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the build:

before:
(stock)


shot like 27 hours before:



build after wreck 9/5









9/7
bumper and head light pulled off



all the broken plastic from the head light

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the bumper...


remenence of the head light


hood off and heat thing over engine


teh hood


washer fluid holder all f'ed up


save the fogs


pulled fender off


and wheel well aplash guard


the fender


splash guard out and support and all all f'ed

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done for that night...


9/9
i found one on ebay for $100 free shipping w/ no blubs or ballast, which is cool cause all my bulbs survived, including the HID ballast and bulb and everything. the dude i bought the supra from and who has a turboed dark green IS is a parts guy at r&h toyota gave me some prices at his cost.... hood is almost $500 (which is the same as a CF one, so i'll just do the OEM cf one.... (might as well upgrade when replacing **** right?) fender is like $275, and i found it as low as 220 but not sure if i have to pay shipping on that or not.... and bumper was like 225 and a c-west replica front bumper from VIS was $180 so i'm gonna go with that....

9/12
tooks some pics and messed with some things a few nights ago.... i think i can pull it out and hammer it back close to how it was.... but i def need a new upper headlight bracet and upper bumper bracket... hey ambre, what did you use when you said you pulled the frame of the lude?

wrecked side:


pulled the good headlight out to get a better comparison


i want to relocate the horns so if i get a new grill, you won't see them behind it....


they are just dangling now but i'll tap them in to the bumper support tomorrow or something...





9/13
messed with it some and tried to take the upper headlight suppot our, which was a *****....



side view

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ended cutting it off cause the piece was alot bigger than i though.... going to try/ or get somone to pull everything out the best they can and get a new section next week and try to piece it together....




9/14
well i ordered:

and that came in on tuesday... than gotta pull it apart and paint it so it matches the other side i did...

than i also ordered these:
NRG Carbon Fiber Hood pins (got them from p1nk50ck and they also came in on tuesday)


to go on OEM style VIS CF hood


and the VIS tracer front bumper (which is also pictured above)


here are some parts that are in....

old head light, new (used) headlight and cf hoodpins


headlight before painting it to match the passenger side i did earlier


cf hood pins for cf hood


new windshield washer canister since the other one got crushed...

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upper left radiator-fender support and upper bumper/lower headlight support


driverside fender


headlight pulled apart


bezel before paint


relocated horns while pain was drying


supports before primmer


headlights match

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my buddy came over today and started to pull everything out. and than at one point, he stood back and was like hmmmm.... i didn't bring my welder cause i figured it wouldn't of came out that nicely and we would of had to do it at the shop.... so he finished up everything, drilled out the tack welds from the support and knocked and pulled everything out and its looking pretty good. tuesday night he'll weld the supports and all in and we'll fine adjust everything so it lines up nicely

after today

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well nardi came over today, we lined everything up and had like 10 vice grips on everything and the fender lined up perfectly and so did everything else. so he proceeded to drill and clean up everything for welding and he welded the whole support in (my batt was dead while he we did all this so no pics of that).

once the support was welded up, we bolted the fender on to line up the side bracket. we went to mock fit the head light in and it doesn't fit in at all.... the headlight sticks out of the fender braket about 3 inches... looks like i'll be returning this fender to where we got it from and going through lexus to get one that fits... from looking at the wrecked one and the new one, the bracke is way closer to the end than the old one was...

here are the pics of the support welded into place




ran the wires and put just about everything else back to gether....including the tucked away horns



swapped out the crushed washer fluid canister and put the new one in along with the inner fender



the fender on... to bad the headlight brackets are off :rant:

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so i'm just waint for the cf hood and bumper to come in. i'm ordering a new fender monday morning since the brackets are off by like 2 inches. and i'm debating on either re-painting the entire car MSM like it was or something brighter like i want like the GS silver pearl paint...

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thanks man. yea crap happens and it was a learning experience, so atleast its gonna look better than it did... just taking a lil since i'm paying for everything out of pocket

does alpine silver have any tint of gold or tan in it? it was hard to tell from in your sig and the pics

LiCelsior

iTrader: (32)

amazing to see all the work is from you. good luck!

nabbun

great work man! looking great so far

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wow, so i forgot about this site and thread, alot has changed....

here is the rest of the re-build
10/16/08



opened hood first...





and bumper



passenger side headlight in and hood fitted on


fender lined up

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headlights in, new fender on and hood lined up



bumper with stock grill in



first i trimmed the back of the bumper cause it was ugly and it was up against the radiator
before:


after:



test fit on


i had to pull it off a few times and trim the back cause it kept hitting the steel bumper support

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the stock grill doesn't fit so i decide to paint everything you would see black to hide it better, like the radiator support you can see




painted the chrome grill inserts black


painted everything that could possibly be seen black


drilled for the hood pins



10/17/08

i cut the fender in before i hung it

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hung the fender than masked the hood







first couple of coats




10/19