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  1. RossoCorsaItaly

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    #1 RossoCorsaItaly, Mar 22, 2006
    My Supra motor went out yesterday after 94k miles of no maintenance and extensive abuse and my Maserati sold! I'm on foot partol! woot!

    ALWAYS have a dependable daily driver on the side.
     
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    #2 Fastviper, Mar 22, 2006
    At least you have a 355 manifold to look at.
     
  3. senna21

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    #3 senna21, Mar 22, 2006
    Well, the Supra's your own fault! The plan of only having two sports cars isn't at fault here... it's not keeping them maintained.
     
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    #4 Webby, Mar 22, 2006
    why not two sports cars and a daily driver?
     
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    #5 Z0RR0, Mar 22, 2006
    Just get a third one.
     
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    #6 PeterS, Mar 22, 2006
    You get what you don't pay for! :) Wire me $23K and I'll ship my '77 308 to you tomorrow!.....

    You abused your Supra? What are you, a mechanic?
     
  7. RossoCorsaItaly

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    #7 RossoCorsaItaly, Mar 22, 2006
    Working on it, John Slimen over at FerrariCF has his eye out on some 355's for me :-D

    As far as me abusing it, I've been waiting for the motor to go out so I have an excuse to swap the twin turbo motor into there. I didn't want to waste money maintaining it if I was going to junk it. I just didn't expect it to go out right when my Maserati sold.

    Peter, sounds tempting. I've never considered a 308 but if I do, I'll shoot you a PM :)
     
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    #8 BMW.SauberF1Team, Mar 22, 2006
    Wait a sec, you did NO maintenance on the Supra? What did you expect?!?! LOL! Congrats that the Maser sold. I read previously that you were sitting on it for a while.
     
  9. RossoCorsaItaly

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    #9 RossoCorsaItaly, Mar 22, 2006


    6 months. I never maintained the Supra and drove the living crap out of it. I really expected it sooner, it had 94k miles on the stock timing belt and saw the redline about 10-15 times on the average 20 minute drive. I took care of the rest of the car, it's real clean minus the abused engine but why bother, I'm just real excited about getting it twin turbo'd.
     
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    #10 BMW.SauberF1Team, Mar 22, 2006
    Will you be putting TTs on the GE motor or getting the GTE motor? I remember you from the my350z forum. I think you were saying you could make a basic turbo kit for the Z for a couple grand, but most people didn't believe you. Was that you? What ever happened?
     
  11. RossoCorsaItaly

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    #11 RossoCorsaItaly, Mar 22, 2006
    Probably, I used to be on my350z, we were going to do a basic single turbo kit which is basically an incomplete kit you can customize. Didn't get much interest from the 350z guys. but we sold over 40 of them to the Supra guys, they love em.

    I'm going to be putting in a GTE motor. Reason being the stock twin turbo system is extremely reliable compared to the hassle of going single with the GE. Not to mention I want the 6spd tranny and it's just easier doing everything at once.
     

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