MkIII Supra Pickup Drift Project

[MARKPRIOR]

Just to say hi guys i'm Mark from Japnortheast.co.uk, and after 3 years i have bought myself another beloved Mrkiii supra (fell in love again at JAE)

I also own a skyline GTS-t

The supra i have bought as a progect its a E reg 1987 i think non turbo.

I have bought the car to be ran as a drift car and would appreciate any help or advise that you guys could offer

heres what ive done so far


OH Yes and did i mention its going to be a Pickup????

Stripping

Needs to have all interior removed bar dash and two front seats

Suspension

Needs to either get Chris's Blistiens on if they fit or chop the springs by a couple of coils

Engine

Sweet as a NUT!!!!!

Exhaust

Gonna go for a 3 inch side exit

Graphics

Gonna go Full JNE

Wiring
Most likely gonna need some electrical work on the car







MORE PICS TO FOLLOW


AND AFTER MARKS ATTEMPT AT REPAIRS I HAVE DECIDED THAT HE SHOULD BE TEA BOY


Video
http://s33.photobucket.com/albums/d6...Picture033.flv

and from this mark learnt never mess about on gravel with the windows down. I forgot i was taking a video and was paying more attention to the massive cloud of dust and if the security guard would see it
















mkiv suspension will go on a mkiii with a little work

Mod's needed

Rear Suspension

You need to bend the bottom of the damper around 2.5mm each side and make a bush to fit. (although dont think choas will let me lmao)

Front Suspension

Pretty much a straight fit but you need to grind around 2mm off each side of the hub where it connects to the suspension

Will post pics when i do it on saturday only had the time to wiegh up what needed doing today.
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Oh also learned that the inner rear arches were rusted out comes the welder
got the dif out eventually but had to use the my fav tool the GRINDER oo and extra large pinch bars lol. The 2 front bolts for it are bolted into nuts which are welded inside the frame which i managed to snap the nut of the weld (last bloody bolt holding the dif in) , but we got it out in the end along with the exhaust of and all shafts off. The only reason the grinder came out was because of Mr Priors eternal chanting GRINDERRRRR GRINDERRRR GRINDERRRRR because he was already told his little plastic saw would not be up to the job. But we were confused as baby racoons when we eventually got it out because the internals are nothing like the pictures that we have seen before so the four of us stood there like monkeys scratching our heads.


A prior comment from last night, to set the seen we had the back end on axle stands and joe commented will it not roll on the front wheels why dont you put the handbrake on lol

and then marks WHY DONT WE LEAVE IT IN GEAR. Because the back wheels are off the ground durrrrrrrr

All in all a fun night loads of laughing and some pain you know your having a good time when your hands and face are black

What Happens When you put 3ft of pipe where your exhaust was meant to be

Video
http://www.youtube.com/v/DIEAoMfR4UU

Side exit complete

Also got the diff welded up tonite


all is going well :headbang5:
Turning into a pickup











Video

http://s33.photobucket.com/albums/d6...t=MOV00735.flv

when you get bored silly things happen mkiv veilside spoiler on a mkiii



The back windows come out with ease, lol



Then for the pick-up modifications.

[MARKPRIOR]

Glimpse of the finished project





Really starting to take shape now!

Cardboard in place to start on the wide arch kit!

WIDE!!!!





Body strengthening begins


Work starts on smoothing the arches

Faye gets dirty






New Zorst





Just rough for the time being for the mock up


Fuel Cell And fuel Pump fitted tonight with some rather nice Flameage



VIDEO


http://www.youtube.com/v/0iRw49ujpcw


Think i may need a hazard to health sticker

Wednesday got the thing driving goes sidways very easy and dead predictable to say i am happy so far is an understatment

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This is as far as i am upto for now what do yous think

[RTZ]

Dude what a sick project!!
So are you going to stick with the 7MGE? Any plans for turbo transplant?
Be interested to know what it weighs in at when your done as well!
Nice work!

[tone loc]

looks like you know what your doing dont forget to post some after pics.

[MARKPRIOR]

Originally Posted by RTZ

Dude what a sick project!!
So are you going to stick with the 7MGE? Any plans for turbo transplant?
Be interested to know what it weighs in at when your done as well!
Nice work!

Going to take it to a wiegh bridge when done, stick with the GE for now drove it for the first time since all the work the other nite and am very impressed back end flips out very well and is very predictable and so controlable probs wont need a turbo.

More pics will follow as work progress's

Full details can be found on a site i run below you have to register to veiw but worth it loads of other things on there also.

http://www.japnortheast.co.uk/forum/...showtopic=8150

[MARKPRIOR]

The proposed colour scheme

[supraman121]

I dont want to knock it or anything but why chop up such a nice looking car? Toyota probly didnt make a "truck" version cause they probly could keep the back end from cutting loose with no weight in the back lol

[supraman121]

maybe it will work out for you but you still need some weight for traction in the back i would think?

[MARKPRIOR]

Had it out and it does exactly what we need it to do (Go VERRRRRRRY Sideways lol) has worked out better than we could have hoped will get some video's at the next drift practice and post them up

[thechori]

awesome project, what's it's weight now?