1997 Toyota Supra Twin Turbo - Stu Hagen - 2013 IMSCC Competitor

My name is Hagen. I have a 97

twin

turbo

Targa Supra. I bought it in October 2000 and it started with my son Marshall, who grew up, he's a 90's kid and plays card games and I gave him my 1980 BMW. and two months later he sold it for a GSR very good why did you get this card and vêoc started to explain to me about the import market and I said well I'm looking to buy myself I'm going to want to get a car and then I wanted to write a list of the cars I should buy and he wrote rx-7

supra

300zx NSX, so my job was to test all these cars that I did and I tested a na Supra and I really fell in love with it and in three months I bought one.

Well, I dedicated myself to the car. I didn't necessarily want to buy a car with a single

turbo

, it wasn't very well built, it wasn't well taken care of, so I wanted to base it on what Toiya designed for this car, so all my invoices in the last ten years are based on configurations originals and, to improve them, obviously, the biggest is the one transformed into GT 28 turbos and the original turbo housing, which is stealthy. which makes all the extra horsepower by building the frame around that port, all the 40 pipes and all the internal casings inside the turbos, the scrolls and everything to get as much out of it as possible and then I modified the head a little bit.

Street had it with stiffer springs to be able to increase the rev limit, another element that cannot be seen, then the intercooler comes only to keep the cooling low, but for the basic part, the engine itself is practically original, that is the big one. The big horsepower gain is modified turbos in the intercooler and the raised rev limiter in the head, well my super does it, as I mentioned. I think it's versatile because it has great street ability, rides very comfortable, relatively quiet, can just be a cruiser car. I have HKS Hyper Max 3 coils that, if I ever want to go road racing, I start them tied to the harness that's not in the car right now and I go to the road races and things go down a bit.

Very good times, it has a custom designed aerofoil on the front of the intercooler, which is designed. I don't think anyone else has anything like that. It diverts all the air coming into the intercooler to the top half of the 50% of the intercooler, which normally the air doesn't reach, as for the future of my car, I had a big build in 2011 where that engine problem, thanks Steve, I had a big build in 2012 on the engine issue where we decided to completely strip my car and put it. It was back to near factory condition, so we took the engine out, took everything out of the engine bay, painted and coated the engine bay, put in all the new parts, put in different coils, took the harness bar off and decided that this It's my final bill.

This is now a street Supra. I'm going to enjoy it just taking it for a ride around town and won't be taking it to track events much anymore. I have another car that I'm going to dedicate to that in the future, so he's done his thing for 12 years and now he's retiring to be the cozy car, but probably without a doubt the best guy to ever touch that car and he really knows what that he does and it's just amazing his build quality like Steve. Ishi from Mitchell Motors, this guy is a super fan. Eamon had one in the late 90's, he knows a lot about this car and if there's anyone who knows how to put a nut and bolt on this car, this guy knows what I am.

You won't do anything unless you walk away saying this is how Toyota would do it?