HarleyFDMD

Some more new oem parts.. Front and rear hockey sticks and HVAC buttons

Did an 8 hour round trip up to Northumberland today to pick up a good condition pair of front door cards as mine had been retrimmed at some stage and were looking tired. Been looking for a good pair for over a year!

Big day today.. really i probably should have done this last after its final polish but i couldn't help myself. 8 years of being an NA owner and although it isn't running yet i just couldn't wait to put the supra turbo badge on! I have also fitted the exhaust, a 4" HKS titanium

So this is straight out of the aqua blaster. As you can see they go very grey So i left them over night covered in trim restorer Then buffed them up the following day vast improvement from before. Will probably do another coat of the trim restorer though

Pretty good before and after here..

I got a bit experimental with my interior trims.. Like i would assume many people now, my interior plastics were looking a bit tired in places, just your typical scuffs and scratches etc, i had used the aqua blaster on similar plastics before to remove scratches but was obviously pretty hesitant to put my whole supra interior through it! I tested it on a single rear quarter glass plastic first as I'd seen a few of these for sale incase i ruined it! Massive improvement in terms of scratches! It does however dull the surface of its colour (however after 29 years of silicon based cleaners/plastic dressings it does make me wonder what the original colour would have been! Perhaps I've just taken it back to the factory finish?) i left it overnight covered in trim restorer anyway to put some of the oils back into it.

Yeah all good mate thanks. Hope you're pleased with the car! Come along way

Been gradually getting it rebuilt. All new trims and rubbers. Bought a full carbon trd spoiler - looks a little out of place but im planning a full carbon boot lid which will tie it back in.

Had my local windscreen guy come and fit all the glass. New windscreen and quarter glass, original rear windscreen

Absolutely beautiful car mate

Those wheels look incredible. Meisters have always been my dream wheel in full polished with gold hardware.. perhaps once the rest of my car car is finished I'll buy a set!

Got the wings fitted last night.. although after doing it i think its become apparent that you need to fit the doors first

If you're planning on replacing the glass you can still buy the windscreen from Toyota. I bought one last week, only £290 and came in 2 days. I got the quarter glass from Paul Pridham at TCB, both sides for £168.

The paint finish is absolutely phenomenal. Im so pleased with it. My colleague Ash did such a good job, i really started to doubt whether the car would ever look properly straight again. I work in this industry which can often be a curse when looking at your own car with a trained eye. I thought for sure that there would be a high likelihood of having a few ripples somewhere given the amount of work that had been done fabricating a new quarter panel and sills and taking the whole thing back to bare metal. But i must have underestimated my team - Ash who painted the car has done a flawless finished. Not a single ripple, silicone or run! Its like glass! Now just to fit all the new seals and trims..

And today at long last it was painted!

Some good progress We had a brand new booth with underfloor extraction installed which just so happened to coincide with the Supra being ready for paint

Looking for a very good condition/mint drivers door car RHD.

Thought I'd updated this but clearly not.. So the car is now primed at long last. Buzzed over the whole thing again with 320 and then got two good coats of Spectral Epoxy primer on. Then the following day gave it another 2 good coats of high build. The shell is now ready to be blocked down. We're having a brand new booth installed next month with underfloor extraction so we've been waiting for that before painting it. In the mean time I've used raptor on the panel behind the rear bumper and blasted and painted the rear crash bar

So this has taken far longer than anticipated

I have a NA exhaust manifold for sale? Stainless 6 branch. Was on my supra for over 6 years with no issues

Got my bonnet mostly finished yesterday. Its a long process painting everything the way we're doing it but it'll be worth it. Basically we're lacquering everything twice. So we apply the base coat, allow that to dry before applying 2 good coats of lacquer. Then let that completely cure over night before flatting it all back down with 1500 wet and then applying another 2 coats of lacquer. Its means once its all dry there's 4 layers of lacquer to work with when it comes to flatting and polishing so every little blemish (silicone, spot of dirt etc) can be completely flatted out before its final polish giving a flawless finish. Long winded mind you! Still a bit more polishing left to do but its going to look incredible. i also got my SRD under trays re fitted and took the door down to bare metal to get rid of one or two tiny spots of rust that started to creep through. (Dont mind the dark spots, they're not dents, just left over bits of black paint - the photo makes it look like its dented to hell but fortunately its perfectly straight)

Its just regular solvent based paint with a 2k lacquer. Honestly the heat shields are never going to get that hot. The only one that might be affected is the one on the firewall near the downpipe but even then I'd be surprised if the heat actually caused the paint to flake. High temperature paint is for components that might exceed like 150°C for prolonged amounts of time. People paint their cam covers in regular 2k paints and i can guarantee they get hotter than the heat shields will

Radium fuel pump hanger arrived today. Really nice piece

Thanks mate. Spectral is just a brand. Its got a really nice depth to it and sprays really well too