BPB's build and body swap.

[boost PSSH boost]

Show's over, I am PARTING OUT and SELLING the red shell. Hate to do it but now is just...not a good time for me to own or build a mk3. I'll get back in the game later on in life, I have other things that require all my attention and money.

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LOOK! I found the "Angry Hammer Wielding Midget" that lives in some 7m's! This one likes to cause piston slap!

 

[supra90turbo]

bye toasty...

Post tons of pics!

nice 1g btw... even if it's not yours....

 

[boost PSSH boost]

The talon is my friend Shane's. He's one of the few people who can follow directions well enough to wrench on my supras. It's a VERY clean car...stock other than some 6 puck clutch. 93 AWD turbo, tan interior, 110K on the clock. We'll be making it a little faster after the black 87T auto HT and my 90T 5spd taragagaga are done.

Post tons of pics? I'm a weird mk3 owner, I take pics of practically EVERYTHING I do. Sometimes, the same thing, different angles. Helps a lot when you are putting things back together. Almost as useful as masking tape and markers.

speaking of pics....
Hey! it's toasty! filled the the brim with parts!

The motor from toasty is pretty beat, here's one of the 6 scored up pistons. Yaaaaaaay slap!

Cylinder wall...

Another cylinder wall...

Hooray painted tails.

More to come, I must make them 56K friendly...since that's what I am on.

 

[jdmk3_87t]

Hooray painted tails.

wow! im diggin' the painted middle section of the tailights! im not diggin the painted moulding though...looks cool anyway! :biglaugh:

 

[bigaaron]

Thats a HUGE midget! Is that how you are going to install the new pistons? :biglaugh: Poor Toasty is degraded to being a parts bin.

 

[boost PSSH boost]

I'm not posting these pics in any order really...they're just the past pics of the project thrown together...


Toasty is STILL not easy to move around, even empty. Here's how the car sits now.

I did this about a month ago. Wrapped some panels with some matching red vinyl. I think it looks good for a first attempt. It took $40 and 2 hours.

Inside the parts car.

FP guage on the hood...lol....I swear I've been hanging out with foxbody guys too much.

This is in the 6 car shed we built to house our tools, supras, and related parts. We're getting the cement poured on monday. Yaaaaay no more gravel going down my pans or going up my shirt and stabbing me in the back and crap like that.

Supras and my DD/beater zc swapped civic in the shed.

 

[boost PSSH boost]

Thats a HUGE midget! Is that how you are going to install the new pistons? :biglaugh: Poor Toasty is degraded to being a parts bin.

LOL Yeah, that's my goofy ass threatening my old motor with a 12 lb sledge. You should see what I did to the starter that left me push starting the car solo on many rainy, cold, miserable nights. I'm going to go take a pic of that...it's still on the garage floor.

 

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REVENGE IS MINE!

You shall forever rue the day you f*cked with me and my hammer, Starter!

Hey guys, Used starter for sale...:biglaugh:

 

[Stanzaspeed]

note to self: dont piss of BPB around any object that could possibly used as a hammer...

heh build looks promising! keep us updated with pics!

what was so wrong with the hardtop body that made you want to swap?

 

[boost PSSH boost]

The new shell was fairly cheap. It was more cost effective to go that route than get the unibody straightened out, replace the pass. 1/4 panel, weld new metal in the spare part, both wheel wells, drivers strut tower, prep the car, and paint it.

 

[Stanzaspeed]

ahh, i didnt realise it was that bad. and for 200 bux you cant beat that deal with a stick... or a hammer...

too bad you couldnt grab another hard top shell. the paint still looks pretty good on the new shell tho! id say you got a pretty solid base to launch your rebuild!

 

[boost PSSH boost]

I need to repair a patch of surface rust on the driver's door, other than that it's solid. yaaaaaay.

 

[Stanzaspeed]

at least its not a bent up rust bucket like your old car :biglaugh:

whats the eta for build completion?

 

[boost PSSH boost]

I'm shooting to have it done by my birthday, july 23rd...so I can get some miles on it and be making power for Chi2k6 on August 10th.

I should have lots of pics to post up this week, I am going to finish up swapping over the body harnesses and crap, get the interior into the red car, and I am going to snag a 4.30 from the local junkyard..

I better start looking for a good coater. Every bracket, heat sheild, housing, cover, and manifold on this this is going to be coated "chrome" I should mask off the differential and get that done too

The other day I pressure washed all the textured looking rubber shit off the bottom of the car...and sprayed new rubberized undercoating on...woo woo...exciting.

 

[Stanzaspeed]

wow, sounds like you are going all out! i expect big things, including large high res pics of progress...:biglaugh:

that last post almost makes me wish i lived closer so i could drop into chi2k6 or silv events :cry: the horrors of being trapped in this mining town...

 

[boost PSSH boost]

PARTING OUT & SELLING SHELL. Guess my fun's over, I have other things I need to focus on now. PM me or call 608 577 5791 if interested.

 

[mkiiSupraMan18]

More pics to matt_hunter@hotmail.com

 

[Stanzaspeed]

PARTING OUT & SELLING SHELL. Guess my fun's over, I have other things I need to focus on now. PM me or call 608 577 5791 if interested.

you are selling the red shell? :aigo:

why for?