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Tom's GX81 Chaser

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Hey guys Thomas here. Most of you here know me.. or not hahaha
I'm based in Auckland - Torbay/Northcross/Brownsbay ...
I daily drive a GX81. It was Kurt's old car. It was sitting in a farm with no future. Bought it to revive it and see what I could do to it I guess. Maybe I should call it Tom's Chaser?

Mods: It's got a cert plate - The car came with BCs and no driveline. It was pretty hard towing it from Takanini to Sunnynook with no power, at night and a 1.5m tow rope :lol:

Future plans? get that 1g sound, lower and rims..


Long story short (photo version)

It was like this when I got it but It was in a farm with a bonnet and a driveshaft sitting on the back seat(photo originally from Kurt's build thread) Image

Got the engine from greer and the gearbox through Alex with the gx61.
The next day we started working on the car. I replaced the front and back seals on the gearbox as well as the back seal on the engine and got the car going.. Thanks to the people in the photo for giving me a hand.

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the day after that, I got WOF. It did fail on 3 things. Car was low (at certified height lol) handbrake needed adjustment and front wheel bearing is worn of.. But no biggie, I was so desperate to daily an X chassis anyway so I sussed all of it in a day. Wheel bearings were easier to replace than I thought it would be.

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"Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall,
Torque is how far you take the wall with you."
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Few days after i got the car going...
Cambelt replacement happened..
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Hole through a bypass (didnt put the bolts on the waterpump in their right places) but nothing a JBweld can fix.. (i actually got a replacement for this just incase it gives in)

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The before shot. It does look neat on stern wheels.
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"Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall,
Torque is how far you take the wall with you."
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Mid year: nothing much happened due to a complicated situation.

Got read ended by an altezza - sat in the parking for 2 months only to be told by his insurance they will write it off coz they couldn't find the parts.. so I said I'll get it fixed myself.. they just gave me the money instead... funny how most of the panelbeaters quoted me 3500-4000 to get it fixed.. but I found one that was literally 10x cheaper... somewhere in ashfield road. he even offered to do extra bits for free.

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A week later, It looked like nothing happened. Got new tips and moved the muffler 30mm inwards toward the engine to hide it and to make sure it doesn't burn the bumper in the future haha
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"Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall,
Torque is how far you take the wall with you."
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Then I started buying parts: I gave fromjapan a shot using my mates account.

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First one was from New Zealand.
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This carrozeria DVD touch screen to replace the old pioneer head deck.
"Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall,
Torque is how far you take the wall with you."
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Then the parts started arriving. (this was around october-november)
First one that arrived was this genuine weather shield through Moonlight Racing and some other bits.
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then the package from Fromjapan came.
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Oh and before the package, I got the doilies from Greer. It was off a cresta but it works.
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"Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall,
Torque is how far you take the wall with you."
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Got a jzx100 frontlip from Juhan to act as my temporary front lip.. It doesnt look too bad TBH.
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I got the interior lights and corner lights changed to LEDs thanks to Ultimate LED.
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A week or two later, the side skirts came.. it fitted all good but I had a different Idea in mind so I extended the width of the side skirts.
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Test fitted:
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Last week, this all happened.
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Aaaaaaaaaaaand finally caught up to date. haha I did these today.
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I think this weekend, I'll give it a shot at replacing the headlights to FL ones. - come to think of it, I didn't spend much $$ on parts.... thanks to friends and friends overseas! Mostly, these parts ended really cheap... also the combined EMS saved me a bit of box weight haha. :lol: :lol:

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I'm just waiting for the wheels to arrive, itbs (just the throttle) as well as the genuine front lip. I probably won't install my steering wheel till January when my wheels arrive.
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I think I would like to work on the engine in the future.
I did play with height the other day..but hmmm... maybe next time!
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:lol:
"Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall,
Torque is how far you take the wall with you."
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Re: Tom's GX81 Chaser

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Epic build Thomas, great work saving an almost toast JZX.

Love the skirts and doilies .... wow, that sounded pretty girly :oops:

T'will be great to catch up on the 7th, I saw you mentioned Sunnynook, that's my old stomping ground and where I'm located at the moment :)
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Youngatheart wrote:Epic build Thomas, great work saving an almost toast JZX.

Love the skirts and doilies .... wow, that sounded pretty girly :oops:

T'will be great to catch up on the 7th, I saw you mentioned Sunnynook, that's my old stomping ground and where I'm located at the moment :)
Thanks! Thats pretty wicked, we all live close by. Sunny nook is where my mates workshop is but I just live in browns bay! so it wont take me 10mins to get there haha. Not to mention my mate with the wide body x100 will move to greenhithe and I'm assigned to design his garage! new chill spot?
"Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall,
Torque is how far you take the wall with you."
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Re: Tom's GX81 Chaser

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Slightly O/T, any chance on some photos of the wide body JZX100?
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m989 wrote:Slightly O/T, any chance on some photos of the wide body JZX100?
Sure thing!

1jzgte VVTi, r154, 2 way LSD. with Dmax wide body. This thing is setup to slide with ease! I'm not even lying lol.

We'll be fixing up his rear bumper tomorrow because it was destroyed during one of the drift days in meremere

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"Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall,
Torque is how far you take the wall with you."
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