new project- '87 toyota supra

Smeltej25 · Post by **Smeltej25** » January 11, 2004

i might be starting a new project sometime soon, but im beginning to have some doubts about it....
my brother has an 87 supra that just sits and he isnt going to do anything with it. the only thing thats wrong with it is the engine, it doesnt run, but the transmission is great. i was going to buy it off of him and drop a new or remanufactured engine into it just to get the thing running again

but thats when i began to doubt the whole project, i new that i wouldnt want to stop at just putting a new engine into it, i started thinking about upgrading the turbo, doing flowwork, engine management things and so on and so forth... i new that before i would even start that this project would suck me into it and i would never want to stop doing things to the car, (even though its older it is a supra after all!)

so now i dont know if i should even start the project at all now because if i did, i wouldnt have time for friends, eating, sleeping and other essential things in life....
so what should i do, or what are your opinions?

oh, and sorry about the long post!

munster · Post by **munster** » January 11, 2004

I don't think you could ever go wrong with a project that you really want to do, because if you don't do it then you'll regret it. Even if you'd regret the project 3/4 of the way through...at least you did it.

Any pics of the car?

Post by **tenchu** » January 12, 2004

Please do it. I love the MKIII Supra (86.5-92) and I am going to get one real soon, I would love to see what you do with it

http://www.supraforums.com <-- Lots of assholes there, and ricers, but you can get some good info on engine swaps there.

Smeltej25 · Post by **Smeltej25** » February 17, 2004

well, the project is going to be postponed until the summer now, cause all of the sudden, my brother wants to work on the car as well.
i guess that will be good though, more help and more money to put into the car!
and once the thing is up and running, we want to shoot for somewhere around 350-400 hp(at the wheels) but still keep it able to be driven nicely on the street, i guess it will be fine for the street, but i wont know until it actually gets there...

but the main concern right now is just to get the car running again and work any bugs out of it before we start tuning... so dont quote me on those hp numbers just yet! they are only an estimate of what we want out of it!

hopefully we'll be able to come through with making that much, but until then, ill just update this whenever something else happens with the car!

Post by **BRYCE** » February 17, 2004

tenchu wrote: http://www.supraforums.com <-- Lots of assholes there, and ricers, but you can get some good info on engine swaps there.

Kinda like rx7club.com but there is alot of useful info there, if you can take the pain and suffereing of them calling you a newbie everytime you post. :ohmy:

Post by **tenchu** » February 17, 2004

blaster834 wrote:
tenchu wrote: http://www.supraforums.com <-- Lots of assholes there, and ricers, but you can get some good info on engine swaps there.
Kinda like rx7club.com but there is alot of useful info there, if you can take the pain and suffereing of them calling you a newbie everytime you post. :ohmy:

EXACTLY! When I first registered there I asked if it was possible to swap a 2JZ into an MKIII and the first reply was "Oh great...another newbie." Then the next asshole said "SEARCH!" ... basically...i got no help, but searching worked in the long run, lol

Smeltej25 · Post by **Smeltej25** » March 08, 2004

and now the fun begins!!!

its finally time to get the car ready before we pull the engine... we are taking it to his one friends shop to do all of the work on it (he has an extra bay that he is letting us use for however long we need

) the engine is going to get pulled from the car and torn down completely..... im not going to be doing most of the engine work though, my brother and his friend are going to do the bulk of it, i havent built an engine by myself yet, but they have before, so im letting them do the technical stuff and im just going to do what i can

still waiting is the approval of my brother to start ordering parts for it, he doesnt want to get anything yet until they pinpoint all the problems.... good reasoning enough

so like i said before, ill just keep updating this whenever i find anything out, and ill try to get the pictures up i took the other day!

Post by **tenchu** » March 08, 2004

Yes you will sir! The Toyota moderator will be very proud!

OcLpRk8699 · Post by **OcLpRk8699** » March 08, 2004

No see what u do is sell me the car . Then i drop a 2jz-gte with twin sequential turbo's in there. Then get a do-luck body kit, also grab sum 17" gunmetal rims, oh and tag on sum MTX thunder 9500 series 12" subs wit a jackhammer enclosure. Thats a car, ohhhh its also gotta be targa.

-= The mod here is power hungry

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Post by **kotomile** » March 08, 2004

^ good to know!