Cars that get you all hot and bothered

[CaptainHenreh]

Jesus christ. The sound this car makes....should I get back into the MK3 game?

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Dave and I's 1JZ MkIII was a pretty dope car. Sounded amazeballs. Shame about the overheating.

[ScottyB]

so basically its just an equal length manifold? get a 1JZ and put it in a better chassis. or buy a MkIV like you've waited your whole life for

[Goodspeed]

so basically its just an equal length manifold?

Gather round erryone, for I have some Supra lore for you:

Back in the 90's, if you wanted to supplant your 2JZ-GTE's stock twin turbos with a single snail, you had basically three options: Powerhouse Racing's log-manifold "Street Turbo Kit" made in Texas (they were the first on the market in the US and possibly the world with a single turbo kit in 1994, and are still around today making extremely high quality Supra parts including this kit), Greddy's indestructible tubular-manifold T-78 turbo kit which hit US shores sometime around '97, and finally the RPS tubular-manifold kit, made in California featuring a variety of Turbonetics turbos to choose from, up to the then-massive T-72(mm inducer) offering.

What made the RPS kit special amongst all other kits of the time (and still to this day) is its manifold, which is/was an equal-length, thin-walled offering (thinner than anything anyone would dare to make today for longevity's sake):




This particular mix ended up providing the 2JZ with an exhaust note somewhere between a sportbike and an F1 car of the era, with the bass turned up. Of note: Craig Lieberman's Supra that was used in the 1st F&F movie featured a RPS kit with a T-66, and together with a rare & long-discontinued Greddy Power Extreme exhaust, it's still actually one of the best sounding MKIV's that ever was, in my opinion (gets real good at 1:18):

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Some more auditory nirvana:

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RPS/Greddy PE combo like the F&F1 car again:

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Skip to 0:47

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The RPS kit was discontinued in the '04-'05 time-frame, and the manifold is highly coveted now (though many have cracked and been re-welded by now due to the thin-walled construction). The company is still around making performance clutches under the same brand name. Rob Smith, the proprietor, has been approached to make more, but he'd only do it for something like $3k per manifold, so that never happened.

The demand was so great in the Supra community for used RPS manifolds that in early 2011, Sound Performance in Chicago stepped up to the plate and released the replica that you hear on that MKIII. It's not as thin-walled, so a bit of the "ring" is gone from the exhaust note, but it's as close as you can get to a new RPS manifold today that won't fall apart, and it has some minor improvements to the wastegate plumbing to avoid boost-creep and the like:



And that concludes our lesson for today. If you need me, I'll be shuffling dust around in my library.

[ScottyB]

haha...classic Goodspeed.

true story though, i remember seeing that T66 video in college, its so old. i just thought all supras sounded that way and that just happened to be a super fast one. amazing to me so few people build manifolds for them considering their status and how many people upgrade them. i guess the market is really pretty small.

[SlimKlim]

That was awesome. Please take us to school more often.

[Senor_Taylor]

Why is the Supra so cool and so expensive and so hard to find and not in my garage? Toyota should make a straight 6 again.

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[JPolen01]

That was awesome. Please take us to school more often.

Yes please. That was interesting. It's like our own resident Mr Frizzle.

[.RJ]

dropping knowledge, son

[WRXtranceformed]

That NSX GT3 does it

[JPolen01]

They are so hot

[ScottyB]

never thought i'd feel this way about an AMC Spirit

[JPolen01]

Those over fenders are fuckin' rad

[ScottyB]

turns out 996's can get me moist

[JPolen01]

Ignore the stupid focus in the background

[ScottyB]

i love that he kept the OG ford stripe livery style

[Goodspeed]

turns out 996's can get me moist

Came here to post this.  I was flipping through a magazine the other day (one of those paper bendy slim book things you hold in your hands) and came across a 996 GT3.  I had almost totally forgotten about the original GTx car and here it was in front of me, looking sharp in all the right places (and I don't even mind the front lights on it TBH).  I hop on Forza and the 996 GT3 quickly becomes one of my favorite cars to blast around in.  I hop on eBay and my heart expectedly sinks, though not as much as I thought it'd be:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2004-Porsche-91...Q-&vxp=mtr

What a pretty car this is...



And in RS form, my goodness





I wonder what the pricing trends have been like as of late with not only the GT3, but plebian 996 Carreras - and how "easy" and, well, costly it is to make a GT3 clone out of one of them.  Kind of reminds me of this beautiful Carrera 2 I spotted at Verona last year:



The want is strong.

[D_Eclipse9916]

The problem with a nice 996 gt3 is it is only 25k less than a nice 997 gt3 and if you are spending 65k....


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[Steve85]

This caught my eye in the Target parking lot today. Can you get it with that front bumper?

Great color combo, seemed lowered too. It was a 328 FWIW.

Been pretty tempted by the idea of a wagon again. I feel like if I’m going to use a roof rack for skis and stuff it should be easy to reach.

[JustinG]

Yea, it's an M Sport touring with some kind of lip

[.RJ]

F31 M-sports are easy to come by. Just pick your color, there are lots of them for sale.

A nice one with < 50k miles will cost you between 30-35k depending on condition/options/location/etc. They are nice cars, pretty quick with the 2.0t four and Dinan sells a solid tune for them. The 8sp auto is not quite as good as DSG, but damn nice if, say you had your leg chewed off by a bear and can no longer operate a clutch pedal.

Step back in time and E91 wagons with 60-80k miles will run you $15k for a nice auto or $20k for a nice manual xDrive car. RWD are more, M-sport even more tax but its all appearance stuff so... not sure if worth it.