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The [deprecated] story of my Toyota Supra MKIII turbo.

Part Wanted: Power Seat Switch

Category: Parts Wanted — Jeff at 3:14 pm on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 |

My Power Seat Switch Reclining Knob is missing. There are 2 poles that go into the assembly; the bottom one stays stationary, and the top one moves forward and backward. The top pole on mine is missing along with the knob, and so just getting a new knob wont work. I need the whole switch assembly, and i’m not sure how it would come out. Hopefully it’s not to big of a problem.

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Part Wanted: Stock Foglights [found.]

Category: Parts Wanted — Jeff at 11:57 am on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 |


I need the stock Fog Light Lenses and brackets. When i bought the car, the stock fog lights were gone, replaced by cheap aftermarkets. Nothing looks quite as nice as the stock fog lights, fitted to the holes they’re in.

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Part Wanted: Center Console Lid

Category: Parts Wanted — Jeff at 3:25 pm on Wednesday, September 15, 2004 |


My Supra’s center console lid sits inline with the shifter. It’s great because it feels perfectly natural to rest your elbow on it while driving, but for the same reason, there’s a giant hole in the vinyl from 14 years of elbow-resting. It was like this when i bought the car, and at the time i hadn’t realized that the part would be kind of hard to find.
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Part Wanted: Radiator Grill Pieces [found.]

Category: Parts Wanted — Jeff at 12:29 pm on Friday, September 10, 2004 |


The name sounds important, but they’re really just the little plastic grills on the inside of the turn signals on the front of the car. Some jerk, for no apparent reason, ripped my passenger side piece out and kept it. it was literally torn out, and the screw had the plastic from the grill still in it’s grooves.

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JDM Engine Swap (BHG)

Category: Engine — Jeff at 12:53 pm on Friday, August 20, 2004 |


Quite a while ago my 7MGTE blew its head gasket. I sat on it for a while with no money, trying to figure out the best solution, and found that i could spend maybe $800 to $1500 on fixing it myself with a decent gasket set, bolts, fluids, and having the head machined.

Instead of all that, i’m just going to swap the engine out and get a lower mile engine from Japan.

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