My old cars
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The night I brought her home, i had a friend of mine tow it home for me.
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The car was in pretty rough shape. Stripped but Rolling. A blank canvas that I can take in which ever direction I wanted. i knew i wanted to keep it on a budget. with ae86 prices sky rocketing part outs were getting more common but people still want and arm and a leg. I would shop on forums and would jump on opportunities and cheap priced items and little by little the car began taking its original form.
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First was deciding a power plant. I wanted to go 4agze but could not find one at the time and was starting to get impatient looking for one. I was in the market for anything. 20v silvertop, `blacktop, beams, 2jz sr20. Anything! And I wanted it now but I wanted it cheap.this is where I’m going to lose most of you and that’s fine. A friend of mine had totaled his car and I volunteered to take his swap in exchange for some monies. And just like that the power plant had landed on my lap and it was time to start the build
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I couldn’t stand looking at the car. And I tend to do things backwards in life so instead of dealing with getting it up and running I decided to wrap it so it wouldn’t be such an eye sore.
First upgrade were some celica supras and some wrap
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Veryquickly learned that vinyl does not hide any imperfections. also its much easier having another set of hands. laying down the vinyl is easy i had no prior experience and its somewhat forgiving. for the vinyle i used Avery as i had read very good reviews and a local shop in LA called Mclogans had it in stock. The price is about $40-50 to do the hood i ended paying about $240 for the vinyl and was very wasteful with it. The vinyl had air buble release thus making it easy to install. Tools need are a felt squeegee and a heat gun.
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Yes I should’ve done some prep..... fml. the car was flat black so you couldnt see many imperfections but once the gloos silver laid on things started popping out. If i had to redue it i would have sanded it down and rattle canned the old paint to seal it, then apply the vinyl. Of course newer cars dont need to worry about this as their paint is newer and holding up, im just saying you probably dont want to apply it to your chalky paint
Looks a bit better at least. all one color. Something to keep me motivated
sprayed the wheels with some gun metal to stay busy. would definitely recommend duplicolor wheel coating if your looking for something quick and inexpensive. sanded them down to scuff them up then did a thin coat of primer then paint. i used 1 Can of duplicolor.
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and here we are!!! sr20det ae86. sr86. again this swap happened to fall on my lap while searching for a swap. It came off of my buddies s13 that had just been swapped days prior to it being dropped off the bed of a tow truck while being transported from the shop to his house. He had no choice but to give up on his project that was totaled from the fall and i was able to get a sweet deal. I jumped on the opportunity and days later i had it in my car. I removed the radiator support because I found it would be the easiest way to get the engine in by myself and let me just say. getting the motor in has been the easiest thing Ive had to do to this car.pushed it right in no struggling. i bought motor mounts and tran mounts off an ebay user named dr concept and at first i was very skeptical but they bolted right in and everything lined up.
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