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Add up what you have into it including the car, subtract what you think the time/mileage you've used the car for is worth (I figure about $1,500 per year when I do this). Then think about how long you plan to keep it if you continue your build and how badly you want to keep the car. If the...

I have the exact same wheel size and even though they don't rub anywhere at full droop, they do rub at ride height. I adjusted mine (steering stops) on a drive-on lift, but removing the shocks and checking it under compression too would be best. I still have some sort of loud creaking noise at...

All it takes is a few loud idiots to give a car a bad rep. Look at the fool that wrote the infamous "ten reasons" page about this car. Half of the bad rep is probably fallout from that page.

With my car jacked up, if you spin the wheel it will keep spinning for a while, and you can't hear anything dragging or rubbing. The caliper piston seals retract the pistons a few thousandths when you let off the pedal, and then toyota has those two V shaped wire springs that spread the pads a...

What about headrest speakers like convertibles (miata, S2000) come with? You could get pretty good sound with just two speakers. To hell with the people in the back seat, they're probably busy trying to make blood flow to their legs anyway. If not... what about fiberglass pods that mount to the...

Anyone know if there's a non-telescopic non-tilt non-memory steering column from any other toyota that is a bolt in swap for our car? Like from a corolla or celica from the same era. It seems a lot of stuff from those two cars bolts right onto ours and is much lighter or simpler. I don't care...

You'd have to reprogram the controller to match the positions of the megan shocks, I don't know how you'd go about doing that.

Sorry, I didn't mean to be a dick. We just get a fair number of idiots that roll in here for a few weeks, mess their car up by not taking any advice, then bitch about it and sell it at a huge loss and forever proclaim that MKIII Supras are garbage. One guy even made a blog about it. Glad you...

They only get tightened to a very light torque spec. If you overtighten them at all you'll strip the D shaped keyway out of the shock mount and the rod will just spin. If you left the spacer out, the nut will run out of threads and tighten on the shaft before it clamps the tight against the...

Buy a set of stubby wrenches and ratchet wrenches. If I remember right, they were a big help. Also, be prepared to curse at the six nuts that hold the turbos to the manifolds. They were sofa king tight on my car I almost ripped a tendon loosening them. Don't take the turbos to any old turbo...

Stock O2 sensors are always in a compromised location thanks to emissions standards. They are usually placed close to the exhaust ports (it must be in a non-pressurized location though, which is why they aren't pre-turbo) so they will heat up and provide a reading more quickly so the car can...

You would think. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JV1goxcPps But no, not always.

Brand new OEM Ford and GM wheels have those steel inserts where the lugs go through. Not all of them, but I've seen them on a few cars. Mostly on the low end cars with uprated dealer installed wheel packages. I think this is done because the wheel studs are designed for thinner steel wheels and...

I don't know if the 5VZ engines inherited the head gasket problems from the earlier 3VZ engines, but you should check into it and take proactive steps to avoid it if they did. I would be sure to make sure you have enough radiator to keep it cool. Only downside I see is it's a cast iron block...

Wait... are you being sarcastic or....? I swear this topic pops up monthly and it's almost the same discussion every time. Most people favor dropping weight, some favor it as long as it means no loss of luxury, and some pop in just to say every one else is crazy. I could set me watch by it...

That would be cool, but it would only benefit the guys running cages. I wouldn't run fiberglass doors on a car that has crash bars in the stock doors unless there was a cage there to replace the lost crash protection.

What color? I have ones for a light blue car for sale. PM me if that's what you're looking for.

I didn't realize rally wheels weren't always forged. I thought they all were. It seems that only about 10% of them are though. I guess building them to break before other parts of the car makes sense though. It's easier to replace a bent wheel after a crash than a messed up hub. I think making...

I'd bet the Audi/BMW/Mercedes camp are just as split on the topic as we are. It's a tough choice to pull out luxury options for the sake of performance. Sometimes you end up with a car that's so beat up or missing so much that it's not economically viable to put it back to good stock condition...

Normal abuse yes, but if you are road racing where you might go off into some rough ground at high speed it's worth spending the money on forged wheels so that you don't break a wheel and damage the car worse. OEM wheels are not always the highest quality wheel anyway. I'd put Rota right in...