Mild 86 MX72 Cressida Build

[MR2_FTW]

Just ordered one of these pretty babies. This comes after freaking myself out by scraping my subframe while shuffling cars around my driveway. I figured my oil pan could use a little extra protection.

[MR2_FTW]

Ever since I bought the car the HVAC controls have been very hit or miss. There are four fan speeds: Auto, Off, Low, and High. Off obviously worked, but Low never did and High was intermittent. Basically to have any fan at all I'd have to use Auto which varies in speed depending on the temperature in the car. So I overheard somebody talking about a blower motor resistor pack. I'd never heard of it so I googled and low and behold it could be the issue. So I looked it up at work and it was a whopping $12. Discontinued. One left in the country. Bought. Installed. Fixed.

Here's the old one. Several broken connections, deteriorated metal, and generally garbage condition.


Here's the new one. So shiny and functional-looking.


SUCCESS!

[Hitman Cody2130]

Good looking build so far man, I am gonna have to keep an eye on this thread

[MR2_FTW]

Limit straps installed. Bottom is bolted to the upper arm bolts and the top is fed through slots cut in the floor of the trunk and held in place with crossbolts. Not super ideal but hey it works.

[MR2_FTW]

what clutch, master and slave cylinder and pedal did you use?
im doing a 7mgte w58 swap here soon

Any clutch for a 7MGE (not GTE, that's different) or 5MGE will work. 5MGE and 7MGE flywheels are the same as well.
To use a W58 with a GTE you need GE flywheel, clutch, throwout bearing, etc. The R154 that comes on the GTE cars uses a "pull" style clutch and a different flywheel that won't work with the W58.

Master is from a MA60 Celica-Supra, but others will work as well
Slave is from an MA70 Supra
Pedal is from an AE86 (direct bolt on)

You can also buy a whole pedal assembly from here:

http://www.xcessivemanufacturing.com/ONLINESTORE.html?cid=60&step=4&pid=379

As well as a clutch line

http://www.xcessivemanufacturing.com/ONLINESTORE.html?cid=60&step=4&pid=381

[mitchbrock1]

what clutch, master and slave cylinder and pedal did you use?
im doing a 7mgte w58 swap here soon

[mitchbrock1]

hey man sorry I havent replied on the cressida forums I always forget about it, the front bumper is a honda bumper and the rear setup I have is cut TRD 8kg ae86 springs and ae86 tokico blues.

Glad to see a fellow creesy wagon on here.

[DaguerrotypeI]

Nice. Imma have to follow this build!

[MR2_FTW]

I'm sticking with the Supra wheels. I got them for a steal and put a ton of elbow grease into them. They are one of my all-time favorite wheel designs. I also like the nod to the fact that the Cressida is basically a Supra with a sedan body. Same engine, same suspension. It's a bit of a stretch with the wagon, but it's the same front as an A60 Supra and a dumbed-down rear of an A40 Supra (drums and open diff instead of discs and LSD). I do need some spacer in the rear though. The track is still too narrow back there for my taste. It was way, way worse with the stock wheels though.

[rice4life]

I read through everything.

Holy crap. I know that exterior wise it doesn't really look very different, but wow that's quite a bit of suspension work.

What kind of wheels are you going to throw on her? I think it would look great with some 16" watanabe/panasport style wheels.

[MR2_FTW]

It's only one page because it's so many posts consolidated into a few. I promise it's like 4 pages long on all the other forums I post on haha.

[heef]

The saddest part about this thread, for me, is when I got to the bottom and there was no other pages

This is cool. Subbed.

[MR2_FTW]

Best of luck. Definitely take pictures and let me know how it turns out. I'd be thrilled if somebody found this stuff useful haha.

[joshg51]

Okay got it. I may have to do this for classic project car

[MR2_FTW]

I thought I covered it pretty thoroughly in the build. Just remove the old rubber crap, get the metal surface as clean as you can, seal one side with aluminum tape, and fill with some DIY urethane from McMaster-Carr. It's not too hard, it just takes time. Very useful for applications like this one where nobody makes bushings for it.