Aram's 3SGE Beams Levin Coupe

[Aram]

KD, thanks.

CRA45, so when you look at the picture mine is to far in the box?

[Celica RA45]

yes it is in 2 far into the box

[Aram]

I measured the distance on a standard car, and that was 25mm, mine is 15mm.
Maybe I will have it shortened a bit more.

[Aram]

After contemplating about making a new stainless steel exhaust manifold I decided to remodel the original one.
Purely for financial reasons though, I will probaly make a stainless one later.

So started some work on that:



The battery needed a place to sit, and I decided to relocate it to the trunk.
Found this on the junkyard, it is a batteryholder from a Nissan Almera Tino:



And of course it won't fit, I'm never that lucky.
So...:











...and presto




Few new parts, more is on the way:




Payed a visit to the bling factory:















and the sun was out for the first time this year, so a picture had to be taken.
As she is atm:

[Celica RA45]

on your exhaust go 2and half inch mandrel bend to the back of the car
the secondaries are long on the std rs200 anyway and use 1 big muffler at the back
im using 3inch mandrel but mine is a race car

[Gtsi-R]

fresh and clean..

i like the work off the bling factory!!!

[Conrad]

Looking good

[cannabolic]

so fresh and so clean

[Aram]

Ok, small update.

Few things I'm pretty pleased about.
First is the brake system is finished!
Clutch and throttle were already finished a while ago so all the pedals are working now!

The rear axle was the last part to be made, this is how I made it:



Second thing I am REALLY happy with is the universal joint for the steering, I was pretty worried about this, but luckily the best option was actually realizeable. (if that is a word lol)

Because of the position of the engine the subframe had to be lowered, which also meant the steering rack was lowered, so the original joint was to short.
The original joint consists of two parts (plus the bearings etc), one is shorter than the other, so I got a second joint and a friend of mine connected the two longer parts together and now it fits perfect!:






Than I had some more parts painted, like the prop shaft:





And some other parts which I don't have pictures of yet.


Right, more soon.

[oldskull]

Damn aram what a job! shiny!!!