Project from Denmark

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Making this work-log to share my restoration of a AE86, that have been in my possession since 98... Its a Kouki model from 1986, previous owner has fitted a wrong front to it, never noticed it, before I started to research for my restoration of it.

My plan was to make a complete restoration of the car, and give it a lite JDM style look, I will paint the car in the blue metallic the new GT86 comes in. I think that will be a cool choice, and the engine bay will be white metallic. Under the car plain white, with white rubber skin to protect it. It will only be a summer car, so it will never see snow or salt again.

A lot of rust have accumulated on my AE86, so that is going to take some time get rid of it...

This is how it looked in April of 2011, made rear fenders in 2008, but had to stop due to the financial crisis... Crap

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Made the first rust work in a driveway, not the best site when it rains most of the summer...

The engine room, doesn't look that good, all the parts are rusted and just look bad. The engine has a bad 4th cylinder, so that will have to be renovated to.







The interior is in pretty good shape, only the sun visors have been damaged during the past few years, where it just have stood in a driveway. Oh. and some idiot has put in a sun roof, that now leaks, (FINDING A NEW ROOF ISN'T EASY)





More rust



The panels are rusted all the way trough, and even some of the main support beneath the car. there's a lot of work there.



Starting to make the rust go away
I am cutting sections of 600mm out, and bending a new panel to be welded in.





The floor and main support has rusted a lot, made the main support perfectly, but the floor don't look that good, so I will redo it later this year (2012)







Made a lot of rust, and gave it some primer to protect it, all the area that has got the grey primer, has been build up with new sheet metal.









A bit more rust on the drivers side... Its just so much fun



The passengers side, don't look that much better then the drivers side did, a lot of rust... Again I will redo the floor later this year. :wink:



A pretty big hole, took me a lot of time to close it again. (Have supported the hole car beneath, so that it didn't get out of line)





Started to close to rusted area.





And last some primer to close it up for the winter.