My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby yellowsnow4free » Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:15 am

shagymc wrote:The mirrors do just pop out however they are pretty fragile. I suggest kind of bending a corner and just slowly working the plastic off of it around the mirror.
This is the best video I've seen of how to twist the wires:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTJhrTTl-EE
You are going to want to tie off one end of the wires to something. I usually screw a screw in a little bit on the bench and then tie the strands to it. Just like the video shows, you'll then put the other two ends into the drill and tighten down. As you tighten, you'll have to move forward as the wire length shrinks. You'll also want to keep the wires taught as you do this to keep the twist even throughout.
Try it out with some scrap wire first! Hope this helps and thanks for the feedback. Hopefully I'll have them figured out by this weekend.

Awesome video, and thanks for the info! :)

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby shagymc » Sat Jan 24, 2015 7:27 am

Thanks Evo, I'll research it. I bought some new bigger door clips hoping they'd do the trick but I'm not sure it'll work. The magnet idea seems pretty good actually but I'm not sure how I'd mount them. They'd need to be very strong though.

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby shagymc » Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:46 pm

So I think my only option for the door panels is going to be screwing them into the door skin. I bought a rivnut gun and some rivnuts and will update the progress on that when I get there. The big project I'm trying tonight is re coating the gas/hatch release levers in plastic. I previously tried plastic dip and that sucked balls so I went back to lowes and found an actual plastisol type dip. Here's some progress. If I like the way it turns out, I'll do a write up tomorrow.
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I also got my water temp and oil pressure innovate motorsports gauges. Should have them mounted up tomorrow next to the wideband O2 gauge I have:
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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby shagymc » Fri Jan 30, 2015 12:49 pm

I'll do a write up of this tonight but my finished product is pretty great!

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Postby EvoSolley » Fri Jan 30, 2015 5:50 pm

shagymc wrote:I'll do a write up of this tonight but my finished product is pretty great!

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looking forward to your write up! It turned out awesome, looks OEM, great job!

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby shagymc » Sun Feb 01, 2015 7:38 pm

Finished up a majority of the wiring today. Everything is labeled and zip tied so there is no spaghetti mess of wires behind the dash. I love the gauges where they are. I just have to finish cleaning and painting the factory plastics and then the inside will be all but complete.
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I ordered a few more things for the interior to bring it up to speed but I still have to fabricate the passenger tweeter pod and the kick panel. I also think that I am going to have to redesign the door panels. I don't think I can get these to work. We'll see what happens.

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby ryanroberson695 » Mon Feb 02, 2015 8:42 pm

What rear end did you have that you where a let swap the front disc brakes to? Any information on this would be much appreciated as im in the middle of a build

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby shagymc » Mon Feb 02, 2015 8:47 pm

As far as I know It was just a stock GTS rear end. When I bought it, it had drums in the back but it had an LSD. Unfortunately this was years ago and I don't really have any pictures or records of the swap. Good luck with your build!

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby yellowsnow4free » Tue Feb 03, 2015 1:29 pm

shagymc wrote:I rebuilt the rear with a weir ring and pinion and Cusco 2-way LSD.
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I also went with a Rotora big brake kit up front with stainless lines, moved the stock calipers to the rear in place of the drums, and put on an new Fujitsubo over axle exhaust with a straight pipe.

ryanroberson695 wrote:What rear end did you have that you where a let swap the front disc brakes to? Any information on this would be much appreciated as I'm in the middle of a build

shagymc wrote:As far as I know It was just a stock GTS rear end. When I bought it, it had drums in the back but it had an LSD. Unfortunately this was years ago and I don't really have any pictures or records of the swap. Good luck with your build!

Yes, I didn't catch that either, but I've never heard of being able to swap the front brakes to the rear on an AE86, at least not without custom brackets.

Outside of the US there are AE86's with rear disc brakes I think, and there are also a few rare (TRD?) LSD's for the SR5's 6.38" rear end.

I wish I knew what the writing on the differential cover said in the 1st pic; maybe a Club4AGer would be able to help with that?

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby shagymc » Tue Feb 03, 2015 9:27 pm

That emblem came with the Cusco 2-way LSD. While I was deployed, I had a mechanic put the rear together for me. That's why I know so little about it :?

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby justinleexxx » Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:38 pm

I love the door panels! great job!

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby yellowsnow4free » Fri Feb 06, 2015 10:33 am

shagymc wrote:That emblem came with the Cusco 2-way LSD. While I was deployed, I had a mechanic put the rear together for me. That's why I know so little about it :?

Yeah, it's the drum to disc part that has me intrigued.

I don't mean to drill you about it; it's more of a curiosity thing for me :) Mostly as a potential option to put disc brakes on my SR5 (without buying a costly GTS rear end).

Assuming the Cusco LSD is for a 6.7" rear end (which would be correct for a GTS rear end), it should be a T series rear axle.

However, the drums part is what put a wrench in that. In the USA, I believe the Celica also had a T series rear end, but with drum brakes. If you search online you can find a number of guys who convert these rear ends to use AE86 rear brakes on their Celicas. There's also a guy on here who converted his using JDM AE101 parts or something.

