You sure the motors aren't just a little rusted up? some cleaning and some lube good to go?
This is going to be an awesome build up
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You sure the motors aren't just a little rusted up? some cleaning and some lube good to go?
This is going to be an awesome build up
Looks awesome, Keith! I'll be watching this for sure!
What runs right under the seats? I know you need clearance, but, depending on how you wanted to go, you could recess a bit in the floor, I mean 3-4" and basically make a sunken bucket to mount the seats in, and that would give you room to finish out a cage.
Avi, I'll probably take the headlight motors apart and fix them for now. I read that the biggest thing that fails is the limit switches (work the same as the e-locker limit switches). If/when I decide to ditch the wedge front end I can at least sell them to recoup a bit.
Chris, I don't think there's anything under the seat really. I know there's not any room between the seat and the floor boards, but I don't want to reduce the limited ground clearance I have either. If I can find one cheap I may try to pick up a fixed back (non-reclining) seat and hard mount it. That way I can lose the seat track and gain that bit of space back.
I diagnosed the no-start 2 days ago. I don't have any spark and the ignition coil gets hot within a minute of two of turning the key on - the ignitor is shorted which keeps current flowing through the coil and killing it. So I'm hoping to get a coil & ignitor from one of the local Pick-N-Pulls this weekend (along with a hood and grill, the hood on there now is bent a bit & may get hacked up to make a fill plate for the moon roof that I want to remove). Yesterday I stopped at one of the other local yards and made my first score, a 1st gen MR2 wing
edit: here's my first junkyard score already mounted
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looking forward to seeing it progress. btw, i LOVE the wheels! 80's toyota wheels are the best!
It has the 80's style fantabulous Supra wheels on the rear and some generic American Racing wheels on the front. One thing I just recently learned is that it might be difficult to get rims for this. It uses an 8mm offset wheel which isn't very common, the bolt pattern is a standard 4x114.3 though I might luck out.
Took another junkyard run today. Still didn't find an ignitor & coil, so it's still not running. I did manage to mount the spoiler though (see post #23) and put a straight hood and the proper grill on.
Before:
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After (still deciding on which hood vent style I want to go with):
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^Unless I'm mistaken that looks like the OE blue under the spray painted hood? Hit it with some WD-40 and see if it's a scuff and spray or a lazy spray. If it's a lazy spray you could bring the color back out.
Hit up http://toyotacluborg.proboards.com/ to shop for some rims. I'll ask around here for ya too. *Don't run standard sized tires on it, p-metrics only, unless you do lift it. I had issues with tire scrub a few times.
http://www.deadpixelstudios.co/wp-co.../its-alive.jpg
IT'S ALIVE!
after sitting since '07 it started on the 2nd crank and settled into a nice idle.
now I just have to tow it to work to drain all the fluids, mount some new rubber, and maybe figure out why the headlights don't work
I got two parts sources out here, let us know man. The wife said it needs a racing stripe on the hood or a huge whip antennae!
We'll see. I have a couple ideas for paint that I'm mulling around in my noggin' - the obvious one would be from post #8 in this thread