1986 toyota cressida (upgrade_complete)

I'm back in montana for a bit so.figured why not make a post in here.

aside from the accord which is still in my possession I have also picked up a 1986 toyota cressida to try and learn drifting in.

link to accord build thread

I haven't taken tons of pictures of her yet and haven't made any sort or a logical mod list so sorry for randomness.



not important don't read if you don't care

as the story goes a buddie and I in boose were looking to get into drifting and were sourcing drift cars.

we found a slightly running fc for $700 ran over to get it. met a guy started talking to him about what we were going to do to it, basically explaining how it was goimg to run into things get gutted have a 302 or 350 shoved in it and be beat to hell. well out of the corner of the garage his wife states that it was her first car and doesn't want to sell it to us.

true story.

that night back on the internet we find the x73 as a rolling shell for $300

picked it up and went on the search for engines, I hate the stigma of the 2j so that's out.

found a 7mge on cl with no price listed. called the guy and he said $1000!!!!! We were about to hang up when we told him the.best we.could do was $500 (still a bit mich for a used 7m off cl). the guy said come look at it so we did.

showed up and engine looked new. guy told us it had 150 miles on it, not thousand but 150 oem toyota built. he explained it was in a car given to a highschool in california as an auto class car and it really just never got used, the school sold it to him to put in someones car but they never paid so he was selling it.

while the story seems sketch as hell the engine is clean as hell and the all parts seem oem, even yoda filters.

could still be stolen but whatever they stole it out of was well maimtained.

after dealing with a cluster fuck of a wiring harness which I removed 20 lbs of wires from and a $100 w58 she was on the road.

bag of removed wires



what she sounded like with no exhaust.

https://static.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=https://vid183.photobucket.com/albums/x52/ghetto-thirdworld/20130127_123312.mp4

very happy with the swap.

so mods...

car: 1986 toyota cressida sedan mx73
engine: 7mge
header: paceman? out of a junk yard so not sure
suspension: shitty tokiko blue on cut eibach springs

interior: missing

and here is a video of a friend of mine (also just learning to drift) popping a corded tire for your amusement.

https://static.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=https://vid183.photobucket.com/albums/x52/ghetto-thirdworld/20130216_211646.mp4

sorry for the direct links for the vids I fail at embedding vids from photobucket here, sorry.

I'm pretty sure I saw you from across the street getting into this beast at the Vig this weekend! Looks like it could be fun! Welcome.

yep that was me. it was a little cold to drive her that night sice there is no heater / defog but I brought her down the hill to the vig anyway.

well I took some inside pics and weighed it. she was heavier then I had hoped but what can you do.

weight to the nearest 20lbs was 2780

she has already been on an extreme diet so that is most likely close to the lightest she will ever be.

here are some pictures of her as I weighed her.













please excuse the disgusting wiring and dirty engine bay, it will get cleaned up.

Some wire loom and a little elbow grease and the drift missle will be ready for action!

well it needs more power, more angle, real suspension, and a driver mod, but yeah.

me likey!

Been a little while, and I haven't done a lot but some things, so might as well update.

A bit of wiring cleanup, I also moved the under hood fuse boxes inside.  The final wiring will be done and cleaned up once i get MS and so on.





Where she sleeps.



Stack of drift spares.



Test fitting SAII.





That is really about it, super boring but hey it is an update.

typo: SAIII. sorry buddy  

still likey...

Thank you, and obviously yours is nice too. Someday I'll have to make it to one of the Brewed motorsports locations. It would also be fun to talk tuning with you.

when it come to tuning (tunermt) is the man, I just like to rep the best... support your local tuner shop!

I tune my own stuff but it is always fun to talk with others, and good tuners seem to be few and far between.