No big deal, just curiosity. I guess if you ever have the wheels / axles off for some reason, take some pics :P

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby shagymc » Sun Feb 08, 2015 9:33 pm

Yea man, I'll try to get a wheel off in the near future!
I ordered an IS250 gas pedal from eBay to replace my accelerator pedal thinking it would just bolt up.... I was way wrong. So long story short I had to strip the IS pedal and transfer over the parts. I finally have a complete looking pedal set. The IS spring transferred over too and it is 10 times better than the old stock one. I'm excited to drive it!
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Still working on the plastics and waiting on a sandwich plate from Matrix Garage for the gauge sensors for oil temp and pressure.

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby shagymc » Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:36 pm

Sandwich plate came in today so I mounted the sensors in it for now and it'll sit until we pull the motor next week.
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I'm still having trouble with paint chipping on the iPad dash so I'm trying a different method to hopefully make it more durable. I really need to get the interior plastics done and remounted. I saw an interesting video on youtube where they used a heat gun to bring back the old plastic and I'm curious how well that would work. I'm only going to use it on the seat belt plastics and maybe the glove box but I've got some time. Money is also set aside for paint so I'm pretty excited.

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Postby EvoSolley » Wed Feb 11, 2015 5:05 am

^^ Hope you figure out the paint situation on the Ipad mount, such a nice idea and it looks really good. So are you re-painting your car? Panda scheme or something different? Goodluck and keep the updates coming!

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby shagymc » Wed Feb 11, 2015 12:58 pm

I think I'm going to paint it the tacoma charcoal color with something special for the hood but I'm still deciding. The ipad dash looks decent but theres a small area that keeps rubbing away that's frustrating to deal with. Today I installed my emergency pull handle for the driver side. If the solenoid fails or the battery dies I'll still be able to get the door open with this handle, and it glows in the dark. It tucks away nice too behind the flasher.
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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby shagymc » Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:38 pm

Sorry, no cool pictures tonight. I've started pulling things apart to get the motor out so I can deep clean the bay before paint and replace and/or clean up some parts on it. I pulled the exhaust header off first so I can get my wideband O2 bung welded in and noticed that my head gasket is leaking oil. So it looks like I'll be taking the head off now. I also drained the fluid and disconnected all the wiring. There was a leak coming from the trans that looks to be the clutch slave cylinder so I guess I'm replacing that too.
Some upgrades I'm doing with it out and questions I have:
-Going to try to go boosterless on the brakes. I ordered the T3 kit. I'm just wondering what it takes to install. Any write ups on this or how os would be great. I'll do
more research when the part actually shows up but some direction would be nice.
-I'm going to paint the motor mounts, block, and valve cover
-I'm installing a Tomei FPR with a gauge
-Extending some wires in the harness for a cleaner tuck and look
-Possibly replacing the alternator and starter
-Installing an oil filter sandwich plate that has my innovate oil temp and pressure sensors
-Installing the innovate water temp sensor
-Installing the dust cover between the trans and the block
I also grabbed a couple door grommets from the local junk yard and I'm going to modify the door to make them work. The driverside is complete but I only had one in the correct size so I'll be enlarging the hole leaving the passenger door panel.

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Postby shagymc » Sun Mar 08, 2015 9:51 pm

So after noticing some issues, i.e. Oil leaking from the head and a leaking clutch slave cylinder, I decided to give the motor a pull for clean up and some upgrades.
After pulling the header, you can see the oil leak is pretty bad. The starter had oil all over it.
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While, the exhaust was out I had the wideband O2 sensor bung welded in.
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I also bought some black fiberglass exhaust wrap because I like the look. I should have done a little more research on how you do it but I didn't and I learned some important lessons with this stuff. First, I handle fiberglass enough to know that it isn't great to handle without gloves but It's usually not so bad. Well the strands on the wrap are pretty short and they give splinters pretty easily. If you are going to do this, wear long sleeves and pants and wear gloves. Breathing protection is a good idea too. I haven't finished the wrap, I'm just cutting to length but I already love it.
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I bought the BG engine lifting hook but the waterline kit that is on the 20V prevented me from using it right so I had to improvise with some tow straps and the hook but I finally got it out! Never pulled a motor before but it was fun.
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It's mounted to the stand now and i'm excited to clean her up and paint the block.

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby shagymc » Mon Mar 09, 2015 8:31 pm

So tonight I got a few things removed from from the motor and a few goodies from T3. The first thing I removed was the valve cover. To be honest, I don't know how to tell if it looks like things are ok in there so if you have any feedback for me on what you think, I'd appreciate it. I think everything looks decent with some minor build up in a few places but nothing to be worried about.
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I also pulled the alternator and it looks really nasty, I think I'm going to go buy a new one tomorrow. Here's what it looked like. There was tons of grease caked on the bottom of it and when I took the back cover off, the innards were rotting and corroded. That's enough for me to say replace.
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I also snapped a shot of what the pulleys look like and you can see why I'm replacing them.
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The parts I ordered were a stainless clutch line and a boosterless brake bracket. Please give me any feedback as I'm new to the entire mechanics side of the house and I don't know what is bad to look for in a motor. Thanks in advance!

