Mike2JZ Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Disapointed to see your engine is not located in the living room anymore You have a lot of patience to remove all that sound deadening, not an easy task. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippyboyo1 Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 good to see this! the rust issue and previous repair must have been years and years ago before she came to me really happy to see its being looked after Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dim Sum Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Looks great, love the attention to details. I would love to have done this in the boot but for me now it be more pain. I have relocated battery to the boot. Great effort looking forward to the updates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyFDMD Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 On 11/18/2020 at 10:17 AM, skippyboyo1 said: good to see this! the rust issue and previous repair must have been years and years ago before she came to me really happy to see its being looked after Honestly you never need to worry about whether its being looked after or whether i still have it or not - i may lose motivation occasionally but i'll genuinely never sell it or neglect it. In fact me and the misses are currently looking at selling our house and up sizing, my one and only 'must have' is a double garage that is attached to the house so i can extend the central heating into it lol! Its also good to see you're still here and apart of the forum! The supra does need a bit of love and its a shame about the sill and the quarter panel, but it'll all get sorted eventually, the sill will need a new one welding in, the quarter im going to sand back to the bare metal and see what it actually looks like underneath the filler, i dont think its too bad as i can feel the inside of the panel from inside the car, its rippled but not dreadful - im actually really missing driving it, i put it away October 2018 and it hasn't been on the road since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyFDMD Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 On 11/17/2020 at 10:39 PM, Mike2JZ said: Disapointed to see your engine is not located in the living room anymore You have a lot of patience to remove all that sound deadening, not an easy task. Yeah unfortunately - the misses was very patient but inevitably she got sick of it and i had to drag it into the garage the sound deadening was painful to say the least! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyFDMD Posted December 2, 2020 Author Share Posted December 2, 2020 Started to slowly refit new sound insulation. Ive used dodo mat as a base and then applied the acoustic foam ontop. Still more to do, its taken quite a long time because im trying to be as neat as possible! I do not want to be removing that stuff again! Also i finally fitted my UK rear bumper. Had the thing for years now and its been getting in the way so figured I'd sell my jspec one and fit this. Nice little reminder hidden behind it too from 5 years a go poor thing needs a respray so bad! I'll do it once everything else is done. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evinX Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 30 minutes ago, HarleyFDMD said: Started to slowly refit new sound insulation. Ive used dodo mat as a base and then applied the acoustic foam ontop. Still more to do, its taken quite a long time because im trying to be as neat as possible! I do not want to be removing that stuff again! Also i finally fitted my UK rear bumper. Had the thing for years now and its been getting in the way so figured I'd sell my jspec one and fit this. Nice little reminder hidden behind it too from 5 years a go poor thing needs a respray so bad! I'll do it once everything else is done. Thought i was the only one to write my name on bits / date them in hidden spots lol nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Love a bit of sound deadening. Wonder if anyones ever put a tiny bit on the outer shell there near the exhaust. Just to get the noise that tiny bit lower Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwilkinson Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 I believe dry ice works on sound deadening. It makes it rigid and brittle and it just breaks off. Once upon a time that rust patch would have been viewed as fatal on a Supra, given how rare rust in general was. However, these days that rust seems minor. SPG's thread has set a new benchmark in my mind for a rotten but salvageable Supra. Great progress picks. On a side note. With either of your rear subframes, did you use the rear bush brackets? I say this as I note you have installed polybushes. If you do have some that you aren't using I would gladly take them off your hands? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwilkinson Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 On 11/20/2020 at 9:59 PM, HarleyFDMD said: Honestly you never need to worry about whether its being looked after or whether i still have it or not - i may lose motivation occasionally but i'll genuinely never sell it or neglect it. In fact me and the misses are currently looking at selling our house and up sizing, my one and only 'must have' is a double garage that is attached to the house so i can extend the central heating into it lol! Its also good to see you're still here and apart of the forum! The supra does need a bit of love and its a shame about the sill and the quarter panel, but it'll all get sorted eventually, the sill will need a new one welding in, the quarter im going to sand back to the bare metal and see what it actually looks like underneath the filler, i dont think its too bad as i can feel the inside of the panel from inside the car, its rippled but not dreadful - im actually really missing driving it, i put it away October 2018 and it hasn't been on the road since. If you do end up getting a detached garage and you would like to heat it I would recommend IR panel heaters vs normal heating. I'm just in the process of changing over my Duplex heaters to two 1100 watt IR panel heaters from Herschel. These can be mounted on the ceiling, which is an added bonus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyFDMD Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 Progress! I got my sh!t together since my last posts and have actually come a long way since. I mentioned previously about the drivers side sill and rear quarter.. the sill had a hole cut out of it so we already knew that was bad, the quarter on the other hand.. So yeah the quarter was a mess underneath a lot of filler. Although fair play to whoever did that filler work! I met a guy through a colleague of mine who works for a company called Project Heaven, he's their fabricator and they build all sorts - mostly classic race cars, E type Jags etc so i knew it was in safe hands. On my hunt to find replacement sills i actually stumbled across someone selling an entire centre floor pan including both sills so i bought that and drilled out the spot welds to remove the drivers side sill.. and so i sent it off to have all the rust and damage cut out and replaced with new metal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyFDMD Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 So once it arrived with Ed my fabricator he got straight to work on the sill and quarter. We were kind of hoping he'd be able to panel beat the quarter out but the lower section was too stretched and there wasn't enough access to get a dolly down there. So he cut it all out, made a new panel following the contours of the body and welded it in - honestly im so impressed with his workmanship ^^compare that picture to this one.. Same on the sill... