Today i had the afternoon to get some work done on the car, and seeing as the rear eccentric bolts were in and sitting there looking at me (along with the 40×3 RHS) i got started on the rear camber mod.
Now the whole reasoning behind this is that the MA61 with its super duper high tech 1980s dual blade rear suspension gains camber when you lower it, so much so that you really need adjustable camber. Infact in this case im only going to be adding adjustment for more positive camber because its really a bit excessive otherwise.
Out came the 40×3 which i aquired on Friday, and i set to work. Firstly i cut the RHS into 25mm segments and then halved them.
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Marked it all up, and started drilling:
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I then cheese holed the bracket with a 4ish mm drillbit:
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Then i went absolutely nutso with a round and half moon file and ended up with this:
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Cut the sides down and voila:
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And then i made another three:
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After a brief rest, and a beer, i set about preparing the crossmember for its new friends. A bit of angle grinding here and there, and slicing and dicing came up with this:
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Just mocked up at this stage.
A hell of a lot more slicing, dicing, welding, filing and slotting followed and i finally ended up with this:
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Other side is approximately the same. Reasonably nicely welded in, good penetration, and it all works 🙂 yay.
To round out the night i then started on making the radiator mounts, and got one done before i had to call it quits for the night:
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Its a pretty darn big radiator for that spot, with the lower water outlet only just clearing the swaybar/castor rod bracketry, thats ok though, so long as it clears the bigger the better.
But now im kind of stuck. I cant reassemble the rear end as im still not sure what to do with studs for the rear of the car. Nice products are out of stock and ridiculously expensive, so it might be OEM toyota for the job.
I cant rebuild the front of the car as i dont have the coilover sleeves yet, and i cant redo the interior as i dont have carpet.
Therefore, ill be ordering carpet first thing on Monday morning, and we will see if i can get the interior fitted up next.
In other news i cant get an ID check any other way apart from putting a 5MPOO back into the car, and so as such Rob has kindly offered to bring one down for me at a reasonable price. Once that arrives ill be able to pop it in and get the car back on the road.
Also my 2JZGE bellhousing arrived, but thats kind of boring really.