Supra Newbie

Hi guys and girls,

Just been speaking with Nat and said i'd join up i'm 25 from Milton Keynes and currently have a very rare 98 Toyota Supra SZ-R 6speed (took me about 12 months in which time this was only the 2nd one to come up for sale), I also model part time for various agencies across the country doing underwear and fashion based stuff aswell as helping out some other models with their portfolios doing some couple based shoots.

Big Plans for the Supra i'm currently in the process of buying a second engine to rebuild with forged internals and a mid-frame single turbo which will give me around 600bhp to the wheels which equates to around 740bhp to the flywheel

Here's some pics of my Supra i'll save the modelling ones for another time lol




and a few from a meet we had this weekend at Meguiars Headquarters in Daventry





Look forward to meeting and working with some of you guys and girls at some meets and shows across the year

welcome and nice lookin motor mate

Thanks Mark very early days at the minute few bodywork bits planned shortly (new skirts and TRD spoiler with a carbon fibre centre blade).......she sounds awesome too although pretty loud lol

Hi Dan wlecome everything you need is at your fingerstips any questions just ask and all of us will be more then happy to help

nice supra btw looks very very sexy! :p

Cheers Argos look forward to getting my backside along to some meets and meeting you guys, i'm pretty sound for supra knowledge (i'm a bit of a encyclopaedia when it comes to that lol) but for anything else i'll be sure to ask

Thanks again for the warm welcome

Hi and welcome hun

Yes and of course you will be coming to fast show with us

And of course a new cruizerboy in the making )

Love the car as you know hun, be great to get you down to the next meet up!

Girlofthenight wrote:

Hi and welcome hun

Yes and of course you will be coming to fast show with us

And of course a new cruizerboy in the making )

Love the car as you know hun, be great to get you down to the next meet up!

No Probs Nat, keep me posted and let me know of any upcoming meets and i'll be sure to come down and meet some of you rabble :p

love the sound of a supra bouncing off the limiter lol

haha definitely Mark imo the 2JZ is one of the best sounding engines around nothing sounds like it

Here's a quick clip of mine doing a fly-by although not at full chat due to speed cameras lol, this was on the way to the Children in Need Cruise

Sweet car mate welcome to the club

nice!!!

SteveR wrote:

Sweet car mate welcome to the club

Thanks Steve

markA3 wrote:

nice!!!

haha cheers mate she does have a impressive set of lungs on her especially as she still has 1 cat (I removed one but left the smaller in so it still passes emissions tests)

This is going to be a great season dan can it spit flames??? Lol

Argos wrote:

This is going to be a great season dan can it spit flames??? Lol

Haha if i get it hot enough she does but still having 1 cat in there kinda hinders it, she will definitely spit flames when the turbo conversion is done though

Shweeeeeet

hello and welcome

nice car mate

Thanks Mart look forward to meeting you guys at some shows soon

very nice mate! love supras! have i seen it up the hockey in mk a couple of times? or is there another white one floating around?

Ash170990 wrote:

very nice mate! love supras! have i seen it up the hockey in mk a couple of times? or is there another white one floating around?

Yep that will most likely have been me mate very loud...what do you drive i'll have to look out for you and say hey next time im up.

Bright Green Focus RS haha hard to miss! lol

Ash170990 wrote:

Bright Green Focus RS haha hard to miss! lol

Haha yeah i'm pretty sure i've seen that up there, i'll keep a eye out next time mate

same as mate! What body kit is it on yours? Is is twin turbo model? this is also another car on my list of cars to own lol have to agree not much rivals it for noise!

stock kit mate, the side skirts were a option from the factory (it should also have some rear spats but i've removed them as they look a little too Halfords stuck on for me) however i'm getting some Blitz ones to go on soon but i will be modifying them slightly as i don't like how they sit lol, then on the front i've got a lip which is a Wings West copy made by a American company called MVP Motorsports which i had to get shipped over from the states and again i've had this lip modified slightly on the sides so it sits flush on the bumper.

Mines the NA at the minute but it's a rare NA with the 6speed box from the Twin-Turbo which can hold well over 1300hp, i'm currently rebuilding a second engine with a single turbo that will see me in the region of 650-750hp comfortably lol so will be an absolute animal once it's built

fair play, thought it looked a little different from standard.....

