A Build from where most cars aren't cool. 1JZ Cefiro.

[towlie]

Man I love ceffy's. Congrats on the feature

[I<3-SR20DET]

SO much more fun now, sorry about the shitty blackberry picture. I know,... blackberry?

[I<3-SR20DET]

Small update:
I've been enjoying the car as usual, such a great daily minus the fuel efficiency. Regardless I drive it everywhere all the time.
I went over to Renee at Centerline motorsports and got him to tig together a small box with some bungs on it for a sealed catch can. The bay looks far better now.
A few stupid expensive aeroquip fittings/hose to match the rest and I was on my way.




Closer picture.


Went to the local cool VW dudes meet (same shop my friend is building his datsun at which is all over the internet, you may have seen it) They are good at lots of stuff but their cars dont like to do that cool of burnouts so i was put up to the plate.
First in Ben's starlet.

The look on my face wondering where the power is.

Then the Cefiro of course, second gear is mandatory, burnout.


Since the diff I have gone playing in "closed course situations" and the car is SO fun to slide, so predictable, soooooo FAST, its crazy how hard it pulls in drift. This has led me to start prep for a track day in a week and change from now. Im very excited, its been a minute. There should be ALOT of cool coverage posted up here from the day. *crossing fingers* that the car stays awesomely reliable until and past that day. I dont know if I'm more excited to drift the car or see pictures and video of how it looks drifting? haha
Also, I update/will be updating my instagram with alot more versitile car stuff not just the cefiro, follow me @kirb_ztomp

Thanks for reading!

[kriss]

awesome pic man

[Armin]

Originally Posted by I<3-SR20DET

SO much more fun now, sorry about the shitty blackberry picture. I know,... blackberry?

blackberrys are the shit, but after getting the iphone5 i cant go back. and amazing car bro.

[TheZ31Guy]

You mean, you're on of those guys?

Crapple, really?
Yuck.

But this car is awesome!

[SaNTi]

Smoke Machine Yeoooooooooo!

I can't embed shit to save Liams life so someone else do it. Fack!

Cefiro Smokes! - YouTube

[yomisiu]

[I<3-SR20DET]

So I took the car out to shannonville this weekend and had a blast.
The motor didnt blow up, I didn't smash my kit.
I got to hang out with all of my good friends and even drive with some of them!
I am really pleased with how the car performed all day, the torque of the 1J being right there when I wanted it made it super predictable and easy to drive. I couldn't believe how Properly the car drove at this height, even full of people, No tire rubbing anywhere no anything.



Took friends for a ride, drifting with a car full of people is a paarty. Oliver decided to sip his coffee on the last corner. While we had good conversation while drifting.


Drove with Mathieu. I couldn't really keep up to his real drift car L O L.


My motivation is at an all time high, I had the pleasure of borrowing Ben's drivers side bride and i have to say, sitting low in this car is SO AWESOME. I cant wait to stockpile tires over winter, do some knuckles and suspension r&d and have an even better time next year.

[CamryOnBronze]

Awesome! Car full of people sliding around is hilarious, lol.

[turbo2nr]

^ awesome burn out!

[AirForces]

Drift-taxi in full effect. Best day in a long time!

[I<3-SR20DET]

Some snaps from automotophoto. Thanks Ben! Sorry about Hurt driftspares.












A few clips in here to make your ears 1jz happy.
[BPFilm] TOPP Drift Oct. 6, 2012 - SEASON FINALE HIGHLIGHTS [HQ] - YouTube

[driftwhat]

Looks good man, some nice work nd progress has een done since last time checking your build. Keep it up!

[sharpe_corners]

updaates opallll

[Big Zee]

love the burnout vid!!
Pure top dollar Awesomeness!!!!!!!!1

[JOshua a]

Awesome build thread man, I love the 4door drift car look.

[pjurisprudencia]

:O I'm in love

[Extreme Dimensions]

Just went through this whole entire thread on my lunch hah amazing job on the build! Never seen a car like this actually built! nice job!

[Oakville]

I just read the entire thing as well...Pretty cool to see the old Union guys still doing it right.

Who did your visor decal? and is it transparent?

[Dylan22]

Wicked car. Hard to beat the sound of a 1J, props on showing Zilvia that Ontario has some cool builds

[iStubz]

keepin in original man i like it!

[I<3-SR20DET]

Originally Posted by Oakville

I just read the entire thing as well...Pretty cool to see the old Union guys still doing it right.

Who did your visor decal? and is it transparent?

All of my vinyl is from a friend locally, goes by ' Martino ' on here.

Originally Posted by Dylan22

Wicked car. Hard to beat the sound of a 1J, props on showing Zilvia that Ontario has some cool builds

Originally Posted by iStubz

keepin in original man i like it!

Thanks !

