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

[takai]

Got a bit more progress done on the car on the weekend. Got into the garage on Sunday and turned up another upper hat spacer:

Which was all going fine and dandy until i snapped the parting off blade. No matter, ill pick up another one after work.

Also machined a little recess into the upper hats, to locate the spacers (this one is actually for the one which isnt parted off:


And machined up another set of hub spacer rings for the brake upgrade:


Hoping to put the suspension and brakes in this weekend...

[takai]

I got a chance to do a little bit more on it this morning, and finished off the other upper hat:


Got the springs ready to go in:


And yesterday i picked up another set of wheels for it:

I truely am turning into a wheel whore.

Hoping to get the suspension and brakes in this weekend or soon after.

[takai]

So i had some time today to get some stuff done on the car... and unlike Ed, i actually work on the car

First up was finishing off the suspension struts:


Pretty simple all up, painted the little top hat spacers the other day too.

Chucked them in the car:


Added a healthy dose of RCAs:


Bolted up the big rotors and brakes:


And then realised how much castor im going to have to pull out of the front struts:

Because thats a ridiculous amount of lock.

Need to get new brake lines made up at this point, as the ones i have are perishing and are a touch too short. I have tomorrow off so ill jack up the arse end in the morning and get some brake lines for there too. I have rear springs and shocks ready to go in there tomorrow along with the UZZ30/R33 brakes.

Oh yeah, and i got longer bolts for my mini bosskit:


More updates tomorrow or Wednesday.

[takai]

Just a quick little update before i go out for an Aus day BBQ. Yesterday i got the brake lines made up, and then set about getting the rear suspension in.
Springs, easy, just drop them in. Rear AGXs on the other hand, sweet pain in the arse getting the hard poly bushes into the hole on the AGX rear which is slightly too small, from the pics on another guide it seems that they have updated the Focus rear shock slightly with the outer bushing tube now being integral with the housing. So i had to grind that off and then i made up a little die to push in the bush with:


After that i bolted up the suspension and then put the rear dogbones and discs on followed by a lot of swearing when i realised that the idiotic machinist who had turned out the center hole on the discs had it off center so that the runout at the edge of the disc was 1.8mm on one disc and 2.9mm on the other disc.... so it was fouling on the inside of the caliper slightly.

After much mucking around i decided to see whether my lathe really oould machine out to 308mm, which it can.... JUST

In that position the disc is about 2mm off touching the slide, and about 10mm off the ways. The cross slide is as far back as it can go, and the compound as far forward. Either way it worked, with lots of patience i now have discs which have about 0.2mm runout around the entire disc, i cant get them any better than that because of how the tooling sits and chatters slightly.

Either way it bolted up and worked.


That was last night. This morning afte rmy wife left for work at 7:30 i did some quick tidying up, and mirrored the rear setup on the other side, and then after a quick boltcheck, lowered it back onto its wheels:


Looks quite good IMHO. Im yet to set the front suspension properly, as its not sitting on level ground there (its slightly slanted towards a drain which you can see by the rear wheel). Regardless i have to bleed the brakes anyway, as my speed bleeder has borked the valve in it, so that will have to wait until my wife gets home so she can operate the brake pedal.

Finally a couple of gratuitous shots of the new brake package:

This is with the new meshies i bought, they are a 16x7 stock Nissan wheel, no idea what they are off.
Im going to paint the R32 wheels the same charcoal as the rear, and these meshies the same leaving the outer section silver.

And then the rears:


Also, anyone know whether the front arches are actually higher than the rears? From a rough measurement it looks like they are, as the sills are roughly equal height there.

[tim510]

are the meshie wheels stagea?

[takai]

No idea, rings a bell though. I got them off a guy who had them on a 33 he bought. Cheap as chips, $100 with decent tyres bruv

[Euroboost]

This thing was on LPG?
Thankgod you rescued it!

[morerevsm3]

looks a bit different to when I collected it, you sure don't muck around

[takai]

This thing was on LPG?
Thankgod you rescued it!

Yeah, was on LPG at some point, i still have the compliance plate

looks a bit different to when I collected it, you sure don't muck around

Just a little bit, will be a lot different soon

[peal]

I like the rear wheels best

[denmaster]

i disagree. meshies FTW.

[takai]

Tonight i got a bit bored and couldnt sleep so i went out and did some machining for an hour or so. Turned up two things, first was a pair of steel spacers for the tierod ends which i was having troubles with before:

Pretty simple, just need to find my split pins now.

The other is a boss kit spacer:

First time i had used the autofeed on the lathe, and boy does it make chips, and fast. The only problem is that being aluminum they fly quickly and are bloody hot. I now have 4 decent burns on my neck and one on my upper lip which are going to cane for a while

[Cplus]

they look like 180sx type x rims. probably the same as a stagea.

[rolin7]

Where did you get the coilover sleeve kit? looks like a otomoto job, just wanted to check before I bought one.

[tim510]

Where did you get the coilover sleeve kit? looks like a otomoto job, just wanted to check before I bought one.

I used a otomoto kit on the bluebird, i was REALLY happy with the quality mate..so cheap