I purchased this Supra in Salt Lake city and drove it back last Friday.
The trip was fun, the previous owner has wrong type of tires on it, cheap futura H speed rating tires, but I was still able to go up to 130mph briefly on part of 15, I stay mostly in 110mph range, and it was fairly stable, given the same condition, NSX will probably do 165 easily and stable.
My Supra is 95 NA Supra 5 Speed.
sorry about the pic, this is the pic from the seller, I will take my own pics when I have time.
So far I like it a lot, but it needs more power and lose some weight, there are many turbo kit available for NA-Supra, base low boost kit cost around $1600 for 320~340 whp and all the way up to$6000 for a high boost kit, I plan on doing the mid range kit soon.
The search for my daily driver replacement was not easy, took me around 2 months, I had considered 944, 968, RX-7 FD, 3000GT, Supra, even a used high milage Black NSX (if I had $10K more this would be ultimate daily driver for me).
The negative so far are: too much attention, as much as when I am driving NSX, both good and bad, it also seems to attract wrong type of attention from wrong crowd, highschool kids, junior high kids etc, easier to get door dings, Supra is very wide, and insurance cost more then my NSX
Positive so far, best exhuast note I have ever heard (Apexi N1 exhaust), it has a extremely deep powerful rumble sound, this is the kind of sound I had always wanted, I lived in Japan before, many Skiline GTRs or Supras with aftermarket exhaust sounds like this.
No one actually try to race me, Corvettes, 911 Turbo, (these are two cars that will always try to run with me if I am in my NSX in stop light) something new for a change, I guess they are probably thinking I may be a BPU Turbo, because of my exhaust note, the sound does at very least put their exhaust note to shame.
Mustang and Camero seems like to rev it up at me, when I rev it up in my Supra, their facial expression changed completely, and looks so humble.
The trip was fun, the previous owner has wrong type of tires on it, cheap futura H speed rating tires, but I was still able to go up to 130mph briefly on part of 15, I stay mostly in 110mph range, and it was fairly stable, given the same condition, NSX will probably do 165 easily and stable.
My Supra is 95 NA Supra 5 Speed.
sorry about the pic, this is the pic from the seller, I will take my own pics when I have time.
So far I like it a lot, but it needs more power and lose some weight, there are many turbo kit available for NA-Supra, base low boost kit cost around $1600 for 320~340 whp and all the way up to$6000 for a high boost kit, I plan on doing the mid range kit soon.
The search for my daily driver replacement was not easy, took me around 2 months, I had considered 944, 968, RX-7 FD, 3000GT, Supra, even a used high milage Black NSX (if I had $10K more this would be ultimate daily driver for me).
The negative so far are: too much attention, as much as when I am driving NSX, both good and bad, it also seems to attract wrong type of attention from wrong crowd, highschool kids, junior high kids etc, easier to get door dings, Supra is very wide, and insurance cost more then my NSX
Positive so far, best exhuast note I have ever heard (Apexi N1 exhaust), it has a extremely deep powerful rumble sound, this is the kind of sound I had always wanted, I lived in Japan before, many Skiline GTRs or Supras with aftermarket exhaust sounds like this.
No one actually try to race me, Corvettes, 911 Turbo, (these are two cars that will always try to run with me if I am in my NSX in stop light) something new for a change, I guess they are probably thinking I may be a BPU Turbo, because of my exhaust note, the sound does at very least put their exhaust note to shame.
Mustang and Camero seems like to rev it up at me, when I rev it up in my Supra, their facial expression changed completely, and looks so humble.
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