ae85 fiend

Just go AES ( auto electrical Spares ) paramount drive, henderson.

building backs onto moutn shop

tell them your a friend of Liam and he sent you, they'll sell you the parts or starters you need at good good prices. 

4 hours ago, Lord Gruntfuttock said:

Got a shed....?

Its got a rough lean too.

The old man is going to be building a big shed ( 200-250sq ) bottom floor with living accomodation to hoard stuff over the next couple years. 

But currently, no. Haha

8 hours ago, Toddy415 said:

Welcome to the south, you too can now start collecting more projects than you need in your life like the rest of us down here.

Maaaate, already there. Puegeot 106, AE86, TE31, AA60 Carina, Triumph Dolomite.. 

Ah awesome! Good to know theres some people actaully down there 

I've put in an offer on a house, and am settling end of April.

I work remotely, so I'll be living and working at home for a weee while.

Question, IS there any southland people on here? 

Do you guys do catch ups etc?

Spur of the moment moving down there, was trawling trademe and found a place I liked, so put in an offer and yeah.......

We got  a branch in Invercargil, which if possible I might try work out of a few days a week to have some communication with people rather than spreadsheets haha. 

I may or may not have an old car ( probably just my peugeot 106 ) for down there as rest will stay up in auckland. 

1C manual toyota corolla / corona / carina.

Keep the speedo connected and claim the diesel ks, or disconnect the speedo and no need to claim the k's, if thats what your into.

You'll never have to worry about speeding tickets ever again either. 

I am hoping to have car running by then, just did the heat wrap on headers, and sat there struggling trying to fit them into stupid TE31 for a couple hours.

Mark ( AE25 ) is also running his japanese annual meet on the 17th Jan, so might be of an interest to you lot? If i don't come in my TE31 ( will be its second outing in maaaaany years ) i'll come in porsche for a burger haha.

On 25/07/2020 at 09:00, Griffe said:

Nice!  Good to see someone finally picked it up and is doing something with it.  Where’d you pick up the shocks from?

I work for partmaster so just buy everything through work.

Can price you up a set if your interested? Just catalogued em today so should show up on a rego search on our website now. 

Can also do various monroe ones, but the prices jump up heeeeeeaps.

give Partmaster a call.

Ask for Jared.

Tell him exactly what you want

And i'll get him to try sort you out a decent price if we've got anything suitable.

On 24/07/2020 at 21:12, Dolan said:

Nice. Neat little cars. My sister had a 1.4xsi the same colour for a few years. Love the topendy feel that tu engines have. 

You’ll  need 15s to clear those brakes? 

 

even to clear the 266s? Shiiiit

I didn't bother reading too much or measuring.

Just merely went to work and ordered the junk.

Worse comes to worse, i'll try find some 15" minilite reps or something

I've started ordering parts

Got me a exedy clutch, all new shocks, got a brake upgrade, threebond cleaner all turned up

Got a front lip to mod and put on too.

Waiting on my short shifter, gear linkages, new key and lowering springs to turn up.

Using Early 206 GTi Rotors & Calipers, so goes from a 244mm to a 266mm vented + bigger calipers ( was hoping to go to the 288 but realised the wheels were only 14" so unsure if they'd fit )  So they'll be cleaned, painted & rebuilt. New Rotors & pads.

The shocks are a crazy funny length, the rears are tiny. Like 320mm extended.

I don't have anything oldschool that actually drives ( legally drives ) TE31 being panel beated and painted, AE86 can't drive more than 20kph or bonnet flies up haha, carina has a stuck clutch. 

Got a porsche that can come in, am I allowed to park downstairs or something like it was few years ago hahah

1 hour ago, locost_bryan said:

I've heard good things about Huggins Upholstery in Swanson.

Thats literally like a kilometer up the road, i'll pop in and see what he's like, if not i'll drive em down to hamilton and organise with the old school fella 

Cheers everyone great help

Hey dudes,

Wondering if anyone has had any luck with seat reupholsters in auckland? 

Finally found two rough as seats for my ae86, and would like them done back to factory.

Anyone know of a shop / homers that does this in auckland ( prefer west/ city / shore ) 

Recommendations would be mean ( I know its a daft question, but how much should i be looking at to get them redone - i imagine entire skin would have to be replaced, $500, $1000? )

Cheers

On 6/26/2018 at 14:30, locost_bryan said:

Paint stripper (from the car painter, to match the paint brand used) and a bamboo skewer to scrape the softened paint out of the stamped letters/numbers.

