What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend?

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When I swapped the motor, I took out a CSF radiator of unknown age and replaced it with a new OEM from the Toyota dealer. That new Denso started leaking around the bottom crimp after about 500 miles. It happens. The dealer stood behind it and gave me another one which I installed and hope to get more life out of.
New 🆕 em would not be denso, Toyota pulled this on me with my tundra, sold me Toyota p/n but was a denso. Did not have the oem foam and was stamped denso instead
 
Not all OEM rad are plastic. The OEM 93-94 were all brass and can still be purchased. PN# 16400 – 66081. I have this on both of my 93 and my 97 from EMEU.

CSF Radiators is the only manufacturer that still produces all-metal radiators....
Don’t believe so my 94 was plastic and the replaced oem with a othe oem brass and the caps were plastic.
 
New relay block cover for the 96
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I love it! Seems inconsequential but it looks awesome! Did you get it from Toyota?
It is Toyota OEM but I got it from City Racer. I saw it when I was on their site to buy something else.
 
Just picked up my first 80 this week so mostly just played with it and looked for excuses to drive somewhere/anywhere. I've been wanting an 80 for about 10 years but I just couldn't make it work. Finally things worked out and I finally have one. It runs great and has been refreshed mechanically so I am mostly working on cosmetic and nagging stuff. Ordered up a One Stone armrest and Some solvefunction goodies for it. Lots of little things to work on but it doesn't leak at least I won't get in trouble if I leave it parked in the driveway.

First thing was that it actually fit in the garage and I was not expecting that with 315s, the lift and rook rack.
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PO gave me a ton of parts so I swapped out the window molding that was looking pretty bad. Before:
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36.4 - 34.8 = 1.6 divide x 2 = .8" of additional clearance ?
Man nothing gets passed you @Broski 😆
On paper yes.....but I ran the 315s at 42psi and measured the diam of 33.4 from ground to top of tread
Then the 37s at 32psi I measured 35.2.
I Also i measured from the "fender cap" of 1.9" of delta....
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Man nothing gets passed you @Broski 😆
On paper yes.....but I ran the 315s at 42psi and measured the diam of 33.4 from ground to top of tread
Then the 37s at 32psi I measured 35.2.
I Also i measured from the "fender cap" of 1.9" of delta....
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But that's not how you measure ground clearance - that's from the ground to the center of the wheel hub.
 
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But that's now how you measure ground clearance - that's from the ground to the center of the wheel hub.
Thank you.
 
I installed these too with the same impressive results. The sunroof screams open/shut too. But, it got me thinking; will this newfound speed result in faster wear n tear on these old parts window operator mechanical parts?
I haven't even tried the sunroof yet! it's an interesting thought about wear and tear, I would need an eletrical engineer with a lot of knowlege about AC motors to chime in on that.
 
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