Friday, January 6, 2012

motor mounts

So I primed the bottom washers (they were corroding) and then painted them yellow

Then I primed my motor mounts



I went and bought some fluorescent paint



And I painted the mounts green







And then I put them in




Im painting the bolt tops pink, and Ill have it all in and bolted up tomorrow

EDIT:
just finished the job off.
heres what the mounts look like installed

NO jack supporting the motor anymore!!!!!


Wednesday, January 4, 2012

yeah, so this sc300... omg amazing

http://www.nightimport.com/2011/07/spotlight-high-road.html

this makes me wanna get low cost mustang wheels.  heres the thing though, i dont know if i could pull them off on a non-japanese car, cause they have quite a ton of dish to them.  but theyre much more affordable than some of the name brand japanese wheels.  i dunno, well see.  i just know i want wheels with 5 x 114.3 lug pattern, cause 5 bolts better and thats the pattern that all the good wheels are using, in case I want to run other wheels down the road.

some updates

Yeah, so the polyurethane has become very stiff.  Its been less than 48 hrs and their almost dried completely.  Ill give it until saturday at least though before I put them on just to ensure that theyre totally good to go.  I ground down/drilled the polyurethane where the bolt holes are, so I should be able to get the bolts in there easily now.  





So yeah, now its just sitting and waiting until I can put them back in, and before I do I will paint them, of course.  Im thinking of going to osh and buying some of the marking spray paint (florescent paint) and using that, cause it looks sick.  I think ill pick one of those colors, probably green, and carry it throughout the car as a color on a lot of the parts, that would look sick.






Also thinking about slamming the range rover, but I dont want to buy wheels, and Im guessing slammed on stock wheels would like pretty terrible.  But i need new shocks for that car so i might just do it now anyways.  it will be an ebay shock set and some coils that i can find cheap that are super high spring rate

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

slammed!!!

jk, just found this car on my forum... lets just say it needs a drop



waiting for stuff to dry sukks

i put some more polyurethane on my motor mounts to make sure they will be super strong

heres the motor resting on the jack and some wood




and i primed and painted the bottom washers (they were corroding slightly)




and some awesome guy on my forum who makes coupler bushings rebuilt my coupler which i thought was stuck for good





the car will be out of commission for like a week while the polyurethane dries, and then well be good to go
meanwhile, ill try to clean up some of the wiring mess

Monday, January 2, 2012

stoked on hachis right now

two in specific, and some other ones too.
1st
rauh welt started with ae86's.  they were the ones who started demon camber, stretched tires, even ziptying, i think.  Yeah, the painters car, hes the youngest guy in the original rwb crew, back when they were all 86's. hes the only guy whos still with rwb thats only 86s to this day, whereas everyone else has gone to 911s.  this is one of his two cars, his track prepped one
awesome feature done by Antonio Alvendia from speedhunters
super old but i look at it all the time, major inspiration for my car, love everything about it

http://speedhunters.com/archive/2009/02/27/car-feature-gt-gt-rough-world-ae86-levin.aspx

and where did that sick body kit come from?

the man on top of the 86 scene, Yamashita Koichi.  he is the founder, owner, and leader of running free.  what was a team, and became a company, is this group of 86ers who were one of the first 86 drift groups.  his car is one of the best known and its running some crazy parts.  Is company makes these kits that are really sick.  Yeah, this is his feature on motormavens

http://www.motormavens.com/2010/01/center-stage-the-famous-running-free-ae86-yamashita-koichi-run-free/

updates on the car

So, I was planning on locking out the dizzy, so I started to take it apart.




And then I decided against locking it out, but rather I would adjust the dizzy to full timing advance and then retard it when necessary with the MSD.  So I put it all back together



I finally rewired the heater and got it running.  Put the wire straight to the battery because I just bypassed the fuse box cause the heaters got its own fuse.
Why did I do that, cause the tip of it melted


So yeah, I just cut it off and soldered on some wire.

and i kept the mounting spot I had before.  very convenient


and then the motor mounts
Jacked the car up

Took off the motor mounts





Then I cleaned them with some dish soap, a toothbrush, and some steel wool

And then I polyurethane'd them


I basically attached the metal mount to the washers and made them solid, so now the rubber is stationary and it wont absorb stuff




I also stickered the back of my drivers seat


Ill try to get some more zumiez stickers this summer from my friend Conor who works there, and make my checker board pattern bigger

And heres my new catch can.  Its a vintage coke bottle.  It suits the car well, I think (its really old)

And I sent my shift coupler and the new bushings I bought for it off to a guy whos a member of the forum that Im on, he rebuilds them and makes precision bushings.  Anyways, he put in the new bushings and he sent it back, it should be here on the next mail day (after all this holiday crap).  Yeah, super nice of him to do that for me, he didnt even charge me anything.

So new coupler bushings, along with installing the other two bushings in the shift linkage and putting in a centering spring should help a lot.  Yeah, ill be putting a centering spring in, it wont look good but ittl work.