What did you do to your car today?

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Ryusei_Date » Fri Apr 05, 2013 11:54 am

Some douche in a Golf GTI tried to race me when I was driving home last night...I kinda ignored him XD There's the one problem I guess with being the sole AE86 owner in my area, the few people that recognize it are gonna try to race me or pressure me to drift XD I just wanna go home!
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby SolidSTI » Fri Apr 05, 2013 12:40 pm

^Just turn the headlights off and vanish.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Phoenix » Fri Apr 05, 2013 2:22 pm

ncrca's and a panhard bar from battle version!!! understeer shmundersteer..

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby carbd7age » Fri Apr 05, 2013 6:03 pm

Ryusei_Date wrote:Some douche in a Golf GTI

Isn't that redundant?


And today I got another fuel line fitting. Better buy stock in Earl's (Holley) cuz they get all my money lol.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby KonaTrueno723 » Sat Apr 06, 2013 12:46 am

Finished my strut housing mod,40mm shorter..waiting for my short stroke shocks to arrive..
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby LongGrain » Sat Apr 06, 2013 1:43 am

finished my cage.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby carbd7age » Sat Apr 06, 2013 4:08 am

That is a grown man cage right there. What color are you going to paint the interior?
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby LongGrain » Sat Apr 06, 2013 11:06 am

red, like the rest of the car.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby KonaTrueno723 » Sat Apr 06, 2013 4:20 pm

That looks great longgrain..that gives me motivation to do an x-brace on my pro street. Too many projects & so little time..
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby sqznby » Sat Apr 06, 2013 4:56 pm

LongGrain wrote:finished my cage.

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That looks amazing. Nice work.
Do you have any other shots from different angles?

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby LongGrain » Sat Apr 06, 2013 5:42 pm

i will post a full update in my build thread with all sorts of pics, be on the lookout.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby SolidSTI » Sat Apr 06, 2013 8:49 pm

Axle seals, extended studs, new rotors

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby kennyb01 » Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:11 pm

Continued doing body work. It's going to be a while before the '86 of doom is running again. :(

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby sqznby » Sun Apr 07, 2013 6:56 pm

LongGrain wrote:i will post a full update in my build thread with all sorts of pics, be on the lookout.


Lookin forward to that, will do.
Thanks man

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby carbd7age » Mon Apr 08, 2013 7:14 pm

Received two of my SSR wheels, waiting on the other pair.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby 86_LeViN » Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:15 am

Picked up the 1/4 windows molding from being wrapped and man! I really like the way they turned out
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby KonaTrueno723 » Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:11 pm

86_LeVin=those look great!

Had these new parts sittin around for a year, so I went ahead & replaced my inner & outer tie rods, new front wheel bearings & seals, RCA's..but still waitin on my front shocks... :|
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Postby Billy_Andrea » Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:48 pm

Assembled my chassis harness, Cosworth dash and carbon mount. Once I was happy with the final fit I color sanded it and had our body shop apply multiple coats of clear


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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby carbd7age » Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:04 am

Picked up my wheels, FSTB, and GTS throttle cable. Need to get some lug nuts and polish the wheels real good before I put the tires back on.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby grappletech » Thu Apr 11, 2013 6:47 am

They should have a "like" button for some of these posts
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby carbd7age » Fri Apr 12, 2013 5:39 pm

+1 for T3, I need to order some injector port plugs and a hatch bar... Anyways today I test fit my wheels, don't need spacers but I will get some eventually. Can't wait to polish em and mount em for real!
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby KonaTrueno723 » Fri Apr 12, 2013 9:52 pm

carbd7age wrote:+1 for T3, I need to order some injector port plugs and a hatch bar... Anyways today I test fit my wheels, don't need spacers but I will get some eventually. Can't wait to polish em and mount em for real!


Sweet..yeah I gotta order up some inj plugs too for a couple projects I'm doin for people..hey whats the specs of those rims u just got? & i'm sure they'll b looking prety nice after they're polished :D
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby carbd7age » Sat Apr 13, 2013 6:00 pm

14x6.5 +5 and 14x7 +10, they look pretty good, the NRCAs in the front push em out pretty good, I need spacers on the back. I did order a set of center caps from Evasive Motorsports. Can't wait!
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby redroku87 » Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:09 pm

I love those wheels! Very cool man!

I found the FX-16 in a yard that will be providing me brakes (all disk!) a head for 4AC block I have waiting to go, got some valve covers from another yard, and picked up some ITBs from a friend.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby SolidSTI » Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:04 am

Tinted windows

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Esenpai » Sun Apr 14, 2013 5:22 pm

SolidSTI wrote:Tinted windows

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that is some serious tint!!!!
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby SolidSTI » Mon Apr 15, 2013 6:40 am

^Helps with the summer heat
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby KonaTrueno723 » Tue Apr 16, 2013 2:13 pm

SolidSTI=really liking the all "blkd out" stealth approach..solid lookin car sir!
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby SidekickChuck » Tue Apr 16, 2013 5:44 pm

Installed filters I got in the mail today:
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby KonaTrueno723 » Tue Apr 16, 2013 9:22 pm

Those are nice filters sidekick! Where did you get them?
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