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Few quick snaps of car getting a quick wash before it goes away for winter. It is a bit early to be putting it away but I wont be using it very much now anyway as I have a daily car, plus it means I can continue saving for some nice winter mods! :eyebrows:

Appologies for the rubbish iPhone pics!

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Safe and sound. Will be putting a light cover on as well to keep off the dust.

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Those wheels are gorgeous! What size tyres are you running and do you have any issues with it rubbing? I guess you've had the rear arches rolled now?

 

Cheers! I love your build, and I may be going down the NA-T route if I can get my act together over winter and get some money saved! This car seems to be a pretty good base as the box is solid and smooth, it already has bigger IS400 brakes and a nice suspension set up, now it has the nice wide wheels all it needs is some power! :eyebrows: :)

Wheel/tyre specs as follows:

18x10 et25 with 265 35 18 rear

18x8.5 et25 with 235 40 18 fronts

 

Rears rubbed a lot initially but I rolled the arches and does not rub at all now even with 3 people in the car! Have not rolled the fronts as they seem to be fine.

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What wheels are these? They're clearly not genuine BBS LMs.

 

Stunning cars, the wheel size, design and colour suit it perfectly. :cool:

 

Thanks. The wheels are XXR 521's. The colour actually wasn't my first choice as I wanted Hyper Silver but it was all I could find at the time, however It has really grown on me! :)

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Cheers! I love your build, and I may be going down the NA-T route if I can get my act together over winter and get some money saved! This car seems to be a pretty good base as the box is solid and smooth, it already has bigger IS400 brakes and a nice suspension set up, now it has the nice wide wheels all it needs is some power! :eyebrows: :)

Wheel/tyre specs as follows:

18x10 et25 with 265 35 18 rear

18x8.5 et25 with 235 40 18 fronts

 

Rears rubbed a lot initially but I rolled the arches and does not rub at all now even with 3 people in the car! Have not rolled the fronts as they seem to be fine.

 

 

I think NA-T is becoming more popular now which I see as a good thing - it should aid the development of new parts for the 2JZGE I hope. If you need any advice or I can be of any help then feel free to fire me a pm. Your car looks epic, if I hadn't just gone for the Rota Boosts I would of considered some. If you fancy a swap I'm only a pm away ;) :D

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I think NA-T is becoming more popular now which I see as a good thing - it should aid the development of new parts for the 2JZGE I hope. If you need any advice or I can be of any help then feel free to fire me a pm. Your car looks epic, if I hadn't just gone for the Rota Boosts I would of considered some. If you fancy a swap I'm only a pm away ;) :D

 

Haha thanks mate, appreciate it! If I do end up NA-T-ing I will no doubt have 100's of questions as I am fairly useless when it comes to complicated mechanical stuff! I am just trying to decide whether it would be worth while buying a spare engine to build up so I can take my time and actually learn along the way without the pressure of having to get the car up and running quickly. :D

 

I might consider a swap........my wheels for all your NA-T stuff haha! :innocent: :D

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Haha thanks mate, appreciate it! If I do end up NA-T-ing I will no doubt have 100's of questions as I am fairly useless when it comes to complicated mechanical stuff! I am just trying to decide whether it would be worth while buying a spare engine to build up so I can take my time and actually learn along the way without the pressure of having to get the car up and running quickly. :D

 

I might consider a swap........my wheels for all your NA-T stuff haha! :innocent: :D

 

Unless you're taking the car off the road for a while then I would pick up another engine for sure. I was lucky as the girlfriend was learning to drive at the time so she bought a car to learn in and I used it whilst mine was off the road. Another NA engine can be picked up for a great price nowadays as I'm sure you're aware, although, I'll make a wild prediction that the value of the humble NA lump will increase a little as the 2JZGTE prices soar higher (watch this space). To be fair there's nothing massively complicated in doing the build, "it's only nuts and bolts" as they say ;). Removing the engine is a doddle with a decent engine crane and there is such a wealth of know how and guides on here that all the resources required are available to you :)

 

Hmm I'd love your wheels but you're not convincing me enough to pull all the NA-T kit back off :D

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Unless you're taking the car off the road for a while then I would pick up another engine for sure. I was lucky as the girlfriend was learning to drive at the time so she bought a car to learn in and I used it whilst mine was off the road. Another NA engine can be picked up for a great price nowadays as I'm sure you're aware, although, I'll make a wild prediction that the value of the humble NA lump will increase a little as the 2JZGTE prices soar higher (watch this space). To be fair there's nothing massively complicated in doing the build, "it's only nuts and bolts" as they say ;). Removing the engine is a doddle with a decent engine crane and there is such a wealth of know how and guides on here that all the resources required are available to you :)

 

Hmm I'd love your wheels but your not convincing me enough to pull all the NA-T kit back off :D

 

 

I think you may well be right! Better grab myself an engine quick before everyone else realises haha!

I have done a lot of reading already but still lots more to do, think I will just continue to trawl through as many build threads as I can in the meantime. Would love to do it myself, after all.... "how hard can it be" (famous last words). :taped:

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Small update! Got round to fitting some of the Supra's christmas presents seeing as it was feeling sorry for itself in the garage gathering dust :(

Will give it a wash when I get a chance.

 

Some red anodised SHINY wheel nuts. Also got my new steering wheel to fit but still waiting on the arrival of my boss kit, should be here Wednesday I think.

No proper pictures as it is way to dark but the wheel nuts look great, really pop against the black Chrome!

The wheel:

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No pics of the wheel nuts fitted but they look like this (although much darker red in real life)

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Here are a few random shots I took before it came off the road unfortunately all taken with my iphone as I still dont have a good camera :(

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