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Now I'm almost a Trueno

3K views 24 replies 11 participants last post by  aaron7  
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Pics below are as of 10 min ago! The hood was put on a few days ago, and sanded down to 800 grit and primered, along with the headlights, trunk, and GT-S spoiler. The rest of the car is soon to follow!

The bumper was a BITCH to install! I had to sawzall the mounts on the car, since the Trueno mounts were longer. Then I had to remove the tow hook bolt and welded in nut in the bumper mount tunnels. Then the wiring. Then the new lights... but after it's all said and done... I LOVE it! Reminds me of an older Porsche or something! The side lights are wired with the blinkers, so they light up where I'm turning like in a newer car!

I forgot that Japanese licence plates are a different size... I'll have to think of something for that!

The first pic is of the old bumper and the short mounts, the second is the cutting in progress, the third is the bumper mount tunnel that needs to be cut out, the 4th is the old lights, and the last 3 are with it on! Still needs a little tweaking, but it's on there!

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Left work early to do some work on it! Just finished now (7pm) and I've been at it since 4. I had to hand sand the entire bumper due to all the curves. Turned out quite well!

It looks bad in the pics, but trust me, it really looks badass in primer!

The last 2 pics are with the lights on, and then with the hazzards on (so I could show both, obviously only one side at a time works with the directionals!)

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#15 ·
Yes. If you look at some newer cars (like my mother's 2003 Ford Windstar), it has headlights on the sides that light up where you are turning... that way you can see where you are going!

Not sure if that was their initial intention, but that's how I wired them. In the pic they are both on because I have the hazzards on to show them working.
 
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Sand and prime the whole thing, put my new rims/tires on (nothing great, 14" Proline mags left over from my MR2 and some Michelin Pilot 195/60 tires), hopefully some GT-S side ground effects... and a new radiator!

I don't want to put much into this as my MR2 is my real project! But I do hope to spray this gloss black before winter. Might not happen though...
 
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you should be the guinea pig for all the other non efi ae92 owners..... i was the 'guinea pig' to first get a 4age running solidly on a 4afe ecu...... i've considered that going with carbs on a 4ag would be quite simple if you started with an already carb'd chasis......
 
#24 ·
nice setup dude, i am going for a full ae101 levin setup. i got a pretty cool guy willing to sell me a complete levin front end so i can perform a conversion but he lives in canada i live in the farthest southern state florida :disappoin . so shipping would murder me