My japanese duo - Soarer and Supra

[aww999]

For the first time ever, both my cars were clean, polished and in the same location, so I thought I would take a few photos.

The Soarer is my daily driver. I have had it for about a year, standard apart from coilovers, the wheels (now changed for some simpler 17's), and a stainless exhaust which gives it a nice burble at low revs and a brilliant howl at 8000rpm! It has the 1JZ GTE engine, which is a 2.5 litre twin turbo. It's a short stroke version of the engine found in the MkIV Toyota Supra, but has parallel turbos instead of sequential, which I prefer.
Mine is standard AFAIK, and dynoed 260bhp at the wheels on Optimax which is about right (Toyota claim 286bhp crank). It's an auto which wouldn't be my first choice, but I looked around for a while and this car is pretty mint. 80000kms, I'm the second UK owner, not a dent, stonechip or dodgy bit in sight! It has been totally reliable so far, just normal servicing and some rear tyres


The Supra has been in my posession for six or seven years, and there aren't many Toyota parts left on it! I have built numerous different setups for it, and the last configuration made 580bhp at the wheels on Optimax with water/meth injection. I ran really soft rear suspension and american street/drag tyres to try and get the power down, but it would still happily wheelspin past 80mph in third gear as the boost came in. The car has a five speed manual box and is geared for about 185mph in top with my increased rev-limit; it has been determined that the top speed is gearing limited

I have been working working over the last winter to try and make the car more street-friendly. It runs a Garrett T67Q turbo, fully built engine with forged pistons etc, metal head gasket, big fuel injectors and intercooler, and an Emerald ECU. Peak boost will be reduced to around 1.2 bar and the water injection will just be to keep temps down rather than to add fuel and octane as before. Suspension is Koni adjustable dampers with custom springs, bigger brakes with Porterfield R4 race pads in them, all sound deadening and unneccessary interior removed. The car looks pretty standard from the outside, apart from the wastegate dump tube emerging just behind the offside front wheel. For the time and money I've spent on it, I could have bought something newer, more reliable and more "impressive", but even after riding in some pretty serious metal I have never felt anything like the acceleration I get when it crosses into positive boost at 4000rpm and tries to vaporise the rear tyres!

After dicking around for twenty minutes with imagevenue, flickr etc, I still haven't managed to embed pictures like everyone else can, but I think if you click on these links you should see the pictures...hope I haven't bored you all with old Toyotas!

http://img121.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=04659_DSC00448_122_1038lo.JPG 

http://img12.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=04669_DSC00447_122_1051lo.JPG 

http://img171.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=04679_DSC00446_122_879lo.JPG 

[MrFlibbles]

Great cars!

I was expecting a MkIV Supra, but Mk III's are much cooler!

(I think the reason you cant embed the images is that they are huuuuuge)

[Hollywood Wheels]

Love that Supra!

[aww999]

The MkIV Supras get all the glory, and they are great cars, but I prefer the looks of the Mk3, and I find the 7M-GTE engine in mine has a torquier delivery than the 2JZ-GTE due to its longer stroke. Plus I like to be different, there aren't too many old-school supras running this kind of power in the world, let alone the UK!

I will try and find an engine picture tonight if I can.

[bigcman]

yeh the supra looks nice, you dont see many around these days. like the newer shape wheels too, look good polished up.

not really sure bout the soarer though but i bet it flies. excuse the pun