I've had this car for 8 years. It's served me well as both my daily driver and as the tuning project it has become. It starts up and runs just fine (see videos). The interior does need a new headliner and an armrest.
The engine computer and harness are JDM, which means it was a bit too short for American cars, so the computer was put where the glovebox was. You will need to extend the wire harness to be able to put the glovebox (included) back to its original place.
Other than that, the interior just has the wear and tear expected of a 1987 car.

The exterior could use a better paint job, but it's not terrible. Only minor dings which are hardly noticeable. One of the door mouldings is also missing.

The engine setup is where the real value of the car is. Most of the work is already done, and it's 80% of where I wanted it to be. It's already pushing around 320hp. All you need to do now is swap out the auto tranny for a manual, and tune. The car runs just fine as is though.

installed:

JDM 7M-GTE turbo inline-six engine
ETS intercooler system
3" downpipe
3" HKS exhaust system (this, plus the downpipe gives you 3" straight through to the turbo)
HKS blow-off valve
K&N intake
Eibach lowering springs
Tokico struts

other extras:

replaced stock head gasket with metal head gasket (with ARP head studs) to prevent the typical supra leaking problem
high quality iridium spark plugs and wires installed
new timing belt
various sensors replaced
17" rims and tires
you also get the stock 16" wheels as well
moonroof

There are also some included parts that I never got to install, like a gauge pod with 3 gauges, and a boost controller.

videos:

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Watch this video diary of a 900-hp Toyota Supra build

Sat, 08 Jun 2013

If you've ever looked at a car with nearly 1,000 horsepower and wondered why anyone needs that amount of thrust, you may want to take a look at the video below. In it, one gentleman details his descent into Toyota Supra madness, starting with a pristine factory example and stumbling down the rabbit hole of modification. What makes this particular clip interesting is just how honest the owner is as he explains the evolution of his car. He doesn't just prattle off a list of parts like he's reading the menu at an IHOP.
Instead, he painstakingly pulls us through the car's growth, detailing each iteration and what pushed him to the next stage of the build every time. From this point of view, it looks less like someone walked into a shop and lit a massive stack of $100 bills on fire and more like a quasi-logical progression of events. Or at least it does to me. You can check out the build in the video below, complete with plenty of Fast and the Furious references and racing. Win, win, win.

Toyota to end Australian production by 2017

Mon, 10 Feb 2014

There is more bad news for the Australian auto industry today, as Toyota has just announced that it will follow General Motors and Ford in shuttering its manufacturing operations on the continent. Production and assembly will cease by the end of 2017, but Toyota will remain in Australia as a sales and distribution company.
"We did everything that we could to transform our business, but the reality is that there are too many factors beyond our control that make it unviable to build cars in Australia," said Toyota Australia President and CEO Max Yasuda.
In an official statement, Yasuda said that the closure would directly affect 2,500 manufacturing employees and an unknown number of corporate workers. However, a report in the Australian newspaper The Age suggests that the jobs of 24,000 workers at Australian auto suppliers could also be in jeopardy. Toyota currently builds its Camry, Camry Hybrid, Aurion sedans in Australia, along with four-cylinder engines, and it plans to begin importing the Camry and Aurion after production stops.

Manga stylized Toyota Aygo takes on Godzilla

Thu, 13 Nov 2014

Japan has given the world so much to enthuse over. We're not sure the Toyota Aygo is necessarily one of them as much as, say, the Scion FR-S or Lexus LFA (especially since it's actually made in Europe), but for many Nipponophiles, the centuries-old artistic discipline of Manga certainly is. And now the two have come together in this two-and-a-half-minute animated short.
In Toyota's own take on the classic narrative, an Aygo animated by celebrated artist Sonia Leong takes on Godzilla. As in, a giant lizard rampaging through a Japanese city, not the Nissan GT-R, against which the little Toyota would certainly stand even less of a chance by any metric other than affordability, fuel economy or ability to park in tight spots.
In any case, watch this Manga-fied video above, and feel free to read through the related press release below.

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