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Loving your thread. Don't get too attached to that swaybar. Once the 2TG goes in, it won't fit anymore.

Spent the last week or so resurrecting my drivers side door trim. Picked up some GTV door trims from Japan cheap. When they got here, the passenger side trim was in really good nick other than some tenacious white marks that looked like paint fingermarks..... But with a serious attack of spray and wipe, plus a little white spirit in places, it came up really well. Unfortunately the drivers side board was very poor, and the vinyl had a few splits here and there, not too bad but still. Decided to cannibalise my ADM door trim which seemed an obvious thing to do. Can't make it simply out of MDF or whatever as there is some shaped pressed into it. BUT, the actual height of the board is about 2cm taller although otherwise the same profile. So cut a strip of MDF and reinforced it with another strip. This reinforcement strip then had to be planed down to provide clearance inside the door. The actual vinyl at the bottom of the door is the same colour and pattern as the ADM doorcard, so i cut pieces out and used these to reinforce the splits and holes. The foam was badly deteriorated so out to Clark Rubber for some thin foam. That's a trap, as there are always various bits of rubber you discover that you can't do without.... Some spray adhesive and it was ready to go back together. The vinyl is held on with staples, but unfortunately they are very short pronged staples. Out to Bunnings to by a staple gun, but the shortest staples they had were 6mm long which went all the way through the board. Out again and tried my luck at the newsagent. Bingo! 4mm staples, $15 a box. Oh well, if I resurrect 100 more door trims, I will still have enough staples. The trim has now come up really well. Otherwise, have opened the factory sunroof by winding it open with a screw driver to replace the plastic locating lug that retains the wind deflector. That snapped long ago, and multiple attempts to fix it by glueing were a complete waste of time. Then I noticed that SV11 Camry's often have factory sunroofs with the same wind deflector design. The deflector is too long, but the retaining arms are almost the same (fractionally shorter on the end). Punched out the pin in the retainer lug with a mini punch, swapped it over. Fixed! Now I need to install the inner roof panel I had been looking for for years after throwing the old warped one out. May need to take out the sunroof but will see how I go. Also looking at completing refurbishment of my power mirrors. I have two pair. One is the earlier design via the USA, but the RH mirror had the "objects in the mirror look closer than they are' stencilled into it. So smashed the glass trying to remove it to replace with the ADM glass. Oh well. I notice the mirror has a convex curvature in it. I have a replacement factory glass, but only for the left hand side. The other mirrors are the swoopier later design. These have a different wiring plug so will have to work out which wire is which and rewire them. Have cleaned them up with some bumper filler and now need to spray them up. As is common, they had a degree of aluminium corrosion along the bottom, but this sanded off nicely. As I am not putting the radio back in, I have a double DIN box from an AE92, but depending on what this is like, I may instead put some extra gauges there instead at a later date. Now starting to think tyres, as the Y352's on there aren't round anymore. Not sure that there is much in the way of a sticky 14 inch tyre in the 185 - 195 size. Would be keen on some Advan's but not available any more? Edit: perhaps most importantly, I have sorted out my garage doors and can now open them, so I will actually be able to get the car out! And the KE15 in.

I wouldn't mind betting Jip has looked into this previously?

Search around, it's on here somewhere. Just swapping a few wires and adding a tacho feed.

That's about right. Although the broken tab at the top makes it less desirable and the condition doesn't look amazing, although that could be the photo. Pretty common for them to snap there. Good bargaining chip, especially if you buy both. There is some small fiddling reconfiguring your wiring, covered elsewhere on rollaclub from memory

Hard to tell but it looks like the tripmeter knob is a little damaged. No biggy. Try to get a look at the rear of it and make sure their is no obvious damage to the circuits etc. But probably good buying at that price, assuming it works.

This is a TE27 dash cluster. They routinely sell for about $450 if in good condition.

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Sounds like the carbs need some serious balancing

Yes, keep the diff, assuming it is a T series. If it has coil springs in the rear it will be a T. Keep the tailshaft as you will want the front and rear yokes. You may get away without having to narrow the diff as the TA22 T series is only marginally wider than a TE27 T series, as long as you don't go too wide or silly with offset.. You will however need to remove the spring seats and have leaf spring mounts added, so keep your KE25 diff and cut the spring seats off that. If you leave the panhard rod mount on the diff, you could try welding a mount to the chassis so you can add a panhard rod! Obvious advantage is that you can bolt in a LSD from an AE86 which are readily available. And there are various diff ratios available. I believe TE27's used a 4.3 which most T series AE86's ran standard so your tacho dash speedo will read properly! Just make sure you get an earlier Zenki centre, as the axle sizes got bigger in the later kouki diffs. I have a TE27 tailshaft here, plus a TE27 axle housing on the way, so if you need specific measurements, happy to take these for you. If you get real excited, there are rear disc conversions via Toymods that don't look too hard.

Be a bit wary about doing too much with the steering box. There are a few seals and so on in there, you will really struggle to source. Concentrate on your bushings, tierods etc first

It's highly likely the vacuum advance mechanism would be removed for anything 'non standard'

Just get the dizzy recurved at an ignition specialist. Take all the guess work out of it. Your dizzy needs to be tuned to suit the other characteristics of your engine. You have seen what using a dizzy tuned for a van is doing to your performance. Think how good it will be if you get it recurved properly. http://www.performanceignition.com.au/order-and-delivery

I also agree with you that adding camber for looks is stupid. That, in combination with bump steer induced by your making the front "very low" will likely end up with you wrapped around a power pole

Hmm, yes none of that ever got mentioned in the rather vague description when it was up for sale. ' Really looking forward to watching your progress with this one. Good luck with your inspection!

If it is the one that was kicking around, I could never understand why the guy didn't just do the work it required. Will be a great car, and how many of these do you see here?

Agree with both of you. Problem in a KE20 however, is the minimal amount of room within the strut tower which means you can barely move the strut inwards before it hits the body. Camber tops really require a coilover setup, and if you go to that trouble, may as well swap over to AE86 struts.

I had a look at one I have here out of the car. No drain plug. There is no facility to drain the oil with the steering column in the car. Also checked the factory manual. Possibly you could take out the adjustment cam and get inventive with a syringe and some plastic tube, but would be hard to aspirate it with that grade of oil.

Looks like a great deal, but only if you want to do it.

Sorry to take your thread off topic there a bit. I agree with all of the above. It's your car, do it the way you like it. My thing is to "improve" my cars with period mods only. No dumping, stretched tyres, coilovers and so on for me. But that's me. Hell you could go with the oil cooler on the front of your car with the fake oil lines if you want. I might shake my head, but who cares. If you like it, that's all that matters.

http://www.theage.co...00406-rpeu.html Strange but true. Even stranger, is the fact that the guy lay on top of the wombat to stop it attacking him.............. Not sure what the hell was going on there. And if anyone on here knows the guy, .......... well I don't really know what to say. No, you got there first, don't want to start off some sig rage :laff:

You bastard! I was too slow. But I do love my wombat

Agreed! Might need to update my sig.

Advertise them on AE86DC and you can retire on the Takumi tax. They were also standard fitment on the AE86 Black Limited edition.