Aram's 3SGE Beams Levin Coupe

[Aram]

Ok, had a lot of delay here.
I ordered parts which were late or wrong.
And I was busy with other stuff.

Anyway, have done a few things though.

Made a start with the bucket seat, but I had no idea it was going to be such a pita!!
The ae86 is not really made for one I must conclude.
I tried to make it work with a slide but it was way to high.
Started out with reworking the Impreza frame, so I took it apart:



But it was still too high in the end, so I ditched those.
Then I cut off the side frames on the chair a bit and constructed a new frame for them:





Welded and sandblasted:







Had to remove some material from the side frame:



Now it's fixed, but the height of the chair is now as high as the stadard chair...
And this is just one side! Pffft...

[Aram]

Had some plates lasered for the front subframe, I have lowered the subframe 5mm only, the engine mount plates are 5mm also.







Now the engine has the perfect height I think:




Then another big job, the gearbox subframe.
I want it to look as something that came out of the factory in end, so I did it the hard way.
I started with cutting up the original frame and reworking the parts I needed:





Welded:





And this for both sides.
After that the middle part was to be made, so I started with a cardboard template:



Then the real thing:







And welded that up too:



Now only the 4 corner parts need to be filled up.

[Aram]

So, Tuesday I was really happy because for the first time the engine and gearbox were hanging in their own frames for the first time.

....Unitl I looked at the next step, the steering rack.
When I was test fitting it all fitted nicely, but meanwhile I had moved the engine back 8mm and it was sitting a bit lower and tilted aswell.
Never stopped to see what it did for the rack.
So now the oilpan was in the way, more specificly, a bolt of the oilpan.

To make matters more complicated I noticed the MR2 steering rack was actually 20mm's longer than the AE86 one, so the quiafe quick rack was to short also, that is why I the steering angle looked off to the left.
Luckily I noticed in time, and luckily it needed moving the steering rack, which gave me 10mm more room with engine.

So I decided the relocate the rack mount on the subframe and rework the bolt on the oilpan.







Now it fits! And I can start removing the webbing for the rack to fit properly under the engine.


Then some new parts:

A longer stabi, have not testfitted it yet:





A new feultank lid without a lock:



New feul pump holder:

[cannabolic]

excellent m8

...as always

[Aram]

Thanks mate. :-)

How is your car doing??

[KD2229]

Great job mate.

A quick question for you.
When you have lowered your Beams by 5mm, do you still need to modify the tunnel to fit the gear box.

I believe you are using the 6s box.

Thks,

[Aram]

Yes I am using the 6 sp, and the only modification to the tunnel is making a hole for the gear lever.

[Aram]

I mounted the new stabi to see how it fits, and it looks great!

[[Walaki]D`Lair]

OMG That stab is wicked!

[cannabolic]

Aram Wrote:Thanks mate. :-)

How is your car doing??

basically on a hold. Was in the garage on Sunday, but after seeing some of your ideas I ended up cutting out some metal :wink: ...I think I am stuck with a little longer ae86 break

btw, that's a fat bar