well if you look around and dont just buy any supra then youll be fine, 5k is acutally a good amount of money. with 5k you can even find a slighlty modded out supra, with all preventive maintanence done already, MHG, BOV, INTAKE, exhaust, injector and some other good mods that are good preventive maint.
Ive had 2 supras so far. 1 N/A 90 Hardtop with exhaust intake and rebuilt engine and pristine exterior and body as well as its interior. i got this one for 1500, with 90k on the body less than 2k on the motor.
then my recent baby that i just lost last month in a wreck(by a COP) topic will soon be in off topic! haha interesting story.
2. 90 Red turbo targa, with a blow head gasket. BUT but BUT, fully built bottem end with all factory parts FROM TOYOTA and everyone knows how expensive toyota parts are, it had everything from PS pump, transmission, clutch, flywheel, to TAIL lights to interior, to speakers!, it had 76k orig miles on body. PERFECT RED body, with perfect grey cloth interior. i got this for 2500.
but liek everyone said it takes attention.
with the first car i maintained it and it stayed alive until some one ran into me and totalled it, but i had no problems with it. but it was an NA so it wasnt as much as an attention horror as the turbo.
with the turbo i reaplaced the head gasket with the metal one from hks 2.0 metal stopper, apr head studs, with the bottom end fully buil by toyota, i only had to build my head with new cams rings and gakets. I loved every moment of working on it. Got the head and block lapped, and re -surfaced sealed it down. And just babied my baby. Had a brand new toyota fresh TURBO, so i did not have to mess with that, had brand new stock IC and IC piping but i wanted metal so i got my FMIC from nopi, got cutom hard pipes and OMG IT RAN LIKE A DREAM.
but all in all, all you need, is time, money, and passion, and youll be fine.
altogether ilve only spent 4k with everything done. new head, head internals, head rebuild, FMIC, pipes and IC pipess.
just spend time with it and it wil treat you the same way. learn to love it, because if you dont, it will hate you.
theres my two cents.
PS you dont need to be a mechanic freak, you just need to have an open mind, because youll learn so many things that are new about cars. i was a toyota tech but when it came to supras, they were in their own little class, anmd i was like damn this is hard, ahah but it was fun to learn everything ive learned about supras. but even with that, when something goes wrong i still have to get input from my fellow supra people cuz its not as simple as a honda. lol
THE SUPRA is the god of all cars, with a supra as your tool you can do any thing on any car after working on a supra youll be surprised.
