Hello! new member - my mx73 project!

[samx73]

Hey,

Im new here and just wanted to make little build thread

Name: Sam
Where your from: Auckland, Northshore
What you do:School xD
Car you own:1988 cressida mx73
Mods and future plans: Coil overs, roofspoiler, boso straight through of some description 1jz/2jz...! hopefully
Next car you want to buy: not sure :/
Why you joined JZX NZ: Met PowderJZX very cool dude and invited me and happily accepted

So my story begins on my birthday when I purchased my first toyota, car was in mint condition and regularly serviced.
1988 Toyota cressida, 2.8L 5m-e fully standard

When I brought her home she sat like this

High as f@#k, Few week ends later and the springs meet mr. angle grinder


Starting to look good she soon looked like this,

Added my boso ring i got off trademe for style points

Car was finished in time to get featured in NZ performance mag

ahaha photo bomb, car styles

Nostagic hero meet came up, so i chucked on my mates watanabes,

And another boso ring for +1 style and we cruized out there in.


First proper time taking the cressy to a meet, got some publicity which was cool



Was going to sell for various reasons, you may have seen on trademe, with the help of PowderJZX and the love for my cressida iv been persuaded to keep would be hard to see her go!

I am saving and planning to do a 1jzge swap! It going to be a hard task for me as iv never done a swap before and dont have a garage!!! but will be well worth it, the fun in the rain will be priceless

I look forward to meeting more of you guys and talking some shit about our cars

[PowderJZX]

Hey man! welcome to the club! make sure you check this out

http://www.facebook.com/events/34833361 ... ser_joined

[DJX]

cool car I like the colour. I think only single cam 5m comes with that front end, its neat.

Looking forward to seeing more of this

[Bosozoku_GX71]

hey bro i saw this for sale on oldschool. i very much recommend the 1jz swap, im running a 1jz-ge in mine and have just put a 4.1 f series diff in mine and it goes so good now. compared to a 1g-eu it is un describably fast, have a locked diff being re-welded at the moment and will let you know how well it skids hahaha.

[samx73]

hey bro i saw this for sale on oldschool. i very much recommend the 1jz swap, im running a 1jz-ge in mine and have just put a 4.1 f series diff in mine and it goes so good now. compared to a 1g-eu it is un describably fast, have a locked diff being re-welded at the moment and will let you know how well it skids hahaha.

hahaha yea please do very interested how easy was the swap i cant wait to do myself! how much did u pick it up for ?

[samx73]

Just wanted to show a pic of what i did to my sump a few weeks ago

[PSIBRG]

Did you drive up a traffic island or something?

[samx73]

Did you drive up a traffic island or something?

lol yea got beached on the center traffic island outside toyota galore, raining with windows fully fogged, couldn't see it and swear there was nothing on that drive way ahahahhaa. The gc's there got there fork lift to pry me off xD it amazingly doesnt leak hahaha

[DoriBippu]

Bro... you should get that ironed out a bit or something.. its probably bent the pickup..
Last thing you need is a run bearing i it starves itself of oil....!

[samx73]

yea thats what i thought aswel hopfuly not