Yeah i did have al ook at buying one before i got the MK2 FRS ( i used to have a mk1 FRS before) and was going to buy a NA supra to have with it but could only find automatic ones which obviously i didnt want lol but i think one day im guna go for a twin turbo one..... lol and like yourself aim for big BHP!

Ash170990 wrote:

fair play, thought it looked a little different from standard.....

Yeah i did have al ook at buying one before i got the MK2 FRS ( i used to have a mk1 FRS before) and was going to buy a NA supra to have with it but could only find automatic ones which obviously i didnt want lol but i think one day im guna go for a twin turbo one..... lol and like yourself aim for big BHP!

haha nice mate, if you get a NA manual the box you tend to find is the 5speed W58 which is made of chocolate lol, a friend of mine has a turbo conversion on his NA and he's blown up 3 of these gearboxes and only running 365bhp.....this is why i took a year to find one of the rare ones with the 6speed V161 box as when I put the turbo on i know it's capable of holding more power than i'm aiming for.

The scary thing is 650hp is childs play in supra terms, the stock bottom end on the 2JZ-GTE is capable of holding around 850hp before you need to start using forged pistons/rods, the Supra was heavily over-engineered and the original prototypes of the mkiv had around 700hp from the factory but Toyota dialled the power back by fitting smaller turbos for a few reasons, 1- it would have put the cost of the car up too much and 2-the Japanese fair trade agreement between the major manufacturers Toyota/Nissan/Mazda which all agreed to cap the power at 280bhp which they all lied about as the Supra/Skyline make 320bhp stock.

Bit of a history lesson there so apologies for that lol but i'm a bit of a encyclopaedia of knowledge on the Supra especially haha

good to know, as like i say i will own one oneday so good to know as much as poss about them!

well ya defo know ya stuff about the supra

Ash170990 wrote:

good to know, as like i say i will own one oneday so good to know as much as poss about them!

No probs mate, if i see you about MK or at a meet i'll take you out in her see what you think oh and if you can find one with the factory Recaros as they are about £1k a seat new lol, mine had just been refurbished when i got it so the bolsters are like new

mart_focus wrote:

well ya defo know ya stuff about the supra

Haha that's what a years worth of waiting for the right one to come up for sale does to you lol, research research and more research

Dan_Turism0 wrote:

Ash170990 wrote:

good to know, as like i say i will own one oneday so good to know as much as poss about them!

No probs mate, if i see you about MK or at a meet i'll take you out in her see what you think oh and if you can find one with the factory Recaros as they are about £1k a seat new lol, mine had just been refurbished when i got it so the bolsters are like new

mart_focus wrote:

well ya defo know ya stuff about the supra

Haha that's what a years worth of waiting for the right one to come up for sale does to you lol, research research and more research

Defo up for that mate! ill take you out in the FRS if you like lol see how it compares! thats also like in the FRS, they are the same recaros as in the Renault sport clio 200, but with an RS logo sticked into them... but them under the RS part number £1800 each, clio part number £1k each?! lol surley it doesnt cost £800 to have RS embroided into them lol stupid RS tax!

When you next about up mk mate?

Ash170990 wrote:

Dan_Turism0 wrote:

Ash170990 wrote:

good to know, as like i say i will own one oneday so good to know as much as poss about them!

No probs mate, if i see you about MK or at a meet i'll take you out in her see what you think oh and if you can find one with the factory Recaros as they are about £1k a seat new lol, mine had just been refurbished when i got it so the bolsters are like new

mart_focus wrote:

well ya defo know ya stuff about the supra

Haha that's what a years worth of waiting for the right one to come up for sale does to you lol, research research and more research

Defo up for that mate! ill take you out in the FRS if you like lol see how it compares! thats also like in the FRS, they are the same recaros as in the Renault sport clio 200, but with an RS logo sticked into them... but them under the RS part number £1800 each, clio part number £1k each?! lol surley it doesnt cost £800 to have RS embroided into them lol stupid RS tax!

When you next about up mk mate?

haha you sir have yourself a deal urm not sure when i'm next up mate as i'm awaiting my 8pot KSports to arrive so don't really want to take anyone out in it at the minute as i myself don't like driving it as 2 of the front pistons are currently seized and while it's only NA it's still a lot of weight to try and stop lol.

Add me on FB and i'll let you know when i'm next up mate - facebook.com/DanSupraHarris