Bodywork in 3 steps

[max_ae86]

OK, here’s my bodywork plan in 3 steps:

Step 1: Striping out everything and locate rusty parts.

Step 2: Remove rust, weld reinforcement parts on body. In stand of putting roll cage inside, I’ll put reinforcement parts like I saw in AE86 Club vol.7

Step 3: Paintjob. Devil red Still not sure about panda stripes?

[Ivan141]

Sweet jezus...that rear shock mount is GONE!
Are you making the reinforcement parts yourself or are you getting the japanese stuff?

[max_ae86]

I showed the screen shots from AE86 Club to professional welder and explain to him what I want. He said: No problem!
We’ll see at the end of this week

[firehawk]

Hah, your project plan is almost exactly the same as mine with the exception of my step 3 being 040 Super White II. If you have more screenshots from AE86 Club, I'd be interested in seeing them as I'd like to do some reinforcing as well but don't want to go for a full roll cage (don't like the idea of driving a car with a roll cage but without wearing a helmet).

[JonT]

I would go with red panda

[max_ae86]

firehawk Wrote:Hah, your project plan is almost exactly the same as mine with the exception of my step 3 being 040 Super White II. If you have more screenshots from AE86 Club, I'd be interested in seeing them as I'd like to do some reinforcing as well but don't want to go for a full roll cage (don't like the idea of driving a car with a roll cage but without wearing a helmet).

I agree with you about the roll cage and helmet, because I want to use my hachi as a daily drive. But, one thing is certain; the roll cage is the best way to have desirable body rigidity. Anyhow, I don’t like to be surrounded with cage
You can find full body rebuild and paint video in AE86 Club Vol.7. Here are some screen shots I took.

[max_ae86]

And few more...

[max_ae86]

JonT Wrote:I would go with red panda

I don’t know... There’s lot of panda around
May be like this:

[firehawk]

Thank you very much for the pictures! They give a good idea on what points should be reinforced. It seems like one of these is the base of the front frame rails which also commonly flexes on KP6# Starlets and sometimes even gets torn off the firewall! Here's a good series of images on how this location is reinforced on the Starlet - I was thinking of a similar solution for my AE86;

http://users.tkk.fi/~mkolari/orangetoy/2002_03_28/

He has quite a lot of more photos of his project on the website (http://users.tkk.fi/~mkolari/orangetoy/) and since the FR Toyotas are all quite similar, a lot of the ideas shown there should apply also to AE86.

[ZaX]

http://www.aeu86.org/viewtopic.php?t=123...nforcement

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