So, I started doing a little work on the car.
And by that I mean, I painted the grill black:
Then swapped out the konig rewind wheels from my ae86 onto the te21:
I definitely need a drop...so I ordered from cheaaappo Ebay coilover perches and springs, etc from a 95+ corolla. Got the tip from drocca.
But then I realized that my rear wheels were "wobbling" which made me think my wheel was bent from sliding into a curb super hard... but I realized that on the rear drums, there was a screw sitting there that wass keeping the wheel from sitting flush on the hub.
ANYBODY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE FOR? I haven't gotten a repair manual yet, so I dunno. And I forgot to take a picture. I'll do that tomorrow.
And since 7 inch wide wheels were a little much and the suspension was soooo soft. The fender was eating the tires. It actually sliced it pretty nice and there's a chuunk of flapping rubber. SO I thought....time to bend in those fenders!
Hammered at them for 10 minutes. And then i realize it'd be smarter to cut slits and then bang those in. Soooo smart!
So, I hammered them in and painted with rubberized undercoating....
AND BEFORE THAT! I worked on makiing a roof rack, so I can carry my bike to school and bike around campus. I bought some "Quick-N-Easy Rain Gutter Roof Mounts". Pretty cool because you can either mount a metal pipe onto it or a metalunistrut or.......a 2X4!
Here's the clearance on the rear piece..."
And it is SOLID! I'm gonna construct a basket that I can use in case I need to carry more luggage... And I'm waiting on some fork mounts for my bike that I can screw on. And need to find the right metal "U" shaped piece for my bike to sit down in...
Still need to:
- Replace belts
- Mount front chin spoiler
- Clean the interior
- Clean the engine bay
- Empty and clean out the gas tank (it turned off on me a few times when I was driving...i think there's a lot of gunk from sitting around outside for a year)
- Get rear lowering blocks
- Get camber plates (i can't find a good source yet for TE2x's. I know Cusco ones go for like $200-300 a pair... Not sure of the ae86 ones will fit....i'll experiment one day, unless somebody knows they don't fit)
- Buy some diamond racing wheels with negative offset :D
But used to be an old lady's daily driver. After three hours of messing with the fuel and everything, we got it started! New fuel filter and a shot of compressed air through the fuel pump and it started right up!
