Legend of LongGrain. An AE86 success story. Part 1

Idk, its some China ebay shit. I more or less just want it gone so ill sell it crackhead cheap. Its no 3M but for the price who gives a fuck. We wrapped my buddies roof in it and it lasted for a while. (Dont know how its holding up now since he sold it)

Ill try to identify some sort of brand and how much I got left tomm for you guys.

first of my brake parts came in, booster was silver so i threw some wrinkle black on it.

Oh I like that.

Spent the last couple days in kenosha trying to get some shit done on the car. i'm tired and dont feel like typing so I'm just going to photo dump here for a second.

Fuck. Awesome!

yea, so I learned building a cage by yourself takes for fucking ever. Mostly just the boxes that take up 90% of the time, the bars are the easy part.

anyways, got the clutch on as well obviously, converted the TOB to the ORC style one.

The rear "X" thats going to go from the corners of the main hoop/down bars to the rear strut towers is cut and notched but due to some other work we had to do they didnt get tacked in yet. The diagonal bar in some of the pics is just sitting there for measurement purposes, its going to be a full X when its welded in.

D*S LongGrain wrote:

The rear "X" thats going to go from the corners of the main hoop/down bars to the rear strut towers is cut and notched but due to some other work we had to do they didnt get tacked in yet.

What are you working for Vinny now or something? Fuck going on here? Whos doing this shit?

no, a family member had an emergency and I lent a hand fixing their car so that we could get back to working on my car quicker.

brakes came



now i just need to decide if i'm going to buy new remanned calipers or rebuild mine.

and either way I need 4 rears for the dual caliper brackets I'm about to pick up..

man this shit is gonna be RAADDDDD!!!

cant wait to see this finished already

good work dude

oh and rear section of cage is done, unless I decide to put in any gusset plates

Dont think Ive posted in here because I really don't give a shit but whats the main goal for this vehicle?
Competing? Or just going full out so you don't have to do anything again?

RAD MIKE Circa 3006 wrote:

Dont think Ive posted in here because I really don't give a shit but whats the main goal for this vehicle?
Competing? Or just going full out so you don't have to do anything again?

the second one. when its done I dont want to ever have to touch it again, just drive forever and buy nothing but wheels and tires.

Rad. Carry on.

k

WTF? Dumping your life savings in this thing haha. Good shit. I'd add gussets, because... well... gussets.

Soo good. Please tell me the cage/interior will be white.

Fuck this is so rad.

maybe if i had a life savings, or even any savings.

interior is not going to be white. Its going to be red.

more updated/better pics of cage. made the forward bars today, also pulled my front subframe and suspension. brought it home with me so I can do the brakes and bearings here. Going to have my friend josh powdercoat my calipers and dust shields for me.

As far as the chassis goes, there are only a few more parts of the cage left, harness bars, door bars and the top bar that goes along the top of windshield/roof. Then a few spots of minor rust repair here and there then the car is going for paint.

Before it gets sent off for paint we're going to make mounts for the engine and take measurements for the driveshaft and have that ordered while car is being painted.

then once its painted its just a matter of slapping it all back together... in a manner of speaking.





filled in all the holes in the floor



engine bay pretty much ready for paint, just need to remove lines and shit.



test fitting with seat.







Put my front rotors on. Thinking about maybe trying to clean up the hubs and paint them or soemthing maybe, not sure yet.



and heres a couple shots of the drivers side forward bar, its just ziptied to the a-pillar so it doesnt really show how it fits. it will be a lot tighter to the a-pillar once the crush box is in and its all welded.

Man..

cage is 95% done

Hey look. More tubes.









I love you Ryan. Hahaha

you wanted build thread updates haha.

I'm stoked on it.

i'm pissed that its taking forever, but seeing some good progress right now.

if you want i can post some really really lame update pictures of the OTHER shit i'm doing, like wheel bearings and rebuilding brake calipers and shit, but I figured no one wants to see boring nerd shit like that.

so you get cage pictures.

Post, post, post it up. We dont post any personal car shit on here anymore. I'm bout to just post pictures of uninstalled parts sitting around like a faggot. Fuck it.