Well, this blogging thing wasn't working on Thursday so I wasn't able to write anything on here, but I got a bit done. The rear end that I picked up from the shop near here turned out to really not be in the greatest condition. I started going at the surface rust to clean it up, but the rust underneath it was just too bad for my liking. I don't want the rust to spread onto my car, and for something like a subframe I'm just not comfortable having excessive rust on it if I'm going to be making decent power. I probably should have noticed this when picking it up, but you win some you lose some. Here's a picture of that rear end:


So I ended up using the subframe that Nanci and I had picked up in Ohio a while ago because it was much cleaner. The bushings ended up being incredibly easy to get out and in. The whole thing took my uncle and I about 5 minutes. We knocked the stock bushings out (which were still in great condition) with no problem, greased it up a little bit and put the Ronnie K polyurethane bushings in. Here's a picture of it sitting with the new yellows in.


Tomorrow I'll be going back at it. The plan for now is to take the lower control arm and spindle off of that other rear end and clean them up a bit and put them on this subframe, and take the rest of the parts from the rear end on the JZA70, including the torsen differential. I'm going to keep the clutch-type LSD and axles that came with the extra rear end just incase, because torsen is a pretty bad choice for any type of drag or drifting, but torsen is great for circuit, which is most of what I'll be doing with this car.
Anyways, I'll be taking pictures over the next two days of hopefully getting everything done and swapped over. That's all I have for now!

Update

Well it's been about a month and a half since I last updated this, but I have a good reason! I managed to twist my foot around and tear a good number of ligaments in my ankle nearly in half, so I've been off my foot for a few weeks now, and haven't really had an opportunity to get up to the car and work on it, since as soon as I was able to walk again I had to do as much school and work as possible.
I'm currently up with the car right now though, and will be working all through today and tomorrow to get as much done as I can and hopefully have it done by mid-next week.

As of right now, I'm just getting everything ready to go into the car. I've received all my parts in my time off, which is definitely good news. I ended up ordering my polyurethane subframe bushings directly from Ronnie K. in New Zealand so I've had them sitting around for a while and they look great (I don't have much of a good way of taking pictures right now so I can't upload a picture of them, I will try to tomorrow though). Today I just got to work making sure the intercooler is going to fit on properly and figuring out what the problems with the car are.
The first obvious problem was the hydrofan fluid leak, and it looks like it's coming from the soft part of the return line from the hydrofan, there are some really small cuts in it that flow a fair amount of fluid out of them, so I'll have to replace that hose with something to get that stopped. I'm also getting the engine running pretty rough, it doesn't want to hold a constant RPM, so I'm going to be checking for vacuum leaks tomorrow, as well as doing a compression test just out of interest (I haven't done one yet!). Here's a picture of it running in my garage for a little while just to warm it up and figure out where the leaks are. Don't mind the odd white pipe you see down there in the place of the intercooler. That was another doing of the previous owner due to a boost leak from the intercooler...who knows.


Gas also jumped WAY up in price, it's now $1.41 per liter for 87 octane, which is crazy expensive, and the 94 that I put in the Supra is much worse, so that may have a bit of effect on when I get the car onto the road too!

Tomorrow I'll be going at the rear end I picked up with some wire brushes to scrape all that rust off, and painting it up nicely. My uncle and I will be attempting to pry out the 20 year old stock bushings and put in the new poly's as well, and that way everything will be ready to get swapped over. I'll probably be back on Monday or Tuesday (or both!) to actually swap the part over, and if everything goes to plan I'll be able to take it for it's first real drive around the block on Tuesday! I'm beyond excited for that, it'll be nice to drive the car farther than 5 feet!
Here's a picture of it sitting around with the Accord to end this off, hopefully I'll have a bit more frequent updates now, but I'm just coming up on final exams so there won't be too much until after that!