Category: Cars

I know i said i woudlnt get much done in the week or so that my parents were around, but i couldnt help myself. After gardening one day i ducked out to the garage and fitted up the rear stubaxles. Its a pretty easy process, simply regrease them and pop them into the carrier, then pop the driveshaft flange on the other end and the appropriate washers and start to tighten. I used my slide hammer plate so that i could stand it up in the vice to tighten against:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28792-1/IMG_0715_s.jpg[/IMG]

Once its tightened just stake the stub axle nut so it cant come undone:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28795-1/IMG_0716_s.jpg[/IMG]

Pretty easy all in all.

With that out of the way i turned to the fuel pump. Now the old Bosch unit had to go, because i had no idea of the details about it and even whether it worked. Gav and i both got Walbro GSS 342s to install.

Pretty piddling to fit to the bracket:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28798-1/IMG_0717_s.jpg[/IMG]

But the stock Walbro GSS342 pickup filter is at a very awkward angle, and fouls on the bottom of the tank:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28801-1/IMG_0718_s.jpg[/IMG]

I know others have cut the pick up and made it fit, but luckily the pickup from the Bosch pump was a direct fit on, and popped on easily.
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28804-1/IMG_0719_s.jpg[/IMG]
Add one hose clamp and its all done. I ended up repinning the existing wiring into the Walbro plug and voila, one completed fuel pump.

In addition while i was gardening yesterday the nice postie came around with this:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28891-1/IMG_0748_s.jpg[/IMG]
Fresh black auto carpet from Knox.

Plus as a birthday present to myself i picked up a set of AVS Model 6s replete with Adrenalines RE01s.
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28896-1/DSC00326.JPG[/IMG]

The list of things to do is rapidly diminishing.

Ducked in to UPullIt on my late “lunch break” before heading home. While i was there i scored an MX83 brake master cylinder:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28761-1/IMG_0704_s.jpg[/IMG]
Manual heater controls, with all their assorted cables:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28758-1/IMG_0703_s.jpg[/IMG]

But most importantly i did some searching for studs for the rear of the Supra. Now because im running a disc under disc setup i need studs which are 5-6mm longer than the stock ones, which are 27mm exposed length. But Toyota use a 14.1mm knurl on the stud and are reasonably hard to find replacements. To the poitn that Nice studs have no stock of the longer NS3400s currently.

I had a heads up that some Mitsubishi commercial ones might fit as they are a 14.3mm knurl and as such will interference fit nicely in without too many problems. I also knew from the Toyota parts cattledog that Hiaces had longer studs in the rear, about 45mm overall length rather than the 40mm that the Supra ran.

So off i went hunting, and out of all the cars in the yard there was only one Hiace which didnt have rooted studs already, and i pulled those out. But there were about 5 econovans which lost their rear studs as well.

When i got home i took some measurements:

[img]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28773-1/IMG_0708_s.jpg[/img]

It seems that the Hiace studs are 4-5mm longer than the MA61 ones and the Mitsubishi ones are 5-6mm longer than the MA61 ones. Both press into the hubs quite nicely and easily as seen here:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28779-1/IMG_0710_s.jpg[/IMG]
That hub is running one of each studs, MA61, Hiace and Econovan

And here is a direct comparison of length:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28776-1/IMG_0709_s.jpg[/IMG]

So thats my studs almost solved, i now just have to decide between the Hiace (which i only have 10 of) and the Econovan studs (which i have about 20-30 of).

On my way home i picked up some vinyl dye, which is absolute golden stuff:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28764-1/IMG_0705_s.jpg[/IMG]

and then painted my dash:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28767-1/IMG_0706_s.jpg[/IMG]

Should come up quite nicely once its dry.

And finally i pulled my JZA80 bellhousing out and confirmed fitment:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28770-1/IMG_0707_s.jpg[/IMG]

All in all a fairly decent couple of hours. Sadly things will take a bit of a break for the next week or so, as my parents are in town for my birthday and i have some other things to do. Hopefully it will all start up again in the second week of September.

