I need help deciding whether or not to rebuild my supra or get a truck. Before you jump to rebuilding the supra I plan on completely restoring it with new everything, body work, paint, and an engine capable of about 650hp, but i would have to wait about five years to get the money up which means i would get the truck till i can do the right thing for the supra.
If i rebuilt the supra now it would have to be a bare bones minimum rebuild, but with the replacement engine i have the cost of the rebuild is the same amount as if i were to get the truck. My current engine has no compression in cylinder 1, and some of the other cylinders are starting to loose compression as well (thanks rev motorsports), the loss of compression is from scoring on the cylinder walls that is too deep to bore out and of course the 7m can't be sleeved. The car also likes to randomly engine brake even at full throttle and i can't decide if its from the engine mechanical issues or if its because of the maft pro unit having messed up some wires on the harness to the ecu. Im tempted to remove the maft pro unit but even if it solves the engine braking issue i still have an expensive build with the used engine i got.
The used engine supposedly was developing rod knock and hasn't been used in at least 3 years. i bought it planning on replacing everything for the performance build but if i rebuild it now i would be forced to cut more corners than i would be willing to.
No im not doing a 2jz swap.
The last thing that is making the decision difficult is snow, i love the supra, with studded snow tires it is amazing but because of how my intercooler was mounted the bottom pipe is a snow plow and i have found myself having to reverse into certain places because of it. the other downside to the intercooler location is how scary it is to see a big chunk of ice in the road and the possibility of it puncturing that line, and the fact that the couplers scrape on big dips.
The truck in question is the chevy k20, ive seen it with both the 350 and the 454, we havn't seen too many severe snow storms recently but there were instances last year where i was stuck at home with the supra because it couldn't make it out of the parking lot. i also like the idea of having a vehicle that can tow the supra to a shop. I wouldn't have to worry about emissions on the truck because it was made up to 85 which means i can get classic plates on it. im not concerned about gas milage, i think the utility of the vehicle makes up for it.
Thank you for sticking this far through the post, i just feel a bit lost on what to do here so thanks for your opinions.
If i rebuilt the supra now it would have to be a bare bones minimum rebuild, but with the replacement engine i have the cost of the rebuild is the same amount as if i were to get the truck. My current engine has no compression in cylinder 1, and some of the other cylinders are starting to loose compression as well (thanks rev motorsports), the loss of compression is from scoring on the cylinder walls that is too deep to bore out and of course the 7m can't be sleeved. The car also likes to randomly engine brake even at full throttle and i can't decide if its from the engine mechanical issues or if its because of the maft pro unit having messed up some wires on the harness to the ecu. Im tempted to remove the maft pro unit but even if it solves the engine braking issue i still have an expensive build with the used engine i got.
The used engine supposedly was developing rod knock and hasn't been used in at least 3 years. i bought it planning on replacing everything for the performance build but if i rebuild it now i would be forced to cut more corners than i would be willing to.
No im not doing a 2jz swap.
The last thing that is making the decision difficult is snow, i love the supra, with studded snow tires it is amazing but because of how my intercooler was mounted the bottom pipe is a snow plow and i have found myself having to reverse into certain places because of it. the other downside to the intercooler location is how scary it is to see a big chunk of ice in the road and the possibility of it puncturing that line, and the fact that the couplers scrape on big dips.
The truck in question is the chevy k20, ive seen it with both the 350 and the 454, we havn't seen too many severe snow storms recently but there were instances last year where i was stuck at home with the supra because it couldn't make it out of the parking lot. i also like the idea of having a vehicle that can tow the supra to a shop. I wouldn't have to worry about emissions on the truck because it was made up to 85 which means i can get classic plates on it. im not concerned about gas milage, i think the utility of the vehicle makes up for it.
Thank you for sticking this far through the post, i just feel a bit lost on what to do here so thanks for your opinions.
