My New 2011 Drift Car Build SR-AE86

[chrisbrady325]

After a good year’s drifting and plenty of problems in 2010, I thought I would spice things up a little and go for something I always wanted after a lot of thinking and phone calls in November I decided what exactly I wanted for the 2011 drifting season, I picked up this jap ae86 bare shell of Premier Performance Cars in Monaghan, the shell was in fair good condition with very little tidying needed,



Over the christmas season with plenty of time on my hands we decided to tackle into get the shell prep'd for seam welding,


In Around Chassis Leg


We Never tried anything like this before so it's all new to us, i was lucky plenty of my friends were around to help!First Bit of Seam Welding in Around Front Arch where we removed all the bits that wasnt needed, and made plenty of room to allow for extra lock


And Some seam welding on the underbody floor


After all welding was complete underneath we gave it a nice light grinding down to get it rerady to be sealed and some gravi-tex to keep it nice and tidy. Even Got the Girlfriend out helping me many hands make light work


When the seam sealer had dried it was time for 3 coats of gravi-tex again the proved she could do more than horse riding!


This is how it turned out when it had dried up, Notice i have removed the rear tramp bar holders and the frame for the panrod arm to allow me to fit the 180sx subframe


Here's a Pic of the Rear Arches we cut a folded them up then tacked them with a small bit of weld



After A smooth skim of fibreglass and a lick of pawn


I had a man lined up to make my cage but when the pressure was put on he wasnt going to have it ready in time, so we said we'd give it a go ourself.. actually turned out pretty damn good for our first cage!



Brought it through to the top of the front strut


Time For a touch of paint


Not Much More for us to do while waiting on MCN Sport to fit the rear subframe so we got it ready to paint around the engine bay and the door frames.. my dads pretty handy with the spray gun he did panel beating for 16 years so he was more than happy to help me out!



I was going to spray the engine bay black and in around the doors black, but i came across a little bit of a flip paint i had whne a green/gold tint in it( looks great when up close pics dont show it atal really..



Thats all for Now people the car is currently in the hand of MCN Sport and Damien Mulvey motors where there is a serious amount of work and updates to be completed updates coming as the progress begins

[chrisbrady325]

Loaded up and Ready for Cork!!

[damo86]

good job should be sweet

[Stevo]

Wooop fair play chris!

[dR Dan]

Savage.... You will kill in this.

Was lookin at it yesterday, cage is a tidy job fair play cha...

[chrisbrady325]

Savage.... You will kill in this.

Was lookin at it yesterday, cage is a tidy job fair play cha...

thats the aim thanks to the lads down there for pointing me in the right direction! did you hear of the susspension plans?

[dR Dan]

thats the aim thanks to the lads down there for pointing me in the right direction! did you hear of the susspension plans?

Ya ya iv known about all this jazz from day 1... Il probaly be getting involved some evening after work as usual... Should be saweet!

[Prodrifter86]

Looks ace dude.... best of luck with the rest of the build

[ian g sr20]

best of luck with it lad, cnt wait 2 see progress on this

[-anto-]

cant wait to see this out