The Day Has Finally Come (1995 Toyota Supra $200,000)

now today i got a very special car a 95 toyota supra turbo you know a little history of these cars these are the bee's knees these are the supras that the collectors want now when they first put the supra with the six cylinder engine in it it put out a whopping 110 horsepower with a straight six engine and that was back in 1979. now this is a 1995 the stock ones would buy turbos put out 340 horsepower they had a lot of horsepower for a little car like this now this one's been modified a little as you can see it's got a carbon fiber hood it's still got the straight six engine but it's got a blueprinted 3.4 liter engine it doesn't have two turbos it only has one you can see it's a rather large turbo it's all heat wrapped for efficiencies the guys that did this thing in florida they knew what they were doing because on a dyno this thing puts out 1250 horsepower we're not talking about at the flywheel we're talking about the drive wheels 1250 horsepower but showing how well toyota mag stuff this still has the v160 gear track transmission that the original one came from that only had 340 horsepower and it hasn't broken yet with 1250 horsepower on it you want to talk about overbuilding toyota is known for that now you might say okay well they stopped making them out of something wrong there's nothing wrong with the cars the problem was they weren't selling enough at the price point that they had as anyone who knows about toyota history the owner he was into racing racing doesn't make money selling cars makes money and they didn't sell enough of them so they stopped making them and now sadly they came back with the supra but it has nothing to do with this car at all it's a bmw roadster because toyota did not want to spend the money to research and design and build one and i guess they figured well what the heck bmw makes straight six engines so we'll have them make a sports car for us just like the little bitty toyota sports car the one that's really a subaru it's made in the subaru factory by subaru it's not really a toyota sports car at all but toyota didn't do it and do research and develop and they thought oh heck they already have that out there they're cute looking we'll put our badge on it i'm against that stuff myself but toyota don't want to spend the money they're making a fortune selling corollas camrys and their lexus lines they want to make money they're not going to be making their own sports cars it costs too much money you never recoup the investment now this particular supra is a love of labor for the customer and he'll never recoup his investment either because he's putting so much money into it but it's his baby he's really into it he's retired military he could do what he wants although his wife might disagree he's been married here over 40 years kind of like mine you know they ruled the roost ultimately but they let us have toys every once in a while now you don't have to modify it to 1250 horsepower to have fun but of course if you do you can have a lot more fun and spend a lot more money 100k here there a little bit more it's not cheap to do it right and this engine was done right by these dudes in florida induction performance but there's a story behind this great 3.4 engine that was put in it he had gone to another place i believe was in georgia and they said they were putting the 3.0 build it all up he gets it home he drives it a little it dies he wraps it up makes it in his driveway thing doesn't work right he ends up sending it to florida to these other guys who knew what they were doing and they said they lied to you it had a 3.0 not a 3.4 it didn't have reworked head on it at all it was just a stock head they had lied to him you know there's a lot of dishonest people out there these days if you're serious about it you got to do a lot of research get some personal experience from guys who actually use them see what they have most guys with the car like this are going to want to show it off so if you're thinking about doing stuff like this go to a guy's already done it drive his get his experience then you can deal with the same people so you don't have to make a mistake that he did that cost the money you go to the good guys in the first place people just think just because somebody says they can do something it doesn't mean they can like we used to say in texas some people are all hat and no cattle now needless to say wheel is bricks oil upgraded these are 18 inch ccw and check inside those stop ticks brakes that are on there man those are gigantic calipers if you have 1250 horsepower pushing you down the road you need brakes that can stop 1250 horsepower you gotta upgrade if you're gonna do something like that no it's a regular supra body style you can see it would have a lot of room if you put the seat down but this baby's got 150 shot nitrous oxide set up on it getting 1250 horsepower it's not an easy thing to do to me it's an amazing thing that this little bitty straight six engine can put out 1250 horsepower and still hold itself together now i do have to say the stock ones with 340 horsepower back in the day that was a lot of horsepower for a little car like this right i got a friend who's on long island he got one of these things back in the day for mr toyota they had a drinking contest i guess when they were loaded he asked my friend hey what car would you have he said i'd like a buy turbo soup so why don't you buy one he says they cost too much money so mr toyota said would you buy it if you could get an hour cost for building you said sure well this was done in a drunken stupor and nothing else was thought about it for a while but one day he's sitting at his office on long island he gets a phone call from the doc saying hey we don't know who you know but this is toyota supra waiting on the docks for you so he got his bi-turbo dirt cheap he still has it and one time he got caught doing about 135 miles an hour out in the country uh they should have put him in jail but he talked his way out of just doing 90. so even with only 340 they can go this thing it's total insanity well you can hear this thing has a few horsepower just sitting here and off we go now as you can see this vehicle can do insane things now you don't have to go this far you can have a lot of fun with one that has only 340 horsepower but the very fact that it can do this with the six cylinder engine is rather amazing when you think about it that's why i always like straight six cylinder engines they're inherently balanced engines so if you have an inherently balanced engine guess what you can do insane things with it if you have a slightly unbalanced engine the faster it goes the bigger the imbalance and wham that's why weak engines will blow up you get an inherently strong design if you keep pumping it up it can take it because there's hardly any imbalance and of course this thing was perfectly balanced by the guys who built the engine in florida they knew what they were doing you're going to mess around with things like this you want to get that kind of horsepower you need somebody who really knows what they're doing and isn't just all hat no cattle and talk to talk but not walking the walk these guys they walk the walk to build something like this that can take truthfully i am amazed that the six-speed transmission can take all that horsepower again we have toyota over building they build them so strong something that was designed for a 340 by turbo can now take 1250 horsepower and even with all that power strangely enough he can go from clarksville to nashville and back about 120 miles where he's going and if he fills it up here in clarksville he's still got a quarter of a tank left when he gets back for 120 miles that's not bad for this kind of insane horsepower i do have to say when i was driving the 2013 shelby cobra it only had 667 horsepower and the way i drove it i got about three miles a gallon i had to fill that thing up three times and i only had it for six days and i didn't even take it out of town and yeah you get better gas mileage on the highway but this kind of horsepower it still can get decent gas mileage if you're just going to speed limit a little bit further it's a well-designed engine and let's face it for a 25 year old car look at it it's unbelievably beautiful it's pretty much a style that never goes out of style they were perfectly balanced suspension wise they've got nice lines on them of course this one's been modified but it's modified on something that was pretty good to start out with although this one's gone a long way from the original 110 horsepower version more than 10 times so now you see what can be done with the toyota bi-turbo if you want to put a whole bunch of money into it or if you can find one that's still in decent shape that stock it's a collector's item too especially if whoever bought it the previous time realized that it was a great car didn't put a ton of mileage on it you have really high resale value if you got an original equipment one they didn't make that many in the first place a lot of them got wrapped around trees so if you can find old barn find somewhere or old man older than me you can't drive it anymore might not be a bad idea to pick it up so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bell [Music] so

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 10min 3sec (603 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 30 2020