My PFL Soon to be 2zz project

[colinj87]

Hi all, I thought I would start a build thread for my Mr2 project, having been a long time lurker on here.

I recently purchased this after a boring afternoon at work I was looking at cars on eBay and saw this car, the car had a loud bottom end knock. So I put a silly low bid in on the car and to my surprise, I won the auction. So after a telling off from the other half, I got a friend to trailer it to my house and began formulating a plan.
Whilst working with a friend one evening he mentioned how he was going to scrap his celica when it came round to MOT time as the bodywork needs a lot of attention and he had a new car lined up. Turns out it is a 190 2zz powered celica, running lpg kit and some generic mods. So he is handing the car to me in the next week or so and I will extract everything I need and sell the rest of the bits, giving him a cut of the parts.

I am going to aim to either replace or refurb everything that needs attention, it has been sat for a fair few months, so needs a good clean, bushes checking, brakes are shot and the roof has a tear in it.

Plans for the car to have a weekend and track car, so I am aiming to increase performance as much as possible whilst keeping the budget in check.

To do is:

2zz Swap, move lsd over and custom inlet/exhaust
Suspension refurb, currently I am planning to replace all bushes with polybushes, hopefully coilovers at some point
Full brake change including discs, pads and hoses
General clean and tidy of everything, including dealing with a couple of tiny surface rust spots that are starting to build up.
Then hopefully MOT and get it back on the road!!

Here is the car in question:



I then pulled the engine, gave the engine bay a good scrub:





Suspension has also been removed, for a refurb:



Today I spent a couple of hours tidying up the bottom arms. Before:



After being stripped back to metal:



Comparison:



In primer:



Hopefully things should progress pretty quick now!!

[jvanzyl]

Nice project! I've fully poly bushed my car and it's great.

[mikek]

Looking good. You won't regret the swap. One of my next jobs is to polybush and repaint suspension arms so your thread is motivating me to get on with it!

[Ardent]

Now thats what I call a first post

HYell and welcome