Ivan's coupe: seeing RED

[Ivan141]

I thought I could use a little project thread of myself..
Since I will be tracking future progress in this thread first a bit of history:

Car was bought early 2003, it had been standing still for 4 years but still ran pretty strong. My first effort was to rebuild the brakes, since they where virtually non-existent. I rebuilt all 4 calipers using toyota's original rebuild kits, only to find out my master brake cilinder was leaking too when trying to bleed the system...Bought the overly expensive rebuild kit and had a go at the MBC as well..Fitted some Goodridge stainless steel brake lines while I was at it as well.

The engine died on me after a few months, the possible causes leading to it's failure where many since I really didnt know how to treat my engine back then. I only refilled the oil, never replaced it or the filter (although they where both 4 years old, which I only found out later). I once refilled it just after the engine had run (at a gas station)...how much more stupid could I get? Lastly I couldnt resist to show my new car off while the engine was still cold a few times, so I did stress the old engine a bit too much.

Almost 10 months later I had the engine replaced with an ae92 4age bluetop, which I had been cleaning up in the meantime (new seals, belts etc..). Since then I have been treating my 4age like my most precious possession...no more stepping on it before it's warmed up and fresh oil every so often..


Now over to the upcoming work: suspension! (fun fun fun)

I've already bought some 40mm lowering springs from a local spring factory (merwede), spring rates approximately 3,5kg/mm front and 3,5 kg/mm back.

Today my tokico HP's (blues) arrived in the mail...lucky me, I didnt have to pay import taxes over these!