Project IBIS.... AKA the bin chicken JZX81

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Anyway, thought i would make a build thread for the car i'm currently working on.

 

Goal of this car is pretty much a fuck around street/drift car.

 

so i purchased this car from Tassie sight unseen after what was described as interior is complete, and damaged repaired, had it shipped over and friend picked it up and the 1st msg I got was "do you know the condition of this car" lol so hopes had been smashed a little.

The car was very cheap even after postage and well people who know JZX81's know there is only a handful in the country so i was ok with it i guess.

As you can see in the pictures just about every panel on the car has issue's, the front rad support is fucked, strut rail passenger side fucked, dash items are all cracked or have holes in them. wires chopped just about everywhere and random shit missing.  holes drilled into floor for battery and fire extinguisher, seats missing, seatbelts missing, just about everything LOL.

 

 

i never had huge plans for this car, was going to turn it into the race car but i already have another JZX81 with weld in cage, tubbed front, etc so returning that one to stock seemed like more work than to just fix this one. so, I started the repair process.

Purchased wreck with brown trim with intention of using rad support and so on.

 

Purchased some seat's

 

and started the process of putting this car back together

 

 

Purchased an Alpine head unit was on sale and double din and only $150 so jumped on it and it’s not like I need features it’s not a daily. Contacted friends and asked what parts they had available and got front bumper, found a spare headlight in my stash of parts and have purchased front indicator's and a RH side headlight to complete all the lights. I have guards although flared i will probably run them.

 

Engine wise it will get just about everything from my "race car JZX81"

 

so HKS built 1JZ, Radiator, intercooler, GT3240 etc. I will post pictures up of it when i finishing putting the pulley kit and DBW swap on it.

 

so overall, i hate the car and don’t mind denting it and so on as it will pretty much be a practice car and getting scrap parts i have had in storage over the years and will be the test mule for the race car.

 

lesson learnt, don’t buy a car sight unseen LOL.

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Lucky for you that most parts from Aussie MX83 will crossover. Couldn't do that in America with all of our crap being on the opposite side and all. 😕

JDM vehicles in America are such an inconvenience. I can't wait to join the club.

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Also hard to see but i have another black JZX81, so a lot of parts spare and it has been a bit of a shock the amount of items i have purchased and have had in storage for a good 10+ years. 

but also agree very lucky to be RHD  

 

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Excited

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So no real update on this, more problem-solving. I was currently trying to work out how I can get 4 point ABS sensors working and retrofitting something. I'm looking into Bosch/Continental Motorsport ABS packages and using the sensors will allow me to take better control using the Emtron KV8 with things like launch control/traction control etc. 

So here is stock X8 upright then X100 (upside down) both seem to be 100% the same and my control arms bolt up to it. just the X100 has the port for the speed sensor. 

Trying to find a driveshaft that will work, this is a mix of JZX81, IS300, IS200 and JZX81 (Yamaha), JZA70 and X83, spoke to the driveshaft shop and it is possible to mix and match ends, but I would want to be close to knowing what will fit, as it will cost a bit each time. I guess I could learn to do it myself, but that is a lot of rebuilding of perfectly fine axles. 

Probably pointless to the rest of you, but maybe someone works in the industry or knows a bit more about CVs etc. 

X100 and IS seem to have this style of bearing 

and X8,A7 have 

measurements of the outer CV 
X8

X9 (assume the same as X100?) 

That is pretty much where I'm at with working this out, with lockdown it is hard as I can't go to the local CV joint workshop and ask for help. 

The Interior is all in, a little issue with what seems the head unit is too large and not allowing me to bolt radio surround. But im going to re-look at this as I also forgot to hook up the reverse wire to allow my reverse camera to work. Yes, I installed a camera because after having it, it is hard to go without lol.

The engine has been wheeled out, to start preparation of getting it ready. Exhaust manifold went off to get EGT bungs welded on, got a Rebuild kit for the wastegate, and the intake manifold is off to get machined down to look neater and a Bosch DBW throttle body adaption. So hopefully once lockdown is over I can go pick these items up and fit them, then it will just be a case of throwing all the bolt on's and a couple of little things like alternation relocation and sensor upgrades. 

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So a bit of progress on this.

Had a local come check it out, worked out a deal to get some fabrication work done. so the front will be repaired (new rad support not tube front) 

in doing so, I picked up an S14 240SX cross member this then lead me to buy a rack, get the new Ciscokids street knuckles. (Essentially Tezuka freedom street knuckles. got with his permission to build) and Started working on LCA Design for another Ciscokids product.  as the whole reason for this car was R&D to offer more products to my customers 

so other than needing caster rods and an upgrade in suspension from the key office to shock works. the front end of this thing will be complete I have everything else.  
 

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Just realized this was a massive Resurrection.  Very nice.

Sometimes I wish I had another X8 for more comfort.  And marginally more safety. HA.

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I think the only creator comfort is power steering and elec windows. I have to say I find the X6 seats more comfortable then the X8. 

but yeah this is a bit of a resection of a car. it is sort of that car i hate enough to thrash it, but like it enough to make it semi-decent and the reason im making it a replica of my old car is to keep people from sooking as 99% of people would not know the real HKS/Tezuka car has become something more suited to me dreams and not the peoples

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o small updates, had Jeff at Motorsport Engineering Services clean up my manifold and set it up for a 70mm Bosch motorsport DBW TB. it involved welding up the old holes and cleaning up the plenum flange to suit the extra diameter. the manifold is currently at the powder coater getting cleaned up, will be good to see how it all turns out. hopefully, in the next couple of months, I will have the engine complete and ready to be fitted.







