1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

How many trucks have you built to get the breadth and tidbits of knowledge across the years and models ... like this detail?

 

Welcome

 

It was $50 for the day. 16 runs. I’m happy with that

 

Damn that's way cheaper than I would have thought it would be

 

Cheaper if I had a Miata or was part of their club. But not bad

 

It was $50 at san antonio speedway, And houston raceway park. But we never got 16 runs. Way cheaper than MSR. That looked mo betta than a parking lot full of cones.

 

I have that grille I picked up recently, and did a deep-dive after I had it in-hand to figure out the history. Part of that was looking up why some versions have 2" legs, and others have 1" legs, and a good side-by-side to show that leg-height difference is here.

I think a lot of that info I dug up got posted in a group PM chain here on the forum. Long and short of it, IIRC, FMS (Foam Molders & Specialties) manufactured these for Toyota on contract. FMS makes a lot of aftermarket plastics/mouldigs for OEMs, not just Toyota, and some for aftermarket sale. I wasn't able to figure out whether or not Toyota specifically had FMS automotive knock these out initially for Waltrip models as a bit of a signature (similar to what they did with the Ivan Stewart grilles), but I did find where this Waltrip-specific grille was offered were offered as an option in parts catalogs while the truck was actively in-prod.

 

Sounds like someone isn't familiar with the hand man

 

Lets hear about the legend of the hand man.

 

He ded

 

https://youtu.be/dXI43zGeyu4?si=4vYlRS4DNPCnvakp

 

Yeah I've done deep dive research to finger things out too for best solutions on a variety of things like the CV hose clamp wormhole I think we both went through!

Recall now your grille work previously.

Glad for this forum of collective knowledge and experience.

 

@shifty` saw you painted that grille but didn't see if you ever decided to install it or sell it? How's it look?

 

He's hunting down 1/4" expanded gold for grill material.

 

Found some

 

This setup killed it. We were in and out in under two hours and we even came home with some sweet sweet LSD action.

 

Trip out!

 

https://youtu.be/8fijggq5R6w?si=Fmlsqtkm3C_fTl6m

 

Hey man, I for one am super stoked you’re here (/nohomo). I know you’ve got a breadth of experience to share, and there’s no such thing as “too much” of that. The golden age of any forum is when you can have friendly discussion from a wide variety of people that come with collective experience to share, it can’t be beat. To that point, part of the reason we decided to build the Megathread is just that: One-stop shop to avoid reinventing the wheel (/research), and I should probably dump more clamp info in there. May save the next guy some digging.

It sounds like you’ve had way more projects than me overall in the Toyota world, I’m still relatively new to the brand, if you consider the decades I spent in the GM world prior to my 1st Toyota. Your input is one I’ve enjoyed a lot lately, it’s refreshing to see. Look forward to you sticking around!

Still working on it. Got the holes filled (hur hur) before dragging the kids overseas to kick off summer break so it had ample time to harden, got them flush, but I still need to scuff sand, skim on some filler in a couple spots, prime, and shoot. I just haven’t had time. I’m making a point of spending several hours a day with the kids and probably won’t get back to working on the truck until they’re back in school. But you never know, maybe I’ll get it done sooner. Right now I’ve got the in-laws visiting, and my parents are coming for a week soon, so im pretty damn stagnant.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hdKE5Lt3zLU

 

Just boarded a plane bound for England. A week of meetings outside of London, Newcastle and Leeds. Won’t see much of London as the venue is an hour west and we’re staying on site. Oh well, I’ll get to see the English country side and find a little pub to watch some futbol.

 

An hour west of London are tourist meccas like Slough and Reading

Windsor Castle is nearby...

 

How about Basingstoke

 

I fell asleep on the train once and ended up in Basingstoke

 

fukkk I miss my roadster
It was a shit box....and I treated it as such.....

 

lots of those out there. LOL thef astest car of the day was a camaro v6 swapped nb.

i was like middle of the pack. needs more front camber and some more RPMs. my tall gears kill my corner exits in 2nd. but i need another 800 rpm to stay in first

 

Any oversteer issues? Snap oversteer?

 

it needs a engine it the normal place LOL

 

under steer actually. ive got alot of geometry correction stuff to elimiate bump steer. but i need more front camber. not using most of the front tire.

out of the 4 mr2s there i was the only one that DIDNT spin. and the 2nd fastest of us.