94 JDM Turbo Hardtop

Is that the 1997 one? One of The later jdm's in the country, looks awesome.

Dudeman
Is that the 1997 one? One of The later jdm's in the country, looks awesome.

No it's a 94, which I was after as well because I wanted the update model but wanted one before they had all the air bags.

MR2QIK
Nice buy! Saw it on carsales for a while & it's prolly one of the lowest mileage best original condition gen3 turbos in the country. Congrats.

Thanks MR2QIK

Yeah I had not seen any others that ticked all the boxes I wanted like this one did and the previous owner was the first owner since it was imported and he had every receipt for every service since he bought it.

I'm really enjoying the car :)

Very very nice. I really like the hardtops. Just that bit cleaner in style and lighter too. Congrats on the purchase.  You mention a heater hose failure during the trip from Qld. Im keen to know which one.? And where?  Thanks. Hope you continue to enjoy your car. Cheers.

Any other plans for it? Maybe 17's, suspension & bolt on engine mods
 
Btw, if you're ever in Sydney for the monthly meet, it'd be really nice to see this in person.

MR2QIK
Any other plans for it? Maybe 17's, suspension & bolt on engine mods
 
Btw, if you're ever in Sydney for the monthly meet, it'd be really nice to see this in person.

Yeah I have a few plans, will slowly do a few mods, I am planning to change the wheels as soon as it is due for tyres I am thinking of possibly going for 18's got a couple of rims in mind that I am trying to decide between.
I have also been planning what I want to do tuning wise, I would like to upgrade the turbo, go to a WTA cooler and look at getting haltech engine management so I can get it remapped and take advantage of any engine upgrades.

So I had a little bit of scrubbing on the rear tyres when I hit bigger bumps or cornered hard and with future plans of fitting up a set of BC coilovers that I purchased and with plans to fit bigger rims later down the track I decided to get my guards rolled. I contacted Nelson from Sydney guard rolling and he fit me in on a Sunday to roll all four guards and I was quite happy with the job he did, the only hiccup is he found it was missing one bolt from the rear left trim strip and it is now sitting out a slight fraction just at the edge of the guard so I'm now just chasing up a new bolt for that.
 
Once my guards were rolled I was very keen to fit up my new coilovers and set up the car on stands and got to work.
 
 

 
Spent a few hours installing the BC's everything mostly went ok, the only issues I had were a couple of the sway bar link nuts that were seized and stripped out the alan key holes trying to get them undone.
once I had them all installed I set up the heights and then initially set up the shocks to front 10 clicks and rear 16 clicks which I had read someone else on the forum with BC's had set theirs to, but after driving it for a couple of days I felt the shocks were set slightly to soft and were not quite controlling the rebound enough so I have since adjusted them again to 15 clicks front and 21 clicks on the rear and so far I am happier with the feel of them on the road now.