pulled the car out today after i washed the IS, our dully and my dad's colorado. sprayed it with a detail sprayer and wiped it down.
first time the car has been together since day 1 which was back in april in '07, but only this time it runs :thumbsup:
(pics are before i wiped it down)
yea, i know the cage is completely fucked up. i gave the guy pictures how one was done who runs his in drift comps and it didn't turn out close. and somone else was suppose to weld it but he ended up welding it all and his welds suck. the guy that is redoing it work for a company/shop and thats...
Justin
live in Eldersburg MD
DD a '03 IS300 and once supra is done i'll turbo and do alot of work to it
i have a '89 turbo, targa 5spd currently building into a track car
IS pics
Supra pics
side markers
smoked the side markers. all have the same amount of smoke but the smaller amber ones are real light, i'm going to do some more coats to make it darker
front all together
tails in and everything on, going to redo the tails too
and progress from this week, more pics after this weekend since it'll be nice out
scuffed it down and shot another coat of base
after all the base coats
w/ flash
w/ out flash
after the coats of clear
w/ flash
w/ out flash
so depending on the snow and when i start work, shoot...
primered
pulled the fenders off cause i was gonna cut the fenders in than hang them back on the car but it was too cold over the weekend so i didn't get around to it, instead i partied sat night and was too tired to do anything sunday, than has some issues with the IS sunday so never got...
well haven't updated since summer so it was too old....
here is a continuous since Oct
cage was done back in October but front half needs to be redone, welds are shitty, you get what you pay for....
painted door jams and what will be the color of the interior since the...
thanks, should be picking it up from getting the cage made for it and i'll post pics of all that. than get the engine dialed in and paint and start moding it :biglaugh:
and now its all caught up to this week.
cage is currently being installed and i should get it back next weekend. i got a new AFM so that should fix it running bad and than check for boost leaks and try to get the motor and all dialed in. than base dyno, 3in turbo back exhaust and fmic, than...
so here is the before and after shot....
BEFORE
AFTER
well i took some pics of the car up on the trailer before i dropped the car off sat up near frostburg for the cage.... should be done around this time next week :rockon:
w/ the mexican chrome interior :rofl:
so these are the...
supra unloaded off the trailed before charging the batt
charged the batt, fired right up and pulled it into the garage
and all the tubing that was never touched but apparently was "bent but not welded in yet" :grinfawk:
drained the gas tank
drilled for the kill switch and...
HKS SSQv BOV as well from kurt
and now some items from JEGS, nothin major though;
Grant racing steering wheel and hub adaptor
battery relocator kit and trunk mount kill switch
everything together
decided to remove the black paint from the intercoolier
anyway, some pics from sat at my buddies garage (and this is the first time any import has been in this garage, haha, and he says the only one)
turbo and all removed to see why its leaking from the oil line from the turbo to the block
flange that goes to block, can you say warped...
put stock gauge cluster back in until i get the rest of the autometers....
everything back in, started right up, pulled it out, saw where fuel was leaking from and than pulled it back in the garage to start fixing leaks
started tearing apart manifold to get to the fuel rail but took a...
first actual mod for the car :clap: new cone filter with opening at the top
the old one
old and new
new one installed
grill/nose peice on
:afraid7: bumper on and it actually looks like a car again :bud:
joe came over and we decided to crack down and see what was wrong. we cranked it with the oil pack un plugged after we drained the oil and put new oil in it to build up the oil pressure. and we decided to try again and see what happens. we plugged the coil packs back in and cranked... it cranked...
the interior with all the sound crap out....
the new head
cams all lubed and placed
new gasket kit
all laid out
intake manifold on
the new and old HG
new ARP head studs and gasket set
Shot with HP Photosmart R960 (V01.00) at 2007-06-27
took all the A/C and heater lines and stuff out
Shot with HP Photosmart R960 (V01.00) at 2007-06-27
Shot with HP Photosmart R960 (V01.00) at 2007-06-27
interior before
after whole lower dash and all is out
took all the parts outta the trunk and kinda organized them on the table out there
interior before gut with driver's seat and radio/etc out (fri night)
after whole interier gutted but the dash (today)
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