Isn't the chassis number also stamped on the floor under the driver's seat?  And somewhere else on the chassis (to prevent cut-and-shut rebuilds)?

ah really? I'll have a geez

Evenin,

got a lot of problems, one being the muppet who got my AE86 painted, painted over the chassis number on firewall.

Now I've tried lightly sanding over part of it to reveal AE86 - XXX something can't remember, but I don't want to take the risk of damaging any further.

Anyone able to point me in a direction/ method to use without screwing the chassis number etc? 

I don't have a vin as was bought into the country before they got the little tags etc?

I've got the chassis number on the cert plate, which was taken off when it was sprayed.

Wondering if paint stripper would be the best course of action?

Or is the number on cert tag gonna be proof enough? The numbers you can read match up in the same position etc as displayed on the cert? Just kind of worried..

10 hours ago, rotormotor said:

Relaxing over a cold craft beer in Welly yesterday being entertained by the daily activities of the resident street sleeping/glue sniffers I snapped a celly pic of Initial D clone Trueno

 

 

Wonder if thats the F20C powered one, two years ago there was an ae86 trueno hatch with the initial d logo etc on it, sold for less than 10k i believe certed etc, pretty sure it went to a dude in wellington..

friend started to do some work on the cheap chinese TDR replica wing that came with it.. 

trying to look something like this as an end game goal ha

Have done a little bit of work, but have lost all motivation..

Bought some more stuff from japan, waiting on my new window clips to turn up for the glass to be chucked in..

Bought some new weather seals - the hard U shaped ones for the doors from ali express ( like $12 for 4m rolls lol )

Also been trying to find the rest of the plastics i'm missing..

Also been splicing the 20v blacktop loom, which is my first ever attempt at wiring - its prob gonna be a fuck up, but i guess thats how you learn..

Sold the alloy 86 radiator for a rx3 one instead, have also undercoated the entire inside aside from roof before chucking in the interior..

bought a sweet as bonnet strut thing off ebay haha, new stainless exhaust and some gauges through work, trying to decide if i wanna put in the center console or hide in glovebox, also sandblasted / heated/ painted the center console, but used a gloss black haha might re do it a matt or something else instead..

Slightly random, but i do this for a living, been learnign how to use old lathes, a mill, trying to start to learn to weld alloy with tig... can't wait till they teach me how to rewind rotors/ stators/ armatures haha...

Anyway,

Ford Zephyr Starter.. Original.. And denso gear reduction replacement for it..

We make these at work for ANYTHING and everything, done a few for rolls, a ferrari, heaps of old lada's + a 16.1:1 datsun race engine haha..

Pretty much take the customers sample to make up a gasket, and do some measurements and then make up a housing and then a heat up and tap fit plate ( welded if really needed - but not usually needed )

They look ace once been blasted and then skimmed on the lathe so shiney etc ( not like the one below forgot to take pic of it finished haha )

Maybe some of you dudes appreciate it - i find them quite fun to make  and the customers always love not cranking the shit out of there old fucked starters haha

Am after a mobile glass installer dude, or even someone thats close? ( i'm in Ranui, West Auckland )

Anyone have any recommendations / cashies / a turn on the sister or something? 

Need, windscreen, rear windscreen and two windows done in my AE86. 

Not sure if smith&smith etc would do it, but that'll be last port of call... 

1 hour ago, cletus said:

Probably ok. Their stuff is usually good quality

Would need a more thorough ($) inspection due to the possible changes in geometry due to s13 spindles/ steering arms etc

You'd need it up on a hoist before anything else though eh? Currently trying to get mine wired up so can have ya come inspect it. Txted ya about 6 weeks ago about the carina

Hi Clint,

Are these certifiable mate?

Just I run cut and welded arms in my AA60 carina hatch, so was thinking about using these instead.

https://technotoytuning.com/toyota/ae86/gtx2-front-lower-control-arms-conversion-s13-spindles

many thanks

liam

Its weird eh? Like actually doing stuff hahaha, ordering some new lights etc so will do your HID mods to the front, and trying to find a factory PFL front lip to whack onto it, gotta replicate the sunroof moutn as there's only one which i'll try do at work after my holiday and then off to auto sparky once i've finished relocating dizzy and have had the glass in! haha i've sandblasted like EVERYTHING that's plastic in the way of interior, and heating that up to paint as we speak in the spare oven downstairs haha.