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Originally Posted by strat61caster
Now why would anyone buy a 4-banger Toyota when you can have a 400+ horsepower Corvette for same money?
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If you live in the States, good question!
Living here in Japan:
1. Corvette is LHD only. Will get annoying (drive thrus and whatnot).
2. The lighter and smaller 86 suits Japan's tight, narrow, and twisty roads better.
3. There's far fewer places to make good use of the 400+hp on the street. Very little highway driving here.
4. Annual taxes on a 5.7L engine is something like $750. For over 6L it's ~$1000. Every....YEAR.
That's the main reason I'm looking at getting another used Evo X for my next car instead of an early IS-F. I'd love an NA V8 but taxes + general driving conditions mean anything over about 3.5L or 350hp just isn't worth it.
Not to threadjack or anything.....
In terms of sourcing spare parts for an R32....see if you can get a Japanese-speaking friend to setup a Yahoo! Auctions Japan account for you. You can sometimes find engines for cheap, but getting an RB26 shipped internationally is probably a pain. I tried to put my 1JZ and 1.5JZ up on Ebay but every Japanese shipping company refused to ship an engine overseas, even palletized, or by sea.