after owning several supra all mk4 an various models i have always thought of the sup as the best car ever made with outstanding reliability,,,however i bought a crashed single turbo an i think its jinxed .
after having all crash damadge repaired dvla messed me about for 3-4 months before i could drive it,so into the paint shop she goes.6 weeks later a beautiful hok electric blue beast emerges.then a new engine with all the goodies transfered from my knackered engine.
so 3 weeks later and i finally have my dream car legal and looking stunning[in my eyes] .
and finally the jinxed part
within 5 days engine making very strange sounds an seriously down on power.
turns out the person who fitted engine didnt map to engine cos it wasnt asked[might remember i had thread on here at time an agreed no names as bottom line was my fault]
so onto next engine..very carfull and taken time to set up and remapped,hooray i can put my foot down a little,,,,but only for a couple of miles cos now ive melted the paint on my bonnet.
again my fault but a bit of a bastard anyway[hindsight is a wonderful thing specially as the heat sheild was only £25 quid.
so thought bollox iv wrecked it so il drive it till winter then get it sorted.
next it started to pressure up in the cooling system to a point where the radiator cap spring allowed it to vent,so changed cap and thermostat to no avail,a very helpful chris from carnnoseur of southend suggested a major airlock in engine,wich although took a couple of hours to sort didnt actually cost me anything.
so all problems solved i was enjoying driving around for two weeks when the bottom end decided to exit the engine in a spectacular fashion with a big cloud of burning oil on the manifold and a really nast sound of engine bits breaking up...
sorry to rant on for so long but although a lot of this was avoidable im starting to believe in some cars are unlucky..
so 20k spent an still need another spray job and another engine ,