Ready to call it quits...

[Jspec7m88]

HEY. I made it out alive. Power just kicked back on.woo hoo. I survived a'nudder one! Well, back on topic, things are looking better, so just close this thread and pretend nothing never happened. I love Supras no matter how much of a pain in the ass they are.:love:

BTW, I'm back at 14psi thanks to MDC's shim kit! Woo hoo!:icon_bigg

 

[lanky189]

Buddy,

All performance cars are expensive.

I work with a guy that has been all domestic his whole life...valvetrain parts are the same price ( quality wise ) as imports...wheels....exhaust....all expensive.

Its a nitch market, it will always be expensive when companies KNOW your going to NEED something or your going to BUY something.

siman, this is so not completely true...just becuase you have one friend who did this and that doesn't mean everything goes that way...

My rebuild of my 7mgte with forged pistons ran me 3400 bucks.

For that same price a chevy 350 can be bored/stroked, ported/polished and rather easily make twice the horsepower of my 7m.....

Domestic parts are CHEAPER....it is not as expensive to own a camaro or mustang as it is to own a supra...you cannot dispute this...its simply the truth.

 

[mkiiSupraMan18]

Lanky... now price a 302. :icon_conf

 

[Nick M]

If you cannot afford maintenence of a supra ( in general, mk3 and mk4 parts are about the same price period) you should really rethink owning the car...or ANY sports car of that matter.

They guzzle gas
They can get you tickets
And parts are NOT cheap.

-Jonathan

You cant beat the point home hard enough. If you cant afford to have it fixed, you shouldnt be driving it. That is tough to swallow. But I let go of mine when I was 22 and only had it for 2 years.

I dont actually have Rod Knock..but my main bearings(crank) need replaced

Tell him that is rod knock. Excessive cleance cuasing the rod to bounce against the crank. Engine knock isnt always rod knock, but a spun bearing is "rod knock".

 

[mkiiSupraMan18]

You cant beat the point home hard enough. If you cant afford to have it fixed, you shouldnt be driving it. That is tough to swallow. But I let go of mine when I was 22 and only had it for 2 years.

:nono:

Chances are, if you can't afford to have your Supra fixed you probably couldn't afford to get your Honda/S10 fixed either. I'm living off of $25/wk-ish and I still have 2 Supras and 2 Z's and my Cressida. And technically I couldn't afford to fix anything if it broke down. I got Toyotas so I didn't have to worry about that. If you can afford to keep up on the general maintenence and you are willing to actually take the time and check the oil/transfluid/ whatever else, you can afford to drive whatever you want. But thats just my opinion, take it for the $.01 it might bring on E-bay.

Sure, something's going to go catastrophically wrong eventually but isn't that why you keep a stash of $300-500 somewhere so you can go find a Piece to drive while the Supra is out of commission? (enter Cressida)

*edit*
Also, if people would take the time and replace a few seals, spend a hundred bucks and an afternoon (maybe a week-end) rather than continuously dumping oil into their motor day after day/week after week instead of waiting until they get rodknock to worry about the oil leak(s) it wouldn't be such a big deal. I'm not knocking anyone, hell, Jeff has seen the engine bay of the Cressida, and it was deffinitely soaked in oil, top to bottom. Took me two evening after school to change all the gaskets/seals above the headgasket and now I don't even have to check the oil if I don't want to, rather than adding a quart every morning before I left for school. Maybe I just have a lot more free time than everyone else, maybe I just go overkill. But to me, if you keep a stash of money back and not blow it on a bigger turbo/hard pipe kit/lex&550's it wouldn't be such a big deal. <-- my rant for the day, btw.