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Anyhow here is the story behind the car. A girl at work drove it and had over heating issues (SURPRISE!). She called me one day and said she was going to take it to the scrap yard. I told her I would give her some money for it. She talked to her husband and he said $200. I asked them if they could wait till I got paid and they said no. I was bummed and told my buddy (James) about it. He said he wanted it and would pay $100 that night. So we went and picked it up. Plan was to change the head gasket and just drive it and have fun and slowly do little things to it.
Time went on and James wound up moving to Texas. Since he couldn't drive the Cressida down there he left it to me to get running and do with it as I pleased. So I brought it over to my apartment and started changing the little things like valve cover gaskets and spark plugs and all that good stuff. While the valve covers were off, for shits and giggles, I painted them.
The radiator was all busted so I replaced it.
With feeble hopes the over heating issue was due to a busted radiator I drove around only to have the car overheat and cut off. Again, not really a big surprise.
So I start the tear down to replace the head gasket.
Hoped these would help:
Intake and misc throttle bits and pieces
Radiator out
Upper intake manifold
Got the wiring harness out of the way
Lower intake manifold off
Skip ahead and I have the head off and the head studs in
Head looked rough so I took it to the machine shop only to find it was warped in an arch from front to back
So from there another friend of mine hooked me up with a 7mgte. (Yes I know... still a 7mbhgte but hey it was free)
I had an R154 full swap, pedals and all lined up but ran into money issues and wound up missing out on it.
And a few weeks ago a buddy of mine gave me these:
They are BBS RVs 15x7+42 (Not the best size/offset but again, they were a gift and are the same lug pattern as the Cressida).
And then my friends and I found a 2,000 square foot shop space for rent:
Well we got the shop and I got the Cressida there as well as some tools and random things. I did a little bit of work...
Sorry for shitty camera phone pics, I forgot my actual camera.
Motor coming out
The line up
My buddy workin on pulling the motor out of his Z
Motor out
BLAH!!!!!
Empty
Random stuff chillin
The 240
All our cars
I consider it an upgrade...
Not bad for a first day at the shop!
Day 2:
I got the front end off and most of the misc stuff out of the engine bay.
LONG exhaust
Lots of built up dirt and a few wasp nests... Yay brake cleaner...
Bumper off
Grill
Wheels waiting to go on...
Yay little steering wheel. Hub + Wheel + Shipping = 40 bucks
Got the subframe and the harness for the most part out of the way,
Everything out
Dirty
Drivers side is kinda rough
Started to take out the dash... then I was like... nvm I did get the seat out though...
Moar empty:
Need to pull more misc. items out of the bay and clean it and get it ready to paint, the same w/ subframes. If I can get the material I am going to attempt to make me some aluminum/dellerin bushings for the sub frame at Tech. Once everything is out, cleaned and painted, I'll start swappin stuff so I can get the GTE in. Until then I'm on the look out for five speed swap.
I'm pretty much going to use the Cressida to learn how to do things like make bushings, suspension arms, shave engine bay, paint, ect...
I'm thinking about painting the engine bay this color...
My buddies were in the shop and had some extra paint laying around and I think I found a color close enough... So I did a test spray with no primer just to get an idea...
That is where I am at currently...
YAY SUPAR LONG POST!
Time went on and James wound up moving to Texas. Since he couldn't drive the Cressida down there he left it to me to get running and do with it as I pleased. So I brought it over to my apartment and started changing the little things like valve cover gaskets and spark plugs and all that good stuff. While the valve covers were off, for shits and giggles, I painted them.
The radiator was all busted so I replaced it.
With feeble hopes the over heating issue was due to a busted radiator I drove around only to have the car overheat and cut off. Again, not really a big surprise.
So I start the tear down to replace the head gasket.
Hoped these would help:
Intake and misc throttle bits and pieces
Radiator out
Upper intake manifold
Got the wiring harness out of the way
Lower intake manifold off
Skip ahead and I have the head off and the head studs in
Head looked rough so I took it to the machine shop only to find it was warped in an arch from front to back
So from there another friend of mine hooked me up with a 7mgte. (Yes I know... still a 7mbhgte but hey it was free)
I had an R154 full swap, pedals and all lined up but ran into money issues and wound up missing out on it.
And a few weeks ago a buddy of mine gave me these:
They are BBS RVs 15x7+42 (Not the best size/offset but again, they were a gift and are the same lug pattern as the Cressida).
And then my friends and I found a 2,000 square foot shop space for rent:
Well we got the shop and I got the Cressida there as well as some tools and random things. I did a little bit of work...
Sorry for shitty camera phone pics, I forgot my actual camera.
Motor coming out
The line up
My buddy workin on pulling the motor out of his Z
Motor out
BLAH!!!!!
Empty
Random stuff chillin
The 240
All our cars
I consider it an upgrade...
Not bad for a first day at the shop!
Day 2:
I got the front end off and most of the misc stuff out of the engine bay.
LONG exhaust
Lots of built up dirt and a few wasp nests... Yay brake cleaner...
Bumper off
Grill
Wheels waiting to go on...
Yay little steering wheel. Hub + Wheel + Shipping = 40 bucks
Got the subframe and the harness for the most part out of the way,
Everything out
Dirty
Drivers side is kinda rough
Started to take out the dash... then I was like... nvm I did get the seat out though...
Moar empty:
Need to pull more misc. items out of the bay and clean it and get it ready to paint, the same w/ subframes. If I can get the material I am going to attempt to make me some aluminum/dellerin bushings for the sub frame at Tech. Once everything is out, cleaned and painted, I'll start swappin stuff so I can get the GTE in. Until then I'm on the look out for five speed swap.
I'm pretty much going to use the Cressida to learn how to do things like make bushings, suspension arms, shave engine bay, paint, ect...
I'm thinking about painting the engine bay this color...
My buddies were in the shop and had some extra paint laying around and I think I found a color close enough... So I did a test spray with no primer just to get an idea...
That is where I am at currently...
YAY SUPAR LONG POST!
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