What's up, I just got my mk3 2-3 months ago, and I'll go ahead and start my story there.
I saw the beauty in an apartment complex, and honestly didn't know what it was.
It had been debadged so far, even the engine bay showed me any proof.
(sorry for the lack of pictures at the beginning of this thread, I didn't think I would be doing any threads or anything)
Welll, I had been seeing it there, and it was parked there for a while, so I eventually put a note on the windshield.. "Hey, I don't know anything about this car, but call me *insert phone number here* I want it"
It had just drawn to me that much. Ever since, I've been putting much more than this thing is worth into the engine bay. I have no regrets.
This is where I saw it parked, and how it looked.
This guy was immaculate, not a single scratch, nothing. Painted 7 months back, glossy black, the whole deal.
Well, the guy called me back, and I found out what it was, immediately put an offer on it, and bought it within a 3-5 day span. (As an 17 year old kid using his own money, this was a big deal to me)
Well my first day driving it, it overheated. Figures. Boiled over, and I was scared. I was learning stick on it
P) and I wasn't going to give up on it that early.
So, with my cousins husband's (a car guru in my eyes) help, we started diagnosing huge problems.
I'll just make a list of things that we found from the start that were wrong:
Air filter cracked
dead cell in battery
No thermostat
several fuses were blowing (did rewire throughout the whole supra for this)
2-3k idle (bad throttlebody mounting bracket set up, obvious aftermarket bullshit)
no fan shroud/bad electric fan sensor
blow-by (worst I've seen)
no powersteering
No seatbelts
no a/c (not gonna fix)
bad alternator (beginning to weaken out)
failing timing (dammit)
and to top it all offff blown headgasket entire time I owned it.
This is what it looked like when I got the bastard
Well, to start off this supra's career around my streets, I decided "F--- it, I'll drive this engine off of it"
And so I did.
Learning to drift, drive, and fear the power that this car had, I blew the motor in 3 months.
With a dead cylinder on 200k+mile car, it was time to really begin this cars career. This is where I am now, I've been spending all the money I have saved for a couple years on this guy.
I put together a 2jzgtte from a 45k mile car (proof of 150psi compression, no blow-by, 3 month start up warranty) and this is what I've come up with.
Also with this guy, I got me some mounting brackets
and a new alluminum 1jz bellhousing. (not pictured)
I've just recently discovered that you need a r154 1jz flywheel to run a r154 in a 2jz, but all of you know that I'm sure, so that comes in in a week
Mechanically, that's what I have so far!
Well, on to the interior.
Oh dear god, the interior.
I can't explain how bad it is.. except to say that my 10 year old sister could do better.
The dash panels were "Leathered" with vinyl leather, that's meant for upholstering... and was done so wrong, that the final product wouldn't clip in.
He was fine with that.
The door panels were done as well, with the most beautiful red carbon fiber style vinyl (sarcasm)
it was falling apart, and had been obviously lightweighted at some point.
There were racing seats... that I am not lying when I say.. weren't bolted in. They were set on top of the seat mounting brackets, and had obviously been there a while (obvious tear marks where he had been drifting and the e brake rubbed against an edge of the seat)
So far, I'm too poor to afford the releathering of my dash (the real dash, not the panels) as it's cracked to hell and back. I'd like to take it out, but after I saw the 89 step process, that can be done later..
so I've been doing the simple stuff to start me off!
Took out the amazing sound system he has in there! (walmart brand door speakers that had blown every single cone in the vehicle, with the wiring not going through the boot of the door, just through the side, and 2 12's that were dced, and on what appeared to be the worst amp I've ever seen)
So far I've been able to do some pieces of the interior my own way (I'm never selling it, so I don't care, shut up)
(imagine that same shit on the switch bezzel)
I've also reupholstered 66% of the doors so far, with "lexus white" vinyl, matching a black door, doing it RIGHT.
(still need to go and cut the bottom trim piece and install)
more pictures will be shown of progress and the such!
Things I am doing soon:
Rollcage w/ 4 points
New seats
redoing carpet+adding deadening insulator
possible painting of engine bay
installing engine!
rebuilding rack
reinstalling most of the interior.
I have a deadline! January 22nd! I leave for basic training, and I want to hit the track one time in it!
Any advice/tips on anything is accepted and appreciated, I hope to be a part of this community!
