Reply With Quoteoh and forgot to mention the scratch on the bonnet happened two days after it was painted my horse must have thought the car was grass or something and tried to eat it
AE71 slant front
JDM Quads
yeah in those videos I had only owned her about a year and had never really liked the paint job hence why I spent the man hours myself sanding her all back and then got camo to paint her the custom green its based off the hot house green but I slightly tweaked it as a friends dad owns harts paints in springwood and he did it for me the flake well im female and we love sparkly things lol.......
oh and forgot to mention the scratch on the bonnet happened two days after it was painted my horse must have thought the car was grass or something and tried to eat it
Yeah, scratch still there, no surface rust though?
I only painted it last year June and I had taken it right back to bare metal and there was no surface rust other than around the back window plates but completely removed the rust from there and resealed the plates and rust treated it before repainting the car
Beer hunch says CRS Hilux 1UZ mounts fits 4A engine cross member and clears most things!
Watch this space !
whats the update on Mona? god is miss the old girl hahaha
Techno Tuning Billet Knuckles
So its been a while, I have sat on this build for close enough 5 years, and finally I am able to get
going on it.
I couldn't find another set AE86 Power steering knuckles (have a set but RHS one is damaged).
I went with a more expensive option and bought Techno Tuning Billet Knuckles.
When I received them I was impressed with the quality and shocked at the beefy thickness of them.
Instantly I realized that the bolt length that locate the knuckles to the bottom of the strut was going to be an issue.
I emailed TTT and got a response stating that the stock bolts would work, but if not I should be able to find longer replacements.
So I bolted them up and this is what I saw.
Stock Bolts
Stock bolt mounted up to lower strut mount.
Alarm bells rang, NFW was I going to use the stock bolts with the TTT knuckle.
So I went to the bolt shop hoping I could find longer high tensile bolts with similar shank in same thread.
And these babies are what I got in 8.8.
So I test fitted these and am pretty happy with the results.
Probably 5mm too long, but its not going to interfere with anything so they can just stay like that.
Last edited by Futo_gt86; 18th July 2017 at 12:50 PM.
Cut The Blue Wire
So when I originally purchased the shell as a roller, I knew I had a mammoth task of sorting out the wiring.
When the car was originally built things like central locking, alarm, gadgets and dohickies had been installed.
Then when the car was parted out, the loom was just chopped with gay abandonment.
I looked at it for hours, then I decided stuff it, I'm not even going to try attempt it, I'm just going to remove
both engine bay and cabin wiring looms, and find a donnor car (a KE70 Wagon) and bring its engine bay and
cabin wiring across to it, and thats what I've done.
Unfortunately I couldn't quite wrap my head around mating up the AE71 van tacho dash wiring with the KE70
wagon cabin loom, So I just bit the bullet and used the KE70 clock cluster instead.
The original Van dash was destroyed, So I sourced a good sedan dash that was beige, which did not match my
light grey on dark grey interior. I bought a couple of VHT Vinyl dye spray cans and went about changing the colour.
I found that this stuff, in dark grey, can be a bitch to lay evenly if you don't shake the absolute shit out of it before use.
All in all, it turned out pretty good, and would recommend it to any one wanting to paint interior parts.
I bolted up my Nardi Steering wheel (pretty sure its a fake) to a random boss I had, and then mounted up a Recaro LS seat out of a Toyota Surf.
Cabin Wiring is now complete, engine bay is getting there.
A Microtech ECU configured to run 4 coils is installed, but I still have to finish off some of the wiring.
Looks messy now, but once I have all laid out, I will pretty it all up with conduit and tape.
I got a AE71 Specific GTI branded alloy radiator and bolted it up.
I took a risk buying it, its not for my year model. Thinking nah, they're all the same, I ordered it.
When I went to mount it, only the top 2 bolt holes on the rad support lined up, so some custom mounts will have to be made to mount it properly.
And thats all for now, I'll try to update this as I get to it.
Last edited by Futo_gt86; 22nd April 2019 at 05:15 PM.
Its good to see the shell is still around. I originally built this car nearly 15 years ago. The wiring was my first attempt at wiring. Where is the car located now???
Out Ipswich way man. Its coming along in leaps and bounds.
You could tell that who ever did the wiring new what they were doing, its just when it got parted out that shit got hacked up.
It's all sorted now, taking a full loom from a donor car was the easiest/cheapest option available to me.
I thought that a high roof KE70 wagon loom would be direct replacement, but turned out to be bit different.
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