My JZX110 Mark 2 - Weld and Bashment

Thread in 'Project Cars and Builds Threads' started by PhilMorrison, Jul 12, 2012.

  1. PhilMorrison

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    I've taken on a fun project for some practice day skids. The thing was so damn ugly that I got a bit carried away.

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    My old JZX100 Chaser was one of my favourite Japanese road cars I've owned, and I've always had a bit of an itch to scratch since getting rid of it some years ago. JZX110's were always a little out of my league pricewise as they look shit as standard in my opinion, and modified ones were fetching around £12k. But three years on I decided to revisit the idea, and ended up buying what is possibly the only JZX110 Mark 2 IR-V Manual in the country.
    It was a bit of a turd to be honest, and has blatantly been ripped around Japan, crashed a bit, then extremely badly bodged back together and sold on to the UK. However it is a genuine manual IRV model, and although still a hell of a lot of money for a crappy crashed japanese taxi, it wasn't £12k, so it's project time.
    The first couple of weeks were spent correcting these terrible repairs. It looks like the front passenger wheel had hit a curb and pushed the wheel through the passenger footwell. All the parts had been replaced, but the repair to the passenger footwell was done with filler... Not impressed! All of it was pulled out, the metal straightened and welded up properly.

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    So then on to the fun stuff. I bought a set of wheels from the Wheels For Sale Section of our forum, that had absolutely no chance in hell of fitting under typically Toyota weak arches.
    They are 18x11 ET -15 Weds Kranze ERM. I fitted a set of 255/35/18 tyres, and started cutting out the inner arches and beating the crap out of the outers. This picture was taken before the arches were finished. The car will sit lower than this, and the goal is total clearance under compression - No rubbing.

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    Running a car as low as I intend always messes up geometry, and as there's not a lot of call for JZX110 alignment arms, we don't have any on the shelf at Driftworks. So it was time to get creative.
    At the ride height I want, we measured nearly 5 degree's negative camber, so some quick measurements and calculations were made using a basic camber gauge and a tape measure, and I came up with the recipe to get my desired 2 degrees camber. 22mm removed from the lower arm in a section that retains coilover / ARB mounts, as well as the standard eccentric camber adjustment mechanism on the outboard end for fine adjustment.
    I'm competent enough at welding this type of part, but when Craig from Dynotorque next door tells you to "get out of the way, I'll do it" you say "crack on" and let him work his magic.

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    In this picture you can see the shortened lower arms, and I had a mega smug grin on my face when the camber measured exactly 2 degree's both sides.
    You can also see the posh new HSD Coilovers - These are the same fitment as JZS161 Aristo / GS300. The kits normal spring rates are 12kg front and 10kg rear. After some careful calculations (Getting Dan to stand in the boot and bounce up and down, then seeing what springs we had in our spares box ;) ). I've decided to start with 18kg front and 22kg rear. I'm sure there will be some fine adjustment here, but we'll have to wait and see how it drives first.

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    So then we're onto the front. Again I bought some wheels that I knew wouldn't fit from the Driftworks Wheels For Sale Section. They are Volk GTN 2 piece wheels in 18x10 ET13. This picture is taken part way through bashing the arches to get more clearance, and is after the front suspension modifications I'll go on to mention next.
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    So a classic problem on the front of this double wishbone set up is the upper wishbone slamming into the top of the inner arch/strut mount. This car has some rubber lockwired onto the top to act as a bumpstop, another sign of quality workmanship eh!. The Japanese sometimes cut the top of the arch out to allow the arm to move higher, but I wanted to correct the problem properly. The car came with some Nightpager 30mm roll centre correction blocks fitted. These correct the lower arm angle, but introduce a change in dynamic camber change as they can't change the upper arm angle. I decided to chop the upright reducing the length by 30mm, and also weld it offset to increase camber. My goal was circa 4 degree's camber.

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    Here you can see it mounted up again.

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    While I was there I decided to get a bit more steering angle as they are crap as standard. I chopped the steering arms removing 12mm and changing the angle to reduce ackerman. Here's a picture of the way we ensured we got the same angles left to right - In this picture it's only TIG tacked.

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    And mounted up after being super MIG'd - You can see we were very careful to retain the correct tie rod end mount height so as to not introduce bump steer.
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    I couldn't quite get the wheels to lock over enough to hit the kinked tension rods, so some lock spacers were in order. Unfortunately Nissan spacers aren't the same, so we had to turn some up out of the centre metal insert of a Driftworks poly bush.[​IMG]
    This was all done after some careful measuring as I have previously broken the rack seals on my JZX100 by using too big a spacer, and I didn't want to play that game again.
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    I've done the rear arches to look very similar to my V10 M3 arches. I love the step to the back bumper. Again the arches are no where near finished, but it's a cool pic.
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    How feckin low would a car have to be for the standard front bumper to look low enough? Thank god there's a Vertex kit on the way!
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    So here's where we're at now, we've literally just landed it on it's own feet and driven it outside to stand back and review the retardedness. The car needs loads more work to finish the arches after testing properly for tyre clearance, then the rear inner arches welding up. It also needs that super embarresing exhaust chopping off, and the bit I'm most excited about to get the finished look is that I'm currently having a Vertex kit made in Japan that should be air freighted over in the next few weeks.
    I'm really feeling painting the car metallic grey, but I also like the white. What do we reckon?
    More soon hopefully. Thanks to Craig for the welding, and Dan for the bashment help!
    Phil
     
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  2. scouse

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    That's the lowest wedding car Ive seen:D
    New business lol.
     
  3. dale_b

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    Bad ass...

    I have the same problem on my JZS160 with upper wishbones hitting underside of turret and being crazy angle, had been thinking about how to rectify it, cutting the hub upright like that hadnt occured to me. It certainly corrects the problems:thumbs:

    Presumably this is a 1jzgte vvti single turbo with r154? Cant imagine your rockin an NA auto?
     
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  4. dacky20

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    is jzx110 the proper name for these ? , i like that a lot mate very nice !
     
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    awesome build you don't see many like it
     
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  6. II TimmiTwoMillTurnover II

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    Filler in the footwell??? Massive kingbodgery!

    This has BIG potential for a one off v.i.p once you've sorted all the bad bits
     
  7. Robbs

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    JZX110 comes as a Mark II or a Verossa, Phils one however is a Mark II :thumbs:
     
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    looks sick .roll on when its got a kit
     
  9. samueljon

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    i take it your going to be sliding it about with all the lock mods?

    feel free to make some lock spacers for toyota's/lexus's!!
     
  10. Sea Squirrel

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    Probably, although it's possible Phil just wants to be able to park his MASSIVE BARGE more easily. :wack:

    Looks pretty good though Phil and will be excellent when it's finished. Any links to these with a Vertex kit on? My Googling skills are being weak today.
     
  11. PhilMorrison

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    I'll be doing a little bit here and there. I'd like to get it down to one of the Skid Risk days at Birmingham Wheels at some point soon.

    Here's a quick google image of a Vertex fitted car. It doesn't do the kit justice to be honest

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  12. diamondsink

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    How pants do those LXZs look? Keep the updates going this looks intresting.
     
  13. nissanr34cal

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    love it, nice and different as usual with phill haha
     
  14. Sticklin

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    I take it these are also 1JZ?
     
  15. PhilMorrison

    PhilMorrison Driftworks Owner
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    Yeah it's 1JZVVti Single Turbo. I'm on the lookout for a HX35 with small housing or something similar to throw on there at some point soon.
     
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    The team magician JZX110 has been one of my fav cars for a while, they do look wank in stock form imo, but with some lows and decent fitment they are one of the sweetest looking japanese cars ever, looking forward to seeing more progress.
     
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    Looks awesome man! Really never seen one of these in the UK before. Very special! - Looks like you had a tough time fitting those rear wheels! :p
     
  18. victim

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    Awesome car :) Would be cool to see this at a Skidrisk day :) I may be pestering for a passenger run if you do though. I'll return the favour in my 36 of course :p With some pointers from yourself haha
     
  19. PhilMorrison

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    I've just accidently bought a GTX3076R on a 6Boost Manifold with a Turbosmart 50mm Progate! Not quite the 'simple and cheap' turbo recipe I had in mind, but rather fucking cool none the less :D
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  20. Rubix_Cube

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    GTX FTW!!! Loving my GTX2867R

    Did wonder when you'd start the project thread when Ryan told me he'd sold this to you!
     

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