Yes how could this project go this far w/o a snorkel!?
New adventure Toy(ota) in AZ
- Thread starter Jrally
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intothewild
Adventurer
Awesome work, love it.
Thirty-Nine
Explorer
That is so full of awesome I can hardly stand it. Seriously cool.
Jrally
Adventurer
Been a while since I update the build progress. I haven't done that much since the front struts and strut tower bar. But this weekend I changed out the driving lights for 6" yellow, for better visibility in dusty conditions, which I would encounter often if I work more rallies. I also converted them to HID, using cheap Ebay H3 kits.
The previous weekend I bought vented 10.6" rotors and 2nd gen RX7 rear calipers to build my own disk brake conversion kit for the back end. After a few hard stops on the street, the back end has proved itself to be under powered. The tail of the car gets a bit squirelly. The rotors came off of the same Cressida the front bigger brakes came from, so it should give me a decent balanced system. The reason for the RX7 calipers, they are built to work on vented rotors and the parking brake system is through the caliper, instead of those goofy drum brake parking brakes...
-Jon
Lights:
Brakes:
The previous weekend I bought vented 10.6" rotors and 2nd gen RX7 rear calipers to build my own disk brake conversion kit for the back end. After a few hard stops on the street, the back end has proved itself to be under powered. The tail of the car gets a bit squirelly. The rotors came off of the same Cressida the front bigger brakes came from, so it should give me a decent balanced system. The reason for the RX7 calipers, they are built to work on vented rotors and the parking brake system is through the caliper, instead of those goofy drum brake parking brakes...
-Jon
Lights:
Brakes:
BlueBomber
Adventurer
any updates on the celica???
Jrally
Adventurer
I keep getting side tracked from the rear brake upgrade. This past weekend, I had the FOX rear shocks revalved. They seemed really whimpy after having the custom front struts made. There is a post in the Completed Adventures section about the testing trip we took yesterday "Celica's search for snow". The new valving made a HUGE difference on and off road. On road, it no longer feels like it's leaning over a foot to turn corners, off road, it now takes the high speed ruts and rocks smoothly, no bottoming out, and controling the rear axle nicely and predictably.
-Jon
Check out the travel posting, some nice pictures.
-Jon
Check out the travel posting, some nice pictures.
BlueBomber
Adventurer
cool pics. I was wondering if you worry about the radiator taking a hit from a stray rock or tree limb?
BlueBomber
Adventurer
ok, post updates on your grill/lights when you get them. what all needs to be done to finnish the brakes??
Jrally
Adventurer
If I had a mock-up axle, I probably could be done by now. But, since I don't, I'll have to take the axle on the car apart in order to design a caliper bracket, one to bolt on in place of the drum backing plate. After that, it's mounting new brake lines and figuring out a way to run parking brake cables.
-Jon
-Jon
Jrally
Adventurer
A change that shows on the car. I finally got around to fitting a grille to the front of the car, make it look more complete, less junk yard dog. The grille started out as an early 90's Mazda grille, chopped up a bit to make it fit. Good thing too, it was kind of heavy for a plastic grille. Now, I just have to figure out how to make the corner pieces.
-Jon
-Jon
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