personal preference/comfort zone, I prefer to do less filler work and so I placed my welds where the likelyhood of heat warping the panel was less... (I am by no means a fantastic MIG welder)
I also took a career bodyman's advice and installed my quarter with the car weighted (engine and...
^yep the steering rack brackets are a-symmetrical, I ended up removing USDM 87 steering brackets and welding them onto my 92 front subframe, they are 3/4" (IIRC) difference in position..
^handbrake bracket probably has about 10 spot welds holding it in, remove/replace...
and yes it would be a humongous pain, pull motor + entire dashboard,
shit while in there might as well change the chassis harness... since R/L a-pillar conections are mirrored...
^couldn't find better...
just watched the walk around vid, $800 is about right, its rough, no splash guards (fronts) and possibly the rustiest JDM car I have seen (other than a few beater GTR's)
http://calgary.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-cars-trucks-1992-Toyota-Supra-JDM-Type-R-Rolling-Shell-W0QQAdIdZ436294652
here are the quarter panels you need.....
along with spare rear end/ power folding mirrors, JDM taillights, ...
might be faster to swap firewalls/dashboard though...
^I ran my wire through the drivers wheel well (there was room in the loom retainers)
to the grommet at the a-pillar where there was an outward nipple that I cut off and feed the wire through
inside the cable race, under the carpet, along the rocker panel side of the drivers seat
under the...
which side of niagara falls? the pretty side or the other one...?
is your thread title intended to be sarcastic? its always hard to tell in text form...
you are in for a PITA
I cut mine along the b pillar about 1" up,
inside the door jam,
all the way to the bottom
all the way across the bottom (drilling out spot welds (also spot welds on wheel well lip)
there is a panel overlap behind the taillight
spot welds in the rear trunk drip rail...
I think given proper input this could be a stickied thread...
I mean until you have done it, you are really just going through a guessing game... so a pros/cons/photo thread would be helpful to some...
I'll see if I can't get a photo this weekend... wait for a post edit....
---as for...
the okanogan valley..... seems like a dicey place to drift...
shit goes wrong and the choices are... cliff-face or lake.....
^are there tracks or events in that interior area?
otherwise that motor is a beauty.... almost too nice for a flat black missile... I like..
I like... the photos are quite flattering, great lighting...
about the rims.... you do realize there are rights and lefts, and those slots are that shape for a cooling purposes...
its cool to blame it on the tire guy though....
got a damm blackberry smart phone, not hip with the youth text abbreviations and such.. most context/least characters
that friggin keyboard is so small it seems a cruel joke, wonder what my business typing teacher (high school would think... 16 years ago..) with a 1"X2" qwerty....
Pretty sure...
unfortunately today's cars are designed to appease the wind tunnels and ever stricter crash tests and as such, many style points are lost/forgotten...
consider the pedestrian safety rules whereby the engine cannot be within 4"(?) of the backside of the hood...
Don Julio.... nice choice...
a buddy of mine worked for a local autobody shop for a while and there was a 2000 there for a while, the sr20det fit like it was supposed to be there, stought 5-speed too..
but a straight 6 is a different animal all together, you shouldn't have to ring it out to...
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