johnnyizegem

Good find this. Like it very much. Didn't know they existed...

And on the rear brake cilinders, I did the same for my crown wagon, used cilinder and rubbers, swapped pistons.

Great car and write up! Thanks for sharing.

Here in Belgium there were 10 MS51s sold originally. I just came short of buying one of them a few years ago. I know one who has another and has broken one. I think that's it for belgian MS51s so I won't own one ever I am afraid. I would swap one of my MS75s any time for an MS51...

finally got around taking a pic of the sticker...

Here on the crown, an original one

and a reproduction I bought from the belgian toyota club for on one of the other crowns

Did you guys get the 'my toyota is fantastic' sticker? My MS75 crown still has one on the back window. Pic will follow, will have to take a new one...

The toyota club in Belgium does reproduction ones of 2 styles of these.

Maybe that does not classify as a dealer sticker, but a toyota genuine one?

On 09/02/2022 at 07:14, locost_bryan said:

Not sure if the Mazda is too new to be old school, but when did you last see one?

 

There is an old man living a bit further down my street who has one of these. Nice oldschool light green colour... went into a ditch though so one side isn't that pretty anymore...

Should buy it at one point but to much projects already. We'll see once it is that time for the owner. I already showed some interest...

44 minutes ago, igor said:

Nothing wrong with overkill. As a draughtsman fresh out of polytech I had a go at designing a timber boardwalk structure. The senior engineer had a look at my design, took out half the columns, and reckoned it would be about right.

I am used to design everything a little to strong, unless weight for example is critical. I design press brakes (LVD) for a living and we allways say, it's designed the LVD way when it's overkill. Better to use a few kilograms to much steel :p

17 minutes ago, KP_wag said:

Love your work mate. Have contemplated doing something similar, can you explain the chemfix bit? I was thinking of bolting direct to the studs as whatever I build kids will no doubt try and climb on it...

Thanks man!

https://www.gooduse.com.tw/en/faq/How-to-install-the-chemical-anchor/faq-01-10.html (and make sure you fix a threaded rod inthere, not a drill :D)

Something similar to the above, but I had to use an additional sleeve as I was dealing with 'hollow' stones... My solution is probably overkill as I used 5 M10 studs/shelf but the oak alone was 7kg for the heaviest one. Better safe than sorry...

Detail was not found i guess... The wire people have a crown emblem in their living room on their side table next to the plant. (Maybe my worst englisg ever?)

Thanks for the advice. I did some more googling aswell and waterblast seems to come up frequently but I don't have the powers to do that at home, nor did I have Wet and forget on the shelf so I tought I would start with something I read that was within my powers with readily available stuff, which was (hot) water and vinegar and lucky me, satisfying results...

Hi,

How to remove this stuff from trim and glass 'easily' and safely (especially for the parts)?

thanks!

I don't know all the details, but came out of a norma race car and was mugen spec. And somehow I recall him saying it was made a 2.1 instead of a 2.0. Has a lot of goodies inside. He wrecked one aswell by putting in the wrong valve springs and then hit the valves at high rpm.

It's this car

I know the part between the drysump and the alternator in the previous pic was the engine mount, fix to the chassis, no rubbers or damping.

And yes, expensive, I think I remember him saying the drysump part was 1800euro if I am not mistaking. He was looking to build a spare engine at that time.

these also do exist but rather expensive...

is from a friends norma race car

If only my house had an MS75 in front of it... (well, it had at multiple occasions but not ever a roadworthy one :p or an MS51 for that matter )

Very nice work! Looks like a lovely place to be living in. Self made furniture just makes it even better...

pics can't be right as i find pics like this with 7_185_60_r14:

and that's not something I am looking for...

Thanks for the input.

Not to fussed about cheap china spec tyres, don't mind them being a little bit more quality.

So I played around with the will they fit thingy and looked at tyrestretch to get an idea how it could look.

Toyo proxes r888r only have one 14 inch option for example and thats 185/60 r14. I just don't et the whole numbering qualification as they say they could fit 5.5 or maybe 6.5's on the website but on tyrestretch.com they have examples of that tyre on a 7.5 and doesn't look as stretched as I would have tought.

Or are the numbers not adding up? And I don't know about legality...

And ofcoarse willtheyfit says I will have a speedo error of 12.81pct...

difficult...

Hi,

All new to the wheel and rubber choices so would love some advise.

So I have these wheels

and this car

These had 695-14 tyres on the original 14-5.5 steels, could be 5 wide aswell, to sure. On my original steels i now have 185/80-14 white wall tyres. These are slightly bigger than the original ones but look acceptable (my opinion). Now I have 7 and 7.5 wide longchamps. I'd like to know what rubber would be suitable and would look good. I don't want this baloony look:

And I don't want to be running 90 when the speedo says 110 neither and don't want to be swapping diff ratios or such. I could live with a little stretch but not necessary.

So a good looking, quality tyre that is only slightly smaller than the original. what are my options?