things have been moving slowly and far more changes were required to plans than i had imagined, i have however started making things to try keep progress happening even if baby steps. the first of the issues to solve is is water pump fitting and bypassing of the mechanical unit, i ended up getting a...

ahhh, nice find, i spent hours looking for things like that but couldn't see much else, i'm sure that will be super useful in the future and for others on this path.

Wasn't really sure where to put this and I don't think I've shared the details here only on the IPTOC owners facebook page. I love a lowered car and the piazza while quite pretty at OEM ride hight looks a bit weird to me, also with my first piazza i could never really afford to lower it so didn't do...

Yeah i think this is what some of the guys have done with custom shock lengths and it works OK, i don't like the idea of non captive springs as the country roads google seems to direct me to travel on would just be asking for me to have one fall out. i think you can get spring spacers for landrovers...

Just thought i'd throw some details together of the fan shroud i made (though not very proud of). As i was putting the celica radiator into the car i thought it would be a good idea to use some electric fans with PWM speed control from the new ECU. to mount the fans on the rad i needed to create one...

wise words, I whole heartedly agree and have been trying to focus on one system at a time. The list did get a bit out of hand as things sort of snow balled as I got into it. progress is slow at the moment its cold and dark and hard to balance a day job with with working on cars, a struggle i'm sure ...

This brings me to the next thing, i'm not sure i'll do a good enough job of this but i was hoping to use the forum as a bit of a list of what i've done so i can look back on it when the modification inevitably breaks and i'm not sure what i've done or how to fix it. The intent here was to be as soft...

been a while but agree to the above, yes, lots of things, but i'll cover that later. managed to go to a few things this year in the piazza, went to JDM Coombe which was fun, https://i.ibb.co/h8J2RfT/20240720-142832.jpg https://i.ibb.co/xXx3P1t/20240720-142808.jpg also, went to my first thing at good...

Yeah I agree the forum does allow you a little more detail, I think for me it helps me remember what I've done and how far the car has come as I sometimes forget how much fun it's been when it takes 45mins to put a new licence plate on the front because every bolt snaps and the the rivets in the pla...

Yeah i put stuff on facebook a little more frequently but its good to do proper things here sometimes too. i did see your page and i really like the pure 90's vibe of your car playstation and all, so cool. I have taken it out to a few places, stonor park was the last one we went to and it was fun lo...

Yeah, I may go down the manual route but we'll see maybe the auto box just needs a good service. I need to talk to the IPTOC as I'll need more parts in a little bit I'm nut sure how bad axel groans should get but I suppose I should look at bearings the new (old) diff was of unknown origin so it coul...

So far on the list is to finish and check the new lowered springs, what I should do after is get the rust on the rear of the car sorted..... What I will probably do is start collecting parts for a standalone ecu along with other performance parts. I would like to stick as close as possible to lookin...

Yeah I did get a set of escort lowering springs for the rear from one of the other piazza guys but they weren't captive with the spax shock I have. They ended up getting custom made shorter shocs from Gaz in the UK to solve the issue. I struggled to find shims of the correct dimensions as I was thin...

I know this is super old but this information helped me a heap when i was trying to get some springs for my HBL car to go a little bit lower. I made some measurements with the suspension disassembled and basic calculations (using the formula MR = (lower arm length / spring distance) * sin(spring ang...

Did some corner weighing a while ago using the scales at work, figures are what youd expect I guess but the left to right weigth difference is more than I thought especially with fatty old me in the drivers seat. https://i.ibb.co/X2mRK6G/20220121-135855.jpg https://i.ibb.co/fxY4fbX/20220121-135926.j...