It's been a long winter here in Ontario, Canada.
I had a very nice winter full of stuff that does not have to do with cars.
I focused on getting licensing, tools and experience for my career which I enjoy every single day, also got to spend a lot of time with friends and my girlfriend.
Spring is now peeking around the corner and my motivation has never been greater to work on this thing. I actually started to miss working on my car? haha

A quick recap, perhaps?

Before winter I started off with giving the whole car an aero off clean.

Bumpin' into Jesse.

I bought a big 5 lug knuckled arrangement of parts and ended up with a full set of 30MM Iron Laurel brakes, same as JDM S14.
I cleaned them up hit them with some black high temp paint, then purchased some Stoptech sport powerslot rotors and hawk HP-Plus pads from a local dealer here VHC Performance along with Braided coated lines of course.


I came across a very nice night and took the car to get pho one evening. I was a big fan of no rear bumper, my ricer ambitions like stuff like that I guess.


After all of that I found a big chip in one of the fins of my turbos compressor wheel, also the engine always had a very light piston slap knock when it was cold, my OCD wouldn't allow it any longer so out came the motor.


Pulled off the trans,




Thanks to Peter, Mike, Andy and Oliver for giving me a hand pulling the motor out in the cold.!

So I was left with this mess. I really want to tidy up a lot of the junk in the engine bay, I have a few ideas I plan to implement to make this a reality.


Now I was left with a rolling chassis, an engine in a bunch of pieces and a small house with an even smaller garage. I had to make this work, so I did.
Simple answer to this, bring it into the house of course!


I began to leisurely break down the head.

I love Toyota for e-torx on the end of most studs.




Now that was done I took a break to kill this.


Now that that's dead I went over to my friend Jesse's fathers shop where I hot cleaned the head and the block. Thanks Jesse !


Funny thing, right after putting TLC into my 1JZ bottom end, I logged onto supraforums for the first time and stumbled upon a brand new in box never opened 2JZ-GTE bottom end for sale locally. I sent off a PM and went to pick it up a few days later.
I opted for this because the price of 1jz internals are stupid expensive and a 1jz bottom end rebuild would cost more than this 500cc upgrade.




Christmas came around, awesome Girlfriend is awesome pulling through with a little something for the Cefiro... The best gift I have ever received.!


About a month later was my birthday, my girlfriend being the best surprised me with this cake!


Some point during the deep freeze I took a trip to Centerline motorsports and had bungs welded onto my oil block kit to delete spinny fittings with o-rings that drove me crazy and sweat oil everywhere. Threw one on the VC too.


Quick teaser Peter sent me of my Modified Feature that should be on shelves mid to late april!


Started assessing the 1JZ head and found a large bottleneck on both intake and exhaust sides so out came the carbide bits and sanding drums. This was a cool experience because I had never done this before but always wanted to. I just did basic blending getting rid of bottlenecks, casting slag and knife edging the dividing area.




Also I found a gross lip where two castings mated on the fuel rail part that is clamped between the intake manifold and the head. I sorted it out for less turbulence and more velocity.


I felt like the car needed something to make it pop while it creeped around at night.
8 strobes, 2 controllers should do the job.


Now we are pretty much up to snuff on where we sit.

Yesterday was a very nice day, so I decided it was time to do something about this disfunctional car.
I sent off an order to Driftmotion to supply me with stuff to bolt my engine together and then went out and tinkered with the car.
First I decided to drop the diff and driveshaft. Yet another problem with the driveshaft, the rear u-joint has a lot of play in it after only one summer of fun, this will be my fourth driveshaft, is it so hard to do it right Pat's Driveline?


I pulled the welded core out of the S13 R200 4.1 I had put in my temporarily for a quick welded fix to go drifting last year. Then I installed the welded core into my 4.33 Cefiro r200. It was such a good feeling completing that, not just to have better gearing, but the Cefiro's JDM diff is in SUCH better condition than the rusty salt abused Canadian diff. Good day for my OCD. Also, capped it off with an automatic cover for extra fluid and cooling fins.


Since it was such a nice day I continued with installing brakes.

Before:

After:


My donk wheels still make them look stupid small. Oh well...


Welp, now we're up to date on here, not that cool of an update but its a big step for me to kick this build back into motion. The weather is a huge motivator.

As always, thanks for reading. More to come next time its warm!

[SaNTi]

Yusssssssssssss!

[bc.]

maybe I missed it, but what was the cause of your knocking?

[Cooper.]

that's really cool for a cefiro

[I<3-SR20DET]

Originally Posted by bc.

maybe I missed it, but what was the cause of your knocking?

All of the bearings were fine, it was cylinder slap, piston skirts were worn. Very feint sound im just OCD

[tricky_ab]

I WILL be picking up that Modified once it drops...

[di-devol]

^Same, excellent build.

[drscooper]

deff getting that modified. awesome build like always cant wait to see more updates!