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Old 11-07-2022, 02:15 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Kelse92 View Post
I have driven a pretty much bone stock supra on track quite a few times.

They are great cars, and I would love to own one, but a few compromises I would say:

- Visibility in one is terrible compared to the 86 and the seating space is a bit tricky. I am 5'5" and I am more torso than legs, to get the proper position to reach the pedals and the steering wheel with my helmet on I nearly hit the sun visor.
I suspect if you are tall you would have the opposite problem, so definitely take your helmet and sit in one before buying.

- The wind buffeting is abysmal. Your first mod should be verus wind deflectors if you go out on track.

- The handling is good but the suspension is a bit softly sprung. I have driven it's sister car (the M2 Comp) stock back to back with the Supra and liked the suspension package on the M2 much better. If I owned a Supra (which I do think is still the better of the two because of the weight/low COG) I would definitely be putting a good set of coil overs on it for track use.

- I don't know how hard you drive, but if you plan to tune and turn up some power and drive it hard on sticky tires, I think the car starts to have some cooling problems and you'll want to upgrade that stuff. If you're just lapping/hpde in a cooler climate you should be OK.
3 radiators engine coolant on the Supra; Safe to say, it doesn't have cooling issues on track, even with huge bumps in power!
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