Tim's Supra is dead.

Tim's car is a wreck. It's sitting dead in my driveway. So, lets look at the pro's and con's of this purchase,....and sorry Tim if I come across a bit harsh.

PROS:
1. The car's exterior is in IMMACULATE condition. Not one scratch, ding, rust spot, etc.etc. In fact, usually and even under the best circumstances, you might find a couple of dings on a car's rear bumper...the woes of parrallel parking. But in this case,...nothing. Just perfect....and it's the original paint job....which means it probably never got into a majot accident, meaning a straight chassis and no frame damage.
2. I've read the 7M GTZ motor bottom-end is a keeper. Pretty strong and accepts top end mods quite well.
3. Its one of the few Japanese rear-wheel drive cars to be produced.
4. The aftermarket industry is MASSIVE and parts are cheap and readily found everywhere on the internet.

Now the CONS:
1. The interior is thrashed....which may be a PRO BTW. It would be a good reason to completely gut the interior, spray can the bare metal, slip in some racing buckets and a roll cage and a five pointer.
2. The bottom-end might be bullet proof but unfortunately everything else attached to it sucks. Typical turbo bullshit; pressurized hoses everywhere, way too many sensors, a billion clamps, tubes and tiny hoses, etc.
3. It has 215 thousand miles on the motor...eeeck. Which basically means everything that can be replaced needs to be replaced. Lets just hope the block, crank, and heads are okay. And even if you replace everything (and I know how this is having owned an old Z-28) something else somewhere else in the car will need to be fixed nearly every month.
4. The suspension is gone.

Tim splurged and bought some bad-ass coil-overs, but for crying out loud Tim, spend that money on getting the car in good running order. Meaning:
- Fluids: oil, diff, brake
- Radiator: check for leaks, flush, replace fluid
- Tune-up: plugs, wires, oil/air/fuel filter replace, replace belt (it looks BAD)
- Cooling: replace water pump and thermostat
- Big Hoses: the large turbo hoses look good, but we haven't checked the 3 under the car in and out of the intercooler.
- Little hoses: replace ALL of them. They're all cracked, split, and hardened.
- Have the ECU diagnosed and errors checked. If any of the sensors are dead, they need to be replaced. Also, while your at the shop, do a pressure test AND and compression test...and pray your compression is 10.5 or whatever is spec.

THEN we can actually do the FUN work. As for the immediate issues, i.e., the car dead in my driveway...the AMM looks bad. Criminy...did we actually break the thing by just cleaning it? We'll have to check it out this weekend. If it isn't the AMM, then we can check the charge on his battery, though it looks good to me. And we need to check if fuel is being properly delivered....somehow. Anywayz, more about the SUPRA later.