Jeh
A Smorgasbord of Excellence
- Joined
- Dec 15, 2006
- Location
- on a crappy road...
Jeh's 86 240GL+T Start to Finish and then some.
Since I have finally come to a major stopping point I am going to put together a project thread.
I didn't know who?s car this is but I always liked the look. Initially I wasn?t trying to copy it and only found the picture long after mine was painted black and more recently after I changed the wheels.
(I found out this belonged to Tenacoius Todd)
So here?s what I started with.
It?s a one owner 86 240 GL. Fully loaded, power everything, sunroof, auto, working a/c, 14? Coronas, Black leather and only 83K on the clock. Driven by a little old lady who bought it new in Albuquerque and kept it in her garage. Sweetness.
At this point all the mods were really not visible except for the Virgo?s that I painted body color because they looked pretty rough and discolored. I had IPD sways with poly bushings, Torque and panhard rods, along with the TME Sport Springs and BOGE struts and shocks,new tie rods, ball joints and brakes. Along with a solid stage Zero The exhaust was a IPD cat back kit. Trying to make the best of N/A Power at 6500 ft I built a 6 deg advance cam sprocket, and put in an E-Fan from an S80
I started piecing the Plus-T parts together over the course of a year, doing what I could at my lunch breaks and then having the rest of the kit installed in 1 day. Thanks to Jim (jimjawz). Essentially it was everything from a 87 740 with a Mitsu 13b. We called it the starter turbo and it was on 3 different plus t cars.
This was actually my 1st avatar I pieced together a 740 turbo and 240 emblem.
Time for paint. The cars body was in pretty good shape minus a small dent or two but being silver gray iin the southwest it didn?t rust the paint just fell off. I stripped everything I could off the car except the glass and handles and had it Schiebed . I had them do the hood, trunk and door jams as well as fix a couple of dents.
Here are a few after it was put back together The emblems are new and agiain I cut up a 240DL and 740 turbo emblem to make it look stock.Thanks to Dave Barton for the moose stickers
This was my after painting sig until just recently.
I finally got the side markers wired correctly so they are on with the park lights and blink with the turn signals.
It was time for a new (to me) Turbo I picked up a 13c with a 90 plus manifold from another Tbricker. Ian (Murderface). I also tossed in a T cam.
It was time fro some new tint as 20+ years had taken its toll on the original tint so I went with 15% all around.
I had a custom Euro plate made to match my normal registration tag and mounted it in the stock position. Seems either you like it or you don?t. I have a second plate coming to mount up front. The regular plate is lit with the vehicle lighting. Its been there a year without issues from the Police. I also have the class 3 Volvo hitch. Do I pull anything? Nope, but I left it there because nothing says slow like a trailer hitch.
Since I have finally come to a major stopping point I am going to put together a project thread.
I didn't know who?s car this is but I always liked the look. Initially I wasn?t trying to copy it and only found the picture long after mine was painted black and more recently after I changed the wheels.
(I found out this belonged to Tenacoius Todd)
So here?s what I started with.
It?s a one owner 86 240 GL. Fully loaded, power everything, sunroof, auto, working a/c, 14? Coronas, Black leather and only 83K on the clock. Driven by a little old lady who bought it new in Albuquerque and kept it in her garage. Sweetness.
At this point all the mods were really not visible except for the Virgo?s that I painted body color because they looked pretty rough and discolored. I had IPD sways with poly bushings, Torque and panhard rods, along with the TME Sport Springs and BOGE struts and shocks,new tie rods, ball joints and brakes. Along with a solid stage Zero The exhaust was a IPD cat back kit. Trying to make the best of N/A Power at 6500 ft I built a 6 deg advance cam sprocket, and put in an E-Fan from an S80
I started piecing the Plus-T parts together over the course of a year, doing what I could at my lunch breaks and then having the rest of the kit installed in 1 day. Thanks to Jim (jimjawz). Essentially it was everything from a 87 740 with a Mitsu 13b. We called it the starter turbo and it was on 3 different plus t cars.
This was actually my 1st avatar I pieced together a 740 turbo and 240 emblem.
Time for paint. The cars body was in pretty good shape minus a small dent or two but being silver gray iin the southwest it didn?t rust the paint just fell off. I stripped everything I could off the car except the glass and handles and had it Schiebed . I had them do the hood, trunk and door jams as well as fix a couple of dents.
Here are a few after it was put back together The emblems are new and agiain I cut up a 240DL and 740 turbo emblem to make it look stock.Thanks to Dave Barton for the moose stickers
This was my after painting sig until just recently.
I finally got the side markers wired correctly so they are on with the park lights and blink with the turn signals.
It was time for a new (to me) Turbo I picked up a 13c with a 90 plus manifold from another Tbricker. Ian (Murderface). I also tossed in a T cam.
It was time fro some new tint as 20+ years had taken its toll on the original tint so I went with 15% all around.
I had a custom Euro plate made to match my normal registration tag and mounted it in the stock position. Seems either you like it or you don?t. I have a second plate coming to mount up front. The regular plate is lit with the vehicle lighting. Its been there a year without issues from the Police. I also have the class 3 Volvo hitch. Do I pull anything? Nope, but I left it there because nothing says slow like a trailer hitch.
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