Just a lil turtle- Playr's car, (the entire project) Options

[playr158]

Well we're officially selling the house where I keep this car at, so i'm losing my garage
Luckily I have a friend who I'm pretty sure will let me keep it at her house in her garage until my fiancee and I get married and get a place with a garage.

WOOT I'm getting married this August BTW which is also causing coilover funds to be lacking.
However I'm saving like 5k on this ring potentially so coilovers might be here sooner than planned

[playr158]

removed OEM bushings on brand new control arms


installed poly bushings


mount to car:
(the other bushing will come later)


Powder coated steering knuckles with new OEM bushings ready to be mounted


waiting for BC RAM coilovers to be delivered and need to grab some ball joints then it will roll. ETA is two weeks for that

[SwissFerdi]

Nicely done.

[playr158]

BCracing inverted coilovers


Finishing up control arm bushings


OEM toyota crush tubes


Coilovers mounted


New Toyota ball joints, tie rod ends, ball joints and powdercoated steering knuckle mounted


sorry for the blurry cell pics.
Next up is swaybars and brakes

[njccmd2002]

no way, this car will be on the ground very soon!!!

[playr158]

Hopefully it will be. Once I get the rear bolted up I'm going to look for sway bars and brakes.
I'm thinking LS400 4 piston calipers and rotors (either LS or supra NA and hopefully in 2-piece)

[njccmd2002]

dont order oem supra rotors, those bastards come with 10 holes in 5 x 114.3 no where to redrill

[playr158]

Nah won't be going OEM. But I did see what you're taking about its ridiculous!

[Tigawoods]

yeah its a bit ridiculous, just go with some 2 pieces. You might be able to get some custom ones from Brembo

[purplegt4]

got some gt4 rotors/calipers. come get em.

[playr158]

We'll talk

[BonzaiCelica]

what are those inverted coilovers you speak of. I know the Integra Type R DC5 came with inverted springs on the front. I guess they must be an improvement over stock springs.I heard that they use inverted springs on dc5 from best motoring international video... plz explain.

[playr158]

BCracing RAM inverted coilovers

http://www.bcracing-na.com/products/ram-type/


Also purchased GT4 calipers for the car this week

[Tigawoods]

BCracing RAM inverted coilovers

http://www.bcracing-na.com/products/ram-type/


Also purchased GT4 calipers for the car this week

they are comparable to the Ksport GTpro inverted coilovers i guess

Did you grab the calipers from purplegt4?
GET THEM 2 PIECES!!

[playr158]

I did get them from Purplegt4...we live fairly close to eachother so that made that easy.

So I have Gt4 calipers + GT4 rotors.
I'm thinking about talking to Adams Rotors to see if they can do a two-piece rotor for the car or repeating what you did and looking for NA supra rotors.
Any other suggesstions on locating new 2-piece rotors? I've been searching around and the rotor options for the MKIV NA Supra are pretty crappy.

They are all just sitting in a corner in my garage right now. I'll take a caliper over to where i'm keeping the car this weekend and work on how i'm going to mount the calipers and then. Thanks for the rebuild info, i'll hopefully be ordering that stuff some time soon and taking them apart.
I would like to have the calipers powdercoated as well, since I've already powder coated the knuckles, and guess i'm going to just coat them in Black with the "CELICA" in the natural machined finish.

This post has been edited by playr158: Jun 20, 2013 - 9:46 AM

[Tigawoods]

I did get them from Purplegt4...we live fairly close to eachother so that made that easy.

So I have Gt4 calipers + GT4 rotors.
I'm thinking about talking to Adams Rotors to see if they can do a two-piece rotor for the car or repeating what you did and looking for NA supra rotors.
Any other suggesstions on locating new 2-piece rotors? I've been searching around and the rotor options for the MKIV NA Supra are pretty crappy.

They are all just sitting in a corner in my garage right now. I'll take a caliper over to where i'm keeping the car this weekend and work on how i'm going to mount the calipers and then. Thanks for the rebuild info, i'll hopefully be ordering that stuff some time soon and taking them apart.
I would like to have the calipers powdercoated as well, since I've already powder coated the knuckles, and guess i'm going to just coat them in Black with the "CELICA" in the natural machined finish.

I'd just go with Adams rotors. They have good products and will probably be willing to make a custom setup. I was thinking of using them next time around. I think it may be a bit more difficult to get something custom from Brembo , DBA, Willwood. I have been searching around for NA 2 piece rotors but no luck. Only for the turbo.. It would be nice to have hats that were already drilled to 5x100 anyways.

I also have the drill and tap I used for the front hubs, as well as the info for the bolts I used, which I got from Mcmastercarr. There are a whole bunch of small details that weren't covered in the last threads that I'd like to fill in.
Hopefully it'll be a smooth install for you

[playr158]

I'm just gonna leave this here

[Fate]

Glad to see this thing back alive. Props.

[njccmd2002]

where did u get the curren clip from?

in the pic the lower white section, was that bolt on or cutting and welding involved? not the upper (or radiator bar)

[playr158]

The clip was purchased privately about 5 years ago.

there is spot weld drilling and welding involved.