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Well, hell has frozen over, started eyeballing the Cressida again. Pulled the 4 deteriorating car covers, and 5 moving blankets off, and it got a bath. Then the main hoop was carried out, for a trial fit, but won't go past the center console, so that will needed to come, witch I have to pull the auto shifter anyway. The IS300 side skirts got a trial fit. They will need a little trimming, but nothing serious. So the BN side skirts will be sold now. Lastly, Rue's custom seat adapters went in, and marked for drilling, and where the carpeting will need to be trimmed. Does anyone know of a cat repellent that I can spray on the new car cover?

Guess it's about time I do a build thread instead of throwing out bits of my stuff everywhere else. It's not going to be in any fucking order. I will post my currant accomplishments, and fill in once in a while with past doings. Just finished building my X8 clutch master cylinder, 3/4" bore to work with my Coleman coaxial throw-out bearing set-up. Rue enlightened me on the 5/8" bore master being a little on the weak side for dislacement. Trouble is, the run of the mill 3/4" masters here have the wrong reservoir for the X8. I know people cram them in, but I wanted the long angled reservoir that belongs on an X8 (same as the IS300 / Mk4 Supra). So after hours of surfing, I found that the Land Criusers in other parts of the world have the correct style of reservoir mount, and are 3/4" bore. So I found one, that is aluminum, and changed out the plastic from one of my spare IS masters. Had to make a spacer for the front, so that it would mount correctly, and used a 5mm stainless shcs, instead of the roll pin that comes from Toyota.

That is the big unknown. The 100 is cast iron, but some of the later cars, like the GRX have aluminum carriers, but so far they all have a completely different arm design. I'm getting too old to do a complete rear suspension revamp.

Oh Fucking Crap! Just found out that the X-chassis line was finally ended in 2020 😭 What started 53 years ago as the Mark-II upgrade from the Corona, ended with the Mark-X in 2020. Shit, Fuck, Damn it all! The Last X Toyota's Video

If you stumble across one of the newer Toyota rear uprights that are aluminum, that comes close the the X8 style, let me know. I haven't even been looking for several years now. Sure would like to take some weight off the un-sprung weight of the X8 rear suspension.

Well, I may be posting more X-chassis stuff shortly. About given up on the Datsun truck, as it would probably be about a years project to bring back, even though I just located a free-be replacement box. I guy is bugging me to sell it. I told him only without the engine, maybe without the trans. If he doesn't want to pay the price of the wheels, custom radiator, and LSD, I'll just part it out, or park it in the back yard. My Cressida has been sitting way too log, damn it, and I have a lot more work into it than the old truck.

Too late, by posting what I did on AR(idiots)15.com, it is already common knowledge. Been through that before, even on stuff I didn't post design info with. There are a lot of starving small machine shops, and people who will send the info to chinky china to copy. No matter, I did it for myself. Next? Probably try to figure out how to do one in 9mm, or .22 rim fire.

Make an offer... Also have Recaro adapters for these. Available with, or separately.

Real Japanese seat bases. I believe they were made by Bride, for Vanner. Have been in my car forever, but going to non-adjustable for newest seats. Must be used with stock belt mounts (on tunnel side), which is safer, never rely on a slider lock to keep you off the dash if things go wrong. $200 + shipping. E-mail for pictures: duaxmachine at sbcglobal dot net

Oh, and I got may account locked on AR15.com due to not being woke enough, and posting without giving a shit about wokeness. Wish someone would revive my home, JZXP, and maybe add a firearms section...

