought the car from. He is a member of the Toronto Supra Club. We got talking about tan leather seats and how that option is rarer than most of the other interior options, especially on a black car. I told him I had front cloth seats and he said he used to also. I described my car to him and told me that this is indeed his car. I was very excited because I could finally find out what was put into this car. (See Uprades in my sig) I was very happy to find out what was really done to my car.
Well here I am today. I have a thread up now selling most of what I have for performance upgrades. I decided to go T4, this probably wasnt such a good idea, but I am too far in to stop now. I have never purchased so many things in my entire life than I have in the past couple weeks.
I will be updating the thread with pics as new parts arrive. I have never taken apart a motor before and removing things like the PS resevoir and the valve covers will be a tough challenge for me. Give me the power!
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