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What kind of bhp will these deliver?

I'm really pleased about that as I have your site bookmarked and reference it often. A good job done, gratefully observed.

The clips look like this: http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/SF8AAOSwLqFV7jwx/s-l1600.jpg

If you are replacing the hoses you'd best get, beforehand a set of hose clips as well because the ones you take off will likely be so corroded you wont want to be putting them back. Forgotten the size of the clips but you can get that info somewhere else or measure one you take off. The cheapest by far place I found for the clips is: http://www.roughtrax4x4.com/ Because the hose clip is the same as used on one of Toyotas 4X4 range. I actually bought lots of sets and sold the surplus really quickly for a profit on eBay which more than covered the cost of the clips I used on my own car. Everybody loves eBay

Check out the cost of a clutch replacement if you want to find another thing to weep over. Audis are great as company cars but mine isnt so the first clutch slip I feel and its hitting the sales ads.

I had a yearning for a RX7 when they first came out. Took my wifes car along to a Mazda dealership as a trade in option which was a scruffy Escort we were going to be offloading anyway. Quiet Sunday morning only me there with one sales guy, dealership just opening. I was peering through a blue RX7 window when he came over still tieing his tie. To quote him, "is that your car out front" err yes *well go and move it round the back". I moved it all the way off the property and never did buy a new RX7. Instead went for a nearly new Mk3 manual Supra Turbo and ended up trading the Escort in at another Mazda garage for a new 323 for the missus. So if that salesman hadn't been such a stupid ass he could have sold one or two new cars and I could be now owning a MX5 rather than a TT6 Supra because the RX7 would have died years ago..

Nice piece to add to your car file. They didn't actually print your full VIN plate did they along with your number plate?

Go Wider tyres Pro – Aesthetics, better traction at low speeds and launch Cons - Cost, offset issues, will hydroplane before an equivalent standard tyre will. Noisier. Higher wear. Everyone loves wide tyres but unless you are doing drag race with launch starts they probably don’t add much beyond aesthetics. Large offsets to accommodate the widest possible tyres has the potential to raise stress on drive components. Once a car has attained moderate speeds increasing tyre width has no appreciable impact on road friction. Go Bigger wheels Pro – Aesthetics, fitment of larger brake discs and callipers, reduced coefficient of friction Cons – Heavier (same wheel alloy) which will slow 0-60mph time. A harsher ride with lower profile tyres than the OE standard. Bigger wheels will reduce tyre friction due to pad pattern of lower profile tyres by around 5% per inch upsizing. At high speed cruising a standard car can consume 20HP just overcoming the tyre friction that turns to heat. So bigger wheels are going to generate less heat and has the potential to save fuel with a compromise of a harsher and noisier ride. Tyre tread Pro – Aesthetics, traction, water displacement Con – Road noise Tyre tread depth is the single largest contributor to stopping distance. Testing in the wet of a various depth tread tyre showed a 1mm tread tyre has a stopping distance 60% further than a new 8mm tyre in the wet. The tread pattern is a major contributor to road noise. Less so on traction as the tyre compound softness has a far greater impact upon that. Tyre pressure A 1 bar under inflation raises the coefficient of friction by around 30%; generating a lot more heat potentially leading to a tyre failure. Summary – Leaving aside the aesthetics. Wider tyres are a bolt on for drag strip days on a dry strip to get the best launch traction and best possible 0-60 time. They wont help the 30-100 time though. Bigger wheels are a good upgrade if you need or want bigger brakes so long as you can keep the weight increase to a minimum you’ll then save fuel and generate less heat but have to accept greater road noise and a harsher ride. Tyre wear is the major factor affecting stopping distance, much more than bigger brakes which only address fade through repeated use. For everyday road use stock wheel/tyres makes sense for comfort of ride and noise levels. Nothing really surprising but its always useful to align data to preconceptions and it details the compromises that often arise from applying track and drag day solutions to what is for most just an everyday or occasional day road car that will never see a race track. The solution of course is to have two sets of wheels and tyres to cover every occasion. Someone once wrote that the best riding Supra is one on 16 inch wheels with 50 profile tyres. I have recently purchased a set of 16's so I really should check that out for myself. Some copy and paste links for anyone wishing to do some reading around the subject. http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/200040/200040.pdf http://doc.utwente.nl/102225/1/Bezemer,%20Wijnant,%20de%20Boer%20-%202016%20-%20Internoise%20-%20Tyre-road%20noise%20measurements-%20influence%20of%20tyre%20tread%20and%20road%20charcateristics.pdf http://www.caranddriver.com/features/effects-of-upsized-wheels-and-tires-tested http://www.etyres.co.uk/tread-depths-distance/

