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Started by turbo76lx , Feb 22 2010 08:32 PM

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Posted 24 July 2011 - 09:50 PM

Brought an ebay radiator and made up a fan shroud for some 10" fans. Also fitted some VS commodore front seats and modified the gear stick on the supra to look like an aussie 4 speed.

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Posted 25 July 2011 - 08:31 PM

Nice shroud. Have you got photos of the seats and shifter?

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Posted 25 July 2011 - 10:36 PM

I'll get some photos of the seats and shifter on the weekend, doing some work on my hatch at the moment.

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Posted 31 July 2011 - 08:24 PM

Started making a windscreen washer bottle from some stainless steel sheet to mount up under where the battery was in the engine bay.

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Posted 06 August 2011 - 06:34 PM

Had a spare K&N filter that i originally ordered for my hatch but was to long so thought i might use it on this one, so made up some pipe work for it.

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Posted 04 September 2011 - 07:04 PM

Got a few more things done, made up a radiator over flow bottle and made some custom +28mm off set 14x7 GTS rims for the rear.

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Powder coated and centres paint with 245/60 14 BFG radial T/A's

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Posted 06 September 2011 - 08:54 AM

Great stuff as always mate, lookin good! With those wheels, can any tyre/mag shop do that? Also I've read somewhere else here that you can get the 14" GTS rims re-hooped(?) to 15" & I'd be keen on that but wouldn't know if thats costly or where to get it done (being in NZ may not help lol). Cheers

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Posted 25 September 2011 - 09:42 PM

Made up a centre console to mount some autometer gauges. Pressed upsome 1.2mm sheet and made a flange that i welded underneath to mount the gear shift boot to.

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Flange welded in.

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Gauges mounted and switches for the thermo fans.

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Posted 25 September 2011 - 09:44 PM

Also made up a plate to mount the radio in the glove box.

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Posted 25 September 2011 - 10:10 PM

Amazing work with the metal mate. You have a true talent thats for sure. Such a beautiful engine bay and i love that dash. Keep it up mate, shes gonna be a real beaut!

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Posted 26 September 2011 - 08:58 AM

the console mod came up a treat well done :buttrock:

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Posted 26 September 2011 - 09:04 AM

Love your work!!! Everything is brilliant!

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Posted 17 October 2011 - 08:43 PM

Almost finished the battery box.

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 07:06 AM

Haven't been to motivated but have rebuilt the front end, all new bushes and ball joints. The front brakes are HQ discs and a mix of HX PBR and LX PBR calipers also rebuilt.

Had to lip the upper control arm to clear the caliper same as what i done to my hatch front end.

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Motor and gearbox also ready to go. Now need to find some more motivation to start the body work.

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Hey mate..me again!.. when you rebuilt your front end with the HQ discs (& I'm guessing the HQ stubs) what steering arms did you go with? The consensus is to use Harrop but just interested in what you used mate.
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Posted 27 January 2012 - 06:19 PM

Hi Jason, i'm using HQ stubs with UC steering arms and a LX rack. It's almost the same set up as my hatch but that has a UC rack.

I can say my hatch drives fine with this set up, harrop arms are the ideal but finding someone who can do a wheel alignment to suit

the car and not just set to factor specs is a better way of spending money. If your car is to low and tyres to wide steering arms will not

fix steering problems.

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Posted 28 January 2012 - 03:01 PM

Sweet mate, cheers.. are those UC upper control arms as well?

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Posted 28 January 2012 - 06:36 PM

The sedan has LX upper arms and the hatch has UC upper arms.

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Posted 31 January 2012 - 06:18 AM

Sweet, cheers mate..hows the rest of the car going - you got it on the road now?..

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Posted 02 February 2012 - 08:13 PM

Not on the road yet, i've been doing some work on my hatch, ran 11.6 at Heathcote the other week.

I got a few more small jobs done but the main thing i need to do is repair, prime and paint all the doors, bonnet, boot and guards then just put it together.

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Posted 03 February 2012 - 05:05 AM

Thats awesome..it all takes time..I know what thats like, I've had my hatch for 4 years now & still haven't started on it!! Soon though...

Great time by the way, well done! :clap:

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Posted 03 September 2012 - 04:36 PM

How's this build going Glen?

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Posted 03 September 2012 - 06:15 PM

Still haven't finish painting, just waiting for the weather to get better.

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Posted 15 March 2013 - 11:18 PM

Any updates?

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Posted 16 March 2013 - 08:00 AM

No updates, haven't done anything to this one since i started on the GTR Hatch.


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Posted 19 October 2014 - 08:55 PM

Well finally starting back on this one.

This is how it's been sitting for the past 3 years.

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