kev_coupe Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 (edited) I've had this for coming up on a year now, and now that its getting somewhere, I thought I'd share some pictures! Purchased in 2013 like so Came with a few cool bits and pieces such as the OE sideskirts and rear spats, bomex type 2 front lip, a full respray in an unusual Metallic Grey (seems blue in certain lights) which drew me to the car in the first place. But as with most Supras, it was also complete with a few things which werent to my tastes... The 3 spoke Volk Racing wheels didnt hang around for too long and I soon replaced them with a set of OEM 16's until i found something I really liked. Last year I started stockpiling bits and pieces and took the car off the road over winter to get everything fitted. Tein Masterflex Coilovers (Cheers James) Lexus Ls400 Front brake upgrade OEM front lip (bit of a shame really but with the new suspension, the bomex lip wouldnt have lasted 2 minutes!) Refurbished my headlight inserts. They were pretty yellowed and the original chromed finish inside is rotten in my opinion. I also didnt feel the colour of the car would suit black (facelift style) inserts so went for a gunmetal grey instead. Polished them once they were back on the car Finally found the wheels I was looking for! 17X8/9 Work Emotion CR Kai's in flat bronze Sorted out a couple of daft things which were annoying me such as the clear side repeaters and the front and rear plates and then dropped it off with Andrew Baird at Automek to have all the work carried out and it came back looking like this... Feeling pretty content with it at this stage except for the stock supra front seats which arent exactly supportive. Never been a fan of the OEM recaro's with the crayola pattern and in keeping with the colour of the car, picked up a set of Evo 7 Recaro's. Fitted the seats, gave her a bath, went out to take some pics, just before the rain came on (the joys of living in Scotland) I'm not really planning on doing much more, quite pleased with the way it looks / drives just now and I aside from the odd notion to go NA-T, I dont see sense in throwing money at it when I've got my heart set on a proper TT. I reckon i'll enjoy the summer in it and then make plans to "upgrade". Been such a joy to own thus far! Comments / Crit more than welcome! Edited July 22, 2015 by kev_coupe title change (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haz182 Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Love the colour, looks nice and clean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westy Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Never seen this car. Where in the Central belt are you buddy!? Check out the Scottish section if you haven't already and add your name to the Scottish members list and to any of the shows/meets you fancy coming to. Would be good to see this in the flesh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev_coupe Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 Never seen this car. Where in the Central belt are you buddy!? Check out the Scottish section if you haven't already and add your name to the Scottish members list and to any of the shows/meets you fancy coming to. Would be good to see this in the flesh. I'm in East Kilbride mate, not a million miles from you if youre locations up to date! I'll do that, would love to get along to a meet once some of the better weather comes in haha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safcdixon Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Looking good! Very nice colour, Nice mods so far keep up the good work Facelift rears would suit this well imo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDukesy Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Very nice. Seats look so good! May I ask what rails they are mounted on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev_coupe Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 Very nice. Seats look so good! May I ask what rails they are mounted on? Evo Rails with supra brackets. Was pretty straight forward once I had the 2 seats out and lying on their backs for reference. Made some measurements, unbolted the evo brackets, drilled out the welds on the supra brackets and bolted them to the evo rails. The RHR mount had to be relocated slightly further forward but the rest just bolted in where the old ones came out. Should probably have taken some pictures at the time but didnt bother my arse! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heedthebaw Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 I'm sure i've seen you round about the Burnside area. In fact, were you passing by Overtoun Park on Tuesday? Clocked a Supra going past me down the big hill but couldn't make out the colour or that. Anyways, nice car! Hopefully see you at a few meets this year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev_coupe Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 I'm sure i've seen you round about the Burnside area. In fact, were you passing by Overtoun Park on Tuesday? Clocked a Supra going past me down the big hill but couldn't make out the colour or that. Anyways, nice car! Hopefully see you at a few meets this year that would have been me! Aye I'll hopefully get out to a meet or 2, put some names to faces! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heedthebaw Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Haha thats cool saw you a few times about the place. If you see a small red fiesta flashing you in the next few months it'll probably be me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham1984 Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Nice car, needs a spoiler though IMO, interesting colour though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev_coupe Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 Nice car, needs a spoiler though IMO, interesting colour though Cheers man, I did get the OEM spoiler thrown in when I bought it... Always toy with getting it fitted but I think i prefer it without! