bigwes

This was a very interesting and educational article. Good find.

KahnBB6

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I've read the article before. It gives a very good idea of just how different the Soarer VVT-i's are from the twin turbos. Lexus USA made such a blundering mistake not to certify the Soarer drivetrain options just as they were for the USA SC's. Doing just enough for the time really wasn't enough. In the end, only enthusiasts now recognize these cars as performance luxury cars. The R&D was already completed....

Edit: My mistake, wrong article. I have read the one the OP posted and it is a very good primer on the history of the car. I was thinking of this one (linked) because I mixed up the titles in my head: http://www.autospeed.com/cms/article.html?&A=109457

Sweatshop

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Love to see the other article, a fortuitous mistake for all of us for your mix-up. Thanks. But couldn't disagree more with your statement. Toyota probably had to walk a fine line to insure that the Supra and SCs didn't negate each other in sales. Not to mention that was the age where the Japanese and European domestic markets kept all the goodies for themselves-we're just cracking the surface now with the M BMWs and Ford world platform cars. I'd go as far as to say that if the 6-cylinder SC were as brutally right as the Supra, the Supra would have been the car that faded into obscurity due to the lack of refinement and luxury features and it's boy-racer style in comparison to the American market SC. I'm on my 3rd SC now and I didn't realize until after I sold the first one....10 years ago that it and the Supra were basically fraternal twins. God I love this car............

GT60Lex

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Very informative article.

njsc3000

good post, so this also means that the soarer is the supra mk4 daddy. dope article.

Joey-E

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Yes sir, but you wont hear any Supra owners say that.

Bryang26

Help me I have a sc400 reading code 24 29 and 31 won't stay idling I put a used mass air flow nothing starts and cuts off.

Bryang26

Should I just buy another engine.

soaringlex

It sure makes me think a little differently

2jznosht

Good article...my uncle and I always had similar tastes and were actually restoring our cars togethr(he left me his 89 sec560 r.i.p) its awesome to know my car was initially intended to compete in the same market.

2jznosht

yes...having the codes read, or taking it for some diagnosis is clearly gonna be a much bigger hassle and more expensive than a motor swap.

Joey-E

iTrader: (1)

Hey man this thread is for the SC's legendary greatness, make your own thread.
Lol

dwebb99

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I love the line , "Rather than beginning with sketches and translating them into clay models, as is customary in automotive styling, they developed early design concepts using plaster-filled balloons."
This is a very common practice (an ages old technique!) in entry level art/sculpture classes to use
"plaster-filled balloons" to create very organic sorts of 3D shapes. Mix up the plaster, pour into a balloon, form said balloon into any number of shapes (many ways to do this) as the plaster begins to harden. (You can also introduce "air pockets' into the balloon if need be). Once plaster has hardened, remove balloon skin, and cut,sand, chisel, etc and fine tune to final shape. If you have ever done this sort of thing, you'd know how VERY easy it is to do. That said, it is easy to see how the SC's basic shape was formed using this plaster filled balloon technique. The Calty design team was certainly using the old "KISS " principle when using this technique to design the SC's basic shape. I say a job extremely well done!