Project AW11 (56k should start on page 2)

D*star wrote:

Is it really that shiny in real life??

yes, the car looks a million times better after a good wash and wax (or in this case a half-assed rushed one)

D*star wrote:

And I love how you keep wanting it LOWER and FLUSHER.
Cool shit.

hahahaha yeah. my girlfriend sat in the drivers seat when it was in the garage, she said, and i quote, "WOAH! this feels like a go-kart!" haha.

i want to go like 2" lower, but im going to have problems with my frame/entire flat underbody scrapping across the ground. i mean, im not that concerned because the shell of the car is super cheap, but id like it to last me til next year atleast.

A bit off-topic here, but me and Trucky stole a bigass yield sign today to make a skidplate for my car.
Did you ever take any pics of where you bolted your shit to on your s13?

nah, i never got around to doing it.

use the 10mm bolt holes that are all over the bottom. you may have to make a bracket or two

D*star wrote:

A bit off-topic here, but me and Trucky stole a bigass yield sign today to make a skidplate for my car.
Did you ever take any pics of where you bolted your shit to on your s13?

haha, nice... ima have to do that!

Kevin: what camera setup do you use?

D*star wrote:

A bit off-topic here, but me and Trucky stole a bigass yield sign today to make a skidplate for my car.
Did you ever take any pics of where you bolted your shit to on your s13?

Going from memory here, but IIRC this is going to be two TC brackets and front xmember

rcl1221 wrote:

D*star wrote:

A bit off-topic here, but me and Trucky stole a bigass yield sign today to make a skidplate for my car.
Did you ever take any pics of where you bolted your shit to on your s13?

Kevin: what camera setup do you use?

just a Canon EOS 10D. pretty old and nothing too special. just better than point and shoot to me.

i want to pick up a 5D or something. full-frame, 12+ MP, etc

like 5-7 coats of color (i stopped counting) and like 10 of clear. no wetsanding or anything [yet/if ever]

Spray Flake on that shit.

i dont have any flake.

maybe when i repaint them. theyre kinda metallic

alright. i now have power.

i wasnt sure if infact the exhaust cam was off 1 tooth or not. it was closer to half a tooth retarded. so i decided to change it anyway (woo non-interference motor!) and test it out. it threw a CEL (but no code) when i first started it up (no belts hooked up) but i figured id put the SC and ALT belt on and take it for a drive.

sure enough, CEL went off after the belts were put on. i took off and lost a piece of my exhaust that was ghetto rigged on there makes good power now, but i think the dizzy is off a tooth now (cranked all the way clockwise looking from the cabin side). it had to be all the way that way to get it to idle, but my timing mark on the crank doesnt line up when i use a light on it. that will be fixed tomorrow-ish.

tonight i can finally do an alignment and see how the car feels with the coils, wheels and tires, and TRD alignment specs

Word.

nice

hows does the car feel now w/ the 4agze?

yea yea yea
how loud was it when the part of exhaust fell off?

Dirty Dee wrote:

nice

hows does the car feel now w/ the 4agze?

power feels good judging by the butt dyno.

Mike wrote:

yea yea yea
how loud was it when the part of exhaust fell off?

its always been loud with the 'leak' i had. its pretty ridiculous though. hopefully i can get a place to weld a flex pipe in tomorrow

everyone likes pics. it drives straight[ish] now. couldnt adjust the rear toe because the 21 year old tie rod rusted together.



sorry for the ultra shitty picture. they were quick, as the instructor decided to bitch at me after HE said that WE can bring our own cars in and work on what we want. then today he bitched that i didnt watch people work on converting a r12 AC system to r134 (yet he didnt tell me when i pulled my car in, or call anyone in the class over to do a demo). luckily we only have 2 weeks left.

Damn automotive instructors. My high school instructor was just like that. Pissed me off.

I got away with a lot of stuff though considering I was the most car knowledgeable student in his classes. Not that I'm a car genius but because everyone else in the class was just a dumbshit.

Few things, one, needs more low, WTF.
Two, is that posi camber in the front???
Gross.

Car does look good though.

I don't think it is possible for a car to be low enough for D*.

D*star wrote:

Few things, one, needs more low, WTF.
Two, is that posi camber in the front???
Gross.

Car does look good though.

1) i know. i need rear toe links before i go lower and fuck up my rear toe even more.

alignment is as follows

LF
Camber: 0.4° (-0.3 - 0.8°)
Caster: 4.3° (4.6 - 5.6°)
Toe: 0.03° (0.00-0.08°)

RF
Camber: -0.3° (-0.3 - 0.8°)
Caster: 4.5° (4.6 - 5.6°)
Toe: 0.03° (0.00-0.08°)

LR
Camber: -3.7° (-1.4 - -0.4°)
Toe: 0.36° (0.16-0.24°)

RR
Camber: -2.6° (-1.4 - -0.4°)
Toe: 0.09° (0.16-0.24°)

Thrust Angle: 0.14 (0.00 - 0.40)

2)no, but just barely. the drivers side is though. i need to take my wheels off and crank that shit way negitive (what i plan to tomorrow). i had no room on the lift to use the air jack, it just wouldnt clear anything.

by doing so will also stop the slight rub i have up front. as you can see, i was mainly concerned with getting my car going straight by adjusting front toe only.

im ordering these:

Ok cool.
Cause that camber issue made me worry.
Does look good though.
I like it very much.

Copy that. Positive camber is teh sux.

OH looking very good kevin....

well the car decided to overheat again today looks like i will be flushing out all of the lines and the radiator.

i also have a parasitic draw because my battery dies if you leave it for over 2hrs.

belt came off for the SC/WP. turns out the tensioner pulley for that belt came off.

toyota wants $156 or something for that pulley alone (no bracket). i lost it in a fielded area, so that pulley is more than likely gone.

oh, but an aftermarket pulley kit (crank, wp, and tensioner) is $289

the camber issue has been fixed earlier today. i now have like 3.5 degrees of camber up front.

this one fell off. so im trying to source a used one.