Ivan's coupe: bodywork is done

[bozu]

Nice progress!

[Ivan141]

Had a bit of time on my hands so I clambered my way into a hot, dark and spider infested corner of a storage facility where it was rumored I could find the 4AGE+box that were last pulled from my AE86 a long, LONG time ago.



It will help my current bid to rebuild the 86's original 3-rib to it's former glory, mostly by donating all the RWD ancillaries.
If I cant find or fix the old 40mm crankshaft that I managed to damage I might have to change plans and build this 7-rib instead, but it will cost me more to get pistons for it.

That engine also happens to be sitting next to this:

Which is all kinds of awesome, but must stay in it's quiet little corner for a little while longer.

[banpei]

Is that your brother's little KE25?
How is your brother these days?

[Ivan141]

He's doing fine.. wife, 2 kids, no time.
The KE is a bit of a sad sight, but at the same time its good to know it is still around and not too shabby once you clean it up a bit.

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[banpei]

(08-23-2022 01:19 PM)Ivan141 Wrote:  He's doing fine.. wife, 2 kids, no time.

Sounds very familiar...

[The Doctor]

Boring old gits

[Ivan141]

Vacation time is well and truly over, time to get back to work.

Bondo artist Dennis was in the shed again, finishing off his work on the left rear quarter.



While he was busy doing that, I resumed work on the bonnet. Took it back to bare metal on the top. Toyota used some crazy hard to remove paint on these cars, took a bit of doing. Also hammered out a little dent I created last time I worked on it.


And to finish the day off, a round of epoxy primer everywhere.



Now would you look at that:


To do:
Panel prep work (metal finish any bumps out of it, sand and paint inside, primer outside):
-Bonnet
-Trunklids
-Doors
-Front fenders

[banpei]

Nice work and it looks so much better now that it's covered in primer!
BTW I also spotted earlier this week on Marktplaats Dennis is selling some of his excess stock rims including the Azev rims that used to be on Auntie Celica. Did he already manage to sell those? (not that I'm interested in buying them back again. )

[Ivan141]

I think he did sell them, but I'm not sure. He just bought some 280ZX rims like mine for his KE50 recently, so I can see why he would need to get rid of some others.

Hope to post a small update on the interior works soon, another thing I'm filling my workdays with when I cant work on the car itself.

[The Doctor]

He sold the tires, not sure about the wheels. But there are only 3 of them anyway as 1 didn't survive a little oops with a brake caliper a few years ago.