Mr.Jay's FRS

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Originally Posted by Mr.Jay

Sorry guys I got screwed around with by my dealership, easily the worst buying exp I ever had. Would not recommend them at all.

Did u buy it from open road scion at the automall? I'm having the worst experiance as right now dealing with them, ordered an ultramarine from then, but they keep on giving me the run around and trying to sell me other colours when i specifically said i wanted the ultramarine, saying o its not going to come until mid august, and "o we misread your order for an ashphalt" and stuff like that, never a straight answer lol so ya i would not reccomend them at all, i dont even know when im going to get my car but ya congrats on ur car !~ looks sooo nice!~~

[Mr.Jay]

Yeah OP Richmond is terrible I do not recommend them at all

They don't know what they are talking about and say anything to make you lay off them.

Updates! got some lighting mods as well as did a test on red tails to see how the would look on the blue but I messed up and kicked one of the tails during the painting stage

[Calidrifter]

Are those the LEDs that are on sale here?

[Mr.Jay]

Yep I posted up some pics on that thread as well

Update on red tails. these aren't how I want them cause I messed them up but here is a colour test to see how the look.

[KI_ZN6]

Originally Posted by Calidrifter

Are those the LEDs that are on sale here?

Please PM for the LEDs. I did the LED installs for Mr. Jay and we were very happy with the results.

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8605

[Dimman]

Nice.

[KI_ZN6]

Love the taillight redouts =) Good stuff!

[Mr.Jay]

Finally a update

FRS had some issues. Water was getting into the taillight badly. I was out in the rain (we had a heavy rainstorm on the 16th) for around 12 hours and forgot to check my tails out that day but the next day I did and noticed really filled tails. Left light was half full of water while the right light had light water drops in the housings.

Had to drop the car off at the dealership as Toyota themselves wanted to come and look at the lights. Was given a very very basic Corolla (such a downgrade)

here are a few pics to update you guys. Having the stock tails again has given me some new found appreciation for how the look but will most likely red them out again. Also out of the break in stage and man it feels good. Having driven under 4k for so long the power is very refreshing.













My patent pending way of not damaging my doors in my garage

[cRazy604]

holy , that is a lot of water in the tail lights
you didn't get to keep the tail lights did you?

[Mr.Jay]

no they took them back. new ones are getting redded out as soon as we get some nice weather

Should of seen it when it was half full of water that was a scary sight

[DaJo]

Can't even believe how they got HALF full... and to think just moisture is bad enough...

[Dimman]

Sort of 'sketch' I made Friday. 6061-T6 bar manually turned and tapped (a completely wrong 1/2 UNC) on the lathe. Diameter is 1.125" and probably too small. And I can't find my damn proper tap... I had ordered one a few years ago to do some Toyota knobs but it seems to have disappeared when our shop moved.

[Mr.Jay]

Woah Dim that looks killer just a bit small. I really like shifter shaped like that. Looks great!

[Dimman]

If it's slow again tomorrow I'll do a bigger one. Still need to find my damned tap...

[cRazy604]

Saw your car such a beautiful evening wondering why aren't u driving it

[Dimman]

Acetron (copolymer) sketch. I need finer sand paper...

[Mr.Jay]

Originally Posted by cRazy604

Saw your car such a beautiful evening wondering why aren't u driving it

Am I your 1st? Haha. Where did you see it? 49th?

I actually drove to Whister and spent about 6 hours driving that day and was just back home letting her rest up a bit before I went to the Nightmarket.

Originally Posted by Dimman

Acetron (copolymer) sketch. I need finer sand paper...

Damn looks good. Good size and looks like the weight will be pretty solid too.

I bow to your skills. Actually I would love to hear more info about how welds and stuff are done on aftermarket stuff. I learned quite a bit reading your threads.

[cRazy604]

Originally Posted by Mr.Jay

Am I your 1st? Haha. Where did you see it? 49th?

I actually drove to Whister and spent about 6 hours driving that day and was just back home letting her rest up a bit before I went to the Nightmarket.

Hahaha I don't really count you as my first since u came to my place on the week u got it . I know who you are and you know who I am you just don't know my name

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by Mr.Jay

Am I your 1st? Haha. Where did you see it? 49th?

I actually drove to Whister and spent about 6 hours driving that day and was just back home letting her rest up a bit before I went to the Nightmarket.



Damn looks good. Good size and looks like the weight will be pretty solid too.

I bow to your skills. Actually I would love to hear more info about how welds and stuff are done on aftermarket stuff. I learned quite a bit reading your threads.

Work's still slow so I'll try something out of stainless (heavy) tomorrow. As for manufacturing rants, I've only got a few: shitty stainless, shitty carbon, and Ripoff & Duplicate R&D stuff like Rota wheels.

Here's a little something for you:

The tube in the background of the knob pics is a start-stop welding practice my buddy was doing. Here's some more detailed pics of it:

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It's .120" wall, so ~twice as thick as exhaust tubing normally is (thicker is easier btw, so this isn't super awesome skills) and fused by TIG. Fused means no filler rod is added. He started and stopped about every inch. But if you look at the heat band it stays the same thickness since he is controlling the heat so the weld is the same from start to finish. Also each restart has pretty much the same heat, too. Good welders are all about consistency. The last pic is after is was polished with Scotchbrite, but no sanding to remove material.

Scothbrited:




Edit: It's 304 stainless steel.

[Mr.Jay]

Line looks very clean tho. Consistency in the welds is what I usually like to look for but you are right I noticed a lot of parts these days come plated so you can really tell

I got to learn how to weld and make my own parts it would make life much easier

The last pic really shows how clean the weld is if that is without any sanding

Are you like the senoir man Dim?

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by Mr.Jay

Line looks very clean tho. Consistency in the welds is what I usually like to look for but you are right I noticed a lot of parts these days come plated so you can really tell

I got to learn how to weld and make my own parts it would make life much easier

The last pic really shows how clean the weld is if that is without any sanding

Are you like the senoir man Dim?

Senoir man?

These things are just stuff we keep busy with when work is slow. I do machining and my buddy is a really good welder. But he's kinda apathetic about cars, so motivating him to weld up an exhaust is tough. He did the titanium piece in a couple of my other Youtube vids, too.

Buuut... he just got his bike license and is super pumped about getting a newer 600 crotch rocket. So I've been showing pics of Akrapovic titanium pipes on bikes and asking him 'Do you think you could do that?' He may come around... Lol.

Our next issue would be finding a place to do it if he does get interested.

On another note I found an M12 X 1.25 tap at work so I can make a properly threaded knob now.

[Dimman]

Billet 304 with titanium decoration.









Can I test fit it some time?