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Mate you should have given us a bell we sell it at work.

Thw wheels are 20 x 10 inch on the rear and I have got 18 x 8.5 on the front, the tires are nicely lined up to the side wall of the rim. Cant remember the measurements but they were the widest I could go for this brand of tire. You wont see this brand or tire in NZ, special import out of the states. As for the model got a kit and heavily modified it to fit the scale 20inch wheels and I am in the process of making another one as I have changed the front design in one of my pics so I want to see what it looks like before I get into the metal work.

Sold my WRX seats that I had for $20 more than what I paid for them and got a great price on some honda s2000 seats which I can get at anytime for the quoted price. Reason for swapping the seats A. the WRX seats are to wide and B. S2000 seats fit more into the theme of the car and they look nicer. Next on the list is to get some pricing on box tubing as I plan to do some more work on the car in the new year. Off to Canada next month so money is tight. I wonder if I can get my airbag suspension into my luggage on the way back.

Sounds great you should look up on you tube the RA28 with the 1UZFE in it that looks like it has RPS mufflers on it, sounds mega loud. Good progress, when are we going to catch up so I can check out the differences between what you have done and what I am doing.

Yay just bought my front mags 18x 8.5 chip foose nitrous grey with machined lip. Cost me $489 a pop but well worth it when you see them on the car. Next thing is to get the ball joints and bottom end of a GX81 cressida for my struts so I dont have to modify the lower arm on the RA25. Once I get that I can get the front wheels mounted and see what sort of clearance I have when I start working out the ride hieght. As for what to do next I am in a bit of a pickle as I really want to get the rear end narrowed to get all four wheels under the car but I also need to get some steel to start working on the new chassis. Arghhhh!!!!

Thanks for the pics awsome. Anyone else got anything like this I can look at would be much appreciated.

yay just purchased my front mags today, 18 x 8.5 chip foose nitrous grey wheels

sorry using the five stud pattern and going for big brakes. Thanks

Hopefully someone can help me on the matter. I am using A hilux diff for my 1uz conversion and was going to go disc brakes. The question I need answering is how do I hook up the hand brake as I dont have a problem doing the disc set up its just the hand brake conversion side I'm not to sure about?

I already made up a strip using 30000 candlestine LED's and hooking it up to a 9V battery with no resistor for a quick flash in behind the lense to see how bright they looked and found them to do the trick. As far as me doing them myself I might re think that idea as you said dont want to do a bodge job. Thanks for the comments it is nice to hear good praise for a project like this. As far as time goes I would like to be done within a couple of years as I dont have the car here in Auckland with me I have to go all the way down to Wanganui to my dads workshop to work on the ol girl. Time and money is the biggest thing at the moment, but I have managed to get a lot done since the start of this year.

Sorry I thought I had mentioned that I was going supercharger for the motor, I am going with the Eaton M112 rather than the M90 which is most of the conversions go for. Also I have a W58 5 speed Supra gearbox attached with a cast bellhousing from A1turbos so it is a straight bolt up rather than having to use an adaptor.

I have been experimenting with LED's for the tail lights but so far have had no luck, wasted a bit of money getting bloody LED's through Jaycar and the found out surplus electronics does them mega cheap. If anyone knows who might be able to help with the set up please PM me as I really like the look of the LED's and it will fit into the theme of the car. Got a deal for some seats so I am taking out the WRX seats that I currently have and will be replacing them with Honda S2000 seats. Last time I was working on the car I had started doing all the seam welding and making up the new front clip for the car as I had pretty much done the major parts of the body work and rust repair. Next thing to tackle is the suspension and making up the chassis from the firewall back.

Yes that is a pretty cool car and I did take some ideas from it and Also got some ideas from the old models and that is why I made one up first to get dimensions etc.

Yes the front bumper will remain as I have changed the front end design slightly as I saw the burkes metal mustang and really liked the way that they had done their front end and bonnet scoop so I will possibly take a few ideas off that one. Thanks for the comments and if you are wondering I took the original idea from Eleanor (the new gone in 60 seconds) and applied it to the RA25 as I couldnt afford a muzzy. The whole car is being built to show standards as I want to do something that is totally different to what is on the car scene at the moment. I had a good practice with my first car which was a 1974 mitsi gto that i put a 18rgeu engine in with full metal flare kit, chrome mags and minight blue paint with a big hot pink splash grahics on the side.

What the car looked like before with the enigine just sitting in. More before pics just starting some of the rust work, see bottom left of passengers side. Back to bare metal, this side was the good side, the passengers side I had to replace as there was an inch of bog and the metal was worse than a teenagers pimply face. My tires...wide Newish rear quarter just tacked on. Motor in, bonnet down enough clearance...for now, supercharger to follow. Side view, massive wheels and showing new side skirt built for car. New front end made up with removable radiator support bar. New custom front to make engine easier to get in, also had to replace due to excessive rust. Will still run dual head lights. Hopefully you guys like what you see so far. What the car will look like. A model I built of the car to see how it would look like in real life.