Mitch.W

I was just looking at this today! It seems decent, I I've just been trying to figure out how to get the tablet to charge while in the car as that usually seems to be the issue with running tablets

With a bit more tidying up of the wiring, I mounted up the modern motorcycle company headlight and Speedo that came with the bike. I found an old motorcycle guard I had laying around and trimmed that down, drilled and tapped the fork brace for Acouple of mounting hole bought a polished aluminium guard off aliexpress for the rear which was actually good quality, welded acouple of tabs on and mounted that up. went and took acouple of beauty shots of it.

So next up was to get rid of the horrible seat. I would generally make a new subframe and fibreglass seat base and get the seat trimmed. I wanted to get this bike done quick and found out some people use a sr400 nitroheads sest that fits on the stock subframe and luckily some en in Nz had one they never used on a project. I shaved all unused brackets off the bike, made a new number plate mount, mounted a nice billet tail light I had laying around and also some aliexpress led indicators for $15 they are billet and quite small/bright and mounted them up under the subframe. Slapped a coat of flat black on and mounted it up ended up getting a set of mid rise renthal tracker bars, whipped the fork legs off and chucked new seals in them as they were leaking. I also wanted to mount the battery somewhere different, on my last bike I mounted it under the bike behind the sump, it looked clean but my exhaust plans for this bike didn't allow that location I went with a power road lifep04 and made up a quick bracket just under the seat. im terrible at taking progress photos but in the last photo you can see on the right I also have an ignition tucked up under the fuel tank pit of sight

So, to get up to speed on this rig, it was bought to be a quick flip but now I'm attached soooo I'll keep it. my main goal was to get in a month or so of riding in in summer... that didn't happen. slapped some more bog on the tank and gave it a prime and painted the underside black. Then had to decide on a colour, I ended up going with Toyota 033 which is a nice off white/eggshell colour, got it mixed up in a proper 2k aerosol can from RJP here in Christchurch, quite cool has a little button on the bottom to activate the hardner and only around $40 a big can. paint ended up laying down half decent it just needs a bit of a wet sand but looks good enough for me. also managed to track down an air box cover from a guy in Wellington who use to cast them out of aluminim, luckily i got the last one as he is no longer producing them. before after it tidys the motor up a bunch, also slapped a quick coat of paint on the rocker covers while I was there.

Yeah I'm not too fussed about stock cluster as I won't use 90% of it. a link dash would be amazing but I don't feel like spending 2k on a psp i can't play any games on

Yeap have ditched the canbus, was eaiser than trying to keep it happy with abs and power steering etc and piggy back stuff I have learnt I can setup the power steering to work in "limp mode" which is what everyone seems to do and have good success with it abs has just gone in the bin too

Dragged this thing home this weekend, ripped into clearing out all the parts that had been thrown in it and get the car to a decent starting point tail lights - $50 after a quick clean, Also threw the steering column, dash, centre console and steering wheel to give me a little motivation. I found it super weird the lack of sound deadening compared to old cars, I'm not complaining as I hate having to chip that stuff out. I took the car to the car wash for a quick blast off before I got it home and it actually cleaned up relatively good, I threw some tail lights I had in there to make it feel like more of a car. I wish I could have weighed all the stuff I have removed from this but I will get it on scales at some point. next up is moutning the drivers seat, along with coming up with a plan where to mount the ecu, fuse box and pdm, I want to make a nice 3d printed pannel for the centre console to mount all of this. also tossing up weather I need to splash out of a digital dash, or just go with a nice tacho and a link can gauge or somthing minimal.

They are a good chassis! You can always keep an eye out for a good shell 👀 Ive just picked up some cheap 10 year old 245/40 semislicks for mock up purposes for exactly this reason haha

While I'm on a roll I've been thinking how to tackle the wiring on this car, with it being modern and having canbus etc. the factory ABS needs the ecu to see the speed and all that data to work so the easiest option in my head is to just CTL+ALT+DEL all of the original wiring and abs out of the car. I had a link monsoon left over from my old 4age that I've had tucked away, a cartek pdm which is a very simple 4 10a channel solid state relay setup which will be good and to run everything else saw KPR run one of these on his ae85 and thought they looked like a tidy way to do relays/fuses, can't beat aliexpress pricing. im terrible at wiring so this is going to be the major learning curve for me wiring everything from scratch and I would really like to do it all myself as a challange. - link - free? Bought with a 4age setup and kept it/sold the 4age for how much I bought it for minus the ecu - cartek pdm - $150 second hand - aliexpress fuse/relay box - $58.60 someone smarter than me will beable to tell me but 10 outputs should be enough, tail/brake lights, ecu power, semister/blower, starter motor, fuel pump, radiator fans, coils. Is there anything else I could be missing. I've been trying to find some nice but not super expensive switches/button pad too. Not something i reallly want to fail.

Hopefully it works out well. The car should have good potential hopefully! they are getting really cheap at the moment! Can pick up manual wof/rego cars for $13k or so

Yeah with being the same rear end as a grb Subaru and with the gr86 series supplying a plethora of parts along with gt86 owners being good at crashing its made a good market for them! I was considering v10 sti brembos with nice discs and pads as they all bolt up to the car now and again, cheap and plentiful I currently have some leads on afew carbon moulds a friend of mine made for someone so hopefully I can get my hands on them! My main focus is getting it light, I would love to get it to around 1000kg which is would be a reasonable weight for the 3s. It was written off due to damage but talking to a panel beater friend it wouldn't be too bad to get complied again, unsure if I want to go down that rabbit hole. There will be some big ticket items that I simply can't skimp on if I want the car to be decent, I'm really focusing on getting the car finished then hopefully devolep it with nicer parts as I drive it.... if I ever finish it

Annnnnd the last 4-5 months I have been buying unnecessary/necessary things for the car - blacktop itbs on 3sge manifold - $250 - key's racing wheel - $250 - bride zero ms carbon aramid shell and 6 point takata harness - $1500 the bride seat is super co and only 2 years old along with the harness's so still in date!

First thing to do was work on getting this thing rolling so I could get it home. Started looking for some parts on marketplace place - blitz coilover - $150 - black racing n1 in 17x9 +30 - $500 - grb sti rear hubs to convert to 5x114 - $50 - gk tech front hubs to convert to 5x114 - $400 now it's rolling I can finally drag the thing home and start digging into it properly. plans for here are empty the thing out, it still has 90% of its interior so if anyone need anything flick me a dm. I have a j160 and hopefully a spicy 3sge sorted because it's currently the best/most cost Effictive combo at the moment, I did consider ez30... and ofcourse 2zz, 2gr but still went back to 3sge for how simple/cheap they are. a bit of inspiration on ow I would like this thingg to end up looking, the main downside currently is aftermarket body kits are still super expensive and not very abundant at the moment. a guy in Aus has just started making mount kits to throw 3sge's in the zn6 chassis, they look simple enough so I will probably just make my own and try get the motor sitting in a bit better of a position

So thread dredge, ended up finishing this bike and wanting to build other things so flicked it on. recently I came across a cheap 1988 r80 TIC (ex Nz police bike) on market place in a sad condition, very little information but rego on hold for the last 12 years and he sent a video of it running so I decided to take a gamble. he had started to modify it yeas ago with a skateboard seat and other bits but never got any further. it came with a bunch of new parts, carb rebuild kits, new oils seals etc which was worrying. Also came with some other parts, aftermarket headlight, speedo etc

So after abandoning my ke70 race car and still having the itch to build something. I took awhile and hunted for some good candidates and ended up picking up this cheap gt86 with minor front end damage not old, but cheap, and parts abundant which is a nice change... and no rust. I purchased it non rolling so first port of call was to scour market place and pick up some parts. what ive found is the the best part about gt86's is how cheap parts are. really trying to build this thing on a tight budget so will keep track in this thread. - gt86 shell - $700 it was lookin pretty rough and bare when I first went to look at it but the main damage is very minimal, will most likely end up with a tube upper radiator support/headlight mounts to keep it simple