Mild 86 MX72 Cressida Build

[MR2_FTW]

Car is now for sale! PM if interested!

[Late-N-Cressy]

This was a great read! Thank you for your maticulous attention to detail and sticking with the updates for followers. Your a hell of a mechanic!

[MR2_FTW]

The rear brakes have been squealing for a while now, and the right rear caliper was leaking fluid from the ebrake crank. Rather than bleeding the whole system twice I took the opportunity to gut the proportioning valve so the rear disc brakes can finally start doing their fair share of work, as the stock part was valved for having the old drums.

After doing this, the rear brakes were INSANELY loud. Like feeling the howling through the pedal, blow out your ear drums because of the resonance loud. I suspect this was due to the pads not bedding in properly from under-use from the prop valve. A new set of better quality pads and lubricated caliper slide pins later, and the car stops perfectly and silently.

[MR2_FTW]

4/14/15
Spacers worked, wheels fit over brakes.

The spedometer cable, much like the transmission, is from a non-turbo MA70 Supra. That means there is a "long" section that goes from the cluster to down by the trans. Then there is a "short" more flexible section that's only like 8" long to connect to a 90* fitting that then attaches to the trans. The way I used to have the cable routed, the short section of the cable was contacting the exhaust and melted inside. This caused the plastic driven gear in the transmission to get stripped.



I replaced the gear and re-routed the cable and now my speedo works!




6/10/15
While I was on vacation my friends "stole" the car and surprised me when I got back by having gone over the whole car multiple times and polishing this turd as best as it can possibly be polished! It looks so much better now!

Hood before:


Hood after:


Roof before:


Roof after:


Hatch before:


Hatch after:


Tail lights before:


Tail lights after:



And we went out and took some cool night pictures later that night

[MR2_FTW]

86+ sedan brakes are on. They're a solid inch bigger in diameter. I had to remove the dust shields, though I may end up trimming them and reinstalling them later.





The main issue right now is that my 14" CelicaSupra P-type wheels just barely hit them. I'm going to grab a 1/4" spacer today and see if that will fix it.

[TWM Performance]

My kind of build, love it!

Renato
Team TWM Performance

[pitbulldrifter]

bravo sir one clean ass build

[MR2_FTW]

3/24/15
Car has been running and coolant-leak-free for a while now. The hoses were wrong, so I ended up using regular hose and routing them differently.
I dislike my current fan setup, as there is no shroud. I got my hands on a Mishimoto dual fan + shroud setup for a MA70 Supra which should bolt up to the aluminum MA70 radiator. The car has not been overheating with my current setup, but I don't think the whole fan-ziptied-directly-to-the-radiator thing would work out well in the summer. Plus having those ties is not good for the rad itself.




3/26/15
Fans are in. Bolted right up. I had to relocate the coolant overflow in front of the rad instead of behind it, but I just modified the bracket and bolted it up, and ran a longer hose. MK3 Supra style, yo. I also had to modify the wiring to accommodate the extra fan, and the studs/nuts holding the water pump pulley on were getting just a hair too close for comfort, so those were removed and replaced with bolts instead. All better.


3/31/15
When I was in a huge crunch to throw the brakes together on this thing a year and a half ago, I ordered bottom-barrel cheap crap off of RockAuto just to get the car on the road. Well now it's still working, but damn is it the squeakiest, most obnoxious noisy brakes I've ever heard on a car that still had some meat on the pads. Also, I'm pretty sure the rear brakes are barely doing anything due to the drum-style proportioning valve. SO I'm ordering semi-loaded front calipers (include brackets) and rotors for an 87 Cressida Sedan, and a set of new ceramic pads. These are a bolt-on big(ger) brake setup and should still fit under my Celi-Supra wheels. I'll just have to trim the dust shield a bit.

Here's a side-by-side for comparison (not my pics)




I'm also going to gut the proportioning valve to give some more power to the rear discs. This worked extremely well in the MR2, and I think it should also yield good results in this car.

[Sir Stancelot]

Ah, you got attacked by the infamous "Suicide Hose". Very common problem with 5m's. I haven't had a problem with mine yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if it gave out soon.

[MR2_FTW]

So Friday night I'm driving my girlfriend home after a movie with some friends and notice that the rear window is getting wet, but it's not raining. I pull into a gas station and notice that the car is puking coolant from somewhere under the intake manifold. Even though the flashing "Open" sign was on, the station was actually closed, as was the station next door. After running across the 4-lane road to another station (keep in mind it's about 12*F at this point) I was able to buy a few gallons of coolant. Upon removing the radiator cap, it promptly exploded straight up about 10' in the air due to hot air pressure in the mostly-empty system. I ended up being able to limp it home by stopping every 15 minutes or so (my girlfriend and I live an hour apart) to top off the coolant.

It looks like there are two oddly-shaped coolant lines, and one big hose that run under/through the manifold. One of the smaller lines was definitely leaking, but I'm going to replace all of them in one go, since the intake manifold had to come off to do it.



22210C and 22210D are the crazy looking hoses of which I spoke.

[#R_]

Such a nice looking wagon, look forward to more updates on the engine build

[edz280zx]

Just fyi, you may want to upgrade your motor mounts now that your using a far stiffer tranny mount. The twisting action of the motor "may" eventually crack the bell-housing. You might do a little research to confirm this.

[FRANKIBOY27]

rad

[MR2_FTW]

Got a fan. Flex-a-lite #114.



14" (the height of the radiator core), roughly 1,600 cf/m flow. I haven't wired it up yet, but it's mounted to the back of the radiator and fits perfectly.

I also stopped by Lowe's and picked up a 30" x 36" board of coroplast to construct block-off panels to duct air to the radiator more efficiently. It's not pretty but it should work REALLY well.

[MR2_FTW]

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