Ksnew's Fd3s build

[ksneww]

lol i'm working on it brett. and thanks, it's getting there slowly.

wanted to work on the car, but the weather didn't really let me work on anything, so I cut my dash and started to get ready to mount my guage pod.




still have to do some minor trimming here and there, but overall I really, really like it.

[sleepyS14se]

lookin good man!

keep up the good work.

[conrad_s13.5]

who needs passengers anyway,. you should put all 4 of those gauges above the glovebox
....digg the progress

[ksneww]

Originally Posted by conrad_s13.5

who needs passengers anyway,. you should put all 4 of those gauges above the glovebox
....digg the progress

lol i'm keeping the gauges on the top of the dash where they are. they're my important ones. the other three gauges aren't going to be as important, just good to know kinda thing so it's ok if they're out of my line of sight while driving.

mounted the gauge pod tonight. still have to do some trimming behind the dash before I can finish it and mount all the gauges.

[sleepyS14se]

hurry up lol

[Bumpkin203]

Get that thing running man, really want to see a clip of this thing. Keep it up dude!

[sleepyS14se]

kyle someone (maybe myself) needs to put some fire under your ass to get this thing running!!! lol jk man just pumped to see it run!

I know your doing all you can man... This weather the past few days has been so cold i can hardly do anything.

[ksneww]

eh, I'm pretty much at a stand still until my pistons are done getting cut. I called Mr. Sam today and they haven't made it to my stuff yet. So really It's just a waiting game right now.

[ksneww]

Made some progress on the motor, but nothing really wroth going into depth about. on another note, got my 945Garage head light buckets today!

[ksneww]

Still waiting on the thicker head gaskets to come in... In the mean time, I've been passing time by playing with my 945 garage headlight buckets. I made a couple alterations to them. I like it, I think I'm going to roll with it. It's something a little different from what you usually see.

[Twat]

God that FD is sick!

[ksneww]

Thanks man. I'm debating what color I want to paint it again lol. Can't decide between black, or a dark metallic green.

[Twat]

I've seen this metallic green Supra around my house so I'd say green, but then again, you can never go wrong with black.

[ehhhregartless]

Looks inspired by R-Magic. What optics do you plan on using?

[ksneww]

lol I was trying to do something different from rmajic actually. they're 945garage buckets I added onto. Personally I don't think they look anything alike, but I guess there's only so much you can do with that style bucket. I bought 40w 4.000 lumen led's to put behind them.

Got the car out in the driveway and snapped a couple pics.. lowered it a little more too.

[ksneww]

Ordered a few more parts for the car today. Messed with the head light buckets a little more today too. they're almost ready for paint. just need to peel the plastidip off and fix a couple spots where it's low.

[sleepyS14se]

looking good man,

whats the status on the engine ?

[ksneww]

It's more or less good to go. just need to do a couple small things like bolt the heads on, and the oil pick up tube and the oil pan... and all of the accessories

[sleepyS14se]

I was in wr yesterday. Then again idk where you live lol, I was gonna come by and check it out

[ksneww]

lol it's not worth checking out right now, trust me.


Diff brace came in yesterday. Got my coilovers in today. pretty happy with everything overall. Can't wait to get the new coilovers on the car.


I've been under the hood of the poopra the last couple days as well. I think it's finally running right

[ksneww]

put my tie rod spacers on this evening and lowered the car in the front since I got new coilovers and will have to play with them anyways to get the fitment I want when I get the motor back in it.

[sleepyS14se]

what is this supra you are referring to...

[ksneww]

it was going to be my dd but i sold it lol.

been off of here for a while. here are some recent pics of things that have happened.



Still havent actually mounted the headlight buckets, they're just kinda propped up in place, that's why they're not gaped right.

[510erv]

Car is looking dope

[ksneww]

Thanks man!

Decided to make my other gauge pod less ghetto. Still haven't finished it, but here's the progress so far.
First I used expandable foam and shaped it back to the contour of the dash. Then I used spray adhesive and put a piece of fleece down to start the base of the gauge pod.

Then cut off the excess.

Applied resin

started shaping it once dried

cut out the shape of the gauge pod, and fiberglassed it in.

Just been shaping it the past day or so, hopefully I'll get it finished on my day off. then time to wrap it, or paint it, still haven't decided which to do.

[conrad_s13.5]

looks damn good man,. if i had the patience to try my hand at that,. id prolly redo every bit of my car...lol

should wrap it with something close to the factory dash-like material

[ksneww]

Thanks man, it's getting where I want it to be, slowly but surely.

[ksneww]

Back from the dead. here's some update pictures. enjoy.

Pretty much sums up every day I try to work on the car.

got the motor back from the machine shop, assembled it the rest of the way and threw it in the car.

started actually mounting the headlight covers. Still need to finish prepping them for paint.


and this is how it sits as of today. Got the headers in, which was kind of a pain in the ass. Had to drop the subframe to get the headers to go in place. Just need to do a bunch of little stuff now and it'll be ready for a tune.

[ksneww]

well, harness is plugged in, ready to go, drained the old gas, double checked the pin out from where I re-pinned the harness, and plugged in the pcm. as long as all goes as planned, I should be starting this turd up for the first time in nearly two years!

[ksuberk54]

Looks great man!