Brake shoes are literally the dumbest invention ever. Putting them together is ridiculously hard and fiddly. Zero pictures of the progress but after 1.5 hours the car has new brakes shoes. These were definitely original to the car. Getting them separated from the car took WD40 and a hammer. The old caliper pins look like the were in the ocean. Even the ebc pads I installed are looking rough. Braking and the hydro gotta improve.

I tried to do some carbon overlay of a few parts. I’m not confident it’s going to come out great but we will see in the morning.

Hopefully they clean up when dry and trimmed.

I did stuff.

Trunk trim, hung the ps lines, welded the broken seatbelt nut, seam sealed the qp, installed the radio, seperated the mounts from the sun visors and installed them in the roof to fix the corners of the headliner sagging, painted the bottom of the qp’s, and fixed the broken ps plug.

Up next is cleaning and welding the new diff, tint if the weather warms up, brake shoes, change and bleed brake fluid, interior back in minus seats, and refiberglassing the door cards.

The intakes should be delivered in 2 more weeks. I’m very hype about this upgrade. There is dyno info showing the increase in tq and power but more importantly, the sound is amazing. Not crazy about the color but…

Some of the last few items to finish the car. Picked up a 4.27 diff to swap in place of the 4.08 in order to make the car more tandem friendly. The rest of the line and some holders. Also a new drier for the AC system.

Couldn’t help but put the brakes on. Which is dumb because they have to come back off to fit the shoes when they come. But wouldja look at thayat?? Just look at it…

All the parts came in except the new shoes. I’m headed out for the weekend so I won’t be able to assemble everything for a few. Rounding the last few corners.

I broke my shifter bezel trying to polish it. I also broke my fan shroud. These parts have gotten stupid expensive. So instead of replacing them I’m going to do a carbon overlay.

Started with the shroud.

These staples work amazing. Its just hard to know when you’re at the right depth. This plus the epoxy hopefully makes a strong bond.

Shift bezel was a bit easier.

Carbon overlay tonight.

The Supra calipers came. These were on a national backorder and I didn’t expect them for a good while.  The dealership was actually going to cancel my order but the price was so good I asked them to just hold the money till they could fill the order. So when I got a tracking number I was pleasantly surprises and they made it to me in 2 days.  I ordered new shoes, rotors, Motul fluid, and pads that will be here mid week. I’ll trim the dust shields and install then.

I finished spraying the trunk. It didn’t come out as great as I would have liked but I wasn’t going to spend as much time on it as I did the engine bay.

I split some hose to protect the lines entering the trunk. I want to find a way to seal off the extra gap I had to make to fit the AN fittings through but in a way I can still remove them if I need to.

I ran the power line through the firewall with the under dash harness and tucked it under the carpet.

Then routed the ps lines above the subframe.

I also cleaned and undercoat the wheel wells. There was overspray EVERYWHERE.

Drivers side rear quartet was replaced badly. Some of the spot welds broke or were missing all together. The trunk filled with rubber dirt and started to rust. So I sanded, cut out the rust, and started a patch job.

The metal I had on hand was too thick so controlling the heat was a pain. It was either too cold to penetrate the patch panel or blew through the factory sheet metal. Needles to say I’ll be skipping a few photos.

This is where I stopped. I got news my sister was in the hospital at this point so concentration was lacking.  Praying she turns around.