Wow!!! Barry, your 32 looks perfect above, beneath, inside and out!! Thank you for sharing!

In Australia you definitely have had access to some really wonderful Japanese cars that we've only in the last 5-6 years just recently been allowed to begin importing (not to mention the lovely Australia only Holdens and Fords we never got!). The specialists for 32's do seem to be in Australia, your friend who rebuilds the unique and rare nitrogen struts for owners *and* Toyota Japan being a perfect example.

I have long heard of roots superchargers being a popular modification for the V8 Soarers in Australia. I know Bullet Cars has offered partial kits for this. Are Eaton M-112's the popular choice for this? And with a 32 Active Soarer how will the engine management work given that the main engine ECU is probably unique to the original 873 examples?

I've seen the original demonstration video for the Active Soarer and the famous Best Motoring video and Clarkson's old Top Gear video. The car does seem like it just does not drift at all in any of them. Stable, planted and totally settled. I'm impressed that it will imperceptibly steer you through cross-winds!

Impressions like those only further highlight why the Active 32's and Soarer 2.5 GT 5-speed LSD manual cars were on opposite ends of a spectrum.... but in the same beautiful chassis. Very interesting. I very much enjoy the turbo manual feel and ability to kick out and control the rear end with a Torsen LSD in these cars but it sounds like a 32 will give a completely different type of experience.

I am definitely curious to hear the thoughts your other 32 owner friends might have on how a Soarer, Aristo or Supra Torsen feels in a 32 or if they even feel it offers anything to enhance the active suspension at all. Since you have, I think, a stock 3.92: (3.916) final drive ratio just like the regular Soarer V8's and SC400's the 4.083:1 LSD diff from a Soarer 2.5 GT would be slightly more aggressive while a Supra MKIV TT's or Aristo V300's 3.769:1 LSD diff would be slightly less aggressive.

But I'd think that adding a roots supercharger, revised fuel system and a custom/piggyback tune would change everything.

You're quite lucky to have one of those cars! I'm sad to learn that so few compared to the original number produced are still out there in the wild. Those cars represent a very interesting point in Japanese automotive history. Very, very unique take on how to produce near-perfected handling and stability.