1980 Te72

[D1doony]

Thought I might as well introduce myself on here with a members ride thread,

 

have owned the car Since, December 07, and bought it like this, minus the sprayed black rims

 

 

 

 

few pictures of the interior,exterior and engine

 

 

 

 

 

few weeks after purchasing the car, blew the gasket on the so called "indestructable" 3tc motor. i thought it was cool to buy some rims and thrash the motor even more, i bought some 14x6 +15 or so challengers with tractor spec tyres

 

 

 

 

 

finally blew it completely which means the 'ol girl was ready for a makeover, decided to go with JDM 4age 16V as it was in my budget and readily available.

 

 

after selling the s13 pig i wrapped around a pole and another car i had funds for my 4age conversion

 

Ben at KYP was really helpful and hooked me up with motor, gearbox, loom, ecu, x member, bell housing, tailshaft, everything to bolt into the T series,

 

this is the final product after 2 days work in a shed, I used an s13 radiator and from what i believe a bottom hose from a magna and top hose from a commodore, i also used a pretty simple EFI set up just with a VL fuel external pump, no surge tank lift pump set up etc.

 

 

 

Unfortunately was unable to source parts and have funds to convert the steering to rack and pinion. cleared the factory steering with some custom secondaries, after driving around off manifold for a fortnight i couldn't bare to do it anymore.

 

 

 

was getting fairly see sick so decided to lower the car with some stiffer shocks, came across a pretty sweet deal which involved the following

 

 

*ae86 struts

* ae86 brakes

* adjustable koni yellow shocks

*Uknown lovell springs from and rear

 

this is the final product,

 

 

 

oh and i guess some 14x7 0 gold centered starsharks couldnt go astray either.

 

 

 

Nothing a tiny bit of neg camber couldnt fix either :dance:

 

 

 

 

so this is how it stands at the time being after a blown clutch, few sets of rubber and fuel injector o ring problems I'm more than happy with it, i might have forgotten a few parts but yeah, here it goes

• RWD JDM 4age and t50 gearbox
  ae86 tailshaft
  ae86 cross member
  ae86 bellhousing
  s13 radiator
  VL fuel pump
  new fuel injector o rings
  custom secondaries
  muffler with tweaking exit pipe
  removed cat converter
  koni 4way adjustables
  lovell springs
  ae86 struts
  ae86 ADM brakes
  d1 spec steering wheel
  

 

FUTURE PLANS

• Rack and pinion conversion
  Effective exhaust system ie: extractors 2" under the diff
  window tint
  Head Unit with some decent splits and amp
  maybe another set of rims
  Quads
  

 

 

and my favourite picture of the car:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you guys enjoyed the story and pictures and amused you for 2minutes.

 

taken me a while to write, so sorry if it gets sloppy towards the end, ive probably missed out on heaps of shit, and doesnt really make sense, but it goes hard and handles pretty nicely.

 

peace out.

Edited June 3, 2008 by D1doony

[Teddy]

Love it :dance:

[JiP]

Very nice. Looks tough. I say keep the interior original. Go the sleeper look.

[D1doony]

yeah hoping to meet and greet few other e7 owners.

hahah just getting myself out there etc.

its not a bad little daily run around.

and its all be done under $4,000 :dance: :lmao:

[LittleRedSpirit]

yeah hoping to meet and greet few other e7 owners.

hahah just getting myself out there etc.

its not a bad little daily run around.

and its all be done under $4,000 :dance: :hmm:

 

 

Impressive use of resources.

 

Nice car especially for 4k.

 

:lmao:

 

Welcome.

[D1doony]

haha yeah, its not bad i guess, I'm one of those "Rather build then buy"

 

will hopefully get more pics up soon to keep you all occupied.

[tas_ae71]

yeah, looks grate, i dunno why more people don't buy t-18's

[D1doony]

the only thing they don't have is rack and pinion steering.

 

the front struts are easy to use,

if you want to be an ultimate cheep skate you can even use the stock steering arms and stock strut tops

and ae86 struts are always around because ae86 guys always upgrading to coilovers etc

 

plus they have mighty good looks :D

and pretty much any conversion that an ae86 does this does.

[h1_roll4]

this car is shit and i hate it haha

 

 

 

 

kidding nice, runs awesome to.

you forgot to mention the rolled rear arches dan hahahaha

 

don't sell it!!

[D1doony]

it is for sale.

haha and it has rolled rear arches

[D1doony]

crashed rear end will be parting the car out within the fortnight.

pm me for parts interested.

[67Rolla-Ken]

*^%#!! That's terable. Commiserations. :)

[eviltwin]

god dayumm thats hot as hell dude

[Gspec]

Another T18 lost :)

 

make sure the parts go to good use so that yout grean T18 can live on in other T18's.