On Saturday Nanci and I went by Pur Auto to pick up the rear end from a 89+ turbo Supra they had there which I found to be much easier than just getting parts and reassembling everything around the subframe I picked up a month ago. We used an engine hoist to drop it in the back of a Honda CR-V and drove it an hour and a half up to where the Supra is sitting right now and engine hoisted it back out of the CR-V, so it's tucked away in the corner of the garage now. Here's a picture of it before we dropped it down onto a creeper and pushed it to the side. Clearly it's got a fair deal of surface rust but it'll all be cleaned up before it goes in.
All I'm waiting for now to get that in is my Ronnie K poly subframe bushings, which I'm kind of stuck on right now for where I'm going to get them from because there are two options, but I should have them by this coming weekend with either option.
The other thing I need for it to actually drive is the replacement intercooler, and I'm going to go with the driftmotion hard pipe kit with the big front mount, but for now I just want something to make it move, so I bought just a stock JZA70 intercooler to stick on there for the time being. So once all that stuff is done it will be good to go, besides changing fluid for the differential, doing an oil change, refilling the coolant (noticed I'm somehow missing my coolant reservoir!), and refilling the fan fluid. The fan fluid was a bit of a surprise to me because I'd never heard of that before, but apparently these cars came stock with a hydrofan. The reservoir is empty so I'm assuming it is leaking, which would explain the thick fluid dripping while the car is running. It's a big relief to me that it's ATF from the fan rather than oil from the engine!
On Sunday the 20th we got a bit of work done, I began removing the bumper (which turned out to be not so easy on these cars, there's roughly 4 million bolts holding it in in the hardest-to-get-to places they could find). We did get the fender off though, so I'm going to get back to hunting down another one to put on there so I don't have to drive around with it missing. Getting the fender off was a challenge of it's own as it requires you to push your arm all the way through the fender up to the front by the header panel. Nanci's small arms definitely helped out with finding the bolts because there was no way my arm was getting in there that far!
We got the back jacked way up to swap the rear end in, but I've decided to do the actual swap somewhere else just down the road, so for now to avoid another tow truck, we're going to weld the control arm to the hub and just drag it 5 minutes down the road and swap it there. It's ghetto, I know, but it will get the job done better, especially since the floor of the garage where it is now isn't the most even surface.
Here's a picture where you can see the big crack running down the middle. It's not actually in the way, but it would make it a little more difficult to maneuver the rear end around on the floor jack.
All in all most of it went pretty well. I managed to snap the head off of one bolt holding the front bumper on under the foglight, so that's going to be stuck in there I believe, but since there's four bolts there in total it's not going to make a huge difference anyway. I also just pulled the bolts out of the bumper support to make it a little easier to get the bumper off, and they manged to get a bit mangled too, here's a picture of the left side showing how a bracket should be, and the right side showing off how to be mangled.
So overall it's coming along quite well, and hopefully within the next two weeks it will be good to go, and by May I plan to have it registered and legally driving around on the road! That's all for now, I leave you with a picture of my missing fender (which actually allows my driver door to open!), and you can see the fan fluid reservoir poking out of the engine bay there too.
The other thing I need for it to actually drive is the replacement intercooler, and I'm going to go with the driftmotion hard pipe kit with the big front mount, but for now I just want something to make it move, so I bought just a stock JZA70 intercooler to stick on there for the time being. So once all that stuff is done it will be good to go, besides changing fluid for the differential, doing an oil change, refilling the coolant (noticed I'm somehow missing my coolant reservoir!), and refilling the fan fluid. The fan fluid was a bit of a surprise to me because I'd never heard of that before, but apparently these cars came stock with a hydrofan. The reservoir is empty so I'm assuming it is leaking, which would explain the thick fluid dripping while the car is running. It's a big relief to me that it's ATF from the fan rather than oil from the engine!
On Sunday the 20th we got a bit of work done, I began removing the bumper (which turned out to be not so easy on these cars, there's roughly 4 million bolts holding it in in the hardest-to-get-to places they could find). We did get the fender off though, so I'm going to get back to hunting down another one to put on there so I don't have to drive around with it missing. Getting the fender off was a challenge of it's own as it requires you to push your arm all the way through the fender up to the front by the header panel. Nanci's small arms definitely helped out with finding the bolts because there was no way my arm was getting in there that far!
We got the back jacked way up to swap the rear end in, but I've decided to do the actual swap somewhere else just down the road, so for now to avoid another tow truck, we're going to weld the control arm to the hub and just drag it 5 minutes down the road and swap it there. It's ghetto, I know, but it will get the job done better, especially since the floor of the garage where it is now isn't the most even surface.
Here's a picture where you can see the big crack running down the middle. It's not actually in the way, but it would make it a little more difficult to maneuver the rear end around on the floor jack.
All in all most of it went pretty well. I managed to snap the head off of one bolt holding the front bumper on under the foglight, so that's going to be stuck in there I believe, but since there's four bolts there in total it's not going to make a huge difference anyway. I also just pulled the bolts out of the bumper support to make it a little easier to get the bumper off, and they manged to get a bit mangled too, here's a picture of the left side showing how a bracket should be, and the right side showing off how to be mangled.
So overall it's coming along quite well, and hopefully within the next two weeks it will be good to go, and by May I plan to have it registered and legally driving around on the road! That's all for now, I leave you with a picture of my missing fender (which actually allows my driver door to open!), and you can see the fan fluid reservoir poking out of the engine bay there too.
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