2JZ-GE, Automatic, delightful brown interior, foot brake...
So after I got it home, I put in new balljoints, new tie rod ends and then took it for a wof to see how I would fare.
From memory it failed on a missing indicator lens (fell out while I was driving, only noticed when I got home), cracked headlight mounts, cracked windscreen etc etc.
After trying for a few weeks to source the parts (headlights were $150 from wreckers, nobody had indicator lenses, they were about $250 each new from Toyota) I came across a Tourer V parts car (no running gear or front brakes) and for the price figured I might as well get that and fix all my problems.
So I paid $1300 for the parts car and got it home then started swapping over the lights and indicators, had someone come swap the windscreen over for me, sold the Tourer V front bumper, my stock wheels and the badge for $400, sold each of the front window regulators for $50 each. Then I swapped the complete interior over into my car (well it wasn't complete, it was missing a couple of bits like the drivers seat rail, the handbrake etc etc). Also swapped in the JZX90 suspension and kept the front bumper lip for fitting at a later date as well as the facelift tail lights just in case I wanted a change.
Took the car for a wof, got it passed, a week later the rear window shattered on me (I suspect it was chipped by a stone when mowing the lawns, hot days, cold nights, ala shatter). So I had the rear window swapped over also. Unfortunately it had gay purpleised old tint on it, so I tried peeling that off and most of it stayed on the window, so paid someone to clean it off and then got tints fitted, unfortunately they managed to fuck the rear demister (was kind of expected) but hey, its not like I live in the South Island
Then it looked like this (with my 17x8 17x9" Work Rezax wheels fitted):
After a while I got pissed off with factory ride height and cut the JZX90 springs that were in it, had a perfect ride height (on bump stops) but not the most comfortable or legal of arrangements...
(Ignore the battery powered car... I was cranking the dehumidifier
Then I came across a set of JZX100 bilsteins for $450 so I bought those and after a nightmare struggle got them in and was annoyed at the ride height having been raised, but alas thats what you get I guess... So that was pretty much how it sat, I've also had to fix the exhaust as the flexi broke and started leaking so I used that as an excuse to have a 2" from the manifolds merged to 2.5" and run back to the first factory muffler, eliminating the cat. Not overly louder, bit more punch.
Also purchased a brand new handbrake and fitted that up.
Then in 2009 it blew a head gasket and with 240,000km on the clock and a cambelt well overdue, I found a replacement low mileage 2JZ-GE rather than bother fixing this one.
Oh and a gratuitous shot of something I found under a rear seat at pick a part and just had to have
Then some parts goodness from Japan...
Also got myself a manual pedalbox and clutch master (which I then sold), 2 power steering pumps, front and rear swaybars, lsd diff, kazama alloy subframe collars and trd diff mounts...
Stupid thing keeps distracting me from the JZZ20 :\
Still gotta get around to actually fitting the skirts and then save some coin to have them painted, as well as buying some tyres for the front... and getting knuckles to round out the suspension mods...
But for now at least, it looks a little something like this...
