Project Trd

[natett]

after cleaning all the gunk off the car from temora i entered into a local car show "jdm'fest".

Dustin also managed to get his car out for the event too.

It took 8 attempts to get the car onto the rollers. they had to widen the ramps so much that the following cars tyres didnt fit onto the ramp haha

ended up being a good day for trophies. Dustin ended up with peoples choice award which was awesome!

I finished the day with best interior, best paint, best engine bay, most powerful rwd, most powerful 6 cyl and the king of jdm'fest trophy.

from here i now need to install my B03B diff with solid mounts and single piece tailshaft. from there it will be winding the wick up further for another trip to WSID for a hopeful low 11 second pass. also getting a boot install and a couple other new items ready for the new year!

[Sinista32]

Well done awesome car.

[Pepsinator]

[natett]

recieved a few of these yesterday...

now make sure everyone gets behind Performance Imports magazine and buy a copy!!! Its issue 143 due out in a couple weeks!

[Nur33]

Ah nice work mate congrats on the Magazine shoot. I'll have to wait patiently for the post man to bring it to me

[natett]

Guys

I need everyone to help out and jump on facebook and vote for my car!!! It will take votes from everyone to get me across the line.

https://www.facebook.com/justcar?sk=app_282560435129558&app_data=200

[ylwgtr2]

who else read "project turd" at first glance

[TMM]

I thought it looked familiar when i read the PI article. Good job on the car, probably my favourite Supra of all time.

[natett]

who else read "project turd" at first glance

where do you think its nickname turd came from haha

[natett]

thanks for the comments guys. Now it looks like ill be putting it up for sale as i need to free up funds for an apartment purchase towards the end of the year.

if you know anyone after possibly one of Australias top supras please let me know!

[N1GTR]

Noooo!!! Don't do it!

[natett]

just recieved a link to the photographers blog where he has posted a few more shots of the car up! Big thanks to Jamie Carl for making the car look good!

http://www.jamiecarl.com.au/blog/nat...idebody-supra/

[N1GTR]

Looking good!

[natett]

The Low-Down.com has just released my car onto their website.

http://www.the-lowdown.com/widebody-supra/

everyone jump on and check it out!

sample pic...

[Sinista32]

Good read and some great pics

[debmatt09]

I miss my supra!! This one is soooo nice...

Cheers

[natett]

Its been awhile since ive put anything up on here so since i have some time off i thought I'd update it.

Over the Easter I attended the Toyota Nationals in Dubbo. All in all it was great fun and well worth it. That said with work and uni comitments, the prep weeks prior to the event were extremely stressful. Big thanks to Dustin for spending more hours under the car helping get things ready!

Due to entering the motorkhana and drags i wanted to install a few new parts. so the list prior to the event looked a little like this:

Install HKS oil cooler and filer relocation

Install power steering cooler

Install TRD thermostat

install spal 13" push fan to replace the removed a/c condenser fan

Install line locker

complete oil change

radiator flush and all new coolant + water wetter

bleed brakes and clutch

Test fit motorkhana wheels (set of 18s that the mrs father has sitting around the shed)

refit front bar including fixing broken brackets from hitting gutters once or twice

general clean including new floor mats (finally)

get spare wheels and jack to a mate taking a trailer to dubbo

and of course pack the car with spare fluids, fuel, tools cleaning crap, tent, clothes and helmet

Due to work i ended up with 4 days to complete everything, not 2 weeks as originally planned. After the normal hick-ups everything was in and ready to go by 11.30pm the night before i was due to meet everyone at 6am for the drive up. Fortunately taking our time paid off and there were no issues, leaks etc.

Arrive in dubbo friday ready to settle in, wash and polsih the car ready for the show'n'shine on saturday morning...plus a few beers to finish the day and talk shit half the night with everyone.

Arrived at the show'n 'shine, pop the bonnet and walk over to the guys in front to sit down. suddenly steam is pissing out of the engine bay and i start to freak out. realise the blocked water nipple rubber piece has died and a hair line crack is spraying water onto the exhaust manifold. Freaking out i start gathering a list of parts to replace and scam a ride to the local autobarn. $40.00 later and a bit of roadside bush mechanics all was fixed for a $3.00 part.

Leave show'n'shine and heap off to change wheels over ready for the motorkhana. Motorkhana was great fun. Hit positive pressure once and managed to finish one out 6 courses. That said doing donuts were just as fun

Saturday night...big night!!

