Project Ugly Duckling. SR86. 'Haters gunna hate, Tyres gunna bake'

[nelpd96|]

Robbo saw a bloke selling a 2871r with external gate on gumtree if you were still interested. It is local as well.

[ae8zn6]

Yeah... He wants quite a bit more than I'm really willing to spend at the moment...

I really only bought this one because it seemed like a once only deal. To be honest I would probably prefer something a tiny bit smaller like a disco potato (GT28RS). I am only shooting for about 300rwhp and value response over power.

At the moment I am thinking I will run the car on low boost most of the time and would be stoked with a reliable, lag-free 250rwhp.

[gaspal]

Disco potato will very responsive on an SR, i know of 2 people that make 300 atw on reasonable boost, one of which is in a hachi and god does it smoke the tyres! full boost around 3000rpm... i have one on my ca18 and full boost @3700 makes 210hp atw on a rich tune @12psi, could have more but need bigger injectors...

[maxhag]

Looks like you should save the pennies to get one of them Robbo.....

[ae8zn6]

Yeah, Will have to save up some pennies for one of those I guess... among about 1000000000000 other parts atm

Anyway, BAM:



Etch and filler primers are done.

In all honesty you can see where I have gotten the shits with the prep work and called things good enough, lol

This like this:



Oh well, in the end of the day the car is a track car and doesn't need to win any shows, the paint's main purpose is to prevent rust, lol

[Skylar]

Sell me the 2871?

and when you find another one for cheap that you might not need, buy that one too and sell it to me too. Would prefer 3071 but 2871 or t3/t4 will do.

Thanks.

[maxhag]

^^^ Ken, It was a false alarm...... The turbo is a S15 BB turbo, and not a 2871r........

[Matt]

that is what bog is for robbo... fixing lil things like that..

[ae8zn6]

haha, Bog requires more Sanding! My loathing of sanding is why those marks are there, lol

In short I will give them one more blat of filler primer, but thats all its getting! lol

Besides when its done people will be too busy admiring the tidy conversion to worry about a couple of strange marks in the paint, lol

[maxhag]

^^^ This