sam Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Hey oldschool, some of you may recognise my car from one of the burger fuel meets or when it was on sale here. Thought it was about time I got round to a build thread on here. Discussion http://oldschool.co....hp?f=18&t=35722 Names Sam, in November 2011, I bought my first Toyota! 1988 Toyota Cressida, fully standard 2.8l 5m-e, Over night it magicaly was lower by a couple of inchs Thanks to my old mans angle grinder, the springs lost 2 coils in the rear and 1 and a half in the fronts. Nick at platinum wheels got me some new shortened shocks making it captive all round and past its wof! Got featured in February's nz car performance issue with my mate kruiz's ke20 Used my mates Stan's/k2dori's watanabes for the Nostagic hero meet back in march I think? Wish i Bought them! Kruiz now has them on his ke20. This is how the car looks now Scored some Hoshino impul g5's of a guy on clubk fo $300 bucks The 5m-e has had a dodgy water bypass pipe which I have been patching up for a while, and its finally decided it had enough right after i gave it this service. I bought a little daihatsu to get to work seeing as the Cressida only goes for about 10mins before loosing all its coolant ahaha. Iv recently bought a full w55 manual conversion of Southern Hardstyle and decided to save for a 1gge/1ggte. If anyone wants the 5m after the swap let me know, i might pull it apart and give the parts away for a couple bucks or so. My inspiration Im going to get pipes similar to this This weekend I swapped out the big automatic brake pedal box for the smaller manual one and put in the clutch pedal which is ready for the master slave cylinder to be bolted on. I also have a spare center console minus lid bit if someone wants it Thanks to Thomas, Stan and Paul for most my photos Currently im trying to find a place where i can get my hoshino's widened, I have contacted Arrow wheels and they dont work with 14's and i sent a email to bateman racing in wellington a week ago and haven't had a reply. For now i save and wait for a 1gge/1ggte to come up and continue with my manual conversion and start the motor swap! For the future new motor, wider wheels with some stretch, new pipes, roofspoiler and im happy! Oh and maybe coilovers if i cbf ahhaha. Let me know what you think and what not here http://oldschool.co....hp?f=18&t=35722 Look forward to hearing what you think and meeting more of the os guys! Will keep everyone posted as updates arise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam Posted August 30, 2012 Author Share Posted August 30, 2012 Just bought some 27mm spacers to fill up the gaurds. Should have them tomorrow if not next week, will post photos once their on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam Posted September 7, 2012 Author Share Posted September 7, 2012 Spacers on and fitted after some machining. Having trouble finding a 1ggte/1gge :/ and becoming more and more tempted for a x90 1zj ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam Posted September 8, 2012 Author Share Posted September 8, 2012 Bord on a sat, so checked if had a lsd which i was pretty sure i Didnt, turns out i was right its a open diff ahahah. Also took the cressy for a walk and got some fresh air, leaking rusty water all over the streets Got some shit pics from my phone, looks bit nicer on spacers Diagnosed a heavy bumping sound aswell, coming from my front left wheel. #Lesson 1 : remember to tighten your lugs every time you take your wheels off shit was about to fall off ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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