Newest build (Boom-Boom Stick) AR in .45 acp. Not a weak-ass blow-back action. Not even a direct impingement action. But a Piston Driven action. Had a 45 DI, piss poor POS upper made by a shit-kicker calling himself 'Macon Armory'. Yes, it worked, but because the only way he could get it to work was by putting the gas port right past the case mouth, which led to much gas in shooter's face when firing, and extreme fouling of the action. All the idiots on AR15.com raved over his .45 uppers because they couldn't build one themselves, hell they cant put a normal AR together without fucking it up. I had asked the idiot at Macon Armory (Rudy) before purchasing that piece of shit, if he had ever tried doing a piston system, he said yes, but could never get it to work. Then, after getting fed up with all the other issues with his POS upper I decided to tear the shit upper down, and have a go at a piston build. Contacted Adams Arms, manufacture of one of the 2 leading piston kits for ARs, and asked him if he had any insight on piston driving a pistol caliber carbine. He said it wouldn't work due to the low chamber pressure of a .45 acp round. That round only develops around 20,000 psi, where as a 5.56 is up around 60,000. That made perfect sense, but far from a limiting factor. Adams Arms piston kit: Being an engine guy, and well versed on all things fluid power (hydraulic & pneumatic), the path forward was clear... Want more power out of a NA engine, make it larger. Want a, let's say, a lift have more power, but have limited pressure available, use a larger cylinder. So picked up an Adam's kit, and made a larger piston & cylinder for it. Their kits use a .312" dia piston, so first try was 1/2" diameter. Almost, but not quite. It would try to cycle, but would not pull the spent case all the way out of the chamber. Tried going to the lightest buffer I could do, and a lighter buffer spring, and the case would clear the chamber, but not the locking lugs on the barrel. So back to the drawing board... Original Adams .312" piston & cylinder. .500 piston & cylinder Checked how much clearance there was from the piston, to the barrel, and had enough room to go to a .625" set up. I chose titanium for the cylinder & op rod on both these, to keep from adding weight to the parts that cycle. Let me say, machining titanium is not easy, especially tapping threads on older equipment without high pressure coolant system, or very controlled feeds & feeds that a CNC machine offers. .625" piston set up. Original & pistol caliber End result? It runs like a top! It runs clean, since no combustion gasses are released in side the action. The lower I used on this build was made for running M3 Grease Gun mags, so they are easy to come by, easy to load, and function perfectly. Unlike the POS Macon Armory propitiatory mags, that are only available from Rudy the jack-ass, and nearly impossible to load. Dip-shit's magazines only held 20 rounds, the grease gun mags hold 30, even though they are only 1/2" longer. Now, latest on my X8... Rue, made some custom stainless steel seat rails, so I don't have to use sliders (which are for sale). After I drill the holes, each pair of rails will be connected (welded) with a SS U-channel.

Want an X8, with a sick 2JZ, partially finished, missing parts, questionable workmanship? And it's only $27,000!! Another unfinished X8 on eBay.

And to think I cut up 3 of them...😘

An '89 X8 on eBay: 89 X8 in San Antonio Here in San Antonio. Not mine. Looks unmolested. Way too much money, someone found a deal, and flipping it, trying to make a huge profit...

Starting to smell like sauerkraut around here...

I hate bingo 😒 Any good looking gradmas there?

Holly fuck, didn't know that Allis Chalmers upper arms fit a Toyota... But being tractor parts, I doubt you will ever bend them. Nice seat! Where is the other one?

I remember when I was like 8 years old, going to the state fair, and there being a large lines at the freak shows. Just human nature...

LoL, Wut ? Did the scotch tape fail ?

So, are you being shunned at the Puick get together? You know, I and everyone else would give you more respect if you had put that engine in a '66 Buick Special wagon, or put a hyper 4AG into the X7. But we all make poor choices in life. I once asked a girl to marry me...

Oh, and if you need a tow, I'm only 23 hours away... I charge by the mile,

Hopefully, it won't go up in flames before you get there, so it can take other Puick V6s with it. Honestly, I wish you thee best of luck. You should live stream, just in case.

Make sure you post pictures when you put it on it's roof...

Well, if you say so... To me, it sounds more like a '64 Corvair with a FlowBastard muffler.

Most V6s sound like shit compared to a Toyota in-line 6...