HarleyFDMD

I'd love to see the actual hero 1 car

Mines at 1.6 bar too Probably just me being a pussy, but it took me a few days to actually dare pin the throttle until red line lol

Love a fast and furious build! Looking forward to seeing more of this

A rubber wheel on a drill will easily remove tiger seal from paintwork. You need to cut the majority off with a razor blade and then use the rubber wheel to remove the remainder. Only use the rubber wheel against metal though. Dont use it on the bumpers or else you'll melt the plastic. The dent in that lower quarter isn't too bad. However it does look like its been rusting from the inside out (pretty common nowadays) this is a bigger problem. Great work though!

Soooo.. have you managed to get out in it yet on a nice dry warm day? I bet you're absolutely loving it. Your car made similar numbers to mine. Trust me it doesn't get boring!

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Got some cool shots the other night too whilst destroying a pair of tyres

Got a few jobs done today that I've been meaning to finish. Firstly got my transmission mount swapped out for a TRD one i bought from Chris Parry (thanks Chris).. tbh im sure im going to keep it yet though! Its considerably harder and creates quite a lot more noise through the transmission which im not exactly loving lol so might end up buying a new oem one.. I'll see if i can learn to accept it first. Then i gave my diff a fresh oil change. Been driving the car pretty hard and been doing loads of launches and burnouts so thought it would be wise to check/replace the oil. Fortunately everything seems absolutely fine. Oil came out nice and clean. and then finally i pretty much finished the jacking point i started to make on the rear drivers side. Forgot to get pictures of it after I'd smoothed the welds and epoxy'd it but I'll get some next time.

Ahh mate it looks amazing. 700 would definitely be a good number! You'd have a lot of fun at 700

Bet you cant wait! Do you have a power goal in mind?

Fresh oil change done recently. Also ordered some new diff oil too and bought a TRD gearbox mount so I'll likely get that done on Saturday. Still need to finish my jacking points too!

To add to my already very colourful engine bay, i bought some titanium coloured mikalor clamps.. keeping with the titanium/purple theme. I'd already bought some a few weeks back but hadn't bought enough in the correct sizes. But I've now replaced all of the regular jubilee clips.. Im sure my engine bay is considered a bit marmite by people.. i fully appreciate its not the typical all polished, or all black engine bay that most people tend to do (because either of those options do look mega!) I just fancied doing something really in your face!

Unfortunately i didn't get as long as I'd have liked working on the car this evening. I got the inner side of the sill reinforced and got the outer side reinforcement plate made but not welded on. The outer side will probably need to be double layered to bring it level with the inner as the floor either side of the sill doesn't actually sit at the same height. Meaning it'll be 6mm thick on the outer edge. Hopefully get that done tomorrow. In the meantime i gave it a thick coat of Jenolite to sit in overnight. As for 'Hockey pucks', i decided to weld 2 together.. making them 20mm Just need to get it smoothed out now.

Next job for me is to sort out my sills. I know this is a typical problem for many supra owners. The sills end up flattened due to poor jacking over the years and mine were no exception. I haven't jacked my car up on the sills in years because they haven't been especially healthy. I use the box section as seen in previous photos I've posted. However sorting out the sills has always been something I've wanted to do (just other things previously took priority) The drivers side rear sill is the worst, it had actually been pushed upwards into the box section. So not only did it need straightening but it also needed pulling out. I bought a slide hammer and a body work pulling clamp. This did a really good job of pulling the sill straight and downwards. I completely forgot to take any photos afterwards though! Just straightening the sills was never going to be enough though, although the clamp and slide hammer did a good job, it wasn't perfect. Also at this point the sill is still weak, jacking on it again would just flatten it again and i dont want to keep jacking on the box section. So i bought some 3mm sheet steel and some 10mm steel 'hockey puks' to reinforce the area and then make a proper jacking point on the sill. I made a good start this evening but again forgot to take any photos. I'll try and get it finished Monday evening now i think. Then will have to do the other 3 corners!

Very impressive work!