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Those are called studed tyres. Irreplaceble if you want traction on ice covered surfaces. By the way, i don't understand why most people here are afraid of slipery conditions. It's fun and a good oportunity to increase handling capabilities without seriously stressing mechanical components...

Depends on the compuond. Soft or hard. Soft offers better traction and control ,but wears out faster. You have to choose tires according to your usual local conditions. I'm using Dunlop winter sport 3d's right now. It's the last season for them. I'm looking at Dunlop winter sport 4d or Dunlop...

Enjoyng life and all it's gifts. Supra also. So, no more coments :)

Trust me, there is a huge difference between summer and winter tires. All season tires are pretty much useless. Unless, you're just a moving dot in trafic at low speeds. If it's made to do everything, chances are, that it's gona do ewerything below average. That's not acceptable for me. Serious...

From all the salt my car seemed to be white, rather than red, but i don't care. A car is ment to be driven in any conditions. I prefer snow the most.

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240 km/h this summer. On a clossed,empty road.

A photo from last winter. Curent winter is pretty much snowless so far. Last weekend we got some snow. I spent whole sunday in a car park. Untill the gas ran out :D

Here's a vid. You can hear the ratling. It is heard only on a cold engine and at idle. If you give it some gas, it goes away untill it drops to idle again. After a few minutes, as the engine starts to warm up, the noise is gone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Mfv1CEw2k

Similar issue here. I'll try to get a vid. It's only heard on idle and on cold engine. Till 2k rpm. If i give it gas, the sound goes away, till it drops back to idle.

I allways refered to it as a japaneese ferarri or if i'm angry at it, just a bucket. From this weekend my friends started calling mine "a tank", because of the incident involving a wall. The wall suffered more damage than my bumper. Heh...

I don't recomend it, but sometimes, on a late winter evening drive, on a wide snowy street, i tend to practice. At about 60-70km/h i throw the car sideways imaging that there is an obsticle in front of me. I try to avoid that (non existant) obsticle and regain control of the car. Only if the...

Speaking of that kind of thing. Last winter(i think) one guy misjudged his breaking and slid right in front of me from the side road while i was going 60km/h on a snowy three line road. I had two lines of space and i new that no one was on the side or behind me, because i'm allways watching...

I don't know about twin gaskets, but a gasket and tons of exhaust sealant paste did nothing in my case. Still blew.

Check the manifold surface for cracks or warpage. Replace it or deck it. If it's warped, from my experience, no gasket will seal good. It will still blow.

This will be my 3rd winter with a supra. The first few months on snow were a bit scary, because this was my first rwd car. But i did a lot of practicing on closed roads. My goal was to get myself used to sliding unintentionaly. That helped a lot. Now i don't get scared of slipery conditions and...

Registering is easy. It's a bit harder to pass tech. inspection, wich has different standarts in various countries. In my country the government is trying to force everyone to use newer cars. So tech. inspection is pretty harsh for older cars.

One more thing is the headlight beam. On lhd cars it's more directed to the right. On the rhd cars it's to the left. If i remember corectly US spec car lights don't have any direction. Just straigt. That's an issue in some countries in Europe. We'll a small one. Requires a headlamp replacement...

Don't know about UK, but in my small country there are several things that will not pass technical inspection. The lights have to be with E marks. Rear blinkers have to be yellow. Rear foglight is a must. As far as to just import a car - no problem. To register it - thats another story here...