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.
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28701-1/IMG_0684_s.jpg[/IMG]
Marked it all up, and started drilling:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28704-1/IMG_0685_s.jpg[/IMG]
I then cheese holed the bracket with a 4ish mm drillbit:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28713-1/IMG_0688_s.jpg[/IMG]
Then i went absolutely nutso with a round and half moon file and ended up with this:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28719-1/IMG_0690_s.jpg[/IMG]
Cut the sides down and voila:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28725-1/IMG_0692_s.jpg[/IMG]

And then i made another three:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28731-1/IMG_0694_s.jpg[/IMG]

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:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28734-1/IMG_0695_s.jpg[/IMG]
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:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28749-1/IMG_0700_s.jpg[/IMG]

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:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28752-1/IMG_0701_s.jpg[/IMG]
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.

Well that was THE most unproductive night in the garage ever.

I was out there for about 2 hrs and got buggerall done, however here is what i did do.

Firstly, i want to figure out how much i need to cut off the strut to shorten it for the short stroke shocks. So first of all i had to refit one of the LCAs with a ball joint and then bolt on the steering arm. Easy enough, i then fitted it to the car. Also easy.
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28613-1/IMG_0653_s.jpg[/IMG]
After fitting up one of the MX83 struts as so:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28610-1/IMG_0652_s.jpg[/IMG]
And setting it to maximum camber and caster:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28607-1/IMG_0651_s.jpg[/IMG]
I then went and rescued one of the wheels from their day job of holding a friends tent in place in our carport so it can dry. The advantages and disadvantages in living in a house while friends live in flats:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28616-1/IMG_0654_s.jpg[/IMG]

I bolted a wheel on and then jacked it up to an approximate (very approximate) ride height:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28622-1/IMG_0656_s.jpg[/IMG]
I figure at least this way i can work out somewhat how high the spring perch needs to sit.

Taking the wheel off i measured a 460mm overall strut length, compressed of course:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28628-1/IMG_0659_s.jpg[/IMG]

Interestingly enough this yields 3deg neg camber:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28631-1/IMG_0660_s.jpg[/IMG]
But a touch over 8deg caster:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28634-1/IMG_0661_s.jpg[/IMG]

After all that i completely forgot to measure the hub to guard distance so i can compare it with other MA61s for ride height equivalence. So ill have to do that later.

With that done i moved on to making some of the camber adjust bolt plates, and here is where the real fun started.
Due to some mild brainfarts i was under the impression that i needed to cut 25x50mm plates out of 3mm and then slot them up according to my measurements. Unfortunately i was highly mistaken. I actually needed 25x44mm plates and would then slot them accordingly. That slight mismeasurement cost me 2 messed up plates before i figured out what i was doing wrong.
Anyway, this is how i was making them, basically drilling 2 holes and then slotting them out to be 20mm OD long.
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28637-1/IMG_0665_s.jpg[/IMG]
Clamping them in a vice at the end:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28640-1/IMG_0667_s.jpg[/IMG]
And then beating the absolute crap out of them until they had formed flanges:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28643-1/IMG_0668_s.jpg[/IMG]
And voila, one finished:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28646-1/IMG_0669_s.jpg[/IMG]
With free bonus flash glare.

After being so totally frustrated with that, i decided i would do a few other little jobs in the garage, like cleaning up a bit, and measured up my rad for fitment later. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) i dont have any 50×50 angle otherwise i would have started fitting it up and probably screwed it up too.

I fitted a few other little things to the engine bay:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28649-1/IMG_0670_s.jpg[/IMG]
All with M6 stainless capscrews [I](surely to Gav’s delight)[/I] for a touch of bling.

Finally i got around to measuring up the shocks which arrived today and came up with the following:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28661-1/IMG_0674_s.jpg[/IMG]
360mm body length
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28664-1/IMG_0675_s.jpg[/IMG]
550mm overall length.
So a 190mm stroke.

Thats about it for now, ill do some calculations tomorrow as to how long i need the struts to be, and we will go from there.

Feeling like a small kid at Christmas, more stuff arrived in the post today:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28589-1/IMG_0644_s.jpg[/IMG]
Aforementioned camber bolts.

[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28595-1/IMG_0646_s.jpg[/IMG]
Alloy radiator.

But most importantly:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28598-1/IMG_0647_s.jpg[/IMG]
Mark Webber collectable memorabilia stamps.

So, what do you do while watching a rerun of the Valencia GP?
Well sit down on the couch with a BMW eccentric bolt and do some drawing.

