Toyota Freestyle GT - Printable Version

Toyota Freestyle GT - Printable Version

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Toyota Freestyle GT - DaveEdin - 07-04-2020

Awesome. I want to see this at JAE this year mate...

Toyota Freestyle GT - Bandit - 07-04-2020

Great work as always mate, and great to know its running at last :thumbup:

Toyota Freestyle GT - toxo - 07-04-2020

DaveEdin Awesome. I want to see this at JAE this year mate...

They won't let it in Sad

Toyota Freestyle GT - Demon - 07-04-2020

Yes won't be allowed in at JAE, plus it won't be ready either........ Sad

Toyota Freestyle GT - DaveEdin - 07-04-2020

We'll work on John F... it's running a Jap engine, that ought to be enough.

Then you just have to not sleep for a few months and have it ready. :lol:

Toyota Freestyle GT - Demon - 07-04-2020

Fuggles wont budge. Spoke to him about 3 years ago about it and as its not technically a jap car its a no-no.

Toyota Freestyle GT - Sparkystav - 07-04-2020

Looks awesome mate!

Toyota Freestyle GT - Demon - 08-04-2020

Thanks Stav Big Grin

Its slowly getting there now.

I got the Garage more secure today, its pretty much falling apart and plan is to eventually tear it down and build a new garage/workshop but it will do for the moment. Have literally screwed/bolted/fixed the wooden doors together so that its a right mission to get the buggy out now. Also the door from the garden has several padlocks and bolts on it now to hopefully put any pikeys off.

Hopefully get the fibreglassing done tomorrow or Tuesday and next weekend i should be moving the buggy back to the workshop to continue with the build. Big Grin

Jason

Toyota Freestyle GT - Demon - 12-04-2020

Well yesterday was the day we decided to crack on with the fibreglassing. Paul from work came along and gave me a hand, complete legend, couldn't have done it without him.

Was like working in a oven and i was swaeting my ass off but got it mostly sorted and plan is to now get a few more layers on it tomorrow evening and then get it moved back to the workshop at some evening next week before the new director starts work. lol

starting to add some fibreglass......
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and with a even(ish) layer added all over......
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Didn't really care about getting the garage all mucky as its going to be torn down and rebuilt at some point so no need to clean up lol

Then today i went back to just clean up the sharp edges and get ready for tomorrow....
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After the fibreglass is removed from the front i can crack on with getting the wiring done back at the workshop and work on the nosecone at my garage seperately.

More updates coming soon Big Grin

Jason

Toyota Freestyle GT - Demon - 20-04-2020

Well its been a busy old week really. Work has been hectic but still found some time to sort out a few little bits Big Grin

Friday i got back to the garage and got the next coat of fibreglass on the nosecone. Again a big thanks to Paul for working in the heat to help layer up the bumper and it was looking great.

Didn't get any time over the weekend to get any done as i was working on the house both days and i was shattered come monday. However monday i needed to look at moving the buggy back to the workshop so after work i rushed home just to load up the trailer and get back to work. Thanks to my bro for giving me a hand loading and unloading the trailer. Got the buggy back to work and the trailer back to JDModified.

Then Sarah ended up working late on tuesday and wednesday which meant i was forced to stay on and get on with the buggy, such a shame Big Grin

started off like this.......
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sort of bearded bumper, so trimmed the whiskers off........
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Then after a lot of pulling, some wooden wedges and a rubber mallet this happened.......
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I did manage to crack the bumper at the sides as it really didn't want to come off but its easy enough to repair and re-enforce from the back.
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Then removed all the stuck on foam/ply and filler.......
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still got a little more to remove but its almost there. Got it on the scales and its currently 8kg for the whole thing. Pretty happy with that but it will go up slightly more with the gel coat layer.

Then started cleaning up the front and trimming to fit the buggy better.......
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Still need to trim it down to fit perfectly but its slowly getting there. Have taken some measurements and its all looking true and square, just a little bit of fetling on the top part. Then i can clean it up and start getting the gel coat layer on. Im still going to make a splitter that fixes to the bottom edge to make it look a little more meaner.