Jdm swap or rebuild. If you can find some serious cash for forged pistons, do both.
... why not supercharge it ? I have this image in my head of a n/a supra with flows, a boot mounted battery, a front mounted intercooler and a supercharger offa ...dunno. Something.
PS - A gmc pickup revs about this much |<-->| and holds enough oil for a small fishing trawler, all packed into a block cut with a gas plant from the side of the body shell of a burnt out sherman tank.
A jdm toyota revs about this much before the limiter comes into play |<--------->|
It's prolly something to do with the way they perform so well that they burn out faster.
Plus there's the type of driving they do in japan. Office-home, not talking D1 here. If you take the sump pan off of a newly imported rice v6 you'll notice a hell of a lot of sediment from short trips, long idling in traffic jams and such. Yank tanks get good runs their whole life, its a lot better for the engine.
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So I bought this old Honda bike, an NSR250. Bit of a street racer, I guess. I'm told they're fast.
Delivering it home with a friend driving the Supra for the first time. I drop gears and make a scream from the twin pipes flowing down this pony's flanks and it takes off like it's tail's on fire.
I look back when the Honda gets to its tap-out and the Supra's only two lengths behind. No one I've let ride my bike has told me its slow, they've all loved the thing. That car is a good thing indeed.
Last edited by lethalwithasupra; 07-09-2006 at 04:53 AM.
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