Tender Raisin

Glad to see you took on this wagon. I will follow the progress of the JZ swap. I Have one sitting in the garage for when my 1g gives up.

sidenote - you don't have any spare sedan taillights you would be interested in selling?

14 hours ago, Dell'orto said:

Rislone headgasket fix is the business. Is nearly $90 retail, but have seen it work in diesel motors and hold for ages, so something low stress will probably go for years with it. 

+1 for Rislone. Had nothing to lose on the 1g and its still holding up. But as all others have said I would only do it to an engine you don't care about.

The Mrs spotting a @Bling?

On 15/12/2018 at 22:25, cletus said:

On 15/12/2018 at 22:18, a.craw4d said:

Probably been covered a million times before (and my apologies) but can you chuck almost any wheels on a car and not need cert for them alone?

yes, if they fall within the wof threshold rules

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But once certed you're bound to the wheels when cert was issued?

yes

If i take my car for certification for adjustable suspension, on my stock wheels, is the car then bound to those wheels? If i want to change the wheels in the future do these need to be re certified or does it fall under the first point above? Cheers.

Is the display just on the Saturday? I haven't personally meet any of you before, but my car is running finally.

Shit its good driving this thing again.

The picture above shows how much lower that middle muffler sits compared to the rails. You can spot it poking underneath. This will need to be priority one if i want to go any lower.

Also the 3 speed auto hates hills... more than i remember 

I'm guessing by this you are talking about wipers that when not on, sit off the windscreen below it?

If so i saw one a month or 2 back. It was on a toyota gx61. I was puzzled at first so i asked why his wipers sitting down below the windscreen. but he was like nah its factory. and showed me how they lifted up and moved up to the window when turned on. Quite cool.

Sorry no help on how they work.

Similar to the one below. the car two to the left (just out of picture) has the wipers on screen. It may have been a face lift option but im not sure. @dspec_tt131 car may have them?

Have a few. Made the civic had it white and silver 2 tone, made a mistake on the black trim so ended up doing the whole thing silver. hated it got so ruined it more and thats how it ended up. Haven't touched another one in the fear i will stuff it up. 

That convertible was fast at the track on Wednesday. I had to get out of the way multiple times after you would appear out of nowhere. 

15 hours ago, Bling said:

Are we talking full on race spec, or could it potentially pass a WOF?

Just driving to get a WOF, officer.

its loud and quite low (adjustable suspension) - sticks out as well. Also hasn't had a wof in over 10 years. So im not keen to talk to Mr officer about why i am driving it.

Can you tow a car with no WOF or registration behind a car? Or does this come into a trailer category and you need WOF & registration?

Scenario. Work is having a track day at Ruapuna Raceway, 10min from my house. To Hire a trailer for the day is $250. Just looking for other options.

Small wheels and low is all you need in my opinion. (not that ridiculous rear camber in the first pic though)

I have always had a soft spot for the car in last pic but i wouldn't class it as an old-school look as you desire.

A few from the trackday yesterday.

Wheels!

So I have been collecting some wheels.

Set of 14” SSR MK 1’s 8j A-Disk

Pair 14” SSR MK 2’s 7j

Set of 14” Work Equip 03s 3-6.5j 1-7j

 chees- was selling his Mk1’s so I grabbed them and had the lips and faces tidied up, and they also got a good polish. These will be the wheels that will go on the car. I’m thinking I may require some 7.5s on the front but I won’t know till the car is on the ground to see how it sits. I also have new hardware for them.

The guards will need to be rolled to fit the wider wheels. If you have any tips on how to not damage the wheel arch chrome let me know in the discussion thread Thanks.

The MK 2’s popped up at a nice price and are like new, so I picked them up. Hopefully another pair will Pop up sometime to make a set.

The Works were only purchased as wheels that will be used for wof and cert duties as the Mk1's wont cut it.

Failed Deadline

So I/IT failed the deadline of toyotafest. It was always going to be a tight one, but it definitely got me motivated to get it done. Suspected Blown Head Gasket a month out stopped it from getting there. I just want to bin the 1g-eu, so il keep an eye out for either 1g-ge / 1g-gte / 2jz-ge

 Anyway...

After checking the other wheel arch, no damage was found. Further investigation shows that the lower control arms are actually different colours. So my guess is that it was once in some kind of accident.

I managed to pick up a cheap Altezza LSD. So the goodies swapped into the F-series Diff.

The rear sub frame was dropped and sent off to have the outside lower control arm mount modified to run an eccentric bolt. Hopefully to remove some camber for certification. Unfortunately they brought down the bolt hole more than I showed. I wanted the ability to wind some camber back into it after certification but it can always be changed in the future.

New front brake rotors, pistons and bearings were all added. Had some issues with the caliper cage not lining up with the rotor. Checked the new rotors, thinking there was a problem, but they matched. The brakes came with the coil overs so I’m not sure how they once worked. Had the cages machined to fit and its together now.

Also Tidied up the rear break pistons and got new brake hoses all round.

Unfortunately with the addition of the RCA’s the lower control arm hits the brake shield. Will need to bend the shield to make it work.

39 minutes ago, Toddy415 said:

Im presuming at least its not a bright yellow like the one we will be going in lol

Bright red with some decent stone chips haha. 

Will be heading down on Friday from Timaru. Sadly the GX61 isnt running and the MA61 is far from legal. So that leaves me with the daily Altezza