Bilbo's Scrapeyard Spec Eunos

I am jealous of that flywheel


It's coming together nicely! Workshop facilities must make things a lot easier, although anything involving being under the car to remove large bits of metal is a step outside my comfort zone... lol


What are your thoughts for paint? (You may already have said and I've missed it.)

Ok big update, some absolute sauce in this update.

Got the last corner of polybushes in:



Replacement box is in, with fresh rear seal:



New stiffer engine mounts, clutch, release bearing and the 4kg flywheel are in, car started up so I fitted the flywheel right at least haha. When refitting the box me and a mate spent a few minutes laying on the floor laughing at how low on the stands the car was, he couldn't believe I'd even managed to get the box out with it so low. Anyway we raised the car much higher and got it all done. He's got the big strength that I lack so he bench pressed the box while I wiggled stuff to get it to go on haha.

Coilovers were raised to max height:



Winched onto truck:



We set everything up, panel wiped, my mate got everything masked:





Primer went on well, high build stuff so has hidden most small imperfections beautifully:



Guide coat was sprayed over after, and we flatted the primer back with a good old wet sand:



Most stuff came out good:



But then we noticed a couple of paint lifts on the front bumper in the swage line, it was really ugly, I had prepped it quite well but just these fiddly little areas that looked so poor, so I used 240 in the swage line and a couple of other areas, up to 600 once the paint lifts were gone, and then he went for round 2 on the front bumper:



It worked beautifully, and came out so much better than the first attempt, well worth the effort.

Top coat went on (note, looks much more banana milkshake yellow in these initial photos due to the lighting in the booth):







We then riveted the overs and ducktail on top of the painted rear wings and boot. We wanted to get some paint under them for maximum protection.



Anyway here it is in natural light, still cream but much more of a white tone to it than inside:







Was still in bits so still looked a bit like a ropey shell, but as it's come back together it's really taking shape now:












Quite a bit left to do, but I'm slowly and carefully reassembling, refitting seals and stuff. New slave cylinder and braided clutch line was fitted last night, doing pads and brake bleed tonight, as well as fitting my spare black soft top. Coilovers have been lowered back down.

Various bits left to do, but it's come out so good! It's not concourse, but it was never meant to be. It's one colour and it looks a damn sight better than any driveway rattle can job most people do, so I'm over the moon with it. What a macheen.

Toyota Ivory 4E7, it's an OE Toyota colour used in the 80s.

Nice, saw it on Instagram, it's looking good so far, with all the other changes it'll be like a completely different car.

More ITB vids required

Nice colour, a bit like the BMC Old English White, but creamier. Lush. Nice work, especially doing the box with the car on the ground. I'm too old for all that malarkey.

wazzitrevlike?





edited for honesty


Rich.

ffs!

pay someone or it'll never get done

but seriously, build a garage & learn the skills, Mr.O has and the cars looking great

you'll enjoy the time wasted spent

Rich.