This is what i came up with:

[img]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28601-1/IMG_0650_s.jpg[/img]

Top right is the eccentric bolt looking down the shaft and you can see the inner circle which is the bolt shaft itself and is offset by 4mm from the center of the eccentric washer. This will give us a total adjustability of 8mm.
Top left is the plate im going to make up for the bolt. Its measured out to 26mm wide because i was being lazy and didnt want to use the half grade measure with an 0.7 lead, and it would have distracted from my TV watching. In reality it will be somewhere between 24 and 26mm due to the sheer innaccuracy of the angle grinder. In that diagram you can see the slot which will have to be drilled out of the center. Probably a pair of 12.2mm holes and then some filing to complete.
Bottom is the side on view of the bracket, which ill construct out of 3mm plate (as i have it around) and the tabs will protrude 5mm from the plate, for a total width of 8mm. Will need to cut blanks of 25x50mm. All neat and tidy.

Now just to do it.
Also, quite remarkably i got a note today from DHL saying that my shocks had arrived from the US. Im getting them redelivered to work tomorrow.

Didnt get much done this weekend either, apart from coating half the backyward in overspray due to the winds being so horrible.

That said all the bits for the car are nice and clean and either silver or black:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28577-1/IMG_0640_s.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28580-1/IMG_0641_s.jpg[/IMG]

I also had a chance to sit down and redrill the MX83 LCAs and get them all setup for the MA61 castor rods:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28583-1/IMG_0642_s.jpg[/IMG]

In addition i went round to TKs and his press comfortably popped the hubs out where my weeny press completely failed:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28586-1/IMG_0643_s.jpg[/IMG]

What i couldnt do though is get the UZZ30 discs to fit on the lathe, as the edge of the disc just touches the bed when its secured to the jaws. So i still have to get the center hole enlarged out to 67mm to suit the nice larger MS123 hubs.

On the other hand absolutely everything else has shipped. My shocks are on their way from the US, and the camber bolts have arrived at the post office (according to the USPS site, and how it tracks stuff 10x better than the AusPost site always amazes me [at how crap the Auspost site is]). I sourced a JZA80 bellhousing this morning, and im going to splash out for a cromo flywheel.
The radiator that i have ordered is at the courier depot and im going to go pick it up this afternoon.

Next on the agenda is to testfit the MX83 struts in the front so i can work out how much i want to shorten them by and still have reasonable cleraance and suspension travel.
Then i have to make up the slotted tabs for the rear suspension, and weld them up.
After that its all childsplay, simply just bolting it all back together.

Sadly very litle progress this last weekend, as i was out most of Saturday shooting the IPRA races at the HQ Enduro, that said i still managed to squeeze in a bit of time, here and there.

First of all my little $70 shop press grew some legs.
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28470-1/IMG_0606_s.jpg[/IMG]
Now its actually usable without being a complete midget. Yes i know i was welding gal, but for half the price of the blue at the same sizes i didnt care. Especially when it was just that press. All of $80 now.

Next up i pulled the rack end off a spare MX83 rack, which was a complete pain, as the person who had built the MX83 rack had stuffed up and got the crimp washer caught in the threads of the rack and so i was having to fight against galled metal in the threads. Anyway after pulling it off ive confirmed that the MX83 rack ends fit perfectly in the MA61 rack, and add the extra length needed for the 325mm LCAs:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28473-1/IMG_0607_s.jpg[/IMG]

By that point on Friday night it was getting a bit late to start anything new, so i resigned myself to just pulling apart the Aircon and heater boxes to give them a good clean, and in the case of the aircon remove the core:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28476-1/IMG_0608_s.jpg[/IMG]

Now nice and empty:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28479-1/IMG_0609_s.jpg[/IMG]
Ill probably glue some plastic in there too to seal off the holes, and maybe enlarge the hole that the wiring loom goes through from the engine bay.

The heater core now looks like this:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28482-1/IMG_0610_s.jpg[/IMG]
The actual core itself has a couple of little cracks around the necks of the inlet and outlet and ill need to solder it up. Pretty easy though, so ill get around to doing that later.

On the Saturday after going out to Mallala and before the quiz night Gav (Gavatron) thought i was being a weeny little man and not being able to use the slide hammer hard enough to get the stub axle out, so he had a go:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28554-1/IMG_0634_s.jpg[/IMG]

The stub axle merely sniggered at him, and called both of us weeny.

