AtracYota91
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My name is Ron. I own a 91 ST185 currently she is in a million pieces. I owned the car for little over a year now. There is a lot of work to do on her still. The rockers are completely shot. The driver side had the most damage. I bought a shell of a celica st at a local junk yard. I used the st rockers only cause it don't have the plastic moldings. I've owned a 91 gts and 93 st coupe. The gts rockers where also shot on this car due to the nice stylish moldings. I figured I would just do away with that cancer causing plastic moldings on my all trac. I do not plan on this car seeing snow period rain I'm not worried about. A very close friend of mine is doing the body work. Let me just say he is the best body guy that I know to date. The surgery he has done to her is simply amazing. He cut out the ST's driver side and passenger side rockers like he was carving a turkey. He cut out the rockers with a good amount of floor attached to them. So now it was time to cut all the cancer outta her. I couldn't bare to look at what was left of the driver side rocker I thought she was done for. It took him only two 8 hour days to pull off what would look like the impossible to most people. All I did was drill out spot welds and hand him tools. The way the st rocker came apart with that spot weld bit was awesome. The way he pieced the new rocker on her was just amazing. He used ever single factory brace inside the rocker and spot welded it back in. There was not one brace or factory spot weld that was missed. He even laid beads of weld along every overlapping piece of metal that was spot welded for added insurance. I was very skeptical about doing this much work on her seeing that it's a unibody. I planned on putting a lot of power down with her that's what scared me the most. But looks like its game on now! 
We have one more rocker to do then its time for some flat gun metal gray paint. The inside and under side will be sprayed with black truck bed liner. Also every suspension part on her will be getting the same flat gun metal paint including axles diff and drive shaft. Every bushing is polyurethane from front to rear. I got every oem nut and bolt for the rear suspension from toyota. The diff and cradle are fitted with bushings thanks to Luke at Xiiimotorsports. Very high quality products great informational help and fast service from Xiiimotorsports. The motor I rebuild since it had 150k on it. I did new rings fresh ball hone and hand lapped the valves. New oil/water pump every gasket from oil pan to valve cover. New timing and tensioner. New head bolts crank and rod bearings as well. All externals I bead blasted and painted. Also rewrapped engine harness. The only thing that wasn't/won't be done by me is body and paint. We will be starting passenger rocker and paint mid/end of November. The goal is to be finished this coming spring with a sexy semi stock 185. Stock for now that is. Until the half filled 99 5s block with gen 2 3sgte head stops collecting dust and gets built. So looks like another saved all trac!! She will be roaming the streets soon taking care of the Honda problem in my area!! :evil: I also have a small secret build We been working with a 6th gen gt tubed and 4 linked with a chromoly ford 9"... I will finish this long 1000 page story be for every one who reads it falls asleep. Sorry for how long it was but I'm truly a proud die hard fan of toyota. I'm even more of a die hard fan of the car most wanna be tuners don't know about or underestimate. The car this forums about! I'm glad I joined a group of all trac/gt four owners that love the car and it's history as much as I do.
We have one more rocker to do then its time for some flat gun metal gray paint. The inside and under side will be sprayed with black truck bed liner. Also every suspension part on her will be getting the same flat gun metal paint including axles diff and drive shaft. Every bushing is polyurethane from front to rear. I got every oem nut and bolt for the rear suspension from toyota. The diff and cradle are fitted with bushings thanks to Luke at Xiiimotorsports. Very high quality products great informational help and fast service from Xiiimotorsports. The motor I rebuild since it had 150k on it. I did new rings fresh ball hone and hand lapped the valves. New oil/water pump every gasket from oil pan to valve cover. New timing and tensioner. New head bolts crank and rod bearings as well. All externals I bead blasted and painted. Also rewrapped engine harness. The only thing that wasn't/won't be done by me is body and paint. We will be starting passenger rocker and paint mid/end of November. The goal is to be finished this coming spring with a sexy semi stock 185. Stock for now that is. Until the half filled 99 5s block with gen 2 3sgte head stops collecting dust and gets built. So looks like another saved all trac!! She will be roaming the streets soon taking care of the Honda problem in my area!! :evil: I also have a small secret build We been working with a 6th gen gt tubed and 4 linked with a chromoly ford 9"... I will finish this long 1000 page story be for every one who reads it falls asleep. Sorry for how long it was but I'm truly a proud die hard fan of toyota. I'm even more of a die hard fan of the car most wanna be tuners don't know about or underestimate. The car this forums about! I'm glad I joined a group of all trac/gt four owners that love the car and it's history as much as I do.
