Project N/A 2JZ Soarer from aus

[DioXidE]

pics of new wheels bro!

[Mtt]

Are you wearing pants haha, otherwise good start man

hahah yea man, my work shorts theyre pretty short. Just the way i thought you'd like it


Cheers

pics of new wheels bro!

Heres a photo of them when i got them from Whitehorse Industries after being rebuilt. Not assembled just sitting there sandwhich mounted. They used to be 17x9 and 17x10. Happy with the steps. So keen to get them on! Specs are:

Front 18x10 +33
Rear 18x11.5 + 30

Fronts will need some slip on or bolt on spacers to clear my big brakes when they go on im pretty sure. We'll see



Photo from the other week when i redid my headlights. Took them apart by heating the silicon up in the oven and then sanded and buffed the lens, cleaned projector etc. Had to respray the reflector aswell as the chrome paint was patchy and faded. Resealed then with some black heavy duty sealant and they didnt leak in the last week of rain! Came up great. Will get a good pic when the wheels go on.

[Mtt]

Got rims back today. My new carbon rings and screws arrived aswell








Have FALKEN FK452 tyres to go on them, going to try get the tyres fitted tomorrow
245/45/r18
285/35/r18

[P78]

oh hey, this is awesome

[Mtt]

oh hey, this is awesome

Thanks buddy!

Fitted the tyres and realized running the 285 on the rear makes the wheels virtually impossible to fit without blowing the university student budget. Have now stripped the tyre and plan on purchasing some 255 semi slicks.
Heres how the rear are sitting now! Tyres soon to be fitted and gaurd work to begin..

[MadMax]

love it !

really like that you're keeping it NA...

[Mtt]

love it !

really like that you're keeping it NA...

Thanks bro!

So guys a few updates i've been pretty busy doing work. Had a pretty bad exhaust leak from the bottom of the extractors so decided to sort that out and clean the exhaust up at the same time. Fixed the leak by putting in some 2.5" 10mm flange billet flange spacers and gasket either side. Fixed 99% of the leak but i can still here it when letting off at 7000rpm. Happy though.

Wet sanded most of the rust off the exhaust and resprayed black with high-temp VHT caliper paint. We'll see how long it lasts! Happy with how it turned out. The exhaust is full 2.5" with mandrel bends, bashed out cat, a cheap glasspack muffler and some fairly sketchy welds done by my welding mate a while back when i went twin tips. The exhaust actually sounds really mean though. Sounds especially great in my citys 1.6km underground tunnel. Have been asked if i have ITBS after tunnel run cruises! Have got videos ill throw up as soon as i can work out how to get a video off facebook and onto youtube







So that was last weekends work. The Futuras are now on after buying 255/35/R18 Federeal 595-RSR tyres for the rear. Stretch is now even on all 4's and the stretch obviously made the fitment start to come good. I've ordered 10mm hubcentric spacers for the front (Toyota cb is 60.1mm). The new tyres on a good set of balanced, hub centric wheels feels AMAZING. Great grip and im not rubbing fronts or rears with this low. Going to get new rear bushings and an alignment in the next couple of weeks. Planning to get ~1.5degrees of negative camber all around. Also converted all my interior lights to LEDs as well as my number plate lights. Looks a lot less bunky now at night.

This weekend i spent putting my Wise front lip rep on. It got bent in the post so was an aboslute bitch to get on. Had to drill about 30 holes and bolt it in. Happy with the fitment in the end and i think it made the front end look a lot meaner! Polyurethane so pretty much indestructible.

Anyway here are the photos! Notice my headlights looking clear and dry after my restoration efforts. They used to literally have pools of water in them and clouds of moisture on the lens.








Progress is moving well so i'm happy. I deicded to do my brake upgrade properly. So i've ordered second hand rear 2pot Supra TT brakes with new rotors and new pads. They should arrive this week with my Supra TT bigger bore brake master cylinder aswell. The bigger master cylinder is needed when you do the 4 -2 pot brake upgrade to maintain pedal feel and response. Next update should be in a week or two with the brakes in, spaced out front wheels and 97 rear wing +bootlid.

[AdsyAd]

Absolutely great progress mate, looks hotter then a nun on heat.

[jlaffo91]

Hey its great to see someone else from Perth on here. Car looks absolutely awesome. Looking forward to seeing more progress

[Chasen88]

This makes me miss my sc.

[scweet14]

looking good man, wish the wheels were a little more aggressive but i love that you got futuras!

[philohlean]

This thing is awesome, start to finish. Keep up the stellar work dude

[Mtt]

Absolutely great progress mate, looks hotter then a nun on heat.

hahaha thanks chief

Hey its great to see someone else from Perth on here. Car looks absolutely awesome. Looking forward to seeing more progress

Hey man! Yeah im south of the river. i think most of the car scene is North but i still get amongst it. You on WAJCC facebook page?

This makes me miss my sc.

i hope it inspires you to buy one again! Soarers in Australia are treated like absolute crap. Theres is VERY few nice ones, let alone clean ones. 95% of soarer interiors are falling apart and paint is faded. Thats part of the reason why i like this car as a platform because it will stand out in my city and eventually show how nice these cars can look to people that don't know.

looking good man, wish the wheels were a little more aggressive but i love that you got futuras!

thanks dude! Yeah i definitely could have gone more aggresive with the fronts but i was hesitant because i wasn't sure how much clearence i would have after doing my front caliper upgrade. I was told it could be a problem. Anyway i have 10mm spaces on the way so that should help out a bit and give it more of a 'pitbull' stance.

As far as the rears i really couldn't have gone any more aggressive dude haha. My car is daily driven and cops over here are brutal on low/fitment/mods man. They give defect notices on a whim and recently they've caught onto jap cars having wheels out of the gaurds and cracked down on it. Im sure jlaffo91 will back me up on this and appreciate how manly ive already gone with the rears hahaha. I tried to find that middle point with a little bit of poke and stretch but nothing crazy. But i'm going to get a defect notice its just a matter of time. It will cost a grand or more to get the defect off aswell (can't drive the car after its been 'yellow stickered'). Student budget dfoesn't really permit widebody either. Wheel specs worked out in the end to be

18x10.5 +40
18x11 +30

Anyway thanks man! And i love your SC.

This thing is awesome, start to finish. Keep up the stellar work dude

Thanks bro will keep the updates flowing

[jlaffo91]

Yer I'm on the WAJCC, and WAJCP page. You go to the JDM obsessions cruise the other night? I'm NOR, and always thought there was more stuff going on SOR.

[Mtt]

Yer I'm on the WAJCC, and WAJCP page. You go to the JDM obsessions cruise the other night? I'm NOR, and always thought there was more stuff going on SOR.

nice mate well if you see my car at a meet be sure to come say hi. Nah i didn't go on the cruise but im glad i didn't haha, that would be been an instant yellow