johnd-mkiv Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 (edited) After spending long nights at work and a few weekends, a couple of months later im now happy with how it looks Picked it up from Neilg with it needing finishing off, this was just the sort of project I was looking for. After looking it over I desided to start on the interior with in a few hours it looked like this and the neighbours though I was mad The dash pannels needed repainting so I gave these to supra loopy to work his magic on, I then needed some guages to keep a better eye on things, it already had 2 hks guages so I thought I might aswell get the rest. I managed to pick an oil pressure guage up from ebay then an oil temp on here. I bought an aem wideband and an apexi boost controller and a twin a pillar pod to mount a couple. The seats were odd when I got the car one being a recaro and the other oem, I desided i wanted a more racey look so bought a pair of omp race seats with 4 point harnesses, I then made up some sub frames and bought the runners off ebay. Now its all fitted its really changed the look of the interior and im really happy with it. The next project was the engine and engine bay, spent a few hours stripping that down and cleaning a lot of the bodywork. I then removed the cam box covers, water elbow, intercooler pipework, intake plenum, throttle body (removed the traction control, welded up the holes then smoothed), took them to work and polished them up. bought the following for it Fluidine rad coil pack connectors (the origional ones were not there, just the wires poked in the sockets) oil filter thermostat fuel filter 16 row mocal oil cooler, had some braided lines made up with swaged ends, relocated oil filter. light weight pullys chrome turbo blanket. millers oil I made an after market expansion tank from ally for it, painted the cambox covers black, removed the carbon canister, fitted some blue silicone hose, cable tyed all the hose joints, plumbed in the boost controller, welded in the aem boss to the exhaust and then heat wrapped it. The power steering pump had a nasty wine after stripping it and spending a day messing around with it had a look on here and found the answer, it was a little oring that was dragging air in causing it not to pump properly. Im having the car mapped by RyanG on thurs once this is done Ill be happy with it as its just running off the wastegate pressure at the moment after RAF Marham this weekend I will be getting some of the body work painted, mainly the front bumper as its cracked I have repaired it but dont see the point in having it done untill the trackday is over. Loving being back in a supra though the Skyline just did'nt keep the smile on my face Edited February 27, 2009 by johnd-mkiv (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazz1 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 thats real nice only one thing i would change and it makes a big difference is get rid of those chrome front lights and go for facelift Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiten55 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 wow looking good there mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz1 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 very nice looking forward to passing it at marham:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraJames Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Wow great thread and thats a lot of hard work and money paid off. Lovely looking car and great engine bay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Massey Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 looks great mate, can you see youve worked hard wish i had a project now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trig Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 nice work mate can i ask where did you attach the harnesses to?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lbm Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Nice write up and photos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyB Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Nice work mate looks good And i think the UK Lights look very nice on that car as its a nice light theme as it is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supra_si Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 love the trd strut where did you purchase that from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chingy Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 nice work looks great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Looking good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_blackman Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Looks lush mate Love the new seats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miko_supra Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 top work there buddy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraAyf Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 That looks amazing mate - I can't fault anything at all;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieP Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Nice work John, you dont mess about mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesC Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Good stuff mate! I wish i knew what i was doing so i could do stuff like this myself! (and had a runaround) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2JG Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 that is impressive, looks great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 What a horrible bodge job they did on that shifter mount! Even TF didn't shortcut things that much! Well done on getting it all sorted, very impressive work rate too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiretapper Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Very nice that:thumbs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd-mkiv Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 Thanks for all your comments the harness's i used the two bottom seat belt mounts then used the rear seat belt mounts to pick up the shoulder ones, once adjusted they sit well. The trd strut come with the car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Loving your work fella Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Good work John, looks great love the trd strut where did you purchase that from? I can supply these if needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tee from China Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 thats real nice only one thing i would change and it makes a big difference is get rid of those chrome front lights and go for facelift Why? those are clear facelifts on there already and look much better without the orange! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcgoo Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Nice work John, looking forward to seeing it at marham and joining you in a bit synchronised sideways action again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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