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KOS
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DEC 13, 09:25 AM
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I know!!! Havent touched it at all. I think a big part of that is that my wife is expecting twins now and I just got a new job, so things have been nuts. Let me see what I can do about getting you that pic
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RumbleB
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MAR 08, 11:35 PM
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Brastic
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MAR 10, 12:23 PM
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Unsafe At Any Speed
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MAR 10, 02:16 PM
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Brastic
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MAR 10, 04:57 PM
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The nose is very low and will scrap on everything. I also like to use the wheels to jack the front end up. With the 355 bumper and the 1" lowering, I cannot get my low profile jack under the front end. I use the low profile jack on the little wheels to jack up the front enough to get the bigger floor jack under the middle and jack up the car high from there.
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Austrian Import
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MAR 10, 08:32 PM
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The drag wheels are a cool idea.
Another solution would be some sort of actuator/hydraulics that temporarily raise the front end.
I've seen it on real Lamborghinis and thought it's cool. Side note: For Lamborghinis the kit car version is actually more reliable than the factory part. Quite a few owners of real Lamborghinis replace the broken part with the kit car version. 
I'm curious if there would be a cheap solution that could accomplish the same thing.
Maybe even combine it with a proximity sensor (i.e. cannibalize one from a LEGO Next system), which then automatically raises the front end if it's in danger of scraping. (i.e.: 3" of clearance), then as soon as there is enough clearance (more than 3" + the amount it was just raised) it resets the car to ride height again.
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bowrapennocks
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APR 01, 10:27 AM
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I think the 355 looks cool. I had a 355 body kit on my 86 which I bought as a project after the body was on; I ended up redoing the interior. A few things I learned:
I had a rear glass backlight from an MR2 (do not know the year). I tried to get trim molding and found out that Toyota only used molding on the bottom. I ended up buying the stick-on molding that you would normally put along the sides of the car to keep from getting parking lot dings. I think the stuff I bought was about 3/4" wide. I was able to glue it over the seam between the backlight and the body. I did it in two pieces (lower) and one curved to follow the rest of the glass. It ended up looking very good.
When the guy installed the body, he did not remove the battery. It is now permanently mounted in the stock location. I think the only way to get it out is to drop the cradle to get enough clearance. The same goes for the air cleaner. I ended up retaining the stock air cleaner, but mounted it with only the rear bolt (for the lower frame). That way, I could change the filter br removing the entire air cleaner assembly as a unit. There was no way to get the top off while the assembly was still in the car.
The mirrors on mine were fixed mounted to the body and glassed on. I was always nervous about them breaking off. If I did it in the future, I would consider some kind of folding mechanism, or at least some sort of break away, so that if they get clobbered, the damage is minimized. The rear view out of the right mirror was not very good.
Also, my car had no provision for outside mechanical unlockers for the doors and trunk. A dead battery always concerned me. I found that I could unlock the doors with a pair of long needle nose pliers by laying on the ground and reaching up around the door handles. I have seen a post on PFF in the past from someone who did a mechanical remote for the trunk. Here are a few pictures (the car on the left is an 85 with 308 conversion. Let me know if I can be a help. Amida does great work on custom 355 interiors.
Jim
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Jim
86 SE 355 Body Kit w/3.1 Auto (Sold)
87 T-Top Coupe 2.8/5 Speed new project
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jmbishop
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APR 06, 12:09 AM
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CC Rider
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APR 06, 06:22 PM
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fierocarparts
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DEC 19, 10:30 AM
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