Hey everyone! My name is Clay and I have been a member of this forum since April 2005 but went inactive in 2006, now 8 years later I am back! So here's a little story of me and my old Supra....
I had an 89 Pearl White, Turbo, Targa and I LOVED that car, with the exception of the nasty burgandy interior LOL. When I first got the car I learned the hard way and before you know it, the dreaded BHG happened to me. This forum gave me all the information that I needed to do the HG by myself and so much more(like shimming the wastegate...ROOKIE!). Once I fixed the HG problem with my first motor I drove it around like this for a few months until a member by the name of SupraNick(not sure if he is still around or not) but he was getting ready to do one of the very first 2JZGTE swaps into his MA70(i think there were only a handful of people that have done this swap back in 2006) and he was getting ready to sell his low mileage motor and so I bought it off of him and sold the 7M in my car. The motor didn't last very long once it was swapped, maybe like 2 months(lost nearly all compression in cyl #5) so being that i just spent over 2k I couldn't afford it anymore and was forced to sell it and that's when I left the forum and just moved on to other things. Since then I have owned a slew of other cars/motorcycles but no other memory sticks with me the most than owning my 89 Turbo. So here I am, 30 years old and now living in Okinawa, Japan and the first car that I bought when I arrived on island was a 91 Skyline GTR. I thought, "I can own a part of Japanese sports car history", well I had that car for a total of ONE year before getting rid of it, that car has a ridiculous amounts of issues with it... and to fix it...PSSSSHHHH, NO WAY!!!! SO as of 26 Apr 2014 I won a Japanese car auction for a Black 91 JZA70, so here I am ONCE AGAIN.
I know that this forum is FULL of good information! I know that with time, things have changed and people have come and gone...but what is constant is that all of us are willing to share information for the next guy(and tell him to search when he wants to know about the "best exhaust" or "how many washers did you use to shim the wastegate") So for pure nostalgia and for the love of this car, I don't think I will be leaving this forum again anytime soon, if ever. It feels good to be an owner of this car again...but with a different heart this time
I know, I know....PICS OF THE CAR OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN! I only have an auction picture of it at the moment but this upcoming Friday, she will be here on island and I will have to go to the dealership to take pictures of it for you all. I don't think I take delivery of the car until May 8th as it has to go through a JCI inspection and it needs to be registered. As soon as I get to see it Friday, I will make sure to post them up for you all.
Again, feels good to be back. Thanks.
Clay
I had an 89 Pearl White, Turbo, Targa and I LOVED that car, with the exception of the nasty burgandy interior LOL. When I first got the car I learned the hard way and before you know it, the dreaded BHG happened to me. This forum gave me all the information that I needed to do the HG by myself and so much more(like shimming the wastegate...ROOKIE!). Once I fixed the HG problem with my first motor I drove it around like this for a few months until a member by the name of SupraNick(not sure if he is still around or not) but he was getting ready to do one of the very first 2JZGTE swaps into his MA70(i think there were only a handful of people that have done this swap back in 2006) and he was getting ready to sell his low mileage motor and so I bought it off of him and sold the 7M in my car. The motor didn't last very long once it was swapped, maybe like 2 months(lost nearly all compression in cyl #5) so being that i just spent over 2k I couldn't afford it anymore and was forced to sell it and that's when I left the forum and just moved on to other things. Since then I have owned a slew of other cars/motorcycles but no other memory sticks with me the most than owning my 89 Turbo. So here I am, 30 years old and now living in Okinawa, Japan and the first car that I bought when I arrived on island was a 91 Skyline GTR. I thought, "I can own a part of Japanese sports car history", well I had that car for a total of ONE year before getting rid of it, that car has a ridiculous amounts of issues with it... and to fix it...PSSSSHHHH, NO WAY!!!! SO as of 26 Apr 2014 I won a Japanese car auction for a Black 91 JZA70, so here I am ONCE AGAIN.
I know that this forum is FULL of good information! I know that with time, things have changed and people have come and gone...but what is constant is that all of us are willing to share information for the next guy(and tell him to search when he wants to know about the "best exhaust" or "how many washers did you use to shim the wastegate") So for pure nostalgia and for the love of this car, I don't think I will be leaving this forum again anytime soon, if ever. It feels good to be an owner of this car again...but with a different heart this time
I know, I know....PICS OF THE CAR OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN! I only have an auction picture of it at the moment but this upcoming Friday, she will be here on island and I will have to go to the dealership to take pictures of it for you all. I don't think I take delivery of the car until May 8th as it has to go through a JCI inspection and it needs to be registered. As soon as I get to see it Friday, I will make sure to post them up for you all.
Again, feels good to be back. Thanks.
Clay
