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Hey guys, thomas here. met u guys once at the auckland meet but it was raining so i dont think it really counts. Here's car when I got it. My mate didn't advertise it on trademe instead he advertised it in the jzx.co.nz. Im surprised that no one really was interested in getting it and it was there for 3 months listed for 2-3k

It was all standard: granny seat covers, factory manual, factory weather shield and spoiler, factory tape player with optional clutch slip. I got my mate to convince his gf's dad to sell it to me for cheap hence I got it for 1k

Photos by Winston




The car even came with Genuine Toyota Wax Set from the 80's haha Score! and a set of old japanese unused spark plugs (which I have now used)

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Since its kinda-ish my first time having and old car, didn't really have any knowledge about them. Only thing i know about any old car is rebuilding the 4age due to having aw11 but that was it.

to start off the progress
when i got the car, didn't know what to do with it so the first thing I did was remove the rust by welding and bogging to restore its original condition

from this.







to this this

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$200 later I got my suspension set including shocks: ford falcon springs rears, ma61 springs for the front, ae86 shocks for the rears and sw20 shorter shocks for the front - thanks to nigel amd david for giving me the information

After a few days,
I got rims custom made and my stealthy standard exhaustextended



THE ONLY problem I encountered was the rims not fitting the guards. I took the trims off and rolled it and refitted them again. My rims were painted black to seal the wheels and to prevent oxidation - thanks paul for the photos (jzx nz photographer)

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What my car looked like during automania - rims got painted bronzish.


I didn't like the colour of the rims in the pic above so I changed rim colour to even more bronze. Rims are finally looking like how I wanted it to be. for more progress I didn't like it having no mudguards for some reason so I returned it to where it belonged.

my wheels with new paint and 5" of dish and mud guards back on



If you can see the car could do heaps more lowering but I wanted it drivable... for now... as a merchandiser, I dont really wannt destroy my daily yet... car is actually lower in person. It's the effect of having the black bit at the bottom.
Looking at it it needs a front spoiler which should arrive soon

pics are experimental. our photographer trying out new way of editing them although I kinda want my photos unedited ish hahaha

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TOWBARRRR!!!


I managed to install a tow bar the other day.
here it is - My car with fuel cell protection..I can now finally tow a boatto the beach and carry bikes to woodhill!


anyway if anyone wanted to install a towbar here it is"

2 mounts connected on each side of the frame where the bumper is located and one on the gas mount. It was pretty straight forward. Taking the bumper off has 2 small bolts (10mm) i think on each side and 4 bolts under the carpet cover.

Here's the wiring matching for the towbar harness to the RIGHT TAIL LIGHT. I did take some photos but I reckon I can just put it on words. It's just for someone trying to install a harness

"Harness - Tailight harness"

Red - Green Wire with White lining
Light/Lime Green - Green Wire with Yellow Lining
Yellow - Green Wire with Black Lining
Brown - Light Green
White - White with Black Lining
Black - Ground

For the past few weeks, I have just been doing some touch ups, whats left now is just the front bumper trim to make it looking mint! Got my alarm siren working, turns out I just need to switch it on with a key lol.

here it is waiting patiently for the rims to arrive. Im still glat I fixed it!


Haven't had the chance to install my yellow fog lights too but I'll probably leave it till my rims arrive!
Next is Interior Detailing since I'm on holidays for 4 weeks haha.. Making a silencer atm but I didn't manage to finish it and its still in Uni workshop haha i'll probably finish it off when uni starts. Im making 2 little silencers for my twin pipe

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SO... I have been looking at pics in my folder of GX71 porn.. this is how i want my car to sit. minus the hideous side step! one im getting is slightly smaller side step and since im getting SSR mesh like these, it kinda makes me want to paint the centers white ^.^ Although mine has bigger dish yessss! i gotta wait till it arrives tho before i lower it even more so i can flare the guards to fit the rims:) and i relly do wannt put lower tyre profiles like 195 45 or 195 50s

Side step is similar to this pic right here


Scrolling through different pics of SSRs, I seem to like it's original colour mainly because it saves money


Had a vacuum leak problem and mechanics couldn't find what it was.. but got that sorted happened when i replaced the injectors... they thought i had bubbles in the car LOL but no.. haha turns out i just switched something so i downloaded the diagram.. everthing was right its just that how the fuel mount was bolted on before the plate hence causing vacuum leak... i lol'd

Car is still on standard rims as I wait for my ssrs set to arrive.. just to be save.. but i will have rims for nst meet. you'll see

For everyone with W#: something I found out when I visited a mate of mine...he's a genius.. most of the W gearboxes get a crunch when you reverse, coz they're too fast for the something to cope or something like that haha.. there's a solution to this problem. you can put it on second gear before you reverse and it'll have no crunch haha.. fixes all your crunch problems when reversing... just quickly slide it onto second gear before you reverse haha .. try it i think it goes for any toyota gearbox ....i think..


ANYWAY Here's a video for SEEN88 as promised since he wanted to know how the sound of a 1g is like. its not bad. a 1gge can sound better tho haha but still here it is.. sounds like a 1j 2j hybrid lol..

Please turn your subs up hehe

Any questions just ask



Went to a car show and borrowed ralph's rims. I aint showing up at toyota meet without my rims on! shot ralph for lending me the rims! turned out pretty good haha

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Took my car for a spin last night for the first time with the wheels on. I finished polishing up my fronts yesterday so it looked shinier now. now just gotta work on my rears and I can't be bothered atm! haha




ok so far all I have to do now is lower the car and get lower tyre profile then cert. I sold my slip on coilovers to one of the members here, turned out that the adjustables that I got for my fronts were crap so now I think I need to buy another slip on coil over. I still have my rear spring set up and seat etc.

anyway it looked good last night with polished wheels! anyone wanna do my rears? haha it took me forever to polish up the fronts haha

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FINALLY
Found time to photoshoot my car and did a bit of stuff in it! first time I held a camera in few months!

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GT86 was awesome! never seen so many 86 in my entire life! New and old!







Keisuke from 86 Fighters was there too! NZPC, Freshlywhipped and even blake from FVCK!


Here's my car sitting beside our sponsor's car. Peter's JZX110 Verossa

My car setting up in the stadium! JZX NZ boys were there too but didn't have a huge turnout mainly because it was a Saturday:( they're only free at night haha



ON a side note!

So many meets and events! I think its time for the JZX boys to have their own meet again haha! I miss being around JZ engines and X chassis! Its been a few months now since we had a meet of our own!




http://www.facebook....32563086&type=3 I realized.. there's not a lot of us here in NZ haha ^^ this set was the biggest day of all! first official meet of the JZX NZ crew...

Heaps has changed now! more mods for everyone to see!!

Uni has started again today that means I'll be working on my car real slow haha.. I mean slower** I might work on installing those yellow fog lights for now! and a bit of stan's wiring for his ke70 over the weekends

Thats it for now