takai's IPRA AE86

[Kid Karola]

Yes and Yes.

[takai]

Any chance that you could scan it in to a PDF for me mate?

[Kid Karola]

Sorry dude I don't have it with me. Frak has an original copy he got from CAMS (he might be able to scanit for you...)
Are you after just the pages related to the body (Spoilers and Mudguards) or the complete book?

[takai]

Prefer the whole book, but ill take what i can get.

[takai]

Little mini update, i stripped out the engine bay on the weekend, and it now looks like this:

Painted the guard inners, rad panel front and lower cowl a nice matt black, and then started bogging up the spare bolt holes in the engine bay:


Gotta give it a sand and then hit it with more 2pak white.

While ive been sick i also fabbed up a little box for the fuel gauge:


Thatll sit in the rear window with a switch so i can check fuel levels.

Also picked up a TRD N2 rear wing copy:



Will be attaching that and bogging it in after i clean up the rear. Will have to figure out a new boot release though as that will cover the key.

Expect to have painted the engine bay by the weekend, and then be onto bodywork.

[xero]

couldnt you just leave the boot release next to the seat? and fuck keyhole and wiper parts off to save weight?

[takai]

Boot release has been removed already due to the cage. Ill scab another one from another car (possibly an MX83 or something with a longer cable) and relocate it over to the passenger side somewhere.

[takai]

In other news as well, i got my hands on the A5180 documentation, which shows the sideskirts (as well as the front and rear spoilers) as being Variant Options (VO). Im currently querying with the IPRA eligibility people about running them in IPRA as the ruling is a bit grey.

[Kid Karola]

I recall that aero needs to be OEM or at least follow the lines/contours of the body and not extend beyond the extreme dimensions of the body work (refers to overfenders and wings). Pretty sure there are IPRA AE86's in NSW/QLD running the factory skirts, lip and N2 wing, so shouldn't be an issue even tho the N2 wing isn't in the Group A homologation.

[takai]

Skirts on EM cars arnt allowed unless they are homologated, which the factory skirts are in the VF supplementary regs to A5179...