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Originally Posted by SteelReign
not a buzzkill at all, just a good reality check. I'm really looking for feedback of current and previous owners of the car.
When you say that "The 5 speeds are notorious for being weak and having long term issues", do you mean the automatic or manual?
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The manuals, they don't hold up well to spirited driving over time and they will NOT handle boosting. The autos are a little stronger in terms of holding power but it's an auto, can't have much fun with it...at least that's me.
I will say I was impressed that at least in the 01's the auto would hold a gear in sport mode, it would bounce off the limiter & wouldn't auto upshift like the garbage out there today. I'm sure me hitting the limiter wasn't good for the tranny and like I mentioned I blew my trans, wasn't pretty. I was drifting around a lot and it just dumped all the fluid, techs said I grenaded the torque converter somehow.
Everyone I know who has had a 5 speed has had at least one clutch in it or worse, and those who went turbo had to swap the Supra's getrag 6 in, go 5 speed auto or 4 speed Supra auto. The reason I got rid of the car was because in order to make it fast or balanced it would take a huge amount of money and custom work, something I wasn't willing to do. I went and bought a driver's car instead and never looked back.