Jarrad's AE86 resto project

[Mirko]

Nice dude where u get mud flaps from? P.s fitting motor so I catching up lol

[drift kid]

This id going to be the coolest little 86 out, so jealous

[Jrad]

Mud flaps are original ae86 ones - I have the front and rear set of them. 3 came with the car, was missing one and one was chewed up by a dog. But a while back a guy was selling a mixed box of ae86/ke70/ke55/ke30 bits on eBay. He had no idea what was in there, so i paid $10 and bought it all. Only wanted the mud flaps.

They originally had "toyota" written on them, but I measured up the Levin logo in illustrator and got the stickers made up.

[Jrad]

Here's a pic of the bumpers, went and checked them out today.
They came up really good in terms of finish - just not masked how I wanted.
Some people wouldn't care, etc. But I want the car to be how it should be in certain aspects.



Masked up how a zenki panda bar should be, ready for paint:

[drift kid]

I'm so glad that you corrected that, it really does make a difference

[johl]

absolutely agree. the front bumper, panda line on the arches and the thin line around the fuel door makes the paint job

[ae8zn6]

Incorrectly copied panda paint jobs should be called 'sad panda'... +1 for making a huge difference.

Glad to see you didn't just go with the easy option of accepting it as it was.

[Jrad]

YES! YES! YES!




...and fixed!

[Big T]

Looks soooo much better. Loving the attention to detail all over the build. Will be so worth it once it's all together.

[Jrad]

Thanks Big T! I hope so.

The only thing that I may want to go back over and re-work later is the engine bay. I didn't do it to begin with because:
a) no idea where, what or how i was going to set things up in the first place
b) the time schedule of it.

If you dear readers haven't seen this video, sit aside 15 mins and check it out. Some nice cars/bays and a few interesting topics talked about.