Black scooby with pink Monster decals in JR hospital car park

by sprinter2012, 19-05-2020, 06:09 PM

I carded the car so we'll see if the owner shows up on here

Hello!

by VarrsToen UK, 17-05-2020, 09:20 AM

Hi,
My names Daniel and I'm from VarrsToen UK (http://www.VarrsToen-Wheels.co.uk)
I was wondering if someone could send me some information on how to become a trader on the site? I had a search and tried to PM the admin but new members don't have permission.

Thanks
Daniel

Congratulations Hurricane

by purplewitch, 16-05-2020, 07:07 PM

Rumour has it Pete got engaged!

Congratulations Pete & Layla xx

Urgent: GoPro

by Dark Samurai, 16-05-2020, 08:55 AM

Hey guys.
Bit of a close call really, but:
Does anyone who is going to modified live and a convoy point, have a GoPro HD Motorsport camera?
I was just planning on doing something on the day which would require two cameras, I have my own, I'd just need to use somebody elses?
So please, if you have a GoPro video camera with suction mount, please could i borrow it for the day?
Thank you.
Oli

Altezza RS200 who knows whats next build.....

by Ashs14a, 15-05-2020, 08:17 PM

Hey all,

Im a new member from the Braintree, Essex area.

Always mean to start a project thread with every car i get and never get round to it. So i have finally decided to put one up for my slightly different Altezza.

Purchased this with the following specification:

1999 Toyota Altezza
2.0 NA Beams Engine
112,000 (Mixture of KMs and Ms)
Fully Vinyl wrapped (was a former show car for RT Performance) white with black roof
JC Project solid flywheel
Exedy organic clutch
Cusco front upper strut brace
Rota GTR wheels 17" 9.5j ET30
TRD rear back box
3000k HID kit (very yellow!!)
Tein MonoFlex coilovers
Cusco rear anti-roll bar
half leather full electric interior
matt black front lip
new is200 battery with gold plated battery terminals
Fluids and belts all changed end of 2011 (Although no proof of this mash

Few pics:





















So that was a month ago, there where a few little problems with the car but nothing to much:

The manifold to downpipe has a blow in it because one of the three studs has been snapped so new manifold and downpipe gaskets are being ordered and i will put a new bolt in the exhaust.

There is also a small twenty pence piece hole in one of the exhaust pipes under the car so im going to get that welded up and wrapped in heat wrap.

The release bearing has been changed for a genuiene toyota one that was supplied by the owner with the car but the noise when you lift the clutch is still present. I am going to change the spigot bearing to see if this changes things. After a lot of reading it seems to be a fairly common noise on these motors even after changing all associated parts so might just have to keep the music turned up :thumbs:



I originally wanted to get this car just to drive around in for a while and to have something different, but i cant seem to leave things alone. So whilst driving and getting used to the car i have been slowly creating a list of things i want to do. I couldnt help myself but take the car on a drift day at Norfolk Arena where it got a lot of attention. After owning an s14a for a year and drifting that most months it was a big change drifting the NA and back to the B lane!! But this helped me see what areas i want to concentrate on first. That turned out to be handling set up.

Few Pics:



















First things first is to sort out the exhaust leaks, hopefully the bearing noise and also have a genuiene toyota AFM coming as the one that is on there is a patent item and i dont think it is doing performance much good. :euge:

The Tein coilovers are knocking on the rear and i personally just dont really like them so a set of HSDs will be going on followed by a set of fully adjustable camber arms so i can straighten the rear and get the front properly aligned. This will probably result in the arches being rolled and some work done to the vinyl around the arches.

I then want to uprate the front anti roll bar and bushes as i believe this to be the stock item.


Thats the easy options, its a heavy car and i have contemplated stripping it but i quite like the idea of an executive drift wagon. Keeping all the luxuries working. Although the front seats have no support at all so a mate of mine suggested some smart leather bucket seats to keep the "executive" look.

So if i want to keep all that weight the other option is power :thumbs:. After owning the s14a i am really missing turbo life so am contemplating doing a 3SGTE conversion from a Celica GT4 to sort out the issues of me missing a turbo and power vs weight. From what i read people make it sound like a fairly easy conversion but im sure this isnt the case!! Other than that am also looking at dropping an 1/2JZ lump in it as the IS300 was running a 2JZ none turbo as far as im aware or going away from toyota and back to an S or R body lump. What are peoples opinions.......??

Hope you guys like

Ash

spankys finally here lol

by spanky, 15-05-2020, 03:11 PM

hey guys look ive finally signed up only its only nearly been a year lol

bridlington cruise and extremebhp charity 2012

by levy, 13-05-2020, 11:43 AM

hi all sorry for posting yet more pics lol! hopefully meet up with you guys again soon ..this was an event organised by sonia from extremebhp for a young couple who have a baby with flat head syndrome was good night and raised a lot..please take a look at pics some nice jap cars was here ..thanks

http://www.flickr.com/photos/markleveson...261553916/

Custom exotics harlow

by Rabster, 13-05-2020, 07:12 AM

As some of you will remember i had some damage to the front of the 350z mainly the following




there was also a lump of carbon fibre missing from the front drivers lip and a huge crack in the paint and fibre glass

so i popped down there for a quote which seemed reasoinable considering it was pearlescent paint and carbon fibre sections

a week later i dropped the car off they had it just under 1 week and then i collected it 10:00pm on a friday night (thats dedication)

the car looked like this at the end








the also did a few other bits

they sorted out my wonky spoiler it turned out the moulding was off when the built it as the base was central to the car so the lifted this off moved it about 10mm then re seated it and voila no more wonky lol

they also smoothed the centre bit behind m numberplate on the grill shown here


this did have a knock out designed so you can mount the towing eye but because i have a speed camera avoider hock: i mean plate hider this looks **** when the plate is hidden

the spoiler and smoothing was done FOC which was even better.

there is one bit that im not happy with which i only noticed the day after collecting it which is shown here

the paint seem to be rippled from the headlight not sure why but i will get them to address this when i take it in to have the wheels looked at.

1991 aristo

by nathan-76, 13-05-2020, 05:16 AM

just bought myself this monster :thumbup1: