interior all stripped too a visual guide of the camber its running haha....well....its more than half on the ground... all loaded up on the trailor took her out to the country to get wired up
so ive done some more time filler-in work on this boat. mostly playing with carbon fibre some more. i shaved my centre console of pointless things like volume and temp control dealies, also the little cubby hole. painted it with some black epoxy sealant, mostly because the carbon fibre is actually transparent in 1 layer. laid down a layer of resin, let it tack off then laid over my carbon fibre cloth then wetted that down with resin, after this dried i gave it a good scotchbrite and laid over annother coat of resin to build it up this is after the 2 coats of resin you can see the texture the resin gets. its like super bad orange peel. its the imprint of the cloth under the resin it has removed all the orange peel and left a flat surface. i am going to go over this again tomorrow with 320 and then it will get cleared with 2k clear. this it it after i sprayed it with degreaser to put a shine on it to see how it will look. i like it. i know its just an overlay, but **** it. looks cool. - - - Updated - - - ive also made this aswell. bit of a process but here goes i got this display link. its going to tell me everything that i need to know about the car. it starts with some custom wood. all glued together with bog (bondo) -i am a panel beater afterall haha http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/foto_choppa/20130110_124917_zpsd7c15da9.jpg plus one gutted out speedo screen shaped up the customwood wedge scuffed up the lens stuck the wood on and smoothed out the edges gave it a quick prime up got it properly 2k primed, rubbed it back and got one of the boys to hit it white while painting a van at work one day. just to get a gloss on it all laid down some gelcoat over it, followed by some layers of fibreglass
and then i forgot to get images of it in the mould, but ta-da, one carbon fibre custom dash. its legit carbon fibre. dosent weigh much with the display attached it was my very first actual carbon scratch made peice, theres some flaws on it like theres too much resin at the top of the dash where it pooled in the mould. lesson learnt. also some air bubbles that could have easily been avoided too. i think what i'll do is paint the border bit thats embossed around the edges black. should look fine then. and i've also started to de-loom alot. theres about 1/5th the wiring in the car at the moment and i still have some more to strip out the harness up the back is the engine harness. that will not be getting used again. just some plugs off it. whole new engine harness will be made. the wires on the carpet are the entire car body, front to back and doors. haha.
Impresive build dude,just how a soarer should be done. Im curious as to why you went for a 1.5jz? Was it just because you scored that long block? Im sure the 2jz heads are actualy better with larger ports, but still obviously better for making power/torque than a normal 2.5 1jz.
Cheers for the comments. I cut and tubbed the front for 2 reasons. Firstly, i am running it quite low and i already had some rubbing problems when it was higher than it is now on full lock. Secondly....i think it looks cool. And the reason i went 1.5jz is because i bought the engine complete from japan for cheap. Rebuilt it fully, bearings, gaskets, all arp bolts and studs. All for alot less than a 2jz. Also 1jz parts are easier amd cheaper to come by. And also because the car is legal for a 1jz. This still looks like a 1jz haha
Hmm strange what wheels/offset you running up front? I've got 9.5j et12 GTRDs with a 25mm spacer and have loads of arch clearence.
No, i'm obviously not completely fucking my decent alignment and geo setup and adversely affecting the handling of the car by making it so low......lol
