The Monster......

[Monster-Mat]

well, the factory rubber hose, is known to sag over time and catch the P/S aircon belts, with a metal pipe with silcone ends the pipe cannot sag therefore not rub the belts and eventually fail :winky:

its only polished because it comes that way :)

[GRiM]

.... its only polished because it comes that way :)

Stick some boot polish on it, and hopefully no-one will ever notice...

Bling Bling

[tdiplc]

Progress Report.

The transmission is in and working, even the gear shift is where it should be now - which is handy.

We have made a hybrid propshaft which was a bit of a drama. The Supra prop has a doughnut arrangement to absorb any shunting but the is200 uses a sliding spline. The resulting hybrid is interesting and shoudl work fine.

The power steering was also a bit of an issue as the pump and reservoir is on the other sid of the engine on the Supra. We have made up a nice little conversion to take care of this issue. We were not impressed with the way we had seen it done elsewhere, so we have relocated the reservoir towards the nearside rear of the bulk head where the Battery used to be. We have even fitted a a proper p/s cooler on top of the intercooler. Looks great and will work great.

This week we will doing the fuel lines, fuel pump and tank modifications, and looking at making a temporary exhaust etc so that we can get it running.

That's all for now folks.

Mark :)

[Steve]

hey mark... do us a favour mate.. post a pic or two so we can see how things are coming along

cheers mate

Stevo

[tdiplc]

Will do Stevo

It's not easy deciding what will and won't be of interest. I've got loads of piccies but many are the same-ish.

There will be some new ones this week which may be of some interest.

Mark :)

[Steve]

cool mate... pic of the resoivoir would be good and transmission.. in fact if you post them all in the MIC gallery we can take a look at them all

http://www.lexusownersclub.com/gallery/Misc

top right "Add photos"

you can post 10 a time..

[JOHNNY-BOY]

I'm sure they are all really interesting Mark, how about some pics of the new Battery location for example.

[Monster-Mat]

mmmmmmm, piccys.

mark, did you use the P/S cooler i provided, kindly donated from the race car's P/S :duh:

[tdiplc]

Should be able to provide some piccies this week.

The engine's out at the moment - it's been in and out more times than a fiddlers elbow.

Yes we did use the power steering rad and have placed it on top of the intercooler - i'll post a piccie.

What's the MIC gallery

[Steve]

MIC stand for Micellaneous Mark

:D :D :D

[rhaines]

Is it just me or has this thread died a death overthe last couple of days, I thought you'ld be working your socks off getting her ready for JAE ?

Any news or photies for us ??

[Monster-Mat]

ive told chris mark, hes working somewhere else at the mo...but hes contacting stafford today

[Matthew_McNally]

What's the MIC gallery

hehehe - thats the Miscellaneous Images gallery mate

clickable linky to misc gallery - just for Mark ;)

yeah mate - lets see some pictures.

especially of mats blinging engine bay :P

[tdiplc]

MIC stand for Micellaneous Mark

Why is not called MIS then?

Miscellaneous is spelt like this

Am I missing something?

[dark_is200]

MIC stand for Micellaneous Mark

Why is not called MIS then?

Miscellaneous is spelt like this

Am I missing something?

Actually normal abreviations would be "msc" or "misc"

[Matthew_McNally]

Why is not called MIS then?

Miscellaneous is spelt like this

its actually called misc mate.

I'll let you in on a little secret

<whispers>

Steve can't type ;)

</whispers>

ok - lets keep that betwen me and you eh? :D :D

[rhaines]

<whispers>

Steve can't type ;)

</whispers>

ok - lets keep that betwen me and you eh? :D :D

Do reckon he might notice then ??

[Matthew_McNally]

Do reckon he might notice then ??

nah - I whispered!

anyway - we're veering dangerously

lets get back to wanting piccies of the car - I have my "bling bling" images lined up already :P

[Loz]

why is dyslexsic such a hard word to spell?

Lzo

[tdiplc]

Is it just me or has this thread died a death overthe last couple of days, I thought you'ld be working your socks off getting her ready for JAE ?

Any news or photies for us ??

That's right rhaines - we are full throttle at the moment.

2 of the guys were here untill 2am this morning, and still turned up for work again at 8.3am

I havent had access to a camera this week, so I'll post some early next week.

[JOHNNY-BOY]

we are full throttle at the moment.

2 of the guys were here untill 2am this morning, and still turned up for work again at 8.3am

I havent had access to a camera this week, so I'll post some early next week.

Sounds like you must be making progress then Mark, can't wait to see some updated pictures.

[tdiplc]

we are full throttle at the moment.

2 of the guys were here untill 2am this morning, and still turned up for work again at 8.3am

I havent had access to a camera this week, so I'll post some early next week.

Sounds like you must be making progress then Mark, can't wait to see some updated pictures.

There is a LOT more work than we originally anticipated

[Monster-Mat]

modified bulkhead

relocated power steering container, and powersteering oil cooler

[Monster-Mat]

supra 6 speed getrag gearbox and new sump

[Monster-Mat]

Stoptech brakes, and still the original factory front struts and eibach springs, the springs and struts later to find there way on to ZEE'S motor