gaijin Posted November 3, 2014 Author Share Posted November 3, 2014 To aid productivity to the zed, get rid of the culprit! Free some space up in the garage too. I've spent the last 2.6 years working on this car, thats what I've been up to. That and house renovations and working and family etc. Promise. ANyway, time to move on Celica, you have had your time black death. 4th engine, 3rd turbo, 4th throttle body, 2nd injector set, 2nd rear end rebuild, 5th gearbox, 3rd interior re-trim/re-build ETC ETC. I bought some 280zx headlights to use the H4 lights instead of the sealed units of the stock car. They share the same headlight bucket which helps. Had to modify the steel panel thats joined to the f.glass guards. Bit of grinding and they are in. Drilled holes to mount lights, which are close to being right with the g nose back on. This took me ages, as having recently sprayed the outside of the house, a fair bit of overspray came through the garage onto the zed. Doh. A few hours had it all off using light pressure and water. Idiot... Bought a part of the wiper arms pivot mechanism NOS, so decided to rebuild the rest of it as the grease thats gone hard mixed with sandblast residue probably not the best. Clean paint grear install. Smooth as now. Motor getting checked over now. I pulled out some spare napa leather I used in the CElica dash and other interior to cover some zed kick panels and doglegs. Seemed to work out ok. Used some beeswax polish stuff bought at the Taka markets to lube them super soft. Enough staples? Good timing with the courier, finally some new door bits. Almost everything about the doors are shagged. Windows are good, SS window frame good, some window guides ok. Thats it. Felting for door panel, window frame and outer SS trim ready to go in. Slopped silicon onto door bottom seals. Given windows a super clean and polish, paint up window structure. New window regulator arriving soon amongst all the seals, rubbers winders, door handles, window rollers, etc. Then wifey happy doors can be put away out of living room. Also bought SS nut/bolt kit for doors, hatch etc from States, flag using ancient fixings that are either orange or green from donor cars from yesteryear..... My first zed after serious buthery....the certifier almost had a heart attack when he saw this ....evidence that Papua New Guniea is not the best atmosphere for a zed... Since the overly heavy, complicated and likely to block to much air flow, I ebay'd this cheap intercooler. Will do for now. Anyways, I've proven in the Celica that an undersized intercooler is ok if supplemented with cooling water meth spray. Intercoller sitting to high for airflow, will drop it 30mm. The current mock up manifold brings 68mm turbo much further forward than the last 60mm setup. When thie BG EFR turbo arrives, it'll need to be forward, as these new thigs are really LOONG, like 350mm. Next jobs; - gearshifter installed. Have short shifter around somewhere. - Build doors as gear turns up over next week - build up center console. Needs modification with top mounted gtr handbrake. You can see the jobs Im doing are small to start with. Easing myself back into it.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaijin Posted November 17, 2014 Author Share Posted November 17, 2014 So some NOS stuff turned up to get into the doors, new rhs window regulator, minor miracle to find one of these... door card bungs, door handles, other things I dont know what they are called, maybe dove tails Sprayed some Dinitrol stuff into all nook/crannies, wax cavity slime I got from the supplier who sells the stuff to the navy down Devonport for the ships there. The doors by themselves are not really that heavy, its all the stuff going into them that loads them up. Forget the carbon doors to save weight, be easier to mould up some acrylic or polycarbonate windows. SInce I dont have key locks, Ill need to mount a solenoid in there to the lock arm coming from the closing mechanism. Bought a stainless steel bolt kit for the doors and front of the car. most there, but some nuts/bolts not there. I use a sniff of copper grease so they dont bind up later being dissimilar metals. The rest of the fixings I have I went and had tanked and plated again. This is ok for non structural fittings, but not so suitable for structural as there can be hydrogen embrittlement. Door catch mechanisms, have a few, made the best one out the remains of the lot. Where the left door stops for a moment, trying to find this little sucker to space and hold the door catch pivot. Ergh...Might go call Dave, Im sure he has a few hundred down Manukau way..part number 82515-78500 where for art thou? Its called a collar - bell crank. anyone out there with one spare please holla. Windows and frames next....new felting here, but old glue in the frames is not easy to remove... Went and had a chat with Sheepers yesterday, he is keen to make the first Celica TA22 rack an pinion power steer kit that is easily certified. As he offers this awesome service I'll keep playing with the zed. Havent heard from the Celica re-wiring as yet, no rush there then... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaijin Posted November 19, 2014 Author Share Posted November 19, 2014 Got one door sussed, called Dave Turner for some tiny collar thats missing. Gas pedal showed its face, along with some new strikers I ebayed gas pedal rubber more like super hard unbendable material Butcher it as I do so well. Kakimoto style Keep way away from welds. put it the vice see where it bens most and keep away from that area too Spray some acrylic etch primer then some single pack tungsten, then some decent clear chuck a new rubber pad that slips on like a glove strikers came up good. New ones have a spring mechanism, while the old ones had a rubber insert sort of shoved in. As for the centre console, pretty fugly, BEFORE Kind of after, some paint, new leather boot gator thing I got from the UK, had to trim it hard as the leather is quite thick, hard to get the clips around it all. Used some resin to fix some cracks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Nice! What type of color did you use on the console? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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