Just Saying Hi

Mango

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Hello everybody! I have been lurking around this site for awhile and fingered I should just join up. I have an 88 mk3 and I'm doing the famous 1jz swap. I cant wait to get her back on the road. I'm so close to finishing I can almost hear the turbo spool. I do have some tech questions that I will be posting in the correct forum and thanx in advance for our help. Here are some pics of my car(Christine)
 

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IJ.

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I come from a land down under
Can't stand Mango.... ;)
(the fruit)

I'll reserve judgement on you though seeing you're a Stephen King fan!
(one of my old cars was nicknamed Christine as it had a LOT of electrical gremlins and would do some weirdass shit)

Welcome to SM!
 

Mango

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LOL this car has been a nightmare since day one when It blow up on the highway driving it home from the guy I bought it from. 10 years later and I still love it, glutton for punishment I guess. So I thought that Christine after Stephen King would be very appropriate.
 

hvyman

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Welcome!

I think red cars are bad luck. But thats just me. A lot of them still seem to have very good paint tho.

Although you have a very Clean car and regulas kit(iirc).

How did you do the shave? Bondo or metal filler? YOu going to do the rest or leave it like that?
 

suprahero

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Welcome to Supramania.

Good looking car, although I never really understood the moulding removal...........God knows I love certain things shaved, just not the mouldings on a supra.
 

Mango

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Its mostly metal but you can't escape bondo. I want to do the rest at least the back, I would like to somehow blend in the front but I have not gotten that far. I was doing the body when my 7m blow up so on to the 1j. and yes red cars are very bad luck lol
 

hvyman

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Thats cool. At least you shouldnt have some major cracking problem. Seen that happen before.