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyFDMD Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) So once the car was all solid i set out to keep it solid. I sanded all the sills and behind the side pods down to bare metal on both sides, treated the raw metal with Jenolite and then primed with Raptor Epoxy primer Then after a few days once the primer had properly cured i blocked it down and gave it 2 generous coats of raptor bed liner. Need to get some better pictures of this but its come out really well and im confident this'll last for years! i also purchased brand new oem facelift wings and applied the raptor bed liner to the inside of them Edited July 1, 2021 by HarleyFDMD (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyFDMD Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 Regarding the inside of my sills, i removed all the grommets and plugs along the underside and top side and blew them all clean using compressed air, fortunately there was nothing too alarming inside, small amount of surface corrosion but that was all. I sanded as much as i could out at the back where the side pods go as you can get your hand in there Then i blasted corroseal using compressed air through the entirety of the sills to neutralise what ever was left. Then once the corroseal had done its thing i used dinitrol as a cavity wax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyFDMD Posted July 2, 2021 Author Share Posted July 2, 2021 I bought new parts.. Brakes are the Renault Megane RS Brembos with Lexus ISF 360mm discs I bought the power house racing spigot rings and centre caps for the Weld RTS wheels... £600 for spigot rings and centre caps! Sickening I also bought a titanium oil catch can.. Polished mechman alternator.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyFDMD Posted July 2, 2021 Author Share Posted July 2, 2021 And while all of that was going on my engine got built at long last! I took it to performance@Hart and James did an awesome job.. sad to hear he's now closed - if that's even true? Hope he's doing ok. Once i picked it up i started assembling all the ancillaries, i then bought an SRD manifold along with quite a few other bits.. So that's the engine. 2jzgte vvti Manley rods, CP pistons, whifbitz 269 cams, BC springs and retainers, king bearings, arp hardware, new oem oil and water pump, oem gasket kit, new oem crank pulley, 1000cc fic injectors, ssi intake, srd manifold, precision 6266 (might buy a 6870) turbosmart procomp 60mm gate. Hoping to see an easy 700bhp 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyFDMD Posted July 2, 2021 Author Share Posted July 2, 2021 So this will now bring me up to date.. This was the last time the car will ever be an NA Before pulling the engine this is how it looks now.. ive removed almost everything (still need to remove the clutch cylinder) and ive started prepping it ready for paint. Hopefully it'll be painted and have the engine in within 2 or 3 weeks 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 I'd stick with the 62mm for 700hp. You've spec'ed it well mate. See how that performs first I would say. New engine looks like a proper weapon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyFDMD Posted July 2, 2021 Author Share Posted July 2, 2021 3 hours ago, Noz said: I'd stick with the 62mm for 700hp. You've spec'ed it well mate. See how that performs first I would say. New engine looks like a proper weapon. Yeah you're probably right.. i was just thinking the 6870 would definitely future proof it for further gains. Im going to be at the top end of what the 62mm can produce. If i was to then want more it would mean re doing the intercooler pipe work and the down pipe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 42 minutes ago, HarleyFDMD said: Yeah you're probably right.. i was just thinking the 6870 would definitely future proof it for further gains. Im going to be at the top end of what the 62mm can produce. If i was to then want more it would mean re doing the intercooler pipe work and the down pipe Not huge jobs though. Many people over size their turbos. I think your setup looks ideal for the goal. If you can afford to go more power down the line the minor cost of pipework won't be an issue. Stay your course mate! You've got a good plan set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyFDMD Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share Posted July 3, 2021 So here are some pictures of the sills in raptor (minus the part that gets painted body colour) Ive actually decided to raptor all of the inner structure behind the wings and I'll do the lower radiator support too as i know this is a common rust area. Fortunately mine only has surface corrosion currently so I'll be wire wheeling all of that off before applying Jenolite, etch primer and then raptor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyFDMD Posted July 10, 2021 Author Share Posted July 10, 2021 Been getting on with the front end over the past week. I'll be spending all day on it tomorrow so should have a decent update tomorrow evening. As with this build in general, things snowballed a little further. Decided to rebuild the front subframe as it seemed daft not to while i was in this position. Generally thought it would be a quick(ish) job but i guess that was me being nieve. Passenger side all came apart easy.. driver side not so much! One of the subframe bolts that run from the engine bay and down through the chassis leg sheared off and both bolts in the lower wishbone were seized solid. I was dreading this happening. My rear subframe was the same when i did that. I think lots of people have experienced it now. So anyway i dropped the subframe down and tried cutting the seized wishbone bolts out - I'd already attempted using an air hammer to no avail. Cutting them out was a total nightmare and i decided i was going to sacrifice the wishbone to avoid the risk of damaging the subframe - still pretty annoyed that i had to destroy the wishbone but i had 2 good condition spare wishbones, i didn't however have a spare subframe! i have also got the front end (upto the strut towers) in raptor epoxy primer. I'll get the rest finished tomorrow. Would have been nice to have done it all in one hit but it takes ages rubbing down and degreasing! And then lastly, once i got both halves of the subframe separated i stuck the cast alloy half in our aqua blaster and got it looking brand new again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyFDMD Posted July 11, 2021 Author Share Posted July 11, 2021 Got the rest of the front end in raptor epoxy primer today Also got the other half of the subframe blasted, epoxy primed and finished in 2k gloss black. I did the same to the braces and finished them in ford race red Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyFDMD Posted July 11, 2021 Author Share Posted July 11, 2021 Raptor coated the under side of the bay and inner wing structures before leaving tonight. I'll get the subframe back on in the next couple of days 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyFDMD Posted July 13, 2021 Author Share Posted July 13, 2021 Got my Subframe back on last night, got the upper wishbones blasted, bushes pressed out and new strongflex bushes installed and back on the car. Also cleaned up my Meister R coilovers and got those refitted. These are about 4 or 5 years old now and pretty much still look brand new with the help of ACF 50 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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