Hello everyone!
I may be coming into a little money over the next few months, and I was thinking that it would be a good idea for me to get a car.
I’ve currently been looking at MK3 supras and Lexus soarer as I want a good performing car with a lot of potential horsepower, so I can spend the majority of the money on mods.
I was looking to spend around £2000 on the car, and £8K on mods (total budget is £10K) but there seems to be a lack of tuning gear for the 1JZ engine here and in the US, so I’ve decided to look else where, thus, the Aristo, which runs on the 2JZ -GTE engine, which as you know can become a complete monster.
I was wondering what 10 grand come get me in the Aristo world. I was thinking about getting a very cheap T.T (MK1) model that has already been imported which will cost around £3,500? Or would it be cheaper to import one myself directly from Japan?
That should leave at least £6,000, for mods, mainly performance based parts. I was wondering what parts I should be able to get with this money, and what sort of horsepower I’d be looking at. I’m not really into anything really high horsepower if it means having a huge turbo that is pretty much unless at the low RPM. Another question, will most of the parts that are available for the supra’s 2JZ work with the Aristo engine? I know that some parts are different such as the ECUs, but what parts are definably the same.
Oh, and forget about fitting. I have an Uncle that runs a garage that says he’ll be happy to let me use it after hours, so this experience would be pretty good for me, I really want to get into car tuning (Programming ECUs mostly).