Supra (2JZA61) daily project - Its alive... its ALIVE!

[takai]

Right, today was a pretty momentous occasion. 3 months ago (calendar, not days) i rolled the car into the garage, and today it left. But rather than pushing it out i drove it out under its own power.

First of all i had to put the rad in, and get it all wired up, which was pretty much a walk in the park.

The rad only just clears the engine, and im hoping that the 2JZ doesnt encroach any more on the rad, as its already quite close:


After doing that and bleeding the clutch, and putting the wheels on it was a nice walk in the park to drive it out of the garage.


After that i gave it a quick drive down the road, and turned it around to pop it onto the lawn and give it as wash and i was quite surprised that it was in a lot better condition than i had first feared:


But there are still some niggling little problems. Firstly im running slightly too much castor:


Clears the front guard there by only a handful of millimeters there, so ill have to wind it out a bit again.
Secondly the interior needed a handful of refitting, which i spent an hour or so doing tonight.

Thats about it for now. Its now time to start getting ready to take it over the pits at regency, tidying up little things so i can make it presentable for that.

Really really happy that its out of the garage again in only 3 months.

[carcrazy]

Good work dude, im impressed at how quickly you managed to get it back together.

[takai]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Supra passed regency this morning, no hassle no issues just a straight pass.

[karl_2ltGC]

Nice one!

Whens its getting PF2JZNOSHIT?

[takai]

Quite soon, but not immediately. Want to get the suspension sorted in it first (have all the bits, just need to assemble) and brakes as well. Probably get a decent 2.5" exhaust built for it at the same time.
While im doing that ill make the 2JZ as plug and play as possible.

[thechuckster]

did you sort out the TRW outer ball-joints (the nut going down below the hole for the split pin)?

[takai]

Nope, i remembered that while i was sitting there and the guy was going over the car.
I did find some nuts the other day which are the right size.

Will sort it out when i install the new suspension.

[takai]

A whole bundle of goodies arrived today from the grand old US of A, at a VERY damn cheap price courtesy of our rocking $.



In that picture you can see the oil filter relocation parts, the 3 gauges ill be running and the wheel nuts. Bit of a closer view of hte nuts here:


They are a splined drive nut, where each nut is essentially a locknut anyway, which i think is a pretty good idea. Now i just hope that i dont lose the locknut tool I think ill order away for a spare too.

Lastly the gratuitious shot of the oil filter bits.

The two relocation parts were quite simply dirt cheap, at $10 and $12 for the spin-on and mount respectively. The adaptor and AN fitting certainly didnt break the bank either, rocking in at $4 and $6 each.
Certainly a whole lot cheaper than the local speed shop who wanted $49, $69, $9 and $16 respectively.
I also have a thermostat for the oil cooler which isnt pictured, and i picked up a 13 row cooler the other day as well.

Other than that ive been busy and away recently, and so i ahvnt done anything much. Did get to work grinding away at the struts tonight though, for about 20mins before i was called away to other things.
Wont get much time to work on it until this weekend, where some things need tidying up on the car... like the door lock which some prick decided to try and jimmy with a screwdriver.

Thankfully ive already rekeyed the guts of the broken lock into a new lock and we should be right to go.

[HoonBoy]

Nice nuts. What's the outside diameter of the tool?

[takai]

No verniers around, but the rulerometer says 19mm

[HoonBoy]

That looks good, should work better then the 19mm nuts I have at the moment.

[takai]

Yeah, they do look like a good system. Only issue i can find with it is that im not sure if you could get the spare tools here.

[Sketchy]

Nice nuts. What's the outside diameter of the tool?

I am staggered nobody has made a joke about this comment yet.

[80DGY]

when you say spare tool, do you mean the socket to remove them?

You should be able to get the right sized spline drive for them? KC Tools do them I'm pretty sure...

[takai]

Yeah, i think its offset splines though, there is a serial number on the socket and it comes with a sticker to identify the socket number.