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Post by Neil on Jul 6, 2012 16:19:51 GMT 2
Sounds like just a few Niggles though man, Once you get those bits sorted i'm sure it will be a Boss Car! Loved seeing it in the flesh and actually looks like a good, practical car for once. Power steering pumps are vairable mostly on Toyota's so either you got an air bubble in there maybe, or fluid maybe blocked somewhere if the pumps not flowing fluid back into the resovoir. Have the return pipe off and put it in a jam jar with some fluid and see what you get out of it? I did take a 3 second video instead of a photo when i came down, so prob not much point uploading that!
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Post by shifty on Jul 6, 2012 22:38:52 GMT 2
haha, will get it sorted asap dude, then i think we should get a meet organised, it being nearly summer an all...
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Post by Neil on Jul 11, 2012 20:54:03 GMT 2
Yeah, i know, i don't want to arrange it on a piss ridden day like the crap summer we've had so far! Honestly, i can't remember a dry weekend so far. Aiming to keep the same venue at the H cafe for a saturday/ sunday in august now, but happy to make it earlier . Fuck it, i'll make a poll up. Theres also an unoffical meet at Trax Silverstone on the 2nd of september as i'm probably meeting Retrogaz there, so welcome to join us mate. I'm going on track too so looks to be a good day out! Be good to see the 1UZ-GX Rocking it too www.traxshows.co.uk/
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Post by shifty on Jul 11, 2012 21:28:58 GMT 2
will see how it goes. had a problem monday night when the power steering franken pipe sprang a leak. cant remember where the hose came from to buy another so spent about 6 hours today trying to get one made then gave up and spent an hour making one from other bastardised bits... seems to work now. got to sort the transmission out next, new clutch to go in and a new throwout bearing i have to install. then the diff and its all rocking., i had to fit jzx90 rear brakes as on my way to mot the first time it nearly caught fire due to seazed caliper, they went straight on, almost passed out with shock that something was easy haha. had mad judder from front brakes so made up some new front caliper spacers on the lathe and fitted new discs, thats the brakes sorted. today i got the new tires fitted and the wheels on. stretching the tyres was a fiasco, took ages to get them to seat. busy busy day...... pic dump then.
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Post by shifty on Jul 11, 2012 21:29:15 GMT 2
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Post by shifty on Jul 11, 2012 21:35:50 GMT 2
needs lowering but very scrapy already. dunno what to do as the arch gap is gash..
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Post by Neil on Jul 11, 2012 22:04:51 GMT 2
Car looks fucking Boss mate, The rad cowlings really nice too, shame you had to ditch it for twin fan set up From when i saw it the pics make out how there no room for the viscous in the end. Love the sleeper look of it so far! Hope it drives nice too! The rear arch gap doesnt look too bad in my eyes, but i can see what you mean on the front wings. Personally, if it we're me, i'd cheat, and do what mitto done on that Black GX he imported and bolt on some of those 240z style arches a bit lower than the stock radius, Maybe even blend the paint a bit so it's not so in your face. I know it's the wanky/ trendy approach with people bolting them on everything, but looking at how narrow the wing is in above the arches centre line it's more how thin they decided to make it rather than not low enough. All the pics of slammed GX81's look like there's no gap from sill to floor, esp if the wheel diameters less than 18" Those arches are fucking massive! r34 GTR wheels are 18" and look how low the sills are to the ground on guessing 30- 35 profile tyres! Props for repping with the driftoy sticker too man and glad you got the power sterring issues sorted. My old S13 had some 18" Team dynamics K2's which were a pretty blatant rip of R34 gtr's before i saw sense and went Toyota!
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Post by shifty on Jul 11, 2012 23:04:13 GMT 2
it could go lower but i need to cut and shut the exhaust to tuck it all up a bit, then the sump will deffo need a guard as it is one of the lowest points, level with the subframe so if i hit anything its first in line to take the beating. not good... i want to get the lower bit painted white to visually lower it a tad, then front splitter needs to be found. the back can drop a bit i think without much hassle, i had it raised as the 235 tyres rubbed loads. now i have the right rubber and rims on and all that sorted i can tweak it all until it reaches the point where its sitting right and im happy. dont want to bolt arches on this one. like the clean lines of the body (kinda fucked it a bit with my amateur flaring skillz)
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Post by Neil on Jul 11, 2012 23:15:44 GMT 2
Yeah, if you can do anything else to steer clear of the bolt on arches i fully agree with you, the lines of the car are too clean to do it really, but worst case solution if you will. After seeing what Arch enemy was able to do to my mate Ed's s14a when they rolled and pulled his arches it might be worth getting him over to pull that metal over. The job looked mint after and his wheel stagger to arch was more than yours on the back so it's deffo possible. Your a smart bloke though, so maybe put a borrow request out for an arch roller for the weekend. One of my welders customers has one and sure you could borrowed it if you poppd over to the workshop but would have to ask him first, ya know
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Post by shifty on Jul 13, 2012 18:42:40 GMT 2
i bought an arch roller. verdict = they suck, i ended up using hammers and a dolly (lump of stainless bar) the inner part of the rear arch wont go far it being a 4 door there is a fair bit of structure there and not much movable metal. the fronts came out loads but i chose the wrong tyre profile so its got gap but if i drop the front im gonna rip things off rather quickly.
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