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Mike Beck
Goo Roo
New Zealand
Toyota Soarer 3.0GT & BMW 340i 1UZ

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Reg: 11-2005

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 Thursday, November 20, 2014 - 07:16 am, by:  Mike Beck (Gold_40gt) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Hey lads!

A fantastic week for No.32 - after a 13 year period spent deactivated. I have spent the best part of $3500 NZD on the car to get the suspension operating once again. I had no idea what to expect but it's working beautifully once again.

Of course I can't thank Dave Hart enough for on selling the car to me.

The plan is to just sort out the suspension further, bushes and over haul the valvebody, fit a good set of performance 16" tyres and run a full exhaust, possibly a manual conversion at the end - otherwise just cosmetic restoration to get the original car looking like it did as new.

1720 psi



Active test mode in high position



Roland Elliott
Tinkerer
New South Wales
uzz32 1uz-fe

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Reg: 08-2014

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 Thursday, November 20, 2014 - 07:43 am, by:  Roland Elliott (Aussie2013) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Great work mike, was transport from the uK for the parts very expensive ?
Mike Beck
Goo Roo
New Zealand
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 Thursday, November 20, 2014 - 07:46 am, by:  Mike Beck (Gold_40gt) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Struts in a wooden box took 3-4 days, $550 NZD hah. 62kg.

Worth it though.
Tim Schroeter
Tinkerer
NSW
V8, V8, V8

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 Thursday, November 20, 2014 - 11:21 am, by:  Tim Schroeter (790) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Job well done!
Scott Vim
Goo Roo
Vic
Soarer (1uz) Chaser (1jz)

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 Thursday, November 20, 2014 - 12:58 pm, by:  Scott Vim (1uz1jz) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Can I be made lower?
Mike Beck
Goo Roo
New Zealand
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 Thursday, November 20, 2014 - 01:03 pm, by:  Mike Beck (Gold_40gt) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Yes much lower, but factory height will do. High position is in test mode.
Scott Vim
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Vic
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 Thursday, November 20, 2014 - 02:20 pm, by:  Scott Vim (1uz1jz) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
So can be made lower and still function as it should. Would love to experience this car.
Dave Rose
Goo Roo
wa
UZZ31 / ML320 CDI

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 Thursday, November 20, 2014 - 03:01 pm, by:  Dave Rose (Sand_groper) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
the party trick
http://planetsoarer.com/UZZ32/uzz32active.htm
Tim Schroeter
Tinkerer
NSW
V8, V8, V8

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 Thursday, November 20, 2014 - 09:38 pm, by:  Tim Schroeter (790) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
My God them girls are HOT
Roland Elliott
Tinkerer
New South Wales
uzz32 1uz-fe

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 Friday, November 21, 2014 - 12:10 am, by:  Roland Elliott (Aussie2013) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
I noticed it has the sweet spot spec of 1750 psi , to high or to low in pressure and it locks out and wont work.
Mike Beck
Goo Roo
New Zealand
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 Friday, November 21, 2014 - 05:35 am, by:  Mike Beck (Gold_40gt) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Yeah, I read that so thought I better take the precaution. It was reading slightly out so I dialed it back in.
Andrew Brown
TryHard
NSW
V8 6 Speed Manual

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 Friday, November 21, 2014 - 04:02 pm, by:  Andrew Brown (Crazyassdrummerboy) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
is it gonna have the 4WS as well?
Mike Beck
Goo Roo
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 Friday, November 21, 2014 - 07:09 pm, by:  Mike Beck (Gold_40gt) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Yeah Andrew, that has been working fine since day one :-)
Tim Schroeter
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NSW
V8, V8, V8

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 Saturday, November 22, 2014 - 08:57 am, by:  Tim Schroeter (790) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Interested in how you connected the pressure gauge, any photos of the fittings? Did you get your struts reconditioned or buy extras?
Mike Beck
Goo Roo
New Zealand
UZZ32 No.32 & JZZ31 3.0GT

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 Saturday, November 22, 2014 - 02:19 pm, by:  Mike Beck (Gold_40gt) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Hey Tim.

Yeah I just ran it inline off the main accumulator fitting like this 400 bar rated line and fittings. :-)




My restoration of the car is being documented on this facebook page of mine, plenty of pictures of what I've been doing:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1704783899747828/

I'm currently looking for a second set of struts so I can rebuild those slowly and swap them in and do the same to my current ones, while they are fine it's good to do all this anyway.

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