Newera Imports AE86 Project - 1st Trackday, Tsukuba, Japan.

[Miguel - Newera]

It's really taking shape now...

The restrictive Jubiride K&N style filters have come off and the trumpets are back on again. Have lowered the front of the car around 15mm - to give more bite to the front wheels and help transfer weight from the back when braking..

Inside, I've put the carpet for the front part of the interior back in and refitted the centre console, together with a carbon leather gaiter and an ARC sperical titanium knob. Interior's looking spartan at the back, but cool at the front. The car sounds quieter, with no noticable difference in weight - The rear of the car remains completely stripped aside from the (This at the rear) sound proofing.





I've bought some carbon fibre with which to re-cover my cordroy stylee door inserts.....

Also waiting for the Bride seat rails to arrive so I can change the seats.. .any day now....

I've just spent the early evening finishing making up some brackets in carbon fibre and alloy to fit a neat retracting number plate kit....Also made some ducting for the oil cooler, in carbon fibre.

The number plate's easily visible almost flush against the mesh in the bumper recess, but when the car hits around 40 mph, the plate swings to the horizontal and is upside down...Slow the car down and it comes back into full view. It's all sealed behind the mesh and ducting and not really accessible.
No way anybody's going to realise what it does just by looking at it





I've shrouded the underside of the radiator too, with some old carbon sheet. On top there's now a Laile alloy radiator shroud too. Aside from packing some foam into the sides, it's all set for maximum cooling when being driven hard.
this week, we're waiting for a new Carbon J-Blood bonnet and a new steering wheel boss, to which I'll fit a new - quick release steering wheel attachment.



It's almost completed... ...

But a car's never completed, really