Toyota Supra "Raijin"

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:30 pm

HKS filter has arrived and is now installed

New brakes are here

And being the sneaky bugger that i am, i couldn't resist decoding the chassis plate of the car and compairing it to a toyota data sheet

but it turns out that the car did indeed have cloth seats in the front from new

Post by **Ben** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:58 pm

Dan, is it wise to show you vin plate? ... would make it easy for someone to clone your's onto a nicked motor

As to disks, would be an ideal time to paint the centres with hammerite or the such like (except the area's where the wheel contacts) as then they will always look nice and minty - I did it on mine, made them look nice

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:31 pm

Ben wrote:Dan, is it wise to show you vin plate? ... would make it easy for someone to clone your's onto a nicked motor

As to disks, would be an ideal time to paint the centres with hammerite or the such like (except the area's where the wheel contacts) as then they will always look nice and minty - I did it on mine, made them look nice

ffs good point Ben! knew i forgot to photoshop something!

Cheers again mate, funny enough did just reply on fb about the wheelspacers that i have coming, so i'll just do the whole lot minus the faces

would look nicer than seeing the typical rusty hubs

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:40 am

More progress today

contact cleaned the brakes, masked off (with paper and selotape

) and HTP sprayed the hubs. The overspray i'll scotchbrite off once it's hardened up

And my new 25mm aluminium billet spacers have arrived too

hopefully have this lot on at the weekend if it doesnt piss down again

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:23 pm

Good work Dan, its so much easier doing them whilst off the car. I have done one so far and got bored so havent done the others yet

john B · Post by **john B** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:07 pm

Top car there Dan, looks just like my first Supra.....Looks really clean ! The only downside is the foglight especially as its so easy to install it into one of the reverse lights ! But hey well done ! you will love it......

I do have a nice set of 18" if your interested ! they were only on the Soarer for 10 months no kerbing or anything.

Will attach pictures for you...

Post by **Stuart** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:11 pm

Dan has said in this thread (about 16 times) he isn't interested in wheels of any description, so I think it's safe to say that he'll say 'no' once more

Dan
Where did you get the spacers and how much were they mate?

john B · Post by **john B** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:37 pm

Whoops sorry missed that then ! That will teach me to read it properly then !

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:52 pm

RX7 wrote:Good work Dan, its so much easier doing them whilst off the car. I have done one so far and got bored so havent done the others yet

haha get cracking with it Gareth

i have to admit they do look pretty swish being blackened and also serving a purpose

will have to VHT the spacers too so they don't stand out.

john B wrote:Top car there Dan, looks just like my first Supra.....Looks really clean ! The only downside is the foglight especially as its so easy to install it into one of the reverse lights ! But hey well done ! you will love it......

I do have a nice set of 18" if your interested ! they were only on the Soarer for 10 months no kerbing or anything.

Will attach pictures for you...

Cheers John, i actually really like the fog light being incorporated into the rear bumper. It's an OEM fittiment rather then the uk bolt on after thought as 90% are

As for the wheels, no thank you. This car is staying 99% OEM appearence bar the HKS exhaust.

stuart wrote:Dan has said in this thread (about 16 times) he isn't interested in wheels of any description, so I think it's safe to say that he'll say 'no' once more

Dan
Where did you get the spacers and how much were they mate?

Yep you're right mate

those wheels aren't going anywhere. Toyota did a good enough job with the style, and a cracking job with the added comfort/handling. all they need is bringing out a tad to the bodywork

As for the spacers, i bought them second hand from ebay from a guy that had 0 feedback

took a chance and it's paid dividens.

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:16 am

I think you're right to keep it standard looking as so mant are modded yours just stands out for what it is. A truely nice clean example that looks mean as hell standing still. Great work, love it. I'm off to search ebay...