It seems to be a nice place
I saw the beauty in an apartment complex, and honestly didn't know what it was.
It had been debadged so far, even the engine bay showed me any proof.
(sorry for the lack of pictures at the beginning of this thread, I didn't think I would be doing any threads or anything)
Welll, I had been seeing it there, and it was parked there for a while, so I eventually put a note on the windshield.. "Hey, I don't know anything about this car, but call me *insert phone number here* I want it"
It had just drawn to me that much. Ever since, I've been putting much more than this thing is worth into the engine bay. I have no regrets.
This is where I saw it parked, and how it looked.
This guy was immaculate, not a single scratch, nothing. Painted 7 months back, glossy black, the whole deal.
Well, the guy called me back, and I found out what it was, immediately put an offer on it, and bought it within a 3-5 day span. (As an 17 year old kid using his own money, this was a big deal to me)
Well my first day driving it, it overheated. Figures. Boiled over, and I was scared. I was learning stick on it
P) and I wasn't going to give up on it that early.So, with my cousins husband's (a car guru in my eyes) help, we started diagnosing huge problems.
I'll just make a list of things that we found from the start that were wrong:
Air filter cracked
dead cell in battery
No thermostat
several fuses were blowing (did rewire throughout the whole supra for this)
2-3k idle (bad throttlebody mounting bracket set up, obvious aftermarket bullshit)
no fan shroud/bad electric fan sensor
blow-by (worst I've seen)
no powersteering
No seatbelts
no a/c (not gonna fix)
bad alternator (beginning to weaken out)
failing timing (dammit)
and to top it all offff blown headgasket entire time I owned it.
This is what it looked like when I got the bastard
Well, to start off this supra's career around my streets, I decided "F--- it, I'll drive this engine off of it"
And so I did.
Learning to drift, drive, and fear the power that this car had, I blew the motor in 3 months.
With a dead cylinder on 200k+mile car, it was time to really begin this cars career. This is where I am now, I've been spending all the money I have saved for a couple years on this guy.
I put together a 2jzgtte from a 45k mile car (proof of 150psi compression, no blow-by, 3 month start up warranty) and this is what I've come up with.
Also with this guy, I got me some mounting brackets
and a new alluminum 1jz bellhousing. (not pictured)
I've just recently discovered that you need a r154 1jz flywheel to run a r154 in a 2jz, but all of you know that I'm sure, so that comes in in a week
Mechanically, that's what I have so far!
Well, on to the interior.
Oh dear god, the interior.
I can't explain how bad it is.. except to say that my 10 year old sister could do better.
The dash panels were "Leathered" with vinyl leather, that's meant for upholstering... and was done so wrong, that the final product wouldn't clip in.
He was fine with that.
The door panels were done as well, with the most beautiful red carbon fiber style vinyl (sarcasm)
it was falling apart, and had been obviously lightweighted at some point.
There were racing seats... that I am not lying when I say.. weren't bolted in. They were set on top of the seat mounting brackets, and had obviously been there a while (obvious tear marks where he had been drifting and the e brake rubbed against an edge of the seat)
So far, I'm too poor to afford the releathering of my dash (the real dash, not the panels) as it's cracked to hell and back. I'd like to take it out, but after I saw the 89 step process, that can be done later..
so I've been doing the simple stuff to start me off!
Took out the amazing sound system he has in there! (walmart brand door speakers that had blown every single cone in the vehicle, with the wiring not going through the boot of the door, just through the side, and 2 12's that were dced, and on what appeared to be the worst amp I've ever seen)
So far I've been able to do some pieces of the interior my own way (I'm never selling it, so I don't care, shut up)
(imagine that same shit on the switch bezzel)I've also reupholstered 66% of the doors so far, with "lexus white" vinyl, matching a black door, doing it RIGHT.
(still need to go and cut the bottom trim piece and install)
more pictures will be shown of progress and the such!
Things I am doing soon:
Rollcage w/ 4 points
New seats
redoing carpet+adding deadening insulator
possible painting of engine bay
installing engine!
rebuilding rack
reinstalling most of the interior.
I have a deadline! January 22nd! I leave for basic training, and I want to hit the track one time in it!
Any advice/tips on anything is accepted and appreciated, I hope to be a part of this community!
It seems to be a nice place
