AE86 GTV-Multipoint Cage, Beams, AP Brakes & Brides

[Conrad]

I collected the 86 this week, it wasn't as complete as I had hoped for but that's another story. On a positive its home now and I can plod away over the next few months on a the jobs that are remaining.

Whilst I was out for the day collecting the 86 i nipped down to APT to collect the remaining drag Evo parts from breaking the car and took the opportunity to get the 86 4 wheel aligned which was one more job off the list.

Jobs left to do:

Fit front bumper
Fit rear bumper
Fit side skirts
Mount wiper motor
Terminate Loom at wiper motor
Identify loose core floating out of pdm plug
Fit bulkhead plate (where strut brace was welded on)
Fit air filter cone
Fit expansion tank overflow pipe
Fix paint blemishes and add final scheme colours
Fix bride seat cushion
Fit Tilton Remote brake bias
Finish dash beazel
Fit fuel temp sensor
Fit map sensor
Fit wheel speed sensors
Fit door mirror corner trims
Fabricate heal plate drivers side
Fabricate floor plate passenger side
Fit internal door mirror block trims
Modify exhaust ( needs raising )







Q

[Bean]

looking good, what does the weight pic include? I thought you'd be lighter than that despite the cage

[Lt86]

Wow! I like it a lot .

Keep up the good work.

[Conrad]

(06-07-2015 01:07 AM)Bean Bandit Wrote:  looking good, what does the weight pic include? I thought you'd be lighter than that despite the cage

Weight pic is the car with standard doors, standard door cards, FRP tailgate, carbon bonnet, all fluids plus a small amount of fuel in the tank. Front and rear bumpers plus side skirts to fit.

[Bean]

lexan windows rear and quarters?

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[Conrad]

(06-18-2015 03:49 PM)Bean Bandit Wrote:  lexan windows rear and quarters?

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Lexan side windows, front and rear, lexan rear screen.

[Conrad]

A few little bits done today, mainly just cleaning up and refurbing stuff but it needs doing none the less.

Last time home I noticed a fixing on the grille was broken so the grille was removed, repaired, cleaned up and refitted.


Only a minor job but needed doing, grille badge


The big hole where the strut brace used to be needs a plate welding in with an inspection cover so I can get to the wiper arm and linkage.

The hole..


The template... This will be welded soon when I have the inspection cover.


Next up the radiator brackets need some paint, I rubbed them down and masked them up ready to paint.


And painted.


And back on the car.


Next up the airbox needed some attention, its difficult to see but it had blemishes and scratches everywhere. A quick rub down and its ready for paint.


And painted


Now its the wiper motors turn, no before picture on this one but here it is after the black paint is complete, I will refresh the silver part tomorrow.



Next up, I had some window trim missing on each door around the door mirrors, fortunately I managed to track some second hand pieces down, they just needed fettling.



Unfortunately the paint got damaged on this side but I will deal with this later.


The trim pieces..


I'll paint the trim pieces tomorrow.

[Conrad]

So continuing the theme the wiper motor got the silver parts rubbed down and painted today, it came out pretty good to be fair.



And connected to the wiper linkage and mounted.


Now I just need to work out how the MoTeC PDM has been wired so I can connect it up?

Door trims cleaned up and painted


Drivers side fitted, I can't fit the passenger side yet, I need to attach a stud.


Finally fitted the gear shift knob


My new wiper linkage inspection cover is finished, original on the right, my new one on the left. Hopefully this gets posted tomorrow and then I get the bulk head plate welded in. Big thanks to Dave at Dave Flew Automotive for making this part as I couldn't locate an original piece.


Gave the throttle body trumpets a bit of a clean up


A few photos to finish the day off, it's coming along albeit slowly.





Next up, fit the front and rear bumpers, side skirts and wire up the wiper motor.

[chrisd1]

Love the detail... car is a work of art! Can't wait to see it completely finished!

[Conrad]

It's been a few busy days, some progress and some negatives but onwards and upwards.

First up, trial fitment of the rear Run Free bumper





Fitment was ok across the back


But when the fabricators widened the arches they aledgedley had a fibre glass guy in to modify the bumpers to suit the new arches. As can be seen here, that never happened!!!
I need to find a Fibreglass specialist who can modify this bumper to suit.



With my latest discovery I thought I would try the front Run Free bumper to see if that had been modified, we are in luck, they did the front bumper, just not the rear bumper




Next up, the inside of the car was bugging me, it was absolutely filthy, 3.5 years at the fabricators, 3 years at Zen so it was out with the seats and cleaning products to see what could be done. The 3 year old masking tape was a PITA to get off!

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Clean up under way, tape off the door bars



Arty shot.. Lol




Looking much better now


Eye bolts for the harnesses


Time to clean up my Bride seats, remove all the masking tape.



New bolts for the seats, much better than the mix and match set that were in there previously


One eyebolt on the drivers side is ok but the one on the tunnel may be an issue on my seat position, may need to move this later.




Seat back in its new clean environment with its new bolts


I couldn't resist trying the Takata harness, I need to get some buckles to wrap the rears around the roll bar once installed.