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDukesy Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Evo Rails with supra brackets. Was pretty straight forward once I had the 2 seats out and lying on their backs for reference. Made some measurements, unbolted the evo brackets, drilled out the welds on the supra brackets and bolted them to the evo rails. The RHR mount had to be relocated slightly further forward but the rest just bolted in where the old ones came out. Should probably have taken some pictures at the time but didnt bother my arse! Ahh cool. Thanks! I think im going to have to get some of these, bring the interior right up to date! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Cheers man, I did get the OEM spoiler thrown in when I bought it... Always toy with getting it fitted but I think i prefer it without! I'd like to see it with the spoiler, but it looks great as it is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abtin90 Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Nice example. If your going to keep it spoilerless however it may look better if you get rid of the rear wiper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_cbr Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 that colour looks like my mates is200 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendo11 Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 That is a bloody lovely colour. Nice seats too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev_coupe Posted March 9, 2014 Author Share Posted March 9, 2014 (edited) Edited February 24, 2015 by kev_coupe (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripped_fear Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Lovely car, looks very low though on the front! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev_coupe Posted March 9, 2014 Author Share Posted March 9, 2014 Lovely car, looks very low though on the front! Wouldnt have it any other way my friend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drift_bear Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Are you going to the meet next Sunday in Glasgow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev_coupe Posted March 9, 2014 Author Share Posted March 9, 2014 Are you going to the meet next Sunday in Glasgow? Doubt it man, playing Takedown Festival in Southampton on Saturday so I'll probably be a shadow of my former self come Sunday! Haha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev_coupe Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 Almost a year since I last updated this. I made a decision a while back that I was going to go NA-T. I sold the CR Kai's and got some OEM 17's to replace them I picked up a GE engine from a 65k mile auto car to build up whilst still retaining the use of my car and so started collecting the best parts I could afford to go ahead with the conversion! After reading through various build threads on here I opted for the following and started to build up a hoard of parts Whifbitz NA-T log manifold Borg Warner s360 Turbo Tial 44mm wastegate (sprung to 0.7 bar) TT head gasket ARP head studs TT inlet manifold on modified NA runners w/ TT throttlebody TT cam covers TT coilpack conversion 3" Exhaust Decat pipe 3" Downpipe with Borg warner 4.21" Flange 10an oil return welded on Spec stage 3 clutch Cliché pile of bits shot! Cleaned up the new block and started to put things together The TT inlet manifold had been modified by Pulley on here and bolted up no bother at all I also picked up some purple top rx7 550cc injectors and had them cleaned and flow tested before dropping them into the GE fuel rail Because the N/A head doesn't have provision to hold down the coil packs, I had a bracket machined to house them and trail fitted along with the cam covers With most of the hard work done, it was time to get the engine out the car, ready for the transplant Engine bay all painted while the engine was out, would have been rude not to Home Custom downpipe fabricated, bungs for o2 sensor and AEM Wideband welded in and then all covered in heat wrap before being fitted 2JZ GTE ECU wired in with a vvti igniter to work the coil packs Almost done I also started to take care of some of the aesthetics of the car, in particular the headlights which had started to peel inside (shite DIY job on my part) and when a set of 5 Defi's with the link controller came up on here, I couldn't resist quickly followed by a Border upper glove box gauge pod I spent Saturday wiring in my o2 sensor to the new ECU, undersealing the car, bleeding the cooling system etc... and I managed to get the car out for a quick blast up and down the estate! and I've also got an Emanage Ultimate which has to be wired in before the car can go to be mapped, although I'm shocked at how well it drives on the stock ECU?? I really wish I'd taken more pictures of things along the way (battery relocation, FMIC, FFIM, wire tuck etc...) but you know how it is, end up getting carried away and think its a waste of time until its too late! MOT time next week and more updates / pictures to follow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich.2211 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Looking good! I look forward to seeing your further updates. Did you buy the inlet manifold off Josh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev_coupe Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 Looking good! I look forward to seeing your further updates. Did you buy the inlet manifold off Josh? Thanks mate, Yeah I got it from Josh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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