Cipriani Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 (edited) Thought it was about time I started a build thread having had the car 4 months now! Plans for the supra are to use it this year (2014) as much as possible and it will be going on a 700 mile round trip through the Scottish Highlands where im hoping to learn the car properly before the NA-T conversion. When the time comes towards the end of this year I asm hoping to have found a suitable double garage or similar to carry out the restoration work which 90% of will be done by myself and a few friends. Once the engine and gearbox are out the shell will be completely stripped bare and rolled onto its side to give easy access to the underside, at which point the subframes will have been removed. Any parts in good condition eg rear subframe will be blasted and powder coated in yellow along with little things like the various brace bars and anything else I can get my hands on. Engine wise I am looking at the Whifbits NA-T kit, Before doing this I will be overhauling the 18 year old GE lump and sending the head away to Browns engineering to have it acid bathed and valves re-ground etc etc. New bearings and seals all round for the bottom end to! As for the gearbox (auto) I may well swap for a w58 Manual or stick with the auto. Dont know much if anything about automatic transmission if im honest so would probably just renew the torque convertor. DAY 1 The cat approves Headlight Restoration Big difference Rough Diamond! Got a used elec aerial to replace the jammed up one on mine Winter Photoshoot I organised for the car club i jointly run in Edinburgh Veilside Andrews wheels were split and refurbished Dashboard repaint The rubber coating on the ashtray was a b*tch to get off keyed up and ready garden booth! lol finished article, not 100% happy with the finish The worlds most horrible steering wheel! will be going asap Interior ripped out and new front seat belts fitted, going to clean up the plastics and refit the sound deadening finish on the ashtray was nice after removing the rubber stuff decided to redo the shifter surround and remove all the rubber stuff from that to (took ages) but was worth it in the end much better time to concentrate on the rest of the dash now that the 2 highest impact areas have been taken care off sorting out the plastics now hot glueing back the sound deadening someone has fitted fli components previously giving the inside a really good clean child labour clean N/A Central comedy shot RMM front lip arrived brake fluid leak from the banjo or hose Made an appearance at @ Fife 2 Furious Got a refurbed rear strut from TCB Performance Parts to replace the 1 random KYB strut on the N/S for the car some water got into the spark plug wells, and looks like a leaking rocker cover gasket to New steering wheel thanks to Al Massey off with the old on with the new Pic from one of our meets at Little Tokyo aka Rosyth dock yard Edited April 10, 2014 by Cipriani (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cipriani Posted April 13, 2014 Author Share Posted April 13, 2014 Couple of photos from Friday And even one of my trusty golf tdi lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich.2211 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Looking good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drift_bear Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Keep up the good work Michael! Hopefully catch up with you sometime soon and make the trip to a Friday night meet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cipriani Posted April 14, 2014 Author Share Posted April 14, 2014 I'm up in Peterhead this week doing stuff for Apache so sure I'll be around your neck of the woods at some point, always getting posted up to Aberdeenshire. Your always welcome at one of our meets would defo be the quickest there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drift_bear Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 I'm up in Peterhead this week doing stuff for Apache so sure I'll be around your neck of the woods at some point, always getting posted up to Aberdeenshire. Your always welcome at one of our meets would defo be the quickest there! Peterhead is only 15mins away from me bud, so just drop me a message! Haha i might have to try get my line lock fitted if im coming down for some nice smokey tyres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPG Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 Looking good bud, certainly a vast improvement with the lip now fitted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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