Family man's ae86

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So other little projects I have done for the car in the hopes of one day having a completed car to leave my boy.

I love the 80s lol. So much ugly going on. Following that thought, I managed to track down some honestly ugly seats.



R32 gtr seats. Retrimmed. Fucking ugly as all hell. Love it lol. We're pretty easy to fit in the end. But of measuring and some welding and they are all bolted in and the sliders work great

Other than that, I set about fitting the chrome bumpers and quad lights I had collected prior to getting sick..









I managed to stumble across a bit of coin. The Mrs gave me the ok to pump it into the ke. So I got a good condition 6speed box and an ecu to run things. This means I have the chance to learn how to wire up the ecu. Something I hope works well for my rehab. And just a sense of achievement learning a new skill (something that is very hard for me with the side effects I have)

The box needed something doing with the shifter. Again with measurments and a lot of internet googling looking at the position others have ended up with, I set abut relocating th 6speed shifter to come up through the stock hole.



This is what I ended up with. It's also my first aluminium welding outside tafe. Was happy with it. Again there are some amazing kits available but making things myself is both important to the spirit of this project, and saves me money lol.

I really want to be able to leave my finger prints on as much of this car as possible so my boy feels a real sense of attachment to it. The old screwdriver handle for the shifter is the first tool my boss bought me when i started my apprenticeship...



Some of the more mundane jobs on the little girl. Stitched some Velcro onto the old dash Matt lol. Sewing can ead. And cleaned up the rusty old wiper motors and gave them a lick of paint.

Oh and early on years ago I managed to ruin one of the stub axle threads.

So I managed to beg a strut of someone and set abit replacing the bottom on my coilovers...



A nice few days project and now back in the car with fresh bearings

The latest bit of work I managed was to complete the oil pic up relocation. Being a fwd engine, it was run at a serious slant. With the red sump, the ok pic up didn't come close to fitting. So with a bit of cut and shut she now sits nicely 10mm of the floor of the sump.





Thanks for viewing my friends

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Ok so apologies that doesn't make any sense. I had another post before this one but I seem to have managed to delete it. I'll redo it so this makes some sense guys ...



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