Moving from an OE colour will reduce the appeal of any car. Moving from a VIN colour to another OE colour will reduce the appeal of any car. Anything that limits the appeal has the potential to reduce the cars value but if someone else just love Purple and is looking to buy at the time you are looking to sell then switching from say a OE silver to a custom Purple could be a wise investment. Midnight Purple 3 is going to be a love or hate it option. Really comes down to do you see the car as your car or as an investment. If the latter stay with the original OE colour as an investment is only realised when you sell the asset and the OE colour will have the widest appeal.

I always figure if you are going off VIN why not do it properly and drop in a modern engine with OBDII, a modern gearbox and modern diff and modern ecu's or just put the money into buying a different car altogether? That's just me though being the VIN purist.

Do you have a picture of the K&N air filter? Is the cat (furry kind) on special to?

This is what you want. http://c8.alamy.com/comp/BNP20G/rolls-royce-merlin-20-piston-engine-BNP20G.jpg Or alternatively why not just buy a BMW 7 series. They come very cheap.

That's a good list thanks - if any free online translatable sites come up I'll be sure to post a link.

I'm trawling for a second TT6 at the moment and you see lots of UK and Japanese ads for jspec Supras claiming very low mileage for the year. In Japan there are even a couple of 30k km cars for around £50k. Does anyone know if Japanese car km are verifiable and how you would you go about getting the verification? My own car was imported when 2 years old with 38k km on the clock. I must own the only Supra in the entire World that has ever been driven on Japanese roads with 19k km annual average before it was imported to the UK. it all looks a little unusual all these very low mileage Japanese cars commanding a strong price premium. It'd be useful if there is a Japanese site like the MOT history check there is here that could be referenced.

The R32 as far as I know was never available as a new car in the USA so there is not going to be a recycled parts demand either. Whereas the USA was a large market for new Supras with eleven thousand sold there. That's going to make for a whole different story come recycled parts demand.

Why don't you put a write up into the Classified section?

In USA ads you already see $100k TT6's. that's a long way North of the prices here.

I wouldn't want to sell to a North American buyer as they just don't do driving with RHD cars so any movement there with j or uk cars is going to end up stripped for parts. They are already importing into the USA as I purchased a jspec fuel rail and injectors from a US scrapper only a month ago. The 25 year rule is to register cars for road use, there is no such rule to bring in cars to break for parts.

I'd suspect your suspension knock could well be a transmission jump due to tired diff bushes seeing you have replaced the struts.

Topic came up on a classic car forum but seeing more and more owners are parking their Supras up for extended periods this might be interesting information, or it might not be, on how the fuel composition changes on sitting in a vented tank over time and what impact that can have on air/fuel ratios. I was surprised at the data but there is no information around storage conditions of delta around the ambient temperature so its a limited in its scope. The shelf life of fuel in sealed solid (not transparent) containers is reckoned at around a year. BP fuel - Petrol life in vehicle tanks

Outside of the serial number, if you have original seat belts then the label has the year of manufacture printed, which if they are like mine are faded so its really difficult to read. But that might just be my eyesight has got itself older along with the label? One of the old bits of advice that went around was always check the belt label and chassis year tie up to cover things like a rolling shell rebirth or a VIN plate swap for those who couldn't be bothered to look around for the various places and labels the original VIN was stamped or printed.

You can buy a replacement cheaply - with a working light. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/282347461890?lpid=122&chn=ps&adgroupid=42305674521&rlsatarget=pla-278515759189&adtype=pla&poi=&googleloc=1007072&device=c&campaignid=738081070&crdt=0

Few US sites still quoting on the parts, but that doesn't always mean they have them sitting on the shelf.

With the standard jspec hole cut out of the rear bumper you are going to be taller than 140mm. From memory and that is fading these days its more like a 165mm but its easy enough measured. I prefer the 330mm plate at the rear which just covers the usual hole myself preferring the car colour over yellow plastic slab but everyone is different.