Ash's Adub

[flying_wedge]

This is coming along really nicely Ash.
Going to be great when the 7a makes its way in and you get it running with a good tune!
What did you do with the accelerator pedal - is it from another model 'yota? Or did you just bend it or cut and weld? I need to do something like this with mine.

[Ash Kelly Barr]

This is coming along really nicely Ash.
Going to be great when the 7a makes its way in and you get it running with a good tune!
What did you do with the accelerator pedal - is it from another model 'yota? Or did you just bend it or cut and weld? I need to do something like this with mine.

thanks yeah its just a case of thowing money at it now haha
Ive had some good jobs come up so it might get finished early next year.
im getting a custom flywheel made and so other snazy rotating parts to so its going full hog.

nah no cutting or welding, simply put it in a bench vice and bent it to where i wanted.
takes a fair bit of grunt to bend, took me a while to get it where i wanted

[Ash Kelly Barr]

Hubs are back and rebuilt with high end Japanese brand wheel bearings.
Longer studs all round.

Hubs and wheels are now at road,race and rally getting spacers CNC'd to be hub centric (nice and speny)

TOM's wheels are some where in ocean on a ship.
Found a guy on oldschool that is gonna do reproduction graphics

Might have a genuine TOM's steering wheel on its way to

Carbon parts are coming along good. Just need to restock my laminating resin supply

Also picked up a newish Corolla as a daily so I'll need to get coil overs and SSR's on that too

[Statek]

Also picked up a newish Corolla as a daily so I'll need to get coil overs and SSR's on that too

Need to update your sig

[Ash Kelly Barr]

Not much progress
Work, girl friend, fallout4 and life in general, the cars gone on the back burner.

Coming into Christmas car budgets on hold till after.

For over this period though I have stashed away nearly 8L of epoxi resin so will have a lot of stuff to make and keep me busy until the new year and new parts roll in.

I've made full fibreglass moods of the rear side panels from doors back so far. Will be making a fibre glass bonnet and boot so cut down weight.

Start planing for left hand side vent and what ever the hell in doing for fuel filler

All that's needed to finish the grip side of things is:
Washers to space custom camber plates in rear
Wheel nuts to suit SSR's
Rubber for the shoes

Then it's just the motor and body work to takle

[Ash Kelly Barr]

Picked up a set of sw20 e series axles for 150. With CVs and stubs

Fronts getting pulled. Rear guards are the front off a ma61

[Ash Kelly Barr]

Tires have been purchased

Achillies 123S 195/45/R15 Front
Toyo T1R 235/50/R15 rear

Might seem like an odd match and I would have liked T1R 205/45/R15 for the front but I got the Achilles for 125ech and T1R's for 150ech all brand new so I would be stupid not to.

So the car should be sitting back on the ground next week on its snazzy SSR's

I've got the next 11 days off work so I should manage to finish up all those little things I can't seem to find time for

[Ash Kelly Barr]

Quality tires seem to be a lot chunked then the same size cheaper, Chineser tires

Making a mold of the bonnet but also the rear boot lid so I can make light weight copys

[zrossa]

Howdy Ash,

Apologies if you have answered this before but i didn't really want to go through 20 pages

Whats the width and offset of your ssr's? What kind of weight saving are you expecting with the fiberglass front and back boot and bonnet? would you look at making more than one part? I also have a white early AW siting in the garage waiting for some love. Anyone have a spare left hand front guard?

Cheers,

Douglas

[Ash Kelly Barr]

Howdy Ash,

Apologies if you have answered this before but i didn't really want to go through 20 pages

Whats the width and offset of your ssr's? What kind of weight saving are you expecting with the fiberglass front and back boot and bonnet? would you look at making more than one part? I also have a white early AW siting in the garage waiting for some love. Anyone have a spare left hand front guard?

Cheers,

Douglas

Hey mate
Fronts 15"x7.5" +20mm
Rear 15"x8.5" +20mm

However SSR MK1 and formula mesh mount surface is flat with the spokes.
So 20mm spacers are required to clear the bigger brakes. Making then zero offset.

8.5 with 0 offset will not fit in standard guards.

Bonnet and boot are carbon fibre. Not sure how much I've saved but it's more then 1/3.
More so in the drop front bonnet as that's had extra steel welded in, fibre glass and bog so probably be half the weight of my plug

[Ash Kelly Barr]

Update:
Car is still here and being built.

Interia is nearly finished.

Exterior:
Finish bonnet
Finish guards
Fit side skirts
Fit front lip

Driveline:
Hook up hand brake cables at rear
Bleed brakes
Trans fluid

Motor:
Got bottom end machined and put together by shop.
Put head on
Finish carbon plenum
Mount W/A cooler
Save for G4 extreme

[Ash Kelly Barr]

Progress..
Running gear is out

Cutting/welding/painting/wiring can start

[mickeyduck]

Uh-oh. Birth of a BEAST. Mu ha ha...!

Can't wait to see this thing in action when it's done Ash.

[Ash Kelly Barr]

Haha cheers, won't be any time soon though

Want to spend time painting the engine bay and getting the wiring and looming mint

[Ash Kelly Barr]

Whole rear end is apart.

All wiring from front of seat rails back has been cut open.

The engine bay fuse box has had all the 4A wiring removed.

Aside from the standard fuse box only the tail light wiring will be going threw the to the rear.


LINK G4+ extreme is currently getting wired. Will be in cab, have bought a [Expletive Deleted] expensive multi pin oil thing to put on the fire wall so the whole loom can undo at on point.


Am working threw all the sensors Atm as some will need to be changed to suit the link but also give outputs to the factory cluster.

I want the interior to all look stock and everything work