$900

[jessetooslow]

so say you have $900 in hand, you have a stock supra, what would you buy for it?

 

[SupraOfDoom]

Is it Turbo?

 

[626na]

keep it stock and make that gas money

 

[Rennat]

divorced downpipe and a cat-back exhaust.


OR

Lots of replacement parts to fix the problems a supra has! hahahaha
(oil, diff oil, trans oil, new coolant, new radiator hoses, thermostat, water pump, ect...)

 

[SupraOfDoom]

^------ Replacement parts for sure.

 

[Cycoclown]

intake, downpipe, cutout

 

[ValgeKotkas]

And if you don't need replacement parts now.... you soon will.

 

[topguncam3888]

maintenance.

 

[Rennat]

And if you don't need replacement parts now.... you soon will.

thats for damn sure. if i ever bought a running stock supra. first things to go in are:

NEW Water Pump
NEW Thermostat
NEW Aftermarket Radiator (koyo or pwr)
Fressh Coolant flush
NEW Radiator hoses


but i just buy rod knocked supras so i take care of most of those already. haha :biglaugh:

 

[gaboonviper85]

id buy a topend gasket kit and a hks stopper headgasket and put the rest of the money in a saveings account and wait.....

 

[Ma70.Ent]

Maintenance/replacement parts/gas.

 

[Rennat]

id buy a topend gasket kit and a hks stopper headgasket and put the rest of the money in a saveings account and wait.....

a stopper gasket is 300 just by itsself.... 600 to get it properly done? maybe.

hg - 320+shipping
arp - 120+shipping
machine work and vavle adjustment - 500
gasket set - 60?

thats already 1k. not including oil, coolant, and all of the other parts that you should be replacing along with the HG...


if anything, do a compression test, and a leak down test, and re-torque the head bolts if you think it hasnt already had a BHG job done to it.

 

[shaeff]

Maintenance to the max. /thread

 

[easternguy2005]

Never got into my car yet and said "wow, nothing to fix" but it takes time and patience. Right now I would drop $650 into dealer struts/shocks and $150 into new carpeting. That last $100 is gasoline.

 

[IJ.]

maintenance.

x 10

 

[SupaMan]

x 10

x100

ill take a stock great running supra over a modded shitty running supra any day.

 

[Im Chris Brown]

get it out of 4x4 mode?

 

[tbcmorris]

I would put it towards making it reliable.

 

[Who]

I have $700 in my supra reserve account, after my fluid changes, Belts, Thermostat, rad cap, and upper / lower rad hoses,. I'm still running on the Toyota HG with the factory torque specs. Does it ever end?
You guys are bumming the new guy on the block out.

 

[figgie]

as has been mentioned numerous times.

Maintanance items with those $900.

If it is a daily driver. I would keep moding to a very minimum.