Sunday drags. Started with shit wheels and tyres to test the line locker out. the lack of traction and driving ability meant the 345s were on after a couple runs. turns out 345s make more smoke (very expensive smoke!!!) still didnt help my soft driving but nevertheless great fun day.

Sunday night was the awards dinner and a quite night before the drive home Monday.

In the end i ended up winning four awards. Best Coupe, Best Engine Bay, Best Exterior and Best Modified.

After that the car didnt move for a couple weeks. I then cleaned it up and installed a long awaited false floor into the boot of the car. formally it was a mixture of original red paint, dynamat and some other crap thats been in there over the past 12 months.

Cleaned the car again and entered a local MeaACT event (sound off/ showy type event) where i managed to score judges choice and a few pointers to make the stereo sound better (simple things like rcas the right way around etc haha)

Now i need to save (while in process of buying an apartment) for more boost! also need to install a Defi gauge thing that i ran out of time prior to dubbo to install (big thanks to Mr Gameon for getting it across the lake in almost record time)

Here a some pics...

more to come. also pictures of the event are up on ashtone photography's website including a few smoke screens from the drags

here are some more pics....

oil cooler kit

Install

davis criag p/s cooler mounted

cooling results

345 desk storage

the broken rubber stop

[natett]

Recently I’ve attended a couple car shows in Sydney. One was The-Lowdown’s “showcased at fox studios. The second was Sydney’s MotorEx.

The Showcased was great event. I drove up and back on the same day so it certainly was a long day! Left at 6am and returned home around 10pm. This show was held at Fox Studioes in Sydney on roof top of a huge multi storey carpark. It was set out like many of the Californian shows we have seen over the internet with high tech JDM cars, USDM full track cars as well as cars with crazy wheel offsets.

It was an awesome atmosphere full of friendly faces! There were some absolute standout cars like wide body 400kw s15s, R34 GTRS, RX7s and a ton of evos. Gorilla and I held the supra flag as high as we could.

There was also JDMST’s EOMM that took 2 levels below of more awesome cars. It was good to see a few supras and an 86 (as well as a few other Toyotas) mixing it up with masses of Nissans, Subaru’s and Mitsubishi’s down there.

I was completely shocked to hear my car announced to win “Best in Show” for the event especially considering the calibre of cars on display.

A couple pics:

more here:

THE-LOWDOWN.com: SHOWCASED + JDMST June EOMM! Sponsored by Xtreme Motorsports

The next show was MotorEx at Homebush bay. This show is affectively the most highly modified cars you will see in the country however 95% are old v8s and hot rods. Some of these cars and bikes have had close to $1M spent on them but to me it’s a waste as they don’t do anything other than roll on and off a enclosed trailer. Some even go the extent of wrapping brand new tyres in glad wrap so not even dust will get on the tread :S. That said the level of detail on these cars is nothing short of extraordinary! Some are true masterpieces.

The “tuner” and “street” section is something to be desired as a 2000hp SC big block with number plates is still able to enter street classes :S. the tuner cars are also, unfortunately, tainted by 2SUS and Queen St style sex spec cars. Pretty much to get anywhere it needs to be all bling with house of colour paint. Nevertheless there was still an awesome crowd and huge amount of cars to check out!

I was asked to entre with the Sydney Allstars and Zen Garage stand. We had my car, a M3, Lamborghini Murcielago, Honda Integra type R race car, race spec s14 200sx, wide body s15 and the best of all, a classic Hakosuka GTR!

Here a couple pics:

The only car with wider tyres than my car…405s!!!!!!!

more here:

Motorex x ALL STARS 2012

Meguiar's MotorEx - The Greatest Rides on Show! - Gallery

While at MotorEx I was approached by Turbosmart to have the car on their display at World Time Attack in a few weeks. Unfortunately I’ve had to withdraw as I’m off to Fiji first thing the following morning !

Next thing lined up for it will be the Shannons Snowy Mountains 1000 being held at Cooma airport. Putting another 10psi of boost in it for that so hopefully I crack the 250km/h mark and even get into the 20 second mark!

[natett]

for all those on the infamouse stalkbook (facebook). jump onto JCI page and vote for my car on the rate my ride section!

https://www.facebook.com/justcar/130...04&app_data=73

[timmy_89]

great build thread!

i live in dubbo and remember checking this out when the toyota nationals were here.

must say i have a lot more respect for it after going through this build thread haha. i definitely didnt notice how wide the back tyres were though!!