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kit is an original BN Sports... cost... well retails for 273,000 Yen, which is $3300 by todays exchange rate, plus shipping n all that.

For the AE86... bought 4L of canary yellow acryllic, 4L of thinners and 4L of prepwash n 4L of clear today for $320... time to paint up the engine bay and put all the parts in. Bought a S13 cradle (control arms, suspension, steering rack etc) for $500 as well. costs are starting to add up now :)

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they always do.....

um up to about $12K on the line in the last 6 months :) ooh well should go hard.

thats pretty damn cheap for paint.. but its only acryllic .. why not go for 2 pak paint? but then again your already on the costs.

our AE is almost ready for painting.. been undercoated and is still halfway through the rub back... still reckon at least a month til its done....

im in the search at the moment for an ae86, with fuel pricers rising the skyline becomes more and more a weekend only car.

i've always been a fan of the ae86, my mate has own 3; aus levin with 4ac then aus levin with 4age swap and now he has a jap ae85 tureno coupe.

i just want to find myself a nice clean ae86 i really like the tureno soo its going to be soo hard to find one cheap, i might just end up getting aus spec levin and going a 20v swap and put some quads on it

im in the search at the moment for an ae86, with fuel pricers rising the skyline becomes more and more a weekend only car.

i've always been a fan of the ae86, my mate has own 3; aus levin with 4ac then aus levin with 4age swap and now he has a jap ae85 tureno coupe.

i just want to find myself a nice clean ae86 i really like the tureno soo its going to be soo hard to find one cheap, i might just end up getting aus spec levin and going a 20v swap and put some quads on it

thats still a popular mod in Japan... just get the black top 20v as it has more power std than the silver top.

That's actually a mate's car that's being race-prepped (sitting next to my AE86), which I tried the kit on as it already had all the panels off. Its got a full cage in it (only half of it in while we redo the wiring in the car).

I can get em from Japan, but as I said, they're not cheap ;)

my mates car. i have more recent photos of it but i am in the us on my laptop so this is all i have

nice...

where abouts did he get the rear wing??? and how much?

and how did it get attached ... we wanna put it on the sprinter.. but need to get one and figure out the attachment before we continue the prepping.

got some info on the weekend....

found a sprinter coming into the country in a couple of weeks..

4AGE..20V with HKS cams

coilovers

mech LSD

BRIDE buckets...

have to have a look at it once she comes in.. but im pretty sure i'll get it!

Avi, his website's http://www.jap.com.au tell him Shan from j-spec sent ya and he might cut you a deal... or not... his username's a_v_i on most forums (SAU and NS included).

http://www.jap.com.au/ae86.html

oh and I have a "JDM tyte" AE86 front grille (the clear one with spaces for foggies... think they're called letterbox style or something) for sale too... and a whole heap of interior bits and pieces and a set of trueno headlights with motor assemblies.

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how long you been at j-spec for shan???

always looking at that site for nice bargain :D

that convert silvia looked good the other day...

my mate just got import approval for his s6 rx7 race car he got through you guys ... cant wait til it comes into the country :P

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