Hi everyone, here is my restoration project.
The story so far is a little over a year ago in 2012 I bought myself a lemon, that lemon now sits in my garage in a thousand pieces.
This buyer I got it from was not honest enough to tell me the cars history and I besides not knowing all the things to look for was also blinded by desire to buy it especially as it came very cheap.
By the naked eye the car looked very good, straight body with only a tiny bit of rust bubbling the paint at the bottom rear quarter...the word you should note was ""tiny"".
So being a stock looking engine bay, it did run rough as it had 550 densos intalled but a standard comp runing them, so idle was a bit all over the place. I was impressed with the handling and the speed, so I bought it...my first lemon ever.
So I get it home and show to all my mates take everyone for a spin and what not, was not too long before I start playing with the incabin adjustable boost controller ((knob type so old school)) so from 10psi it was runing I bumped it to 14 then to 20-21 at which the car felt crazy.
I never been thrown into my seat so much and to think that this was only pushing 300-320rwkw I couldn't stop thinking what would it be like with 450+???
At that point I've had the car runing for 3 days and as me and my mate were meassuring its capabilities on his iphone that is when one of the ceramic wheels gave up and wedged into the cat.
I get the car home without any power and knew straight away that the turbo was done but was surprised it lasted so little as the ceramic turbos on my supra lasted for almost 6 months on 20psi before they too exploded.
Well this is where we get to the good part, as I started to strip out the turbos I had to jack up the car to get under to undo the exhaust. I get my jack and start pumping, the jack is coming up but the car is staying on the floor, I sneaked a peek under and saw that the floor pan was just getting crushed, but this is the jacking point?? why is it collapsing?? Now I relocate the jack to the other side and the same thing happens, I try to open the door, and it was stuck shut!! WTF was going on? Now I place the jack under the front subframe and raise the car from there. Get under there and realise that the half roll cage that is in the car infact was a full cage, but a bolt on and the place where it was bolted was never rust proffed after the front section was removed, maybe even while it was in there?
Well the plan was I was going to sand the body and respray the car so I thought little rust will not hurt, man was I wrong I had no idea the job that this thing was going to become, over the next few days I will upload pictures of my progress so far and decriptions of why, where, when and how it was done. There is still plenty work left on it so this car will be restored in real time updated here.
Since the body repairs and restorations started I have purchused the following upgrades.
- bosch intank 023 pump
- sard 1000cc injectors
- HKS GT2530 turbo set
- HKS GT2540 turbo set and one spare turbo, so 3 in total
- N1 Spec R33 twin turbo kit (came on an rb26 engine I bought Bonus)
- 125mm front mount intercooler
- Z32 AFM x2
- HKS cam gears
- Greddy 100mm intake manifold
- Apexi power fc x2 one is a Pro version
- Splitfire coilpacks
- Full set of R33 gtr brembo brakes, also Xdrilled and slotted rotors front and rear
- Cusco one front and two rear strut braces
- 2 x blitz BOV
- Cusco front caster rods
- Adjustable front upper camber arm and same for the rear
This is what she looked like in february this year
I will have this updated as things progress