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Andrew’s 1993 Toyota Supra

Words: Peter Ciuperciuc
Photos: Jeremy Cliff

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Andrew started to get into cars when he was a teenager. He started out like most of us going to races, attending cars shows, and buying a car magazine every now and then. Andrew has been through many different cars and has built some crazy beasts. In 2004, he was left with a pocket full of cash and no car to drive around town.

Well to say the least, he fixed that problem fairly quickly.  After some extensive searching, Andrew found what he though might be the perfect car for him sitting in Arizona. From the first time he saw this beauty, he knew he had to have it. The transaction was completed almost immediately, and 1800 miles later it was home.

The Supra was fast at purchase, but has evolved into something almost unnatural. Everything from the big turbo under the hood down to the behemoth 5 inch exhaust running out the back means business. What you are looking at is not a show car. Andrews supra has never seen under 30 pounds of boost for 3 years! The supra’s résumé looks a little like this: 2 blown race engines, 1 snapped drive shaft, a few cracked rims, blown drag radials, two blown 900 hp race clutches, and three blown turbos! This car has quite the wrap sheet and reputation.

Andrew’s supra has gone through a couple different setups. Andrew’s car initially came with a 67mm turbo from PTE, yet for some reason it was not enough for him. He sold the old turbo setup, and upgraded to a new 74 mm turbo which was good for about 700- 800 horespower. This setup was fun for a while, yet Andrew still yearned for more.  After extracting every last morsel of horsepower from this setup, Andrew’s supra went back under the knife. While he was at it, he also installed a couple of new things such as an Oil Cooler, Valve Stem Seals, 6 Speed Leather Shift Knob, Instrument Cluster Panel, Brake Lines, and other overdue maintenance items. He then sold his 74 mm turbo setup and opted for the next biggest option a gt47-80 mm turbo setup. This setup helped Andrews supra to reach somewhere around 1000 horsepower. Unfortunately this setup blew two motors. After the supra’s second blown engine, Andrew decided to put the car up for sale. For some reason it never sold.

So instead of letting the car sit, Andrew decided to up the anti by selling the old turbo and picking himself up a new gt47-88 mm turbo.  This helped him reach an estimated 1200 horsepower and 1000 rwtq. This monster turbo is bolted up to a Virtual works T6 manifold, and out the back is attached to a Virtual works 4.5 inch downpipe to a Strictly Modified full custom straight 5 inch exhaust! Just hearing his supra at idle will get your blood pumping.

If you really want to succeed in creating a monstor, building the motor is a necessary evil. The head was built from the ground up starting with a trip to Apex over in Bensenville, IL so they could work their magic. They performed a full port and polish with a three angle valve job, and shaved the head raising compression to 9.0:1. After which they installed a set of Super tech 1 mm oversized valves, valve springs, and titanium retainers with spring locators. Apex then installed a set of Hks’s 280 degree camshafts, Titan cam gears, and topped it off with a Cosmetic fuzion mls head gasket.

The block was sent out to Apex as well where it was bored .20 over. They also opened up the oil galleries and added one of their full custom oil pumps to make sure the engine was fed with a healthy amount of oil at all times. After which; they installed a set of CP .20 pistons mated to Carillo H beam rods, Arp main studs, and a Boost logic sfi crank pulley. As you can see, no expense was spared.

What gives this supra its heart and sound is the monster gt47-88 turbo from precision/garret. The turbo is so huge you can fit a small child inside of it literally. The turbo feeds compressed air into a modified greddy 4 row intercooler.  The Accufab throttle body is fastened to a Sound Performance racing intake manifold which takes care of dividing the air into the individual cylinders. Pressure is released via a Tial 44mm wastegate and a Tail 50 mm blow off valve.

Now that the supra has the added ability to force huge amount of air into the cylinders, it would all be useless without the proper amount of fuel to accomplish proper combustion. Starting with a Titan motorsports fuel rail accompanied by their1600 cc injectors, Andrew picked up some other goodies while he was at it. Some of these items include a Weldon fuel pressure regulator, Aeroquip stainless steel braided lines, fitting higs, Titan Motor Sport’s billet triple fuel pump hanger, and finally a triple Walbro 255 fuel pump. The real nifty aspect of this setup is that the third fuel pump is programmed to kick in when the engine is under boost.

The getrag six speed transmission that came with the Toyota supra from the factory is good for about 2000 hp so there was no need to modify it. The only modifications to the drivetrain is a Tilton triple disc carbon clutch.  The suspension setup only has one purpose on this car, and that is to keep all four wheels planted to the ground via Kyb adjustable shocks and Tein springs. The supra’s sporting set of ultra rare Bogart D-10 racing wheels with a 15×4 set up in front and a 15×10 for the rear. The tires are meant for only one thing: grip! With Mickey Tompson drag skinnies in front measuring 26×4.5 x15 and 325×50×15 et street radials attached to the rear you can bet this car gets some grip. To bolt these bad boys on Andrew needed to install a set of Arp extended wheel studs.  In order to get those sick burnouts at the track a Titan motorsports line lock was installed so the front brakes stay active and the rear brakes are shut off. This car is a fully built beast!

The interior of Andrew’s car smells like one thing and one thing only, RACE GAS!  Though most of the interior is stock there are a few exceptions such as the chromoly 4 point roll cage, a set of sparco turino seats, sparco 4 point harnesses, sparco brace’s, a pioneer cd player, and a set of 10″ infinity kappa subs. If you look at the gauges you will see the infamous Trd 10,000 rpm tach a Greddy 60 mm electronic fuel pressure gauge.

Andrew opted for Aem’s engine management system with their 5 bar map sensor, intake air temperature sensor, and injector driver. To make sure the spark plugs are getting enough power, Andrew installed a Hks dli and a Fjo wideband o2 ntk sensor to monitor his air fuel ratio. Some of the polished parts in the engine bay include the intake manifold, throttle body, valve covers, power steering reservoir, intercooler piping, intake pipe, and fuel rail.

Andrew will drive the car in just about any weather condition, at anytime of the day or night, and in any way shape or form. His car will only run race gas and at quantities of 5 gallons (hey race gas is expensive!) He has ran out of gas before with his car which as he explained it to me “sucked”. Andrew has raced everything in his car from his cousin’s turbo charged Sc300 to 1000 cc motorcycles! crazy!

Andrew’s engine will see over 40 pounds of boost with the crank spinning upwards of 9000 rpm! Let’s face it how often is it that you will see a 1000 plus horsepower supra on the street let alone get to cruise with it. Just driving next to this car is an adrenaline rush. When you first hear this beast belching out 3 ft. flames, you do not know what’s going on. All you know is that the car is loud and fast. There is a story of Andrew burning someone’s front bumper with his fire breathing “toy”. when asked why he would drive such an outrageous thing on the street Andrew simply replied” It is an adrenaline rush”. This pretty much sums up who Andrew is.

Well as the situation sits now Andrew has sold the supra. Yes it long gone, and now it resides in Staten Island, NY. The new owner (who’s name is Brandon) has already dynoed the car on Q16 and saw 1014 whp with conservative timing and some tire spin! Brandon has some big plans for the car starting with removing the old tired six speed transmission and replacing it with a th400. He will also be adding a new 10 point roll cage and a few other goodies. Brandon’s goal for the car is to eventually see low 8’s at the quarter mile. Keep a look out because this cars rein of terror is far from over!

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