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... if not I got a set of standard alloys with decent tyres I can swap out..........
Looks like the original shocks all round with lowering springs so has done well for 23yrs old on these roads. I'm gonna stick with the black billies and lowering springs and also polybush everything under there. I'm currently polybushing mine. I have a set of black billies taken off my car, no leaks...will need rear top mounts..... Apparently the garage phoned Toyota and this "arm" is unavailable and so they can't repair this. Apart from a set of coilovers which I just can't afford at this time ,and with Trevor's recommendation I've ordered these for delivery to the garage tommorow.....
Since i bought the car a few years back, the momo steering wheel hasn't been straight and always pointed at an angle....or so i thought. I tried everything to get the last one out but the allen bolt was too rounded. I tried bigger bits and even an easy out kit but it wouldn't budge so I lost my temper and used my angle grinder to cut a slot to use a screwdriver - which sort of worked. However it damaged the carbon fibre centre ring slightly. Unfortunately the bolts were too short so got a refund and bought some longer bolts., it just didn't look right and the bolts just didn't sit square with the centre ring.
It sits either too far to the left or too far too the right... Ive had this sitting in the garage since xmas and when I had the car checked on last year by a local specialist, it was noted the rad didn't look great. So i removed the air condensor first...
This was pretty easy apart from the pipes being real hard to remove (ended up using boiled water to soften them) and the rubber mounts being glued to the bottom of the old rad. Also had a few snapped bolts on the fan housings.- it was in a worse condition than i thought.
(with black hammerite) the brackets and fan housing and anything open to the elements down there. Popped to the local b&q and found a large section of mesh in the plastering section with the same pattern and galvanised for £11!
This took a little while longer and at one point i didn't have any hot air from the heaters but eventually after continuous bleeding and refilling i believe its all done. The car gets up to temp half way and stays there and the heaters are nice and hot now. I took the car for a drive round town and all ok for now. This needs further investigation. Hopefully something as easy as a blown fuse. Strange as there is no pressure in the air con so i could only think that my air con pressure switch was faulty. In the end, went for too tr1s. My passenger reckoned i hit 140mph on the main straight though I'm not so sure bout that as i still have the limiter on the car as i removed the convertor a while ago!
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..The 2nd session starts at 15:45...all sorted by 2nd session... Just compare the japfest session video from last year to this years sessions!! It also seems I'm only running about 0.7 - 0.8 bar so will up the boost a bit to 0.9 or maybe 1 bar once i done these mods. The hardest part was removing all the bolts from the original intercooler and shroud.
Ive managed to cover the hole with the boost hose for now. Everything seems ok. I will be using the hole for either a temp sensor or to inject some water/meth....time will tell. I didn't mind the old tinted toblerones but these have really smartened up the front end.
I was finding when it was hot weather the screen would go ballistic and for a weekend car, it just wasn't usable enough. It would be great for a daily but i wanted something easier to use. I also wanted to use my phone with the stereo too. Again, Facebook came up trumps - however i didn't realise at the time that it was my sister in law selling the stereo lol. Luckily she gave me the stereo which is a JVC and comes with a phone mic so installed that today. I also had to make my own stereo brakes to fit it as i had misplaced my old brackets that came with the car (3yrs ago). Thankfully it sounds awesome and is very easy to use.
"boring" now but does the job nicely. Heres a quick pic of mine and my brother in laws v6 we built.
Funny enough it was go compare that came to the rescue. Ive had the car insured fully comp, all mods declared and an agreed valuation of £3.5k with admiral for £23 a month. I should be able to get these installed before sunday.
Hopefully I will have a chance to see how well they perform later in the week.
- haven't decided what yet...,what i would call, a good bargain. Ive been collecting parts throughout the year and now the weather has turned it time to fit them all. The engine always felt too hot with it and the pipework could have done with some heat lagging or something as they were always boiling hot after a run. After messaging the seller it turned out it was more or less the complete gt4 chargecooler setup including all the pipework, front rad, pump and the actual chargecooler itself and it was incorrectly advertised for the bargain buy it now price of £90!!! So i snapped it up.
£25.£30 from a facebook group.....& Fit complete gt4 chargecooler system& rust proof underneath and boot areas and sills. However everytime i tried to jack the rear the front would move and vice versa. After a bit of tugging and pulling i managed to get the car in the air. Unfortuntely one of the stands got caught under the front bumper which dented the bumper and pushed it out a funny angle. This also damaged the bomex front lip slightly. It will need redrilling and will need a slight bit of filler work to make it perfect again but looks like all is saved. Plan is to pull the front bumper off to mount the gt4 chargecooler rad and pump under the headlight then put the bumper back on and start from the back. Keep it up 
.! Big sciatica sufferer in the past I feel your pain (literally) worthwhile upgrade?androo007 wrote:Get those hamstrings stretched.
What do you make of the lights,
.. Family comes first .
(not the solid frame!) i mounted, what turned out to be, the gt4 chargecooler front rad. The only problem is it now hides my alloy rad! Oh well, will fit some mesh to hide it. I will also mesh up these holes too.
Got to wait for the crash bars to dry out but i have trial fitted then and all is good and fit well. Ive also cut a little hole out so it will be easier to bleed the rad and access the bleed screw.
I will post another thread for that. Im also gonna relocate the horn in the same location to make the front look a bit better. One of the horns wiring had broken off anyway so may install both horns or one might suffice.... Ive got a small problem with the rear fog light i need to sort which shouldnt be too bad and put the front end back on. With this i could get the mot done. Out of 3 specialists ive asked one has given me a quote for £6-800 quid, one for around £500 quid and another hasnt even bothered responding back. I just cant afford this. put the car back to the way it was and sell on the additions I had, put the car back together the way it was and use it for the summer and just do the bits as i go or is once i start stripping it down for all the bits, things can go wrong (bolts snapping, extra bits needed etc etc) and then i wont have a summer car to use in the summer! is a lot of the things to be done can all be done together.......decisions........get on with it.... its just a case of can i be bothered doing all these mods and risking not using the car over the best period of the year if i cant get it done or just basically leaving it the way it is (possibly finishing the cc system) and using it the way it is. When i found out my car had been in an accident and reshelled it it took just 3 days, long ass days at that.
,i sorted the holes where the fog lights used to be by filling the area with the same mesh ive used for the front.
Theres enough there to hold them on and i can cable tie the rest if needed. I got as far as the handbrake mechanism bracket about midway past the fuel tank before the car started to get lower again and i couldnt fit lol Ive cable-tied the pipework to the existing air con pipework. I was thinking of removing them but i didnt have much room underneath and didnt like being under there. Maybe if i can borrow a ramp off someone i will tidy it up a bit more and remove the air con pipework and mount my chargecooler pipework in its place.
I had a good check of the boot and i couldnt see any splits etc so not sure if this was old or not.
Ive left the undertrays off for now and cable tied the excess pipework curled up underneath for now so the pipework dont drag when pushing it in and out of the garage.,all pushed back into the garage....looking a lot better.