Been busy on the car, but a lot of the jobs are just small important things that aren't worthy of pictures. Re-drilling holes, adjusting seats, making hoses and brackets etc etc. However, this is what I have taken pictures of:
The ARB doesn't line up since I moved the subframe but some other thicker ARB that came with car lines up perfectly. Bad picture, I'll try and get a picture of the car on a ramp soon:
I fitted a NB MX5 radiator as it's one of the only cars that shares the 2-and-8 o'clock orientation for the hoses. It fits pretty good! I made a couple of brackets:
My temporary spring setup ended up being really curse word and bouncy so I splashed out on some Swift springs for an AE86:
Converted accelerator pedal from rod to cable. The unfortunate thing was that the pedal pulls up rather than down, so rather than make something new, I just made the cable do a loop de loop mounting it facing up from the lower firewall/transmission area. I drilled and tapped the old rod end into the cable end.
Weird angles but there be method to my madness
I also had to splash out on the very specific Toyota manual rack spline. It was going to be a similar price to track down a 2nd hand shaft so I ordered a new aftermarket one from Techno Toy Tuning. I then immediately cut it into pieces and welded it onto some Tacoma pieces I already had. Then I welded it directly to the rag joint.
In this picture you can see the shaft installed with a universal support bearing as the steering box column does not have one and it flops around. You can also see here the throttle cable mounted to the left which I forgot to take any more pictures of:
The car drives forwards and backwards now so I did some sticker engineering:
The ARB doesn't line up since I moved the subframe but some other thicker ARB that came with car lines up perfectly. Bad picture, I'll try and get a picture of the car on a ramp soon:
I fitted a NB MX5 radiator as it's one of the only cars that shares the 2-and-8 o'clock orientation for the hoses. It fits pretty good! I made a couple of brackets:
My temporary spring setup ended up being really curse word and bouncy so I splashed out on some Swift springs for an AE86:
Converted accelerator pedal from rod to cable. The unfortunate thing was that the pedal pulls up rather than down, so rather than make something new, I just made the cable do a loop de loop mounting it facing up from the lower firewall/transmission area. I drilled and tapped the old rod end into the cable end.
Weird angles but there be method to my madness
I also had to splash out on the very specific Toyota manual rack spline. It was going to be a similar price to track down a 2nd hand shaft so I ordered a new aftermarket one from Techno Toy Tuning. I then immediately cut it into pieces and welded it onto some Tacoma pieces I already had. Then I welded it directly to the rag joint.
In this picture you can see the shaft installed with a universal support bearing as the steering box column does not have one and it flops around. You can also see here the throttle cable mounted to the left which I forgot to take any more pictures of:
The car drives forwards and backwards now so I did some sticker engineering: