Ryan's TE31

Skellington · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2013 6:03 pm

Car is running well now. i figured out the vacuum lines (I hope). Now I just need to get it past CA smog. Check it out:

http://s707.beta.photobucket.com/user/t ... 1.mp4.html

Skellington · **Posted:** Sun Mar 17, 2013 12:20 pm

Finally worked on the car again.
I stripped the tires off my rims and bead blasted them.
After tires removed:

Nice and dusty:

I weighed them and compared to a 13" steel wheel. The MA61's are 1 lb heavier. Steel was 15.5 and mag was 16.5, but the mags gain 2 inches in width and an in added in circumference.

I plan to paint the insides black and polish the face / lip.

Skellington · **Posted:** Fri May 24, 2013 10:53 am

My slow progress:

2cam16 · **Posted:** Fri May 24, 2013 10:56 am

Darn nice of a paint job for those wheels! I don't think I'd go that detailed into it. :tu:

Skellington · **Posted:** Fri May 24, 2013 12:20 pm

Thanks. After I get the other two done, ill polish the metal parts so they will match the chrome caps.

Sgt Apone · **Posted:** Sun May 26, 2013 10:12 am

What kind of paint did you use for the grill and the wheels?

Skellington · **Posted:** Sun May 26, 2013 6:30 pm

Sgt Apone wrote:

What kind of paint did you use for the grill and the wheels?

For the grill, i used an aresol can of plastic paint (forget brand). I first pressure washed the grill, then took some fine sand paper to it, so the paint had something to stick to. After painting about 3 good coats I put the polished metal bits back on. Its been over a year and it looks great.

The ma61 wheels were sand blasted, pressure washed, wiped down with mineral spirits, and primed with an aresol sealer type primer -rustolium , then painted over with cheap automotive gloss black aresol -duplicolor. The rim will be painted again with a clear.

Painting - Its all in the prep.

Camshaft · **Posted:** Mon May 27, 2013 3:32 pm

Those wheels look great! Probably the nicest set of Supra wheels I've seen in a while.

Skellington · **Posted:** Tue May 28, 2013 6:18 pm

I have been getting some work done. All 4 wheels are painted and cleared. I ended up putting a clear on them. it added a glossy appearance, but im ok with it. Here they are complete:

I am able to get the car in the garage to work on it now, so thats a plus. I mocked up the rims on the car. Rear will fit PERFECT. I am going for a filled out wheel well and the rear cant get any better than this:

The front are close. They stick out less than an inch out of the front gaurd. These are 7.5" wide wheels, and I will run a 185-60-r14 Falken Ziex ZE-512. I should have a little stretch going on so they might tuck in nicely.

There she sits until i beat the dreaded California SMOG!

Camshaft · **Posted:** Wed May 29, 2013 12:01 pm

I like where this is going.

FishEye · **Posted:** Tue Jun 04, 2013 7:07 pm

Dude nice project... Very inspiring to my current project... Do you plan on lowering it? If sow how are you going to do it?

Hachigo87 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:41 pm

Just reread through this whole thread again and realized I posted half way through commenting on my '79. Unfortunately it was a total rust bucket and I sold it to a friend who desperately needed some cheap transportation. It's currently still around and hopefully one of us will be trying to save it here, worst case scenario it'll end up back in my hands.

Good to know the 14x7 Supra wheels fit as well as they do, I'll have to keep that in mind should mine ever end up back in my possession. Good luck with SMOG, luckily we only have a visual emissions here in my county, gutted cats pass with flying colors!

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