My MA61

[deaf_Rattle]

had a busy weekend, with working on the supra and the house.
Big thanks to my mates Malcolm and ewan for their help with the carbon trim.

Malcolm did the carbon work and ewan made the mould.

Started stripping the engine bay ready for painting, found a few small bits of rust which we will cut out, but overall its pretty good.

Just using a wire brush on a grinder to strip the paint at the moment, its going to take me awhile.

Im a little worried, because with the engine bay on its way to looking so nice i will probably have to drop the cross member and steering rack and get all that stuff looking nice. it has opened a can of worms :lol:

Went to order the turbo GT3582R, but they are out of stock at the moment. doh! but no rush.

Just want to get this thing finished so i can start spending more time and money on our house. 8)

the abyss that is the engine bay, just a few more bits to remove

some rust, not bad

work in progress

last of the rust

close up of the patch i started on

take one mould (cheers ewan)

add some carbon fibre

Malcolm laying the release agent down.

 

[deaf_Rattle]

trim carbon to size

apply resin

prep for sealing

seal it for vacuum (didnt have the right tape, so rangi'd it up)

Big thanks to Cully and the guys at Alltech.

Not many bits left to buy now. might be able to get it going for suprafest.
Glad i didnt buy a second hand turbo :wink:

turbo is a GT3582R (GT3540) .82 ar

makes the compressor housing from my old ct26 look pretty small!

 

[deaf_Rattle]

big thanks to Ben for the blitz dsbc and turbo timer
now i gotta start thinking about how to mount everything.

gauges i have to mount are
boost - Sorted
oil pressure-sorted
volts (might not run as i think turbo timer does this)
water temp
air/fuel
oil pressure

what have people done? i dont really want to mount anything on the a piller


also, thought i better post some pics of whats been done in the interior.
Although these pics are old, i have full black interior now and vdo dayton speakers up front

the door pics make it look like ass, but imagine that but with mint black door cards

thanks to David (toymad) for the set of mirrors.
SO much better than the broken ones i had before.

old mirrors

new

and what the front is like at the moment

 

[deaf_Rattle]

will keep you guys updated with progress..

cheers

 

[Dunckel]

Welcome to SM. It looks like you've got a great car and a great project. Please continue, but please do it in your own Build Thread.

 

[deaf_Rattle]

sorry boss, will do