Jzx love affair Part 2 - 81 Cresta

Making progress on this, there's been some mix and matching, some chopping and flaring goin on.

Cresta and Mark ii wings together to provide good fitment around the sidelight and the door.

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Keeping the flared wings on the front so got the tears flared a touch to match.

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And then in a moment of weakness bought a pair of these to fill the rear arches.

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Inspiration..

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Body painted, should be done early next week. Hoping to have it out for Round 3.

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Not long now.

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Absolutely love this car!! So jelly..

Fair play! Looking forward to seeing it done!

Collected her from Flipside auto. Couldn't be happier with the it. The amount of time and extra work flip put in is unreal. Anyone looking for this kinda work done he's your man. Serious pride in his work.

Only have one decent photo of it completely done. It still needs spacers and lowered a touch more.

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Wow! You have really done the car justice! Looks amazing now!

That looks amazing you must be delighted with it!

Cheers lads. Yea very happy with it, couldn't have turned out any better.

Two tone ftw!!

Thatlooks savage dude. Get more pics up

I've no decent photos of it on the ground. Pulled the starter off it to get reconditioned but have to leave it on the transporter till next weekend to bring it somewhere I can get working on it.

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Forgot to update this woth decent photos. Had her out for a few runs but I've been away with work the last while so she's been parked up. Plans over the winter are new uprated clutch and flywheel and a complete freshen up of the engine and tidy up of the engine bay as its a mess of pipes and wires etc.. Will be going with uprated twins or a big single as well for a bit of power.

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This turned out stunning! JZX81 is on my must have list!

Some nice bits on the way from Japan, JIC tie rods and some Silk Road rca's. Should help the front end out big time.

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You've well and truly resurrected this car mate, fair play to you for saving another.

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You've well and truly resurrected this car mate, fair play to you for saving another.

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Haha Jesus thanks very much dude

Ye dude, this really is savage looking. U need to get a photo shoot of the car done.

yes...

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yes...

ohhh this is looking very well

Absolutely savage!

Sound lads. Have a clean bride fixed back on the way also.

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Not much going on with this lately. Stuck in the new tie rods and when doing that found the steering rack was leaking pretty bad. Also found more bushings that are done. Haven't really got time to work at it so it's been shipped off to get the work done elsewhere. Hope to completely refurbish all of the suspension and fit an s14 steering rack as they're easier to find and are an upgrade from the Toyota one.

Also thinking of changing the wheels so on the lookout for something different like advan rg's etc.

Where did ya source the Bride man? :cool:

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Where did ya source the Bride man? :cool:

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Chris Gray got it for me along with a few other bits. Give him a shout in Facebook, he always has nice bits coming in

I have a new VIP front table here if its any use ;)

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Cheers! Will give him a shout!

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I dunno Stevo, not really going down the vip route really. Any other nice bits for 1j I would prob be interested

Must go through and see whats coming in, anything in particular man?

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Must go through and see whats coming in, anything in particular man?

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Oil cooler, bigger injectors and an uprated rad if possible

My gearbox developed a bit of a whine so I sent her off to get checked and it turns out it was on its way out. So I've got a reconditioned box and a nearly new exedy twin plate getting fitted now.

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New box in

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Carrier bearing is done too so that's getting done also.

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This is just beautiful!
Well done!

cool lookin motor lad. was it up with jules chambers getting the work done.

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cool lookin motor lad. was it up with jules chambers getting the work done.

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Yea it was in chambers performance. Few more bits to do, recondition steering rack and some new suspension bits. Hopefully get it out driving then, maybe get an autoheros day in!

Bit closer to being on the road, steering rack is back from getting reconditioned, took a while as seals were hard to find for it (story of the car's life). Carrier bearing is done also

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Also picked up a set of uk spec supra 550 injectors

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She was missing a bit under boost so new plugs were got also

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A bit of a boring update but important work done nonetheless. Hoping to have her out and about soon.

Little things that count dude. I'm always chuffed with small parts ha

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Little things that count dude. I'm always chuffed with small parts ha

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Ah yea I'm happy enough, should be fairly solid when it's all done.

Trucking away with this still, ecu decided to fry itself which is a common problem with them so I done some research and found that it's possible to change them to a jzx90 ecu and so eliminating the problem. I had the ecu from my old 90 so all I needed was the plugs to fit my loom and get the 90 ecu re pinned to suit. After a bit of searching, i found got a harness from garage d that will complete the conversion

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I've also picked up a a set of DMAC 86 arms in the hope that they will fit, done a fair bit of research on it, no concrete answers but they look to be the same. Coupled with the new JIC tie rods and ends that means the front is completely new.

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Some of the you may have seen it on Facebook but the guys over in Scotland, Minty Fresh have released a range of rear arms for most x body's and altezzas etc... They're made by Russian guys who drift these chassis and are meant to be good quality and strong.

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So now it's get the ecu in and hope everything works ok and get arms fitted and get an alignment done. Had hoped to have it at Autoheroes on Monday but it's not looking likely now.

Turns out the ae86 arms won't work after all. The lower arms are too short, when adjusted out to the max they will only give stock camber settings plus the mounting holes for the tension arms are different.

So I came across these local and got them fairly reasonable considering the lcas are €800 alone from Japan.

Yanack lca's, tension rods and uprated rack mounts.

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Also picked up some new wheels also, will wait to get them on and have her sitting properly for photos.

Also she has been mapped, put the ecu out of my old 90 in with a custom harness so everything works as it should and it's running a hks f con pro to make sure it's fuelling ok. It made 280ish bhp at flywheel which without a front mount etc isn't too bad I think. I'll be driving it for the summer and then over the winter it will get front mount and full custom exhaust system to allow it to be ran properly low.

Getting serious parts for it now dude and nice usable power as well. What wheels ya pick up?