Awesome, love your work, color is great too, sometimes the simple things are the best!

top work bloke!! lloks the goods. howd the quality come up? any crap in the colour? as in fallout from the shed?

also what did you go with for the paint.? acrylic?

That's a great shine for out of the gun no buff. :)

 

Good work, Keep the pics coming.

wow thanks for the kind comments guys! Appreciate it heaps.

 

It is a major milestone for me, its the first car I bought (been through a few since then) and ive nearly had it 3 years and its the first time its actually looking good haha :)

 

Yea hangin hard to put it back together.

Actually started but stopped as I realized its going to take me forever to clean up all my nuts and bolts, so I'm taking it all to get professionally cleaned and anodized.

 

can't ruin a quality job with greasy bolts....

 

Yea its a great shine, my dads got a few tricks up his sleeve, used to paint cars for a living, back in the early days.

 

Paint is just Acylic. Paint quality turned out say 98% killer, got a few runs which we have rubbed out and repainted and couple of tiny specks of dust on the roof.

 

Man we cleaned that shed top to bottom, took us all day to clean it.

 

Tonight got the bootlid painted, came up sweet, still got boot, bonnet, and doors to go.

 

Cheers

Tally

Ok so everything is now painted, boot, bonnet and doors all done, came out insane!

 

Started putting it back together! this is going to be a fun :bash: hahah nah I'm looking forward to it.

 

Just dropped off all my bolts and bits to get acid cleaned and silver passivate plated.

 

 

Also got all new front end to go in to the car:

 

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Looks shmick mate ! I'm soooooo jealous, I really want to get mine in topcoat before the weather turns colder here in Melbourne.

looks great, can't wait to see it out in some sunlight

Hey guys thanks, appreciate it.

 

Now I been putting in a few hours every night getting the front end together.

 

First off I got all my nuts and bolts aswell as bonnet and boot latch acid dipped and electroplated a silver passivate. Came up brand new!

 

 

Then got stuck into putting it back together.

So far installed engine crossmember, radius/castor rod brackets, sway bar, LCA's, AE86 PS arms and steering stuff, idler arm, tie rods etc.

 

Still got to grease and tourqe it all. All new utherane bushes throughout.

 

It's a good feeling :blinks:

 

2moro install ae86 struts and get it rolling.

 

Thats bloody awesome. Your an inspiration :blinks: i love what you have done with the bolts too.

Ok so got my AE86 struts in, bolted in no probs with KE25 strut top hats and with a 1mm adapter in the balljoint hole of the PS steering knuckles.

 

 

torqued my balljoint to steering knuckle to 50 ib, LCA to crossmember 60 ib, and steering knuckle to strut 50 ib, sound about right? That's what the book says so I guess so lol

 

I don't need to use Locktite or anything do I?

 

Went down to u pull it the other day and picked up a pair of 14" ra40/60 Celica stockies, tires are way too big at 195/70/R14, they are worn out anyway so thinking some 185/60/R14 tires.

 

 

So yea basically just waiting on some bushes for my castor/radius rods and sway bar.

 

Progress is going good so should be done in no time...

 

Dad wants to rebuild my 4K and port and polish it as he used to do it on all his VW's back in the day lol. Should be sweet. Told him not to worry about a full engine rebuild but yea maybe some head work. Should be sweet.

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Hey Tally,

Looking great mate ! Are you runing standard KE25 disks on the AE86 struts or are they AE86 ones ?

Cheers,

Dougal

all AE86 man, the current discs are buggered and need replacing so new ones are in order...

hey mate top effort lookin siick

 

where abouts did ya get all ya nuts and bolts dipped and plated? and how much did it set ya back?

 

keep up the work and photos comin too :blinks:

+ 1 for for the passivate prices!

 

and wow that powdercoated stuff looks good!!! hehe

Mcloud plating in edwardstown, $150 all up for say a 3L bucket full. Worked out good. Although they really only do large amounts as minimum charge is $250.

 

Cheers luke for the powdercoating, overrated as job you did