www.86garage.com

so I bought the car back in early 2007 and had it shipped from cali...we have rust issues on the east coast. after a few years of working on it, Jonas(@dr.occa) emailed me asking if I was interested in being in an issue of the 86garage magazine. sure I said, and things got underway. heres what the 86 looked like in the issue as a refresher...




...but, it didn't look like that, no where near close when that issue came out. this was the state at that time...tear down began on 11/22/2011

which became continuously worse as time went on.





but I kept at it, and things started to look up for me.





I had almost everything done, and then I moved. new place had no garage and I left it at a friends house for the winter of 2013/14...where it sat for months.


until about a month ago when I finally bit the bullet and brought it to the paint shop.


then the pics started coming in via text to my delight!



I was called up, she was ready 7 days after dropping it off, so I headed down to pic her up. this is what I saw as I pulled up...love at first sight. the color was perfect. so time to load her up...again.






after some reassembly and about 2 weeks, heres where im at, damn near done.













me and the family have been enjoying it greatly, me more so when the kids aren't in the car. been beating on her. took a little over 2.5 years and its was well worth it. only things left are these parts which I ordered thru EP Importers and are scheduled to arrive next week...zenki jdm rear bumper skin that needs to be cleaned up, zenki jdm grill, and a bnib black privacy cover.



time to take a break and have some fun before the next stage of the build.

car looks great... also nice zenki grill...

Super nice.

Awesome thread Craig (@morgan)

thanks guys!

package from EP Importers showed up yesterday with the remaining goodies


been wanting one of these forever. had a kouki one years back and it was beat to sh!t


grill is in great shape, fits perfect, all the clips were there and intact. front end=done


next project is to fix the circled areas and spray this in satin black. need to make a bash bar for it as well.

it looks great.............

Long overdue update, things are finally getting done.

found some jdm zenki lights to refinish.




and put some decals on, with the 20v in mind




spent a few minutes whenever I could over the summer finishing this up.

mocked up a Swangbiz bar

...and finished the install up, finally.

now the rear matches the front.


started piecing together a new suspension setup.


enjoying it whenever I can in the mountains of NY/NJ



received all the parts and started burning the midnight oil...
AGX sw20 shocks up front, AGX Camaro rears
Eibach 400lb/in(7.14kg) front springs
TRD 5.1kg rear springs
new prothane bushings







not sure when but theres a bit more planned; rebuild the rear and some minor motor work.

Craig!

Great updates man. It's refreshing to see build threads updated. Social media is getting tired for me. Thanks for posting up the updates. Lovin'em.

Nice updates. Lighting a fire under my ass!

good updates it looks great...............

thanks guys. last post for the year most likely, probably for a while. time to cover her up and wait the winter out. no time or funds after this purchase...Brave! arrived today

Yummy yummy their @morgan. Is it on yet by chance? Merry Christmas btw!

Happy Holidays Jonas, no its not on yet. waiting for the spring. currently working on a new electric heater to replace the heater core.

Good to know someone else is liking the electric heater idea. Right on @morgan

Cool man. Im going to put an electric heater in mine if it ever sees the light of day from the garage lol