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby shagymc » Thu Mar 12, 2015 1:07 am

I got a new starter and alternator from autozone and the alternator is a higher amp one from the early 90s camry. I also just finished wrapping my header with the black fiberglass wrap too. What a PITA! I don't want to ever do that again .
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When I have more time off I'd like to start cleaning and painting the block as well as painting the motor mounts and other accessories.
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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby yellowsnow4free » Thu Mar 12, 2015 9:09 am

shagymc wrote:I got a new starer and alternator from autozone and the alternator is a higher amp one from the early 90s camry. I also just finished wrapping my header with the black fiberglass wrap too. What a PITA! I don't want to ever do that again .
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When I have more time off I'd like to start cleaning and painting the block as well as painting the motor mounts and other accessories.

Hey shagymc,

Can you think of any electrical problems that might occur with a higher amp alternator? Not trying to discourage you, just curious.

I replaced the alternator on my 4AC a while ago with a stock rebuilt one (would've gone for a higher amp model if I thought about it), so I'm curious if there are any problems that can occur (hopefully not).

Thanks! :)

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Postby shagymc » Thu Mar 12, 2015 9:29 pm

From what limited research I've done, as long as your battery is the right size for it than you should be ok. I will post up reviews and articles I find but everything I've read says it's ok and that people have been very happy with the difference it makes.

Edit: Check out this post, seems pretty informative:http://www.qualitypowerauto.com/pages/AlternatorFAQ.php

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby TORPARTS » Sat Mar 21, 2015 3:07 pm

One of the best built evar! Top 3 in my book!

Bowdown! Attention to detail is unreal!

Are we related lol

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby shagymc » Fri Mar 27, 2015 7:36 pm

Thanks for the epic words Torparts!

I've been focusing a lot on cleaning the block and getting it ready for paint. This has involved a lot of VHT primer and rust rescue with a lot of wire wheeling and degreaser as well. The following pictures should tell the story of what I've accomplished so far this week:
From this:
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To this:
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Then primered:
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Today I cleaned and primered the oil filter bracket as well:
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And lastly, I also got my 20V shirt and a JSP shift knob that looks killer:
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The head is at the machine shop as well as the T3 alternator pulley for some work. I'm hoping to get those back by the end of this week. I'll keep slowly adding the small brackets and what not to the block until I'm ready to spray the whole thing in metallic black. I'm also hoping to get the valve cover done this week too.

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Postby shagymc » Sun Mar 29, 2015 4:20 pm

Got the block all painted today. About 3 coats of VHT metallic black. I love it and I can't wait to get the head back and start putting things back together. These are after the first and last coat.
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And the sandwich plate installed I got from Matrix Garage:
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Really hoping I won't have clearance issues with the filter but we'll see.

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby jdm86gtz » Sun Mar 29, 2015 4:40 pm

You should lose the Toyota oil filter spacer completely and just run the sandwich plate and filter for RWD use.
If you remove the threaded adaptor from the Toyota spacer and thread it straight into the block it might be long enough to use with the sandwich plate adaptor, if not you will the Toyota adaptor for fitting the filter directly to the block P/N 90404-19001

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby shagymc » Sun Apr 05, 2015 6:38 am

I'll look into that if there's issues, thanks!

I stripped the valve cover and painted it over the past couple days. I replaced the grommet and the breather on the back as well. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the plug cover yet but I think I'm just going to paint the letters and toyota symbol gold. We'll see. The gold isn't as yellow as the pulleys or throttle bodies but I'm hoping once it's back together the'll be close enough.

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3 coats of VHT high temp primer:
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5 coats of VHT high temp gold metallic:
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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby grappletech » Sun Apr 05, 2015 6:25 pm

What did you use to stop the paint
87 GTS Coupe stock and Super Duper Clean
87 GTS Coupe Beams 3sge (under construction cuz I'm slow and lazy and broke-FML)
87 SR5 Coupe Shell. (Sold)
86 SR5 Hatch Shell
86 GT-SR5 Coupe 20v Swap

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby shagymc » Mon Apr 06, 2015 2:54 am

I think you're asking what I used to strip the paint and I just got some stripper from lowes. It's the goo off aerosol can stuff for epoxy and paint. I had to do it about 4 times but it worked really well at taking off the old stuff but not leaving any chemical residue on the cover. At least, so far it looks decent.

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Re: My recap and ongoing final stretch of building my Hatch

Postby grappletech » Mon Apr 06, 2015 9:21 am

Yes, strip it. That's cool. I have to do the same to my beams cover and repaint it.
87 GTS Coupe stock and Super Duper Clean
87 GTS Coupe Beams 3sge (under construction cuz I'm slow and lazy and broke-FML)
87 SR5 Coupe Shell. (Sold)
86 SR5 Hatch Shell
86 GT-SR5 Coupe 20v Swap