Car is off to get some fabrication work done at 21Fab, starting off with the fitting rear wide body, so repair huge holes in old wheel tub to boot. clean it all up to allow larger wheel/tire combo's. once this is done the car will come back home while I work out what I will do for the front end. only one company seems to be making Caster rods at the moment and they are junk.

I run bearing front end and not the standard rubber mount. this will result in the binding of some designs. below is just some paint designs quick idea's. so far im going to see how far off AE86 Arms are. As i have a set here and if it only requires me to drill one hole then I might go that route for now.

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Chop Chop

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Purchased shockworks V2's 
Purchased R154 Dogbox. 

 

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No real update, 

been waiting on items to arrive and also designing new shit. 

Custom rear arms are coming along nicely. expensive but nice with a mix of Titanium, good FK bearing Heim's joints, MERICCAAA just awaiting for Chromoly to arrive 
Knuckles are sorted, doing my own LCA V2's. the tension rod is in the air, do I just mod AE86 to fit to get me on the road or do i continue on designing? 

I have to say the size and lack of slop in the FK Hiems vs XM ones. fucking crazy. looking forward to seeing how this whole setup will work. 

still stuck on the rear driveshafts though. 

 

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Slowly progressing. this has been slow more due to the waiting of parts and getting other things sorted. 

first, I had the rear 1/4s fitted some time ago but have not finished off the fitment due to needing my doors, did not have the doors as I was busy moulding them to make lightweight doors for my other project 81. (buildthreadcomingsoon.exe) now that is done I will fit the door's and clean up the 1/4s for perfect fitment. other hold-ups have been in regards to working with Chromoly for my rear arms.

but what i now have is 

my PGS dogbox, stockworks coil overs, my custom 40mm RCAs (prototype in the picture) and a lot of loose ends to fix up. 

rear 1/4 and 30+ mm wider flare 



FPR Door. 


PGS Dog gearset 



Shockworks coils 


and the R&D going into the suspension the arms are probably overkilled, and I will prob not end up selling any but if im putting my name to it, I would rather have it the best quality I can. this does not mean I might not bring out a lesser quality version under another brand. the RCA's had been spot on, but i was stupid for getting the prototypes made in what i wanted the finished product to be in as essentially this will not get used and are pure to test fitment etc. but lesson learnedt. 

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Forgot to add, there is also progress in the 4P ABS Sensor retrofit. 

just waiting for some parts to land and I will trail fit but im pretty confident I have worked it all out using off the shelf Toyota parts. 

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More pictures of the door please.

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What you want pictures of? 

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Was curious on how much of the door was done and how. Sometimes the outer skin is frp but not the whole door.

Very cool.

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I like how one of the facebook threads you were in recently turned in to a shitshow.  Like do you even own a JZX bro?  How dare you try to tell some one what ebrake setups are good and what are shit.

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On 5/27/2021 at 11:23 AM, N.O. Drifter said:

Was curious on how much of the door was done and how. Sometimes the outer skin is frp but not the whole door.

Very cool.

i was going to do the whole internal side to start with allowing for window to be added, but then thought anyone going composite doors is not going to be going normal windows, 
the reason I did it this way was I'm just going to mirror tint where the window would be and leave it at that. but some people would like to put clear lexan/polycarb and this way they could trim the window and use it as a frame to rivit on the lexan/polycarb. 

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On 5/27/2021 at 12:38 PM, bigtoepfer said:

I like how one of the facebook threads you were in recently turned in to a shitshow.  Like do you even own a JZX bro?  How dare you try to tell some one what ebrake setups are good and what are shit.

HAHA, The one where the guy asks, read my other posts (cheapest upgrade possible with no adapters) then asks about dual calliper. 

always happens though, like the guy on that thread. i have the setup its great..... then everyone starts writing about pad issues then he chimes in i have pad issues to. its like MAN you just told everyone they are great and now your telling everyone you had issues and replaced a key item. 

i did BS a bit in the thread though, and posted pictures of cars in there prime not current state   lol

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 So the MX32 slowed down as I got carried away with the development of X8 parts. its been a great learning curve and I have enjoyed it

so i had the whole front end drawn up this is my cut-and-shut extended LCA, a stock caster with shockworks stub axle and an adjustable knuckle im developing. as you see have measured the hub, added a disc and wheel so we can measure the angle and adjustment




I decided to start developing an adjustable "pro" style LCA and the bolt-off in the distance is the stock caster location, this will be a step up from my cut-and-shut LCA.

the cut and shut

the "pro"


the greatest learning was doing the stub axle and seeing the steering point location, it turned out the stub axle to the mounting of the knuckle was off-centre, meaning what I thought was positive akerman turned out to be zero akerman etc. so now I can cater for this in design and so on. and a picture of the adjustable knuckle im working on.




camber plate, I plan on adding some castor adjustment to it from the top. 


bushes for the rear upright, two different types for both locations,




I have also drawn up, a rear brake upgrade that has been available for some time, but just cleaned up the design, a second calliper mount for the hydro drifters. diff and subframe bushes, however, I want to make some changes to the diff bushes. rear arms not including the top arm are done. going to do the caster mounts to offer an upgrade. so once the MX32 is complete it should just be a case of getting a lot of these things made and bolting it up. 

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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.

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What one, i will find one if know what Toyota it is from 

JZX100 is pretty much identical but has an ABS/Speed sensor mount. I currently have them set up in my rear end. 

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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.

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I plan on doing a rear arm design, but only simply due to the fact JZX100's have the same fitment, 

a long the lines of a drop knuckle in the drifter world.