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[JoshuaM]

Woooo

[PegGTS]

Make me want to get my lights in right now

This post has been edited by PegGTS: May 4, 2014 - 3:30 PM

[RoadRage]

Gonna update this since it hasn't been updated in a while

Quite a few things have happened and I have a lot more things that I have in the garage that need to happen!

Not going to write it all now, but will update it all tomorrow hopefully

[RoadRage]

Ok!! Update time!!

Been a bit lazy with keeping this up to date so lets get started --

I got my strut bar in, but the way my sub was set up, the bar couldn't fit so I went down to my hardware store and got a piece of wood and cut it to shape so I can lay down the sub and fit the bar,
Then I tidied my boot up



I went back to finishing my Raiser blocks, the bottom piece was missing so I got creative and made my own mounts


Then proceeded to paint and weatherproof the bottom, this is everything that went into it


pretty much ready to install



And Finished!! First photo after they were on



Only about 2 days after the spoiler, I reached in my passenger side to find it basically filled with water from a leak somewhere, I ripped the passenger side apart and couldn't find the cause, because water was everywhere. ....... Eventually it was found out that the windscreen sealant had completely come apart on the passanger side so off I went to get a new windscreen



I always love spotting other 6gc's and taking photos with them


6gc's aren't the most common sight where I live, but i was pretty surprised to see one when my girlfriend and I drove about 2 hours up to see snow in the mountains and behold, there was one



I then got clear turns finally! the last piece of the puzzle for my clear turn singals


I also got a set of TEIN lowering springs from rentaspace, but i am holding out on the install, till i get around to buying some new shocks along with it.

After this it was pretty much quiet for a while as I was back at uni and it was keeping me busy, however I notcied 2 new celicas showed up at my local wrecker so I went to check them out and found that the first one had a white cluster, and I thought why the heck not, ill grab it, put some contrast in my dash


Also ordered some carbon fibre wrap and its on its way, hoping to spice up my dash a bit since I find it a bit plain

The other Celica however! At first I didnt notice, but it was a personal import from Japan, it was in serious rough shape and didn't have much to offer so I was about to leave it, until I noticed it had Power Folding Mirrors!
Then i spent the next 2 or 3 so hours taking apart the whole interior and try to get as much wiring out as possible
Not bad for 50 bucks


That is pretty much up to date..
I got plenty of things in my garage waiting to be worked on, so I got plenty of things to keep me busy (not only uni)

I will most likely start work on the sideskirts, which have been laying around since about april now, then do the front splitters,
But the mirrors are so tempting to work on , might do those first

Hope you enjoyed my update

[BonzaiCelica]

Oh dar. You I've been looking cor that middle white speedometer face gauge for the longest time. Nice updates

[JFXtreme007]

Mate the car looks freaking awesome! i love it! and honestly wouldn't mind a white gauge cluster haha

[JoshuaM]

Mate the car looks freaking awesome! i love it! and honestly wouldn't mind a white gauge cluster haha

That'll come with the BEAMS engine, don't worry

[RoadRage]

Ok so, I have been busy with university lately, but this week I have off and I decided to start working on the things that have been waiting in the garage for me

There is a car show I would like to attend on Sunday so today I am starting

Tj's 6 Day Overhaul

Day One of Six

So my first day off began as setting up the garage as my workshop for the following days to be ready to work for Front SSIII splitters, OEM skirts, JDM Folding mirrors, and Carbon Fibre wrap for interior bits,
It was pretty damn cold outside so I even put a heater up for me


I first started on the splitters, how ever the photo that I thought I bought was a bit different from arrived


The bottom was completely cracked and scratched up and held together by flimsy zipties..


Doesn't matter.. went out and bought supplies and started applying a fibreglass repair kit for the splitters, pretty straight forward except I only applied on the back and stupid me should have applied some resin in the crack aswell..
Will make some more resin tomorrow and fill the crack


While waiting for the resin to dry (before I realized I forgot the crack) I started to work on the mirrors and curious me wanted to open up the motor and take it apart, (Also because i chewed the screws for this mirror and I thought there was a way to see on the other side how far to drill)... then i forgot how to put it back together


I started late today.. and its getting too late tonight so this is my wrap up for Day One..
Big mess left on the table lol



Hope to get much more done tomorrow and put the mirror back together haha,
Stay tuned for Day Two

[JoshuaM]

FINALLY!

[rentaspace]

What about today's progress? o.O

[RoadRage]

Alrighty here we go

Day Two of Six

Started out with cleaning up and putting the mirrors back together neatly and make sure everything seems to be in the right spot


The screws were eff'd on the drivers mirror so I tried to drilled them out and and they weren't budging so intead I made the hole big enough to fit self tapper screws to use as a replacement, haha it does the job


That was it for the mirrors, they are ready for wiring, but they are last on the list so they have been put away and will get back to them when other bits are done


Now this part I done goofed, The night before i forgot to put resin in the cracks of the splitter, so i did that and while waiting for them to dry I sanded down the other splitter,
Ready to start the primer on the good splitter, I started to spray and after 1 coat I realized the primer i bought isn't sticking to the splitter at all and it just runs down..
Worked perfectly fine on a bumper that was done for my friend but obviously not on these splitters (its some plastic, clear primer), So i swapped the primer can with my friend for clearcoat can and went out and bought some proper primer.
Got home and sanded down the old runny primer and started sanding the cracked splitter, only to be too rough and make the recently dried fibgrelass snap off!



