Good to see another AE86 & Z32 owner just like me.
Just fixed pics etc So now the shite is down a few posts!!
Good to see another AE86 & Z32 owner just like me.
Looks like your makin real progress man, hopefully you dont feel to sore about the care!
hey bud glad i could help out with the swaybar!! thanks for the praise.
BTW some of the picture links aren't working for me.
good luck with it all!
Hope to see it on the road soon.
Most of the pics arnt workin for me. If you e-mail them to me i'll host em for you. andor @ andor-86 . com
sum of tha 1st few dont work for me either
Just realised I could host pics here!!!
so I thought Id redo the first post as seen below:
Well I thought it was about time to do one of these thingys for my car:
I bought the car off shiri and no offence dude but I am suprised it was still going after looking at some stuff in detail...
First off this is what the car looked like when I bought it:
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(Note cooling hoses unsupported...)
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By the end of the first day of having it it looked like this, lol:
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(Note that the signal line for the fuel pump had been run under the carpet, under the rear seat and under the spare wheel...)
Anyway with the car stripped a few things became apparent rather quickly, for one the clutch master cylinder had let go and clutch fluid had stripped the paint off both sides of the firewall underneath it. The ball joints on the front were both rooted, one looked like a wheel had come off on the move as it was roughly grinded to the top of it, one of the drum pistons had also let go and let drips of gunk on the inside of the drivers wheel.
The 'little bit of rust in the hatch' actually ment the hatch was a right-off and so was the rear passenger guard as pictured below:
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Anyway, we also notcied that the heater box did not contain a core at all and in order to keepo rego happy we wopuld have to put one in, so I bought one and we soon realised that the engine still needed a little more clearance from the firewall... in other words it was looking more and more like the engine was going to need to come out.Hence the call was made that it would and while it was out we would respray the engine bay black as it would match the bonnet/hide oil and other shite from rego people in days to come.
While scoping out the possiblilty of pulling the engine and gearbox we noticed that there was actually no front swaybar at all and that the mounts on the T18 diff had been welded on by someone who really need to go to the toilet or something cause they were somewhat sub-standard. So we re-welded the mounts, I bought a swaybar from KE70 20V (BTW he was awesome and sent EVERYTHING and really cheap and quickly too
) So after some new eurothane bushes and some black spray the front was swaybarred up and looking good too.
Then we pulled the engine and gearbox and managed to spill gearbox oil all over the driveway.. (my bad, lol) anyway here is a before and after shot of the gear box:
BEFORE:
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AFTER:
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Well on a more serious note it seriously looked horrible and i am going to assume the 4A-C blew up all over it and it wasn't cleaned before the 20V went in...
Anyway pics of the engine:
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(note black marks on exractors were loose electrical wires and clutch line were melting from contact with them)
(also note how god damn sexy they are!!!)
FIRE ALL CONNONS!!!
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Anyway, here are some more pics of what it is looking like at the moment after huge delays... (was hoping for it to be registered by now sad.gif)
Its a little ugly cause I had to sand the engine bay to prep it for the paint this weekend!
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New 'Improved' clearances
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Anyway Ill leave you with a panaramic view of the garage as it stands...
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BTW that silver frame you see is quite the project itself...
If you have time to spare or want to know more:
Shit eh thought I was the only one!
Oh well in case you haven't heard you should head over to
plenty of good people in the canberra area with good tech days etc... too bad im on my way out
hey champ,what u doing bout the water setup.u changing it
ROYAL GARAGE NEWCASTLE
Yea mate, stay tuned... the old radiator was leakin anyway so the new improved model will be arriving on friday *yey*
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