Celica Forums General Discussion General New Car

Okay, so this guy has challenged me and now I'm going to show hime up. The challenge: he's going to buy an old car and make it much better/faster than anything I have. So I'll make it "fair" and buy an old car too, the Supra so I have some questions hopefully you guys will help:

Will the supra hit lift?
How much will one cost me, stock, manual ( I know it's rare)?
What do you guys think of what I'm doing?

There's no real reward in this challenge but knowing I accomplished something, so hopefully I'll pull it off, don't care how long it takes.

im not sure what your talking about.. supra's dont have lift if its a mk4 supra u'd be lucky to get one under 20 grand

good supras range from $20k to $40k and i dont think they hit lift because their engine is vvti i think? pretty expensive game yall 2 are playing

What was the last/best model of supra made? 98 Twin turbo?

"Will the Supra hit lift?" hahaha, no VVTL-i in there. Just a 3 litre I-6 and Twin Turbo's if it comes with the car.

supras have vvt-i no lift.. but the 93-98 TT supra was the best one.. but you wont find one for under 20 grand unless it doesn'twork at all then maybe 10 grand lol y not look into a 1st gen gsx or tsi those are cheap and can be made to go very fast

^^ can they be made to have lift?

why would you want lift on the supra and to answer that; no

lift adds 40 (??) HP, for a short short time but still 40 extra is pretty good, lol

that is just how the 2zz-ge works the supra is a totally different engine

and lift isn't like a bolt on mod it wont work

^^ I know

In the few hours I've contacted some dealers and none have Supras

check www.cars.com [cars.com]

If you want lift so bad then stay with the GTS or get a Corolla XRS...

You should have some common knowledge about a car before you buy it...

get a MR2 turbo or RX7 or even an old 240sx much better cars than supra IMO

Let me introduce you to www.SupraForums.Com [supraforums.com]

1stgen(90-94) AWD eclipse or talon... cheapest fast you can buy... PERIOD

Buddy if he is going with old as in muscle get ready to have your ass handed to ya ... sorry bud but i dont see you winning if your on a budget. I mean ive seen a 350z run the 1/4 in less than 7.5 but it wasnt street legal. Ive seen a Nova, Camaro, Olds 442, Belair, Trans Am, and Vettes run the 1/4 in 10 or less and still be street legal. Oh and the Camaro i saw ran a mid to upper 9 and he was running a 396 big block with dual carbs and a 150 shot. I didnt know who owned the other cars but my uncle had the camaro and still ownes 2 vettes that pick the wheels off the ground. With exeption to the vettes he keeps all his cars under the 15K range. Thats buying the car getting it running and racing it. Im just saying you got your hands full here buddy its hard to compete with displacment. Oh and the 350z was at nopi nationals. Owned by an 18 year old kid. His parents had over 150K invested into the car. Fast as a MOTHER F***ER.

yea you should get a old american muscle car, my neighbor has a camero with 500+ hp stock, and he's rebuilding something with 1000+ hp, no turbo

Found 2...auto's...97 m away

Old but not muscle old, lol, he's trying to get me with just an import 2 door. He and I will have mods on these cars, visual and performance wise, and we will see who's is better. He's my sisters "friend" and he saw my celi and he said that he would get an old car and make it far better than my 04 Celi. Well I told him I would compete with him...using an old car too, not my current car. That's going to my lil sis, it's auto anyways. So maybe I should get an older GTS, which year do you guys recommend?

just wondering...but how long are you saying this is gunna take you? and do you have the money to even to this

of course it wont take me a week much less a week, we will take a yr., after that year we will finally compete, I will be at home so I wont have to pay much for myself

THis thread is noobed

yup DSM cars are the way to go for lots of power for low cost, seriously.

I don't even think crespo_h69 knows what he's talking about.

^^ what you mean? I know plenty of dismantling cars, lol

You wouldent even feel lift over thoes 2 big turbos. And most supra's come in auto. Its suposidly faster than manual.

He sure doesn't. Maybe you're best off not participating in this challenge. Obviously you know NOTHING about cars. If you knew somehting, you'd know that a Camaro Z28 in the early to mid 90's will offer you the best bargain for a project car. A giant(can't remember the displacement) V8 for $4k or less.

1993 5.0 Mustang LX

look in the police auctions and stuff like that i have of people getting supras pretty cheap from there in one case it was like $2000 for a good working supra... and from what i have heard the 1997 is an anninversary edition and is the nicest but not sure if perfromance is any different...

Yeah all I see are auto's, seen 4 just this past week, lol hate the autos' shifter though cause it looks like my 4Runners'

I started thinking that I probly wouln't feel lift after enough power/speed

Yeah I'm a noob, been spending most of my time in the anything goes forums, but I'm trying to learn at least not dissing people that don't know much about a certain topic

As celicadragon siad I was going to look into police auctions but I was hoping I woulnt have to because if I do get one from there I wouln't be able to sell it for a good price, unless it really looks nice which, by then, I woulnt want to let go of it anyways

You wont have much luck in police auctions. I was going to make a buisness of geting cars in auctions and then sell them but it turns out that its an unfair area of interest. You have to know police who get the cars in personally becasue guys who do,get the good stuff BEFORE anybody else has a chance. In other words, you have to be in the in crowd with the police to get a chance at stuff thats worth it.

^^ even more of a reason why I don't want to try, don't even know cops, o well, I'll still try

omg i agree, from those beginning lines i think i went retarded

wen you said you will go for older gen GTS you do know those wont have lift ether right.

And this nomination for worst n00b thread of the year goes to...

crespo_h69!!!

Don't 02-03's have lift?

what's your budget for this? just wondering why you would wanna feel "lift" when you can just feel the power of a turbo?

oh man im 15 and i think i kno more

So wait... any engine can have lift, right? It's just like... a bolt-on mod?

^^ OK that made me laugh at myself, although I don't ever remember saying that lift was a mod you can make on any care you wanted to, but I'm not going to look it up, lest I find out I did put that up

...but um yeah...you guys still suck

^^Yes, and you still don't know shit about cars.

Are you dead serious, or are you pulling our legs and making a joke?

^^ tears are coming out of my eyes right now from reading your sig