Ivan's coupe: roof stuccowork

[Ivan141]

Small update report, havent been too busy around the car the past months, but I have been taking care of some small stuff to do with it.

Have been busy sorting all metal bits and pieces of the car, preparing them to be put back on the car.

Bolts & small brackets:
-Took all my bolts and brackets smaller than 20x20cm to a zinc plating firm called Duroc in Antwerp. Had them treated with their P1000 zinc flake coating which is awesomely resistant to rust.


Took a load of bigger brackets and all my seat frames (AE86 rear and MA70 fronts) to get sandblasted. Got a good price for getting it all powder coated while I was at it so I had that done as well.
Powder coated seat frames are a bit of an indulgance since you will never see them after the upholstry is fitted, but I just get carried away sometimes. The downside to the cheap powdercoating was that the guy took no effort to shield any threads so I have a lot of cleanup to do manually.

Got started on putting the pedals back together yesterday:


Couldnt finish the job as I'd left all my bolts at home, but they came together nicely after cleaning up all bores and threads.


The only new thing on the pedals will be the little rubber bumpstops that broke off during removal. I did change my pedal rubbers for some like-new ones I pulled of some random 80's Toyota in a wrecking yard eons ago (10+ years). Lucky I had them, new Toyota ones are north of 35€ a piece these days at the dealership.

The upholstery project is still ongoing. Still have one front seat left to do, then I need to figure out where my front door cards have dissappeared. Bought some blue ones off Djexor a long time ago but they are nowhere to be found in my stashes of 86 parts.