Yellow79's Avenger Build

[yellow79]

Okay, so back in December 2017 I bought my sweet little avenger. She had been off the road for the last 20 years! She was in a shed under a dust cover but moisture got in and ruined the car's paint, and what was left of the interior was pretty moldy and not in good shape but I was stoked because I had a classic 70s euro that had rego on hold, was pretty solid and ran (sort of). I started by completely stripping the rotting interior, wire wheeled the floor and repainted it. The dash was stupidly cracked so I sanded down the high spots, bogged it up and fiberglassed it. I then scrubbed all the good interior parts and reinstalled them, and adapted a pair of Nissan skyline seats for the front. Shes pretty rough but it all kinda adds to the experience and I love it. On the exterior, I stipped all the trim, lights fittings etc and planned on a doors shut respray, which snowballed into me pulling the engine and box to strip and paint the engine bay too. As I took it apart almost every part had wrecker writing on it and shes definitely been in a few accidents in her time, but on the plus side its got a 1500 or 1600 swap.  Then after attempting to fix the worst of the panel damage, I sprayed it the brightest yellow I could get my hands on because why not right? Then all the boring reasembly and replacing perished rubbers she was nearly ready for wof time but I still needed headlights (originals were in real bad shape) and tyres. I made brackets to fit some standard Toyota rectangle headlights and bought a set of Ford Mondeo alloys. Since then I have been dailying it while trying to save money to fix my truck (the other worlds most badge engineered car) and do phase 2 of my plan, which I will try to actually take photos of and post about up here.

[JoKer]

nice!

[yellow79]

So exciting things have been happening! I pulled the old engine (1500 or 1600, broken water pump housing, lots of blowby but still runs, pm me if you want it) and test fitted the Toyota 4age and T50 package. Ill post a pic once I?ve worked out how but it looks to fit really well! Gearbox fitted mint almost bolts to the factory crosmember  and the shifter line up with the hole in the tunnel. The sump clears the subframe well all I?ve really got to do it make some engine mounts and ithe engine will be bolted in.

[yellow79]

So she runs! Sounds pretty good I reckon just need to get a couple more sensors to make the Toyota ecu happy. Just need to get a driveshaft made and she should be driving again so I?m pretty stoked. Here?s a link to a little video of the 4age reving! https://youtu.be/6vv0MCSFu9U

[yellow79]

Well I got the car up and running and while feeling out the new engine the stock brakes decided they wouldn?t slow me down quite quick enough (well that?s my excuse for sh#t driving) and I may have put the car in a ditch