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Time flies! looks like you've looked after it very well and also got some decent touring use out of it. I can vouch for Hugh being a stand up guy best of luck with the sale (moving on to anything else specifically?)

I've still got mine but considering doing as you have done but currently still hanging on in there! It's a big chunk of life both owning the car and being on here and when I do get the time to either work on it or drive it, I still get a buzz and nearly every trip get some positive reaction from someone. But when you do sell it's the right time, finances or age or just finally fancy a change etc being attached to something can become a burden and drain of time and money, I'll try not to ever get to feeling like that but no guarantees, plus we'll always have the memories!! All the best for your Supraless future

looks nice, selling a "decatted V8" needs a video me thinks!

NA's over there go for more than this cost and the pool of potential buyers is larger in the states. Quite a few for sale here at present but not much selling from what I can see?

congrats, be interested in hearing how it goes/what you have to do for the buyer etc the strong dollar and their high prices make our cars very cheap at the moment.

Great news re your mum, hope it keeps going the same way

I have a TRD diff, in a small case casing and with an NA ratio and NA front flange. I have a TT front flange that can go with it, the one oddity is that the driveshaft flanges are larger than stock so non standard and you'll need to use the ones you have (these swap over easily) to match your driveshafts. See 2nd pic, left is the diff for sale, right one is an old stock diff and you can see the flange size diff. Even normal diffs seem crazy money now, so asking £1,000 ono

If you live 7 years after the gift you/they won't pay any inheritance tax on it all regardless If the gifts and assets left are in total under the threshold for inheritance tax you none will be due (unlikely given below and obvious really that one!) If you do die before the 7 years pass then the amount due is on a sliding scale. Essentially it's used by people with assets they know will be a lot over the inheritance limit to avoid some tax and give money to usually their children. Ie they have enough to gift it to a person, who'd get it one day anyway and so why not now and avoid the tax.

any help?

Rider, I'd also suggest possibly sending Matt's ECU to someone who has a car with no issue, then they could swap his in and check if it changed? Even better would be someone local and you could try your original one too as you say to rule in/out the actual ECU's

Compressor is quite simple from below. You need to obviously remove the main serpentine belt, then there are two bolts that are obvious, then there is a less obvious stud that has to come out. I think it needs a smallish female torx?

The problem from a plug and play point of view with upgraded ECU's is you are then reliant on the mapping. I suspect OEM ECU's have many many hours of days from a whole team who last week were doing the same on a previous model and hence it's very smooth in all conditions and safe etc etc. I don't think there is a plug and play option as such the best you can hope for it a place that's done loads before and so have base maps and good experience to tweak them. Yours is an NA-T and so is an ideal candidate for a after market ECU as the stock NA ECU isn't ideal for that setup?

You could try a throttle body reset "Try reset the ETCS-i system – Turn the key to the “ON” position but don’t turn over the car, put your foot completely down on the throttle “Gas” pedal for 30 seconds, you should hear a beeping/humming sound while the ETCS-i system resets, turn the ignition to “Off”. Now turn the car back over and re-test to see if you have any symptoms" Some more general VVTi throttle info

one possibility

no worries

Edmorris was the guy I was thinking of.

I'm sure someone has/has a lovely bronze one.........I'm getting bad at remembering names these days!

Such a shame to not be used much at all, easier for me to say as mine is a little tatty at present and so I just treat it as I always did not worth being cosmetically precious about it. I just making sure it's running and serviced well and wait and see how I feel. GR86 or manual new Supra I could see eventually luring me in?

These days (I did them years ago) I think a decent compact "right angled impact wrench" with universal join bit might work well for either method (mount brackets or top bolt of the mount itself?

If you intend on doing other jobs, and you have the means to remove it then you'll probably save lots of time that way. It's fiddly, frustrating and you'll need many different combinations of tools/sockets for almost each of the 8 engine mount nuts but it is doable if you don't have an engine hoist/lift etc.

You can remove the brackets if you have many different 14mmm ring spanners (podger with pointy end) ratchets with like 72 teeth etc. They are super tight but once 'cracked' are almost finger tight. So support the engine and the whole bracket with mount can be removed and separated off the car? From memory the turbo side is easier, the intake side i think needs the oil filter housing loosened (or perhaps just the filter removed, can't remember)? The top nuts are really tight and very hard to access with in situ.

I've definitely noticed a lot more for sale recently, perhaps lots just testing the water, or it gets so little use that perhaps now would be a good time to let it go etc? I can't see a huge amount of buyers lining up here though? but the US prices are still very strong and the $ is also strong so our prices probably look cheap to them?

It can be replaced yes see the link. I am absolutely 100% NO electrician, but can you disconnect the start plug and then connect it to a multimeter etc and then just play around with the key in the ignition and look for the (presumably) 12v's. So whatever it sees on the full key turn ie standard start position, see if you can get the same reading at the other key positions, which would suggest a switch fault?

https://www.letcherbros.com/2-signs-of-starter-relay-problems