Thought I'd put up some pics of my long term, still ongoing project.
The car started as an October 1993 JDM 6 speed TT RZ. It was at BPU level with an Apexi AVC-R, HKS FCON-V Pro Gold, and a dodgy 2 pot/2 pot brake setup to clear the Veilside Andrews.
The upgrade back to 4 pot/2 pot brakes meant that I had to revert to stock wheels. Unfortunately the only set that were available at the time were polished ones with chromed centrecaps. Definitely not my choice, but I had to get the car roadworthy so that it could be driven.
From this point I guess I was high on cheese or something, because I thought airbrushing would have been the coolest thing ever, and started doing this;
Thankfully I came to my senses not too long after. Which, unfortunately, was about the time that I had the motor stripped down to have various parts chromed and polished. Stupidly I left the battery plugged in.
Did you know that a 2JZ will start and run with no cam covers amongst various other things? Yep, it sure will, but not for long. Thanks, dad.
These are all the things that were off the motor, and yes, it still ran;
The end result was a blown headgasket on cylinder 1. This started the ordeal that has become my project. The date was June, 2008.
Things pretty well took off from there. The motor came out to be rebuilt, leaving me with a fancy looking door stop with a really ugly engine bay and spaghetti wiring everywhere;
I decided that it would look much nicer with the wiring hidden and the bay smoothed and painted. The plan was to run the fusebox and battery into the boot and clean the bay up.
The colour was Lexus Millenium Metallic.
The plans for the engine were also kicking along at this time. A GT42 was selected as the turbo (after many an issue with the vendor)
This of course meant that an upgraded fuel system would be required.
As the turbo was a T6 flange, it also meant a custom manifold would have to be made, courtesy of my friend who is a ticketed welder.
The car started as an October 1993 JDM 6 speed TT RZ. It was at BPU level with an Apexi AVC-R, HKS FCON-V Pro Gold, and a dodgy 2 pot/2 pot brake setup to clear the Veilside Andrews.
The upgrade back to 4 pot/2 pot brakes meant that I had to revert to stock wheels. Unfortunately the only set that were available at the time were polished ones with chromed centrecaps. Definitely not my choice, but I had to get the car roadworthy so that it could be driven.
From this point I guess I was high on cheese or something, because I thought airbrushing would have been the coolest thing ever, and started doing this;
Thankfully I came to my senses not too long after. Which, unfortunately, was about the time that I had the motor stripped down to have various parts chromed and polished. Stupidly I left the battery plugged in.
Did you know that a 2JZ will start and run with no cam covers amongst various other things? Yep, it sure will, but not for long. Thanks, dad.
These are all the things that were off the motor, and yes, it still ran;
The end result was a blown headgasket on cylinder 1. This started the ordeal that has become my project. The date was June, 2008.
Things pretty well took off from there. The motor came out to be rebuilt, leaving me with a fancy looking door stop with a really ugly engine bay and spaghetti wiring everywhere;
I decided that it would look much nicer with the wiring hidden and the bay smoothed and painted. The plan was to run the fusebox and battery into the boot and clean the bay up.
The colour was Lexus Millenium Metallic.
The plans for the engine were also kicking along at this time. A GT42 was selected as the turbo (after many an issue with the vendor)
This of course meant that an upgraded fuel system would be required.
As the turbo was a T6 flange, it also meant a custom manifold would have to be made, courtesy of my friend who is a ticketed welder.
