My 1jzgte A31 Cefiro

[AlcoholicA]

Here are description and a few pics of my 1991 A31 Cefiro in Thailand....

I bought it over 1 year ago with a 1JZ fitted, and rear coilovers. It was actually a bit of a mess mechanically at the time, but looked nice on the outside. The car is affectionately known as "moneypit" based on the amount of money that it has swallowed to get it almost to the state that I want to...

- Toyota 1JZ-GTE [pretty much standard tune]

- Toyota manual gearbox [totally indestructable!!!]

- Huge no-name FMIC

- Aluminium radiator with 2 twin-speed cooling fans

- Modified air intake pipe with K&N filter

- 3" straight through exhaust system

- Bailey twin piston dump/blowoff valve [about to be replaced for a Blitz]

- R33 GTS brakes

- Top Secret coilovers [front and rear]

- Front and rear strut/sway bars

- Adjustable rear camber & toe arms

- Alloy subframe bushes

- 17x8" wheels with 41 offset [front 225/45/17, rear 265/40/17]

- TBO [aka 'wonder'?] front, rear & sideskirts

- Sony GT550 mp3 head-unit

- Sony 6.5" 3-way speakers

- Sony 10-disc multichanger

- Sony 500w amplifier

- Sony 12" twin coil subwoofer

- Turbo-timer

- Guages

- R32 handbrake and console

- Modified auto-center console around the gearstick and stereo [texture removed and colour-coded black]

- Black carpets, black seats with grey [home-made] floormats....

- Sunroof

Here are some pics:

I'm sure there's other stuff that I've forgotten, but I've done loads to the car since I bought it, and my girlfriend thinks that I spend more time, effort, and money on the car than I spend on her..... maybe she's right?

Edited August 10, 2007 by AlcoholicA

[AlcoholicA]

The latest news is that I spent too much time and effort on the car, and now I don't have a girlfriend anymore.....

At least with a car like this, finding a new gf shouldn't take long

[salad]

Ooooh, Top Secret coilovers, they'd be nice, Sweedish Ohlins goodness

How pricey was the conversion?

Edited August 11, 2007 by salad

[toffy]

nice car, note the 200klm/h speedo. did it have leather trim from the factory?

[AlcoholicA]

Thanks for the comments guys....

Ooooh, Top Secret coilovers, they'd be nice

They ARE nice... they were pretty expensive when I bought them, but I have to say it was money well spent!

How pricey was the conversion?

The already car had a 1JZ when I bought it over a year ago, but developed engine knock.... rather than rebuild that engine, I just replaced the whole engine - about $1,000 aus, and about $600 aus for service, which included completely rewiring the engine-bay.

nice car, note the 200klm/h speedo. did it have leather trim from the factory?

it's not actually real leather... so not standard from the factory [although there are plenty over here in Thailand that are] it's that fake-leather stuff but reasonably well done.... I'd love to get a set of recaros trimmed up the same

[2gceffy]

looks like r32 center consol??? fits alright?

[AlcoholicA]

looks like r32 center consol??? fits alright?

Well spotted, although I think I listed it in the mods - yeah it fits ok... the guys who originally fitted it didn't do a great job but I refitted it to make it better, although I'm not entirely happy with the result because of overlapping endges on either side around the gearstick console, but since it's better than it was I'm not too bothered. WIth a bit of patience, you'd be able to make a pretty good fit.

[(sweeper32)]

cool as, wel done

[Bdin]

typical turning-head thailand cefiro.

Nice ride dude

[anticeptik]

Nice, very interesting combination

[chu]

love the thailand style,!

[CEF]

nice and clean.

[raZ1911]

How hard was it to get the 1j in there?