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am not much good at taking pictures and making a huge write up , so just made this instead

ta63 carina, 1uz + charger, manual w58, trd 2way diff , link ecu to come next week

started this build about 3 weeks ago, am just up to the mount making bit, still allot to do but the work list is getting smaller and smaller each week. Hard bit is going to be saving for paint, am keen to do the rest of the build in the garage

any way check it out .

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So got a link storm of a awesome man down the line . Was very nice and give me the igniters for free . It was running on a twin turbo 1u . So has 90 percent correct loom . Will have to buy the injectors of him or swap the plugs back over to stock ones. Haven't decided on that yet.

This weekend is all going to be fabrication .mounts and throttle adapter . And if i get a chance will try get some welding done too

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  • 2 weeks later...

so the best part about my work is that we have a little sand blaster : )

so did this today, looking good, hopefully they will do the trick , they cleaned up like new , am assembling the brakes and front shocks etc. all the kind of stuff i can take to work and do in down time.

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only a few days for the paint to dry now hahahhaha

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Cross member finished and light paint to stop rust until i can get it coated

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And brakes almost done just looking into coil overs before i paint the shock tubes to finish of the front suspension/struts. Just a bit of a before and after pic to show how awesome the sand blaster is for cleaning up brakes. Oh and for all the Toyota people out there i found out today that the front wheel bearing are the same as trojan trailer bearing . so they are dirt cheap the seals cost more than the bearing.

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So needed a bench and heaps of stuff for building stuff. I.e. bench grinder cut off saw, vice, drill press, sheet metal folder

Long story short have made a sheet metal folder, and sold and bought allot of stuff to pay for the list of things i needed.

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It took a little while to gather up funds, so in the meantime i have been making my front suspension.

Will post up the build of them once they are done as i think i can add to the awesome job that "Seedy Al" and "Roman" have done with their tech write up,

i have used their information, but i have also changed it slightly. All will be revealed this week as i should get the tube and lock nuts that i need to finish them off.

Then pictures and write up will follow

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These are the coil overs so far . Hope to be making some nrca's soon to help out the lower arm once installed. Pictures speak for themselves i think

Paint them next and fit the new brakes. Then install.

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will finish the fit up and put up pictures also .

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  • 2 weeks later...

so been awhile , some maggot of a person stole my phone and then my awesome Toyota corolla daily driver wagon got hit so have had allot of my time wasted making police reports and fighting with insurance over the phone etc. so haven’t been able to do a update cause i didn’t have my phone to take the pictures with , finally got a new phone so can do a bit of a update

anyway. . . borrowed a good mates wheels to check what kind of dish i can look into getting , and also so i could set up the adjustable’s to see how low they go .

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9 on the back lots of room for more offset these are 15

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8 and a half on the front , 15 offset too

i also got some camber plates but they aren’t going to work with how i have set up the top hats , will look into that a bit later . and the nrca's are being made tomorrow so should have a trial one to fit for the weekend .

so i needed to start welding up something cause i was getting restless and needed to play with some molten steel . . . this took me all of a hour.

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will start or the rest of the rust later on in the week

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so been ages since i made an up date, had a bit of time off work with a injury so couldn’t work on the car for a week which sucks cause when your home and there is heaps to do but you cant do it it drives you nuts.

had to get my shocks shortened a little to help keep the springs captive and get the ride height correct, this means i had to take out the 20mm spacer and re cut the tubes . didn’t take long to rework the tubes . and it was worth doing it , very happy with the outcome .

this is set at 70mm chassis to the ground , will go another 30mm lower (aprox haven’t wound it down as i need to roll the guards ) . max height measures out to be 120mm chassis to ground, haven’t wound it up max yet so this is just a rough measurement .

so when i get my wheels they should lift it up a bit so should all work out sweet.

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also started some of the rust repairs

 The boot has the most of the rust, around the tail lights and boot latch, bugger all in the windscreen which is good, this must have been looked after very well : )

 

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there isn’t much more rust to do , bit unsure about what to do on the front wind screen as its full of pitting but not sure if bad enough to warrant cutting out and patching / or if it’s a job for rust kill and some magical sealant type repair.

fuel line next issuse to sort out, then on to wiring .

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  • 3 weeks later...

haven’t got much done lately, pulled the car apart even more removed whole driveline and started to do piping . as below

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ended up damaging the hard-line later on and had to remove it, no way was i going to go through that crap bending it all up again . so went out and got braded hose . Was a total bastard. Anyway . . .

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Am going to fit the new pump in old cradle , tank is very well baffled from factory. Should work out nice and simple setup

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so the hard line got damaged so out it went, and then these al arrived, this will sort out the engine to the tank, still need a bunch more for inside the tank

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Fuel pump situation, not finished as i am waiting for the cradle to come back. It’s getting coated so it won’t rust in the tank. Electro plating is cool shit .

