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5 meeelion! A fair whack for it. I won't know the full cost until it's here so I'd prefer to keep it my business for now. So I have some humble pie to eat after some more research. The white-over-gold SE was the 1988 model, a run of 300. The midnight blue SE was the final 1989 run-out model and had ...

Nope, that term makes me cringe...

But I do name all my cars, so suggestions on a postcard.

Lurvely! Hope mine lives up to the moniker!

Nope, optional on all, but I think anyone buying the SE in Japan were 'option box tickers'. No point flogging a non-existent horse here

Cheers,
Jon

Cheers guys. Spec is the same, just the colour difference. Only unknown is
LSD or not, which was an additional option regardless of colour. Have only ever seen one other two-tone SE.

I used pacific auto, not the cheapest but less chance of being ripped off.

Cheers,
Jon

Only the nasty old auction pics, but the exporter does post-sale walk-around video's of the car so if it's not too embarrassing I will post that up when it's done. Has all the SE stuff and not too many mods (Watanabe's 8) ). From the auction sheet it sounds like the Recaro's will need a bit of help ...

I have just become the owner of a Super Edition, white & gold two-tone, in Japan

Will need a few bits (Mr. Woods, I will be in touch!) but hopefully nothing major.

Now for the lonnng wait for the boat! Hopefully I can use it for a couple of months before the winter kicks in.

Cheers,
Jon

Looks good Paul - surely you should have been comp'ed a copy though!

The circle is a balancing mark. You see crank pulleys with 3 or 4 of these so I guess they were balanced up by hand by Toyota.

Cheers,
Jon

Did you change the ARB links at the same time by any chance?

One of my old ones, but not seen it in years and has passed through a few owners since then I think. Was a decent, solid car back then, and appears to have been looked after. Not much else I can say.

Chris has been around for decades - great guy

btw the external wastegate is the 'bell' looking thing you describe

If you aren't sure put up your location and a local owner will be able to help you for a few beers....

Sounds like you have an aftermarket setup with a 'dump' pipe or 'screamer' pipe depending on which you prefer. If the dump pipe is pumping exhaust off boost (like at idle) then I would suspect the external wastegate has either died or you've dislodged a vac pipe or two from it.

Cheers,
Jon

rotor arm is different (longer contact duration), unsure on the cap...

Yup, sounds it. Absolutely piece of p1ss to change. Not really convinced they do a deal anyway.

Jon

Yup, have upgraded my PC in preparation Will be worth the extra wait on the PC I think.

To be honest I would just rub it back, fibreglass it and spray with some good anti-rust treatment.

Jon

Agreed 11 is good, 12:1 gives good power but no margin for safety really. 10.4:1 is a little low so is costing a little bit in outright power, but is also very safe. Most 3SGTE's on standard ECU's run <11:1.

Jon

Aren't those just standard cam gears that have been slotted and hks timing wheels inserted? Very common to do it that way in Japan and work fine, I think from the time before full aftermarket cam gears were easily available.