Jarrad's AE86 resto project

[Big T]

Ceramic coat for the win. Will help with heat as well as looking awesome.

[Mirko]

Dam u slow down. Havent made much progress apart from waiting in intake to get made and trying to sport out rear brakes

[clowkingdom]

Woah where did you source that windscreen? I heard they are hard to get for the JDM version.

[Jrad]

Car is originally ADM
But both can be got, as the windscreen guy came to test fit and check it was the right one. Noooo idea where he sourced it from.

[Jrad]

Whoever did the sounds system in my 86 needs to quit their day job and become a butcher.

As well as having holes cut in the doors (which I'll deal with later) the rear parcel shelf trim things have had holes cut out for them, but cut in a completely non-uniform way. I managed to make do though, and they were pretty rough to begin with. Also, the stereo wiring is madness. It makes no sense whatsoever!



I got some covers as well as speakers from Jaycar. I'm not too concerned about having a great system, so these in the back and front will do. Apparently they aren't too bad for cheapies. I didn't want to use the standard covers because I wanted it to be subtle and look almost factory.


Bit of paint on them (and another glovebox)


Fitted up - they're still super rough. The paint just makes it look less shit. haha.

[Jrad]

It also appears that Facebook got an update, but here did not. It's usually the other way around.

We're at lockup! All glass is in

[Seventy]

Those speaker covers worked well! I love the attention to detail on this build!

[Jrad]

Haha cheers!

Speaking of attention to detail, I've been thinking about my engine bay as it nears. Not sure what I want to do with it. I'm hoping for something functional, clean and relatively minimal.

Here's sorta the bays I've been looking at. I can't go fully shaved and tucked. But I do want to hide/delete whatever I can.





At this point, I'm thinking of running a cylindrical overflow on the side of my radiator. Drivers strut tower will have fuel pressure reg on it.

Washer bottle I may try to get something small and run it behind a strut tower, or hide behind the bumper or something to that effect.

Battery and fuse box to stay where they are (eventually I may revisit my bay and weld up the holes an relocate this stuff)

Cover to run across the front and hide the gap between bumper and rad support (also oil cooler in there.)

[Mirko]

Well done dude. Think is fair to say you won lol. I am still waiting on intake to arrive but have ordered rear brakes and shockworks coilovers hopefully arriving this week

[drift kid]

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