Finally i borrowed a rad off a friend to check on fitment and have confirmed good fitment and ordered one off eBay… what is it you ask. Well that will come later:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28557-1/IMG_0635_s.jpg[/IMG]

Thats about it for now. The eccentric bolts have shipped from BMA Auto in the US, and should be here soonish. Im also waiting on a big order of shocks from SummitRacing in the states and hopefully that will arrive sometime in September, as they are backordered, although i notice that the rears have arrived in their warehouse, so maybe it will come early.
Next on the agenda is to finish cleaning the crossmembers and stuff and get it back in the car so i can start fitting up the rest of the parts i already have.

Got a bit more done today on the old girl.

Firstly, i finished spraying the cowl, and demasked everything, so now the engine bay looks like this:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28408-1/IMG_0588_s.jpg[/IMG]
Pretty spiffy in my humble opinion.

Next, out came the S13 cambertops from Tim, and while they need a bit of a cleanup to get rid of the black paint, they fit like a charm:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28411-1/IMG_0589_s.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28414-1/IMG_0590_s.jpg[/IMG]
Simply have to file out the holes by a mm or so and it just goes in. Now due to the rotated design of the MA61 struts, i get negative castor as well as negative camber, which im not particularly complaining about.

Next i setup my little weeny cheap shop press which i bought on ebay for a steal:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28423-1/IMG_0593_s.jpg[/IMG]

Its not overly large, and i mainly got it for doing ball joints and suspension bushings, but i thought i would give it a try with the rear hubs, and successfully got one hub off the swingarm.
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28426-1/IMG_0594_s.jpg[/IMG]
But all in all it was a very frustrating process due to the height off the ground of the unit and the overall size of the thing. I think ill end up welding some leg extensions to it and bolting it to the ground.

For the hub though, i really cant see why it is so damn hard to get off:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28429-1/IMG_0595_s.jpg[/IMG]

Next on the agenda was spending half an hour or so making up engine mounts:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28417-1/IMG_0591_s.jpg[/IMG]

Thats the exhaust side, and i have altered the design slightly, but i dont think i have compromised at all on the strength, the main reason for the design alteration was due to the extra bulk of the 2JZ intake and exhaust manifolds.

[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28420-1/IMG_0592_s.jpg[/IMG]
Thats the intake side, almost complete, although i need a new tip for the MIG as its starting to stutter a lot (as you can see in the top weld).

Finally, i picked up a set of R32 GTST wheels and tyres for runaround and starting wheels.
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28405-1/IMG_0587_s.jpg[/IMG]
Ill probably move on from these once the Supra is complete and i can figure out offsets and the like.

Thats about it for now, my list of things to do is a mile and a half long, so there is much more to do, but as they say, no rest for the wicked 🙂

Now with one painted engine bay:

[img]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28314-1/IMG_0570s.jpg[/img]

Not too much to say, just plain old “Aluminum” Wattyl KillRust, thinned slightly and sprayed. Now i cant go into the garage because of the fumes 🙂

Will take a while to dry, but thats ok, nothing engine wise just yet.

The 2JZGE VVTi that i bought for the Supra helpfully came with the ECU for it as well. But i have no idea of what car it came out of, and hence the pinouts on the ECU. Here it is though:

[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28317-1/IMG_0577_s.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28328-2/IMG_0580_s.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28325-2/IMG_0579_s.jpg[/IMG]

Engine is a stock front sumped version, and the wiring looks to be power through the body loom within cabin, rather than the Supra style of power through the body loom near the fusebox in the engine bay.
I cant see any alternator wiring on the engine loom, so im going to assume thats body loom too (makes life easy 🙂 ).

Anyone able to identify what ECU it is? Better if you can give me the wiring diagrams for it too, but ill settle for knowing what ECU and car it came from.

Phew, the Supra just occupied another full day of my time.
I was intending on getting up at a lovely leisurely time of 10am, but that was interupted by the need to call a BMW parts dealership in the US before they closed on the Friday. What you might ask do i need from a BMW dealership?
Quite easy really, M12x98mm eccentric bolts. Which come conveniently from the arse end of a BMW E39 5-series. Now the BMW dealership locally wanted $38 per bolt set (one side) and i needed 2, and 2 for Gav, so that was getting a bit expensive. All hail BMA parts in the US, who want only $9.35 for them, and postage for 8 sets (4 for BMWTurbo) is around $30. Laughing.

