My winter money pit

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My winter money pit

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I finally decided to stop being such a bum and post up one of these project car build ups. Mainly because Im going to need some advice and help along the way so I can have someone who's been watching the build up in order to help me, but also to inform people of some fun stuff.

Plans for the motor is to finally swap in the ex-GZE with turbo stuff in and get that all sorted out and running. That will be the second half of winter. Plans for the fixing of that damned snapped axle is S13 rear-subframe with a VLSD and some nifty coilovers. I am also planning on probably trying to swap my brothers S14 coilovers/front suspension onto the car :D. If not his S14 suspension maybe I'll find some S13 stuff for that as well. Anywho if anyone wants to trade some S13 rear-coilovers for a pair of S14 tein he's with like 3000 miles on them lemme know as that will be kinda necessary :D. Now for the start of the pictures:


out with the old
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and busted
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And in with the new and fresh :D
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The motor has like 50k miles or so, and the manifold is just your basic Xspower. The turbo on it is a stock T25 Sr turbo, and it has the Sr dump pipe or the top of the downpipe. Im planning on doing a custom V-mount setup with the intercooler, and hopefully I can get one of the 4ag to w5x bellhousing adapters and get a nice W58 or 55 to use with the motor. I am planning on running megasquirt for an ecu and all those goodies. I can't really think of anything else to add just now except that im planning on putting in atleast a nice 4 point custom made cage myself sometime soon as well :D.
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hot damn. keep us posted.
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Post by matts13 »

so you make a toyota good by useing nissan parts i see
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matts13 wrote:so you make a toyota good by useing nissan parts i see
whatever works right? :D
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Damn man! That's going to be wild!!1

What are you doing with that 4-link?
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ha dick can wait to see the finish product and good choice on the megasquirt
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andysapp wrote:Damn man! That's going to be wild!!1

What are you doing with that 4-link?
Im planning on selling the adjustable 4-link, along with the rear-end itself and an axle to replace the snapped one and the rear-coilovers from paradise racing once im ready and the rear lateral bar and the trd 5.1 kg/mm rear spings, why you interested? :lol: hehe, basically the stuff in that picture plus the springs is for sale now to help fund, and once I get the other rear-end retro-fitted to the corolla I'll sell off the remaining parts I have.
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Made a little progress yesterday, lemme post up some pics.

this is when we started drilling the spot welds
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A little cutting off never hurt anyone
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After I finally coerced the mount to be good and come off and took off the bumpstops
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A little looking to see some things
Q:what else is gonna have to get cut off and unbolted?
A: A LOT!!
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This sure as hell is gonna be a lot of fun when it's done!!
I hope... :D :D
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HOLY RADNESSssSssZzzZZzZzzzZZ!1!!11JAUNz0rZzz!1eleventy!1
Keep the progress comin man.

Thas awesomes!
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