Fresh

Epic film making. Very nice.

Cant wait for turbos bro, imagine the minds we will be blowing when we get our cars together again.

Got tacho working again now with new engine. So I guess you could say the conversion is 100% complete now. Got it groomed and everything came up pretty nice. Gathering up some interior parts that are missing or broken.

Did a road tip to Dunedin towing a trailer in the weekend and it loved it. Suspension is amazing. Really surprised by how smooth the ride is. Is pretty low and hardly hits the ground. Perfect all round really.

your old fa50 got hacked up

/you're a cunt

The lanky doozle.

Ill bite your face cunt. It'll be a goer.

Awesome cheers man. I will text him up.

I was wondering about bushes. Where do you get replacements from? Do they come as a full kit?

Nah man you can get X73/X71 BC stuff thats designed specifically. Only thing you need to do is cut off the bottom of your factory front struts (so you have the wheel hub assembly etc) and get them welded onto the bottom of the BCs. Everything else is straight bolt in.

Rear adjustment has a spring that sits in an adjustable hat so you can change the height. Also has an adjustable height shock with 30 points of dampening adjustment.

Front is just what you would expect in an adjustable coil over. Camber, body heieght adjustment, spring height adjustment/tension, 30point dampening.

Not sure how similar X61 is to X71 but I would imagine it is pretty similar. Much more similar than AE.

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Heaps of adjustment, I can make the back so low the diff scrapes just from the shallow angle of the road. And I could make it pretty close to factory height as well.

Fronts didnt go low enough when I first got the welding done. Ended up getting an extra 40mm cut off the BC and rewelded which let me go low enough (chassis is 50mm off the ground at lowest setting). If I wound them right up I could probably get it pretty close to factory height.

Yeah need to find one from somewhere. Any leads?

And nah fog lights have always worked as they should. Just had them on for fun today. Even got light sensors so they turn on automatically

Went for a drive today and got a wet shot...

Hey man, I have made up a Tach Booster as described here.

Scroll down to The Witzls comment, I built one of those. Just need to put it in and see if it works.

And yeah, I had 3degrees of camber at 120mm off the ground. Factory specs are 0.5-0.75 from memory lol.

On a side note, you will need to remove the post from my main thread as don't think you are allowed to post in the project threads.

Awesome cheers mate.

OK sweet. So captive when the wheels are jacked off the ground and hanging?

I just jack the arms up with a Jack until the mount lines up with the shock and then slam the shock on. I guess I may have been putting the spring under a decent amount of tension before securing the shock.

Will try just jacking the arm until the spring is just tight enough to not move and then adjust shock height to slide onto mount.

Have got some BC adjustables installed in my GX71 and all is well apart from an issue I discovered the other day.

When trying to do a burn out the rear end gets some pretty wild axle tramp. Now this doesnt really make alot of sence since its IRS but it feels like the wheels are bouncing up and down off the pavement.

One thing that came to mind when installing the BCs in the rear was how to set the shock height. And I am wondering if the shock is set too short/long and may be putting a lot of preload or whatever on the rear and causing the tyres to bounce.

GX71 has a separate shock and spring setup. The spring is height adjustable and this is what I have been adjusting to set the height of the car. The shock is also height adjustable but I have no idea what height it should be set at. Does anyone have any guidelines on what height the shock should be set at? I figure there must be a way of getting it relative to the height of the spring.

Anyone who wants to cruise down from Christchurch with us let me know so we can arrange a place and time to launch from. Leaving on Friday 24th at probably around 7pm. Have organised accommodation for the 4 of us so anyone else keen will need to book their own.

Feeks - Master of Arms

Fresh or James. Who are you mofos.

Genuine Toyota colour. Good man!

Ill give it a clean and a polish and get my mate to DSLR some pics.

My gang ride after a fresh paint.

Yeah man it was all pretty lame but has been worth it. Mine is about 50mm off the ground and has a shitload of camber, like 5-10 degrees. Even at 100mm it still had like 3 or 4 degrees. Mark II was allowed 0.3-0.75 degrees from memory so yours would be same. If you find a nice wheel alignment person they might be able to do some number tricks for you

Nice car man.

Cert was a general bitch in every aspect. The new camber laws and tyre stretch laws make it hell.

You cant have any camber in the rear so you will need to raise it up to about 120mm or somehow make the rear camber adjustable and wind all the camber out.

Tyres will have to comply with the new chart. So pretty much have to run skinny rims with huge tyres to get them to fit in the guards.

Had to get custom made adaptors for my wheel spacers and rims so they sit snug on the hubs.

Front adjusties had to be crack tested after I got them welded but rear adjusties were sweet. Also having adjusties has been a god send otherwise I would have probably gone through about 10 sets of springs haha.

As for the conversion I had a friend do all the work. Car was factory 1GGEU manual so made the conversion pretty simple. Merged 2x 1GGTEs into one with all the good stuff. Managed to get the winged front sump which sounds like a must as I have heard stories of people running bearings using the factory front sump from their 1Gs.

All 1GGTEs come with a winged sump but most supras are middle or rear I think. Front only came on factory turbo GX sedans.

FMI fitted real nice and snug with some pretty easy mods but had to rip out all the AC.

Only thing that isn't working since conversion is the Tacho (I have Digi Dash). But pretty sure I have figured out how to sort that.

Car is now finally certed and fully road legal. Have put it back to how it looks above on the grass

Andy has loaned me his BOV, need to put my boost tap on and wind up the boost and see how it runs.

After my experience with Cert all I can say is good fucking luck. If I was to do it again I would probably get a Log Book and go down that path. All the new rules make it pretty much impossible to have a low car in any way.

I'm amazed that this is a 22 page thread and the turn out was about 10 people! About 8 of those people are people I see almost every week anyway haha.

That's mean. I'll have to have a yarn about it.