Chambers Build Thread - "Daily Eighty-Seven"

[lithium14]

I'm thinking about eibachs and tokico too... how much did it lower?? doesn't seem much by the pictures

 

[Chambers]

Initial measurement showed 1" front and .5" rear, its great, it still looks like stock suspension but gives a lot better feel and look than the stock springs did. I guess its sits about as high as my stock 89 did. After putting almost 18k miles on this car and working on it all the time, the 1 and .5 was more than noticeable. The engine bay requires a little more bending to get to now.

 

[lithium14]

wow... that actually sounds perfect to me, the streets round here are not conducive for slammed status... thanks man!!!

 

[Chambers]

Yea, for a daily driver super low is not good.


Got an update, got my wheels mounted with tires. Had to order hub centric rings that were Toyota-Ford.

 

[sunnysupra]

nice

 

[Chambers]

Thanks.

On my way home last night i heard a "POP-PSh" I thought it was one of the other cars around me but when I went out and started the car this morning the clutch pedal went to the floor. So this will be the second failure I have had with the Howe throwout bearing, I have a spare Howe unit that I'm going to use to get to the meet down in VA but dam, I need to upgrade...

 

[RedPhoenix]

No idea what it is with those Howe bearings, they are just garbage. We are not the only ones having issues with them. A lot of Neon guys are too.

 

[Chambers]

Yea I'm not sure why they fail like they do, this time it was out of no where too, I wasnt even on the clutch. Garbage for sure...

 

[s000pra89T]

Looks real good, Ron. :bigthumb: Hope that sh*t doesn't happen on your way down...be safe, bro!

 

[Chambers]

Thanks! Yea, I hope it will be good for a little while at least.

 

[Chambers]

Just got the last peice in to do my BBK for the front:

 

[Chambers]

Worked on the oil cooler today, got it mounted primed and pumping. It seems to be working great, other than a small leak at the connections on the cooler, Just got back from a run around town so when it cools I'm going to put a little more torque on them to see if that solves the issue.

Also put in a tach driver from a 89 Celica, it just about bolts right in. The only weird thing is now the needle jumps when I hit just about any electrical switch in the car, maybe the Celica driver needs the tach motor as well? Or maybe there is a noise filter that the Celica has but the Supra does not. I'm not sure but I was able to drop that honky tach on the dash so now it looks absolutely factory.

And I have a few random recent pics.

7M-GE w/ Auto Trans tach:

Celica tach driver:

Celica tach driver doent mount to the tach but still bolts onto the cluster:

Thanks for looking!

 

[straight6pwr]

looks good man, where did you come across the hatch visor?

 

[Chambers]

Hey whats going on? Good to see you made it on here.

Thanks, I got it in a group buy here in the group buy section. Not sure if there are many left though.

 

[OneJArpus]

Good looking swap, install your brakes yet? If so give me a review, i have my calipers and i'm waiting on my brackets which will be here tomorrow, then picking up my rotors & pads.

 

[Chambers]

Thanks for the reply, brakes should be going on within a month or so. From what I hear its a great upgrade and should have came like that from the factory.

 

[Chambers]

Yesterday I modified the stock mount for the Charcoal Canister and got it mounted and plumbed. I also unplugged my MAF and plugged it back in and the hesitations has seemed to diminished drastically, so I pulled it apart again today and cleaned the pins with a Emory board, I'm going to go see if it made a difference here soon, and finally I cut down the stock glove box liner so the little light would have a place to live and the latch would close and release correctly.

 

[Chambers]

Well... There goes another... Slave cylinder that is... Clutch was slipping today, lucky I made it home before the clutch pedal didnt return... So now I will upgrade to a Quarter Master slave cylinder and see how that goes...

 

[Chambers]

Got the new slave cylinder in, also got my misc resistors to eliminate the EGR...

 

[PureDrifter]

sorry to hear about the destruction of another throwout, have you considered switching to a T56 style throwout?

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