St185 full rebuild

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After double checking my clearances I installed the A frames and finally the car was able to spin like a roasted pig!
 

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Now it can spin, time to pressure wash off all the years of crud and grease !
 

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After pressure washing and engine degreaser about three or four times I finally got all the caked on grease and mud off. Time to put her in the booth to begin seam sealing and final prep.
 

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Final prep continued .....
The fire wall had to be painted separately as I was concerned it would be too much to paint all in one go .
 

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Interior painted and underbody
 

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Once the underside and firewall was completed, those areas were masked off so the exterior could be painted.
 

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I had to remove a lot of the sound deadening material in order to wed things up and straighten sheet metal . I didn't want the car sounding like a tin can afterwards so I opted to install Dynamat on the flooring and foam rubber dynamat on the firewall .
 

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Installation of sound deadening continued .....
 

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Putting things back together with rusty nuts and bolts looked terrible , so I put them in a basket and sandblasted and painted them as well
 

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Now I had all these parts painted and perfect I was worried they would get damaged . At this point also expensive parts were going to start going on and I needed a secure room for the car. Next step was enclose the area where I had originally stripped the car.
 

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The heat was killing me !! In the summer here the temp can reach 34 degrees C.
I had to install an A/C in my new Celica room to continue the assemble of the shell. I decided to epoxy the floors the same time so I wasn't crawling around on dusty concrete.
 

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I managed to find polyurethane bushings coming out of Poland on Ebay. Bought a set for the front and rear
 

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Tailgate on with new gas struts.
Drilled and slotted rotors and coilovers installed .
 

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