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Thanks black. I think the switches make more sense in the grand scheme of the entire interior as a whole. I thought about dialing back the look of the interior with some more subtle switches, but the current covered switches make a huge presence in the interior when you see it in person, and are...

I installed my new lift in the garage for my week long holiday break. I have lots of bolt checking and buttoning things up i would like to get finished with the time off of work. (bad joke) Lifting the rear up high enough first, before the front, was a hairy adventure. -Mike

Thanks Justen. I haven't posted any real updates in almost 2 months now, but i have been busy completing lots of small projects for the car. I have kind of made it my mission to get the entire interior sorted out and hopefully finished to the level I have always wanted while i wait for more...

Thanks man. The car life is certainly something else. :) It's been about a month since i have added any updates, but i have been tinkering on the car here and there. I have all the details coming soon, but I have repaired and reshaped all the seat foams on my Recaro LS seats, and have received...

As i have been wrapping up certain parts of the build on this car, i have been noticing a few issues here and there that i would like to address, and also a few cool projects I wanted to try out. With the covers for my Recaro seats nearly done and almost on my way, I have been focusing on the...

Thanks guys. Just finished a few small projects around the inside of the car, including a resto on the glove box door. (It's the small details that matter, right?) Some of the details are obvious, but it will take some of the nerdier 'yota die-hards to figure out the others...

This may seem kinda weird (structure wise) since i copied it over from my main CS page: I scored a really great set of Recaro LS-B's in the "Trophy" Jetta scheme from my local craigslist. While the upper bolster covers are in "good" shape for their age, the lower bolsters and bolster foams...

I have some more cool, small projects i'm just finishing up. Hopefully I can get around to posting them over the weekend. I just moved into a new place (again), so i haven't been tinkering on the car so much. Here is a decent side shot from my last photo shoot that really shows the new stance...

Thanks you guys for the kind words. Cribbj, its been alot of really hard work that I feel like is just starting to finally come together to the finish line. As I said, there have been plenty of times I wanted to just consolidate the project and parts, sell everything, and just spend time and...

Thanks Justen. I hate to see you looking to get rid of your car, but understand. There have been a few times with my car that I really wanted to get rid of it, because it was feeling more like a "job" than I didn't want to do than a hobby I am supposed to enjoy. A few friends on the Supra forums...

Dang, I was tempted to pull the main shaft from the body and check it out but thought "I'm sure there is nothing i can improve in there." :) How would you rate the steering sensitivity with that section welded? I know before with just looped lines and some fluid, I could feel alot more of...

Thanks Justin. I'm lucky that my steering u-joint is in great shape, but I still have a little flex in the system that I can feel at the wheel. Its no worse than any other car that i have driven with manual steering, but I would love to tighten it up some more. Do you have any pictures of what...

I had a bit of time to tackle something I have been wanting to do for some time with my steering rack. Since the motor is out for some last finishing details, I wanted to address how "de-powered" I made my power-steering rack before I put the engine back in and make it difficult to access...

I have been slowly working on restoring my shabby tail lights over the past few months. Dedicating some time here and there, I have been repairing some very badly cracked and completely broken sections on the exterior black trim. Since this trim is known to be difficult to find in mint condition...

Sorry things have been slow to update everyone. I haven't been working on the car as much lately, staying plenty busy with other things. I can finally cross off "fixing my daily driver WRX so I can sell it" from my to do list, since I just bought this to replace it: Hopefully no VW hate! -Mike

The engine is just about 100% sorted, and ready to drop back in for the last time. I am still waiting on some "overnight parts from Japan" that have been enroute now for over a month, so hopefully they might show up sometime this year. I will post a big update once I have more progress to show...

I thought I would give a mini update on what I've been up to while I wait for more parts to be finished. I sent all my exhaust pieces out some time ago, and finally got them all back from the ceramic coaters. They did a very, very nice job, certainly worth the wait. Hopefully with the pipes...

I am still chipping away at the last odds and ends to finish the swap. It would help if I didn't constantly find new small projects to design and fabricate! PeeWee's MA61/UZ style mounts work just fine, but I decided to design and make mounts with alot less compliance for the high torque V8...

Thank Cribbj, The cooling confusion is something I realized after looking at other builds, but unfortunately it was only after building my radiator pipes. I have tricked myself into believing that it will still work in this orientation on a few occasions, but I am worried about it. Redoing the...

This weekend I had a chance to finish a couple last details on the transmission. I had a shifter housing from a MKIII Supra W58 trans, but I needed to swap out the internal shifter "socket" that goes with it to the new shifter position. The transmission as it stood, with the MKIII style...