Also had to get some custom Teflon washers made to insulate and seal my power supply to the pump, will post up pictures later when I get it back and finish assembling it .

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all of this is so i can fit larger fittings and power supply to the pump that is almost twice the size of the factory pump . More pictures to come : )

and finaly finished my NRCA's here they are

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next moved onto rear suspension, couldn’t work out a easy way to make it adjustable so bought some random coilovers . They are so so close, but at the same time so so far away,

i am currently cutting out the shock mounts and will be welding in some pipe, capping it and making top hats for the shocks. then support and bridge each tower with box section to stop any possible flex in the body.

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so been very busy, found that the suspension i bought is not going to work, it all ended up wrong so sold it on.

also changed jobs and that in its self has had a huge impact on how much work i have been doing in the garage.

but any way here is some pictures of shit .

heater set up so far, corona tap. modified to use my heater cable .

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started wiring engine and stuff, with the aim of getting it running this year if i can, so far this is going to be just a full dry fit out

ignitor block

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and starting to finish the fuel pump

these are the Teflon washers i had made to allow a seal and a bolt to power and earth the pump

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been ages since i did a update, not a lot done recently. hate wiring shit , it sucks !

so had some r and d going on. Couldn’t keep ignitors in the engine bay , also couldn’t keep ecu on drivers side as my fuse box is much more suited to that side.

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last few months have been a lot of back in forth , lots of thinking and lots of compromise. i am trying to keep the cars as functional as possible i would like to be able to drive it every day if i choose ,so things like heater, fan and radio are important to me .
i modified the ac condenser box to hold the ecu and relays ,and still keep it functional for the blower motor .

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i also got this from trademe and got some j cars pliers to make the correct crimp, all i can say is that these are amazing, professional quality job, nice and easy to do a good job with out stupid bullet connectors and having to label every wire if you ever need to remove or work on the car.

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I am planning on building my own exhaust; everything is a first for me, very steep learning curve. Any way i bought a new tig welder, so that meant i had to modify my welding trolley!! Love building shit like this, no measuring or anything just raw engineering. Came out quite well. I quite Like the version 2.0 .

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so since that went so well I decided to make a radio stand so I could get the radio of the floor and to a better height
it is so much better at ear height . should have done this little job ages ago .
Turns out its way over kill , I can do pull ups of it . and i am 90 kgs ha ha h a.

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so turns out that the special super charger adapter i bought already fitted to the charger was installed backwards !!!!! *(^&^&%&^%&$^$%#$#% !!!!! . . . had to cut the bugger of .
very carefully with a 1mm cutting disk on the grinder, i am rather impressed with myself hardly touched the charger its self , this was a intense cut as you can imagine

 

I had the puller on it, with some plates that I made up, they bent to buggery but it was all really dodgy feeling

 

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this has turned into a drama as its a interference fit , so the new hub that me and a good friend are building has to be exactly right 0.01 to small and it will slip.
version 1.0 went well but unfortunately upon instillation i snapped the press tool, so now we have to manufacture and new threaded instillation tool and remover the broken bit from the end of the charger. but on the plus side the pulley looks great .

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modifyed sway bar mounts to fit a ae86 sway bar , its the same thickness as my origonal sway bar but it clears the sump YAY!!

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and that is about it till i wouk out pipe thickness and start making exhaust .

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got into the machine shop and used and end mill to cut a line in the snapped bolt, luckily we managed to unscrew it with a screwdriver!!! hell yeah !!!

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Then onto making a new hub to offset the pulley into the correct position, got it home and onto the engine, fits great ! just need to get some more counter sunk screws and its done

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big thanks to luke at timely tools for giving up your weekend to help me out, have done a great job .

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so have been a bit busy, finally paid of my debt so now I can spend up large on the project yay!!!!

started of with some little jobs that I have been meaning to do for awhile ,

made a sweet little guard for the lowest part of the fuel system, doesn't need it but I felt like making some shit

 

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started making some headers, I have never made them before so I thought it would be hard as ,, but it was actually easy .I know they are not tuned to length, and I did spend a lot of time trying to imagine a way of doing this but at the end of the day I am not looking for maximum power just need to get the exhaust gas out of the engine !

 

 I really enjoyed making these. and I cant wait for the next exhaust system project . I think if I had the time I could make these much better , but they will be fine for what I need

 

pasanger side

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drivers side   note steering in the way hahaha, this should be fun ! 

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ran out of gas ,so haven't finished welding yet . well that's enough for now, back to the garage !

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