palmystar

How do i pull the doors off my escort panel van?

Do i just push the pin of the hinge out or is it more complicated than that?

when i first saw the new ae86 i thought it looked like a stretched echo. after another look or two maybe not. but deffinately not the best first impression.

Cool they trying something rwd.

Name : Aaron

Location: Palmerston North

Cars you own: EX Lancer, Starion, MK2 Escort panel van, EG Civic sedan

Mods to them (can be brief or detailed): Too Many

Link to pics: Thread in projects

How you found out about oldschool: I can't remember but i'm here now.

Hey man this is cool. gotta love the EX's. the painted bumpers look good. so much better than the plain plastic black. someone had the right idea

Yes deffinately going to make it less pink. Have no idea what colour i will go for atm. but have plenty of time to decide on that.

Yeah gaurds look to be fibreglass. but hard to tell with the flares added. I wasn't to keen on the flares aswell but they look allot better in the flesh. will be interesting trying to match up a front bar to them though.

But won't have to worry for a while as there is still work to be done on the lancer. and also have an escort panel van i'm doing up a little. so i'm busy as. haha

Got another project so gona be hard to stay focused on the lancer

Decided to get rid of the shitty 1200 gauge cluster and replace with a 1600 one which has a tacho and oil pressure. was hoping it would be a straight swap but they had different plugs so had to do some wiring.

Looks way better and saves me heaps on aftermarket gauges

Then onto the wheels. Had sold the previous 14s with the low profile tyres because they shortened the gearing two much. So had a set of white 14s with larger tyres on them.

Time to spruce them up a little.

Started with taking the centres out and polishing the lips.

Then painted the insides black

Also decided i needed a black bonnet to match the roof.

So far has come together nicely.

Then it was time to make it look a little better.

Started by painting behind the front bumper and grill. mainly to prevent rust.

Then decided it could use a black roof.

Didn't like the exhaust going over the diff so made a new one from the flexi back keeping it as straight as possible.

Took it in for a cert. had a reasonable list of things to do. Mostly minor things.

Also needed a driveshaft hoop so made one of those aswell

Everything else was done over a few weeks and finally got a cert and a wof.

Recently got my lancer on the road. but is still far from finished so heres what has been done so far.

It started life as a stock 1200 as most do. kept it in this state for around a year and then decided i needed something a little quicker. i was on a very small budget at the time so my cheapest option was to put a starion engine and gearbox in as my brother had recently written his off so brought the wrecked car off him for $300. good start. put the engine and gearbox in and running and drove it around as it was until the wof expired. Two years later after allot of gathering dust i finally got a cert and a wof.

Can't find any pics from before or during the conversion so will start from the start of the cert process.

Discussion https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/21812-palmystars-ex-lancer/&

While deciding on what suspension to use it was left with no springs sitting on 14s with low profiles.

if you can weld it youself it costs about $90 for a 6.5m length and roughly $60 for each 180degre manderal bend you need if not a bit cheaper.