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[Southy]

Granted this may not be to everyone's taste, but the amount of attention to detail gone into this car is unbelievable. The smoothing and chrome plating of the original bolts ready to be reused, the amazing exhaust design. Not to mention the sheer amount of chromed parts in the engine bay and that sexy 4 inch thick intercooler.....

I've spent a good 3 hours this morning reading through it all aswell as an hour last night....Nearly finished

Hope you all enjoy it as much as I did

Ground Up Supra Build.

[mars red mike]

I love build threads like this. Good find

[Southy]

Anytime time mate, my friend showed it me thought I would share it .What I found even more astonishing is the guy knew nothing about car's when he left uni but did so much research on stuff, and sent it all the way from Australia over to the USA for all the work to be carried out by the pro's

Some serious money spent on it thought, stroked kit alone must cost in excess of £4k, some bits of the suspension from top secret cost AUS$6k alone when you see it its just the purple anodised cup sat on top of the coilys.



EDIT:Just searched for the HKS stroker kit which he has fitted to this, that alone costs wait for it........$10595.00

Edited by Southy, 26 September 2010 - 12:23 PM.

[DaveVader]

I've not read much of it so far (couple of pages) and I'm still holding out hope, but did he not want to do anything himself?
He's bought pretty much every part of the car he could and is shipping it off to have all the work done.

Yeah, OK, the big engine plans he has would be difficult to do himself so I can see why he'd want it shipped off for that but seriously, this mass purchasing is crazy!
I'd much rather put in the effort and recondition what I've got already, save a lot of money and you might actually feel like you've accomplished something.

I'll still read it all but I'd be more impressed if he put the credit card away and brought out some tools.

Wait... has he got green carpet and purple sheets?

Edited by DaveVader, 26 September 2010 - 01:23 PM.

[davidv]

Yes he has spent loads on it.I have the same wheels and they cost loads.

[mike.]

He does seem to just throw his money away buying everything new and the shipping costs must be unreal - But he's obviously got the money to do that so why not?

I love supras and want one when i'm older but seeing this has disappointed me - because I know mine will never look or be that good with so much custom stuff and fabrication.

Everything about that car is just crazy! That turbo set up is pure innovation and those brakes are just insane - I'm glad he got the wheels he has done to show them off so well. The interior aswell; the rear seat delete looks like it was done at the factory and the discreet ICE install is so well done.

Can't wait to see that thing finished and see some proper photos of it and some drive by vids with that exhaust dump open - It'll sound like a jet taking off!