Re-applied the resin on the splitter and let it dry, while i finished sanding the good one. By this point I had enough of sanding and my Carbon fibre wrap arrived, so I thought lets get started on that

Pulled out some chunks of the car and started simple

The cigarette ashtray thing

2 HOURS LATER

FINALLY! something


Followed by


Most time consuming thing ever.. I've long lost count of how much time I have spent on this trying to perfect every corner,
this is pretty damn difficult lol, or maybe i am retarded or too much of a perfectionist

But lastly, the most rage inducing piece (so far)


I'd also like to thanks for my GF letting me use her hair dryer haha

By this time it was late late night and i was tired, so I installed the bits I've done so far


Looks good but I went through plenty of rage haha,
thats my wrap up for Day two,
Barely any paint, so tomorrow will be focused on getting on all bits primered

To be continued!

[The_enD]

Sorry to inform you, but fiberglass does not adhere well to plastic.
Force it and it just brakes clean off.

[RoadRage]

Yeah the way it snapped I figured, but this time I used like 3 times the amount of resin, and I sort of tested it with just forcing it by my hand and it kept together

I doubt the splitter will be going through much force anyway, so it does the job
Unless I scrape badly when I'm lowered

[JFXtreme007]

I'm loving the Carbon Fibre look! and yeah if it takes a while because of being a perfectionist, i better not even start

[RoadRage]

Nahh, its not that bad, gives pretty good look for something I paid 10 bucks for

Day Three of Six has begun!

The skirts have been prepped and 1 splitter was ready for primer so I sprayed the 1 splitter


Applied body filler to the bad splitter and let it dry


While waiting to try I started sprayed the primer on the skirts



I moved to the backyard where the second skirt was and noticed some bumps I missed on it and sanded it down a bit all while Oscar (My dog) was just sitting there all concerned haha


I think he wants treats


By this time the body filler has dried so I sanded down the splitter and then primed it



That is it for Day Three, all items primed ready to paint for tomorrow

[RoadRage]

However! Day Three didn't end too well, by the end of day 3 my back was in a lot of pain and I was struggling to walk and was barely able to sit from this bump I had on the back of my spine and I went to the doctor the next morning and was informed I would have to go to emergency hospital and have an operation,

So Day 4 was spent all day in hospital and most of Day 5 and now I need to rest up

Looks like paint will be delayed and wont be on the car by the time of the show but I will still try to attend

[Lil-Joe101]

AWESOME WORK DUDE!!!!

[RoadRage]

Alrighty... I think its time for an update

So my 6 day overhaul got cut short haha, and then I fell behind in Uni and had to catch up, however, Uni for this year is finished so its time to continue

I set up at a friends house and get to finishing off the skirts and splitters




I then tried a test fit and came up pretty well, however they looked completely different colour because the car was dirty as fck haha



In the meantime, my front bumper started to deteriorate really bad, really quickly, as seen in this picture (featuring my cat)


The paint started to peel over the front and at the bottom of the grille, so I took it off to give it a respray


Then it was time to stick the skirts on, drilling holes on the bottom and using mounting tape for the top part, however the tape turned out to be useless, so I got the Sika Sealant out and it did the job, so I jammed some things against the skirt to hold it in place (Yes, that is a printer in there, It's all I could find lol)


It was starting to get dark so I decided to put the bumper back on, unfinished, but it was looking better than before anyway haha



After some time, the sealant dried and this is the final result. For one side anway



Came up pretty nice , still have some sealant to clean up but pretty happy with the skirt

I was determined to finish the rest tomorrow, but I woke up today and its windy and rainy, so I guess the rest has to wait until the sun comes up again.. (hopefully tomorrow)
Until then, driving around with 1 skirt and unfinished bumper haha

[RoadRage]

Update timeeee
An opportunity came up for a set of wheels found by JoshM on the internets that I was very undecided for, but after much peer pressure, I agreed haha

Picked them up the next day for a great deal

17x7 +30 offset on 205/40 tyres

Quite the difference from whats on there haha


However sadly the lugnuts given were the wrong size so I couldn't put them on same day, so I had to use my imagination



Now get ready for a photo montage










The last photo shows how the dirty car is I have been spending the rest of the day polishing and waxing the car

Pretty happy with the wheels anyway, Not the best specs but they look really nice
These wheels however show off that the car needs moar low, which will come in due time

This post has been edited by RoadRage: Dec 20, 2014 - 8:56 AM

[The_enD]

Atrocious wheel gap.