And then i got a call from Repco and threw down a coffee before ducking off to pick up these:

[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28239-1/IMG_0546s.jpg[/IMG]
Brand new MS123 crown rear discs. 269mm and solid rotors. Completely useless, apart from the handbrake assembly. If you remember from before i was going to run a 5mm spacer under the disc to make for a flat caliper adaptor. Well in this case there is no need, the MS123 disc will sacrifice itself to provide me a handbrake drum, and the 5mm spacer all in one.
As a double bonus these discs are on clearance at Repco for $22.50. The only reason i bought new ones.

So off i trundled to TKs to borrow the lathe:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28245-1/IMG_0548s.jpg[/IMG]

Just a matter of machining the rotor 99% of the way thorugh, and then hit with a hammer to seperate from the hat/drum. Believe it or not that disc is currently spinning there.

[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28248-1/IMG_0549s.jpg[/IMG]
After smacking it with a persuader and now im just cleaning up the sharp edge left behind.
I did the first disc in 1hr, and the second in about 20mins. Not bad i dont think for not having used a lathe in about 6 years, and the last time i used it i had a guy standing over my shoulder the entire time.
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28254-1/IMG_0551s.jpg[/IMG]
And this is what im left with, one MUCH lighter hat/drum from the MS123 Crown Royal.

[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28257-1/IMG_0552s.jpg[/IMG]
And here it is sitting pretty on the hub, now im still using my MA61 rear hubs as im testing. More on the MS123 stuff later.

[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28260-1/IMG_0553s.jpg[/IMG]
With the UZZ30 disc placed over the top and tightened down.

[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28263-1/IMG_0554s.jpg[/IMG]
And this isnt a duplicate, thats the same clearance as before 🙂 Yay, all the theory works.

And then i set about making a caliper adaptor template. I grabbed a bit of 3mm alloy plate i had lying around and started hacking into it. After a few minutes i had this:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28287-1/IMG_0562s.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28293-1/IMG_0564s.jpg[/IMG]

Now all i have to do there is clean up the bracket for duplication into either 5mm or 10mm steel plate. Havnt decided which yet.

Next on the agenda was pulling the hubs so i could fit these:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28251-1/IMG_0550s.jpg[/IMG]
They are complete MS123 rear trailing arms. Thanks CLG for the hubs, and accessories.
Now they are reputed to be quite a pain to pull the hubs out and fit the new ones with many people opting to use a 20t press to get them apart. But the Toyota Repair and Service Manual says you can use a slide hammer to do the job. So i thought i would give it a go.
[IMG]http://www.cygnusx1.net/Supra/Library/TSRM/MK2/RA/RA_006.gif[/IMG]

On the way back from TKs i ducked into JMS and picked up a junker S13 rear disc:

Once i had it on the bench i bolted it to a 5×114.3 disc and marked out the holes to be redrilled. With that done the drill press made pretty damn short work of the holes, and you then have what you see there, a double drilled disc, fits both on 4×114.3 and 5×114.3

[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28266-1/IMG_0555s.jpg[/IMG]

A bit of 25mm SHS was then the donor for a crossbrace
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28272-1/IMG_0557s.jpg[/IMG]

And then i welded a nut for my existing slide hammer onto it.
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28278-1/IMG_0559s.jpg[/IMG]

After assembling it all on the MA61 hub
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28284-1/IMG_0561s.jpg[/IMG]
I proceded to try and slide hammer it out, to absolutely no avail, despite trying as hard as i could. So i gave up on it for the time being as it was annoying me too much.
In hind sight i can see the essential step that i missed. In that TRSM on Step5 it says you need to remove the axle flange first… duh. So ill get onto removing the axle flange tomorrow. Hopefully the hub will come out then.

I continued on by making up some jigs for the engine mounts:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28305-1/IMG_0568s.jpg[/IMG]
And then realised that i had completely neglected to buy the 5mm plate i needed for those mounts… DOH. So that will have to be done when i can get some 5mm plate.

I then finished stripping and degreased the entire engine bay, and got it all ready for painting tomorrow. That was an entire day of work. Scary.

And just to top off today ive drawn up the rear caliper adaptor. Now to just transfer it to CAD

[img]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/28310-2/Image281censor.jpg[/img]

Numbers removed until i find out whether its the right sizing.