Newb to the site. Bought a 87 Yellow Supra Today. Introducing myself

[Green7mgte]

Originally Posted by AaronCDC

thinking about getting the car rapainted too. any color suggestions or maybe leave it yellow?

that one is pretty much up to you. I heard it was difficult to change the color from original. I myself am a purist. meaning no matter what mods I may have or may do to my car. I will keep my stock look or incorporate them the best I can to maintain said stock look. Yes i have a new cd player yes i have a sirius and a gps. but I added them flushly into my dash by removing my ciggerret holder and using the extra space under my cd player. my turbo timer Ill prolly mount that into my glove box once i get it if applicable. my radar detector is attatched to my sun viser. and once I get my engine upgraded a tad I would want to actually mount my new guages into the dash itself. Things that are flashy and covering the inside of the car just look ugly to me. But if all that proves to be outside my skill range then yes ill just have them in plain sight.. bah

[AaronCDC]

Originally Posted by Green7mgte

that one is pretty much up to you. I heard it was difficult to change the color from original. I myself am a purist. meaning no matter what mods I may have or may do to my car. I will keep my stock look or incorporate them the best I can to maintain said stock look. Yes i have a new cd player yes i have a sirius and a gps. but I added them flushly into my dash by removing my ciggerret holder and using the extra space under my cd player. my turbo timer Ill prolly mount that into my glove box once i get it if applicable. my radar detector is attatched to my sun viser. and once I get my engine upgraded a tad I would want to actually mount my new guages into the dash itself. Things that are flashy and covering the inside of the car just look ugly to me. But if all that proves to be outside my skill range then yes ill just have them in plain sight.. bah

i try not to keep things too much in view. i try not to use screws either im all about super stick velcro strips lol. i got a thing that has 3 cigarette lights spots on it that i use so i can have my gps and radar all on at once. used to have one of those horns that has like a butt load of diff sounds like animal or sirens or a PA but that i dont really want in my supra.... other then that. i WISH i had a turbo cuz then id be talkin about gettin a gauge to lol. ... and yeah i kinda like the color i might just get it redone. its nice to be able to see my car in the parking lot cuz hey how many people really have a bright yellow friggin car

[Green7mgte]

my radar detector is hooked directly into my fuse box. I cut the cig adapter off spliced the wires added a fuse and connector (lil two pronged thing to the hot wire. please excuse my overly technical description) plugged the hot directly into an open 15v fuse under my driver side kick pannel and just grounded the other wire to the driver side firewall grounding bolt. and as for my gps and sirius. like i said i removed my ash tray cause I do not smoke in my car. mounted my sirius were that used to be and d/c my cig lighter. installed a 3 pronged one and left it in the cavity.. no wires are showing anywere. looks nice and flush with my dash. out of sight out of mind.. stock professional the way i like it.

[AaronCDC]

Originally Posted by Green7mgte

my radar detector is hooked directly into my fuse box. I cut the cig adapter off spliced the wires added a fuse and connector (lil two pronged thing to the hot wire. please excuse my overly technical description) plugged the hot directly into an open 15v fuse under my driver side kick pannel and just grounded the other wire to the drive side firewall grounding bolt.

wow thats pretty.... well.... smart.... never thought about that. hmmm.. and i love your technical description.. reminds me of... well me. lol. i may have to look into that.

[Green7mgte]

Originally Posted by AaronCDC

wow thats pretty.... well.... smart.... never thought about that. hmmm.. and i love your technical description.. reminds me of... well me. lol. i may have to look into that.

im only 2 years older then you.

the hardest and smartest part was just adding a fuse. I hate seeing wires I hate things plugged into my cig lighter.

yea total install time.. 1/2 beer. and the fuse and a bunch of wires and things costs under 5 dollars,

[AaronCDC]

Originally Posted by Green7mgte

im only 2 years older then you.

the hardest and smartest part was just adding a fuse. I hate seeing wires I hate things plugged into my cig lighter.

yea total install time.. 1/2 beer. and the fuse and a bunch of wires and things costs under 5 dollars,

if your talkin like normal fuses used in the fuse box i have a shit load of em lol. aww so 85 was a good year then? lol. my 85 supra was pretty powerful... course not like my 87 but my 87 will be more powerful soon enough... someone at my work wants to race lol. they got a 07 VOLVO S40.. stock there power and torque is a lil more then what 87 supra is stock. but not by much with that turbo though argh. stupid volvo and there stupid turbo t5's

[MA70-3.0GT]

Just my 2p on the paint (and entirely my own biased opinion), but I think black is the only colour for an MA70. Plain black like stock's fine but BMW DiamantSchwartzMetallik is just gorgeous!

Oh, a couple of pics of the reason for my bias...