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You hear a lot of spurious power claims in this game. People who tell you their Focus ST’s running 350bhp when you know it’s bone-stock aside from a shouty exhaust. Guys who reckon bolting a K&N to their Impreza has added an extra 75bhp. Those ‘power resistors’ people used to flog on eBay that claimed they’d give you an extra 20bhp, but all they did was trick the ECU into over-fuelling. You know what it’s like. Pub boasts get out of hand. But when Shawn Preece tells us that his Mk4 Supra will soon be running 1,200bhp, well, we’re inclined to believe him. You see, he’s not the kind of guy who’d waste his time with that sort of nonsense, he’s not out to impress anyone. The cold, hard fact is that his home-built Supra is already running four-figure numbers, and he’s not showing any signs of slowing down with the project.

Shawn’s very much a Supra guy, and as with so many feature car owners we talk to, the roots of this passion