Toyota 86 wide body

[martinfan5]

Been looking forward to getting started on this one, finally got the resin kit, and here is a look at it , I am playing with the idea of a engine swap on this one, and swapping in the J2Z from Supra

and a look at the body before I get started

Cut open the fenders, yes, ugly cuts

Mock up

And glued in place

[martinfan5]

And the front bumper piece on

and the lower rocker piece's on

Not a lot to post, taking care of a few issue's that I caused , one of them and I forgot to take a before pic was the right fender piece at the top , the edge or lip was not sitting flush with the top of the fender, I believe that was due the multiple attempts it took to get it lined up and the glue build up was causing it to stick up, so a little bit of putty to blend them together

And I sort of took to much off the rear bumper well , so had to fix that too, so again, out comes the putty

[cobraman]

Looks like a nice kit. I will be watching to see what you can do with it.

[martinfan5]

Have not done a lot, sort of at a stand still tell the Supra kit arrives, but I did start on the brakes, first thing was I had to remove the rear part of the kits brakes that attach to the suspension

looking at the P/E sets, three P/E trees, and most of them make up the brakes

and with the suspension taped up to the chassis, how about a mock up, and that is what it is right now still have some work on the alignment on the rear and the front does not have the tie rod attached

and here are all the bits that make up one, yes one brake rotor, 11 bits for each rotor

and awhile later, four done, I am not happy, I made a mess of them with the CA glue, lucky they will be hidden for the most part

attached to the front/rear suspension

[slusher]

Looks like a great kit..

[krazyglu]

That does look like a nice kit to build, those brakes are awesome.

[JoeBrown]

deffinitly needs a 2jz with a big single turbo

[PappyD340]

Extremely NICE start Jonathan, I like the looks of it!

[martinfan5]

Here we go, a few shots of the engine in place

and the bottom plate, as you can see, I had to open it up to let the engine sit further down

And I started working on the interior,

replacing the kit seats with these

[flo9mr]

gotta have that 2jz in there! looking good, cant wait to see more

[martinfan5]

After three our four coats of Mr Hobby Clear, after the first two coats, I wetsanded with 4000 and 12000 and did the final wet coats

[Danno]

Looking nice.

[slusher]

Beautiful color and finish Jonathan...

[crazyrichard]

awsome !

[Ira]

LOOKS GREAT JONATHAN!

Beautiful Paint & Real Nice Detailing...