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Damn dude you made a really nice job of this! Looks proper tidy  cant wait to see where else you go with this!
Even the interior colour mods make a world of difference, I'm hoping I get some time soon to do something similar to mine. Not a fan of the stock silver plastic look.

I doubt anyone will get a 86 as cheap as I did...paid 11K in 2019 for a 2018 with only 4.5k miles....
Cat S, but fully repaired and to this date the only issue's I've had is the passenger door needed adjusting because it rubbed a bit on the bottom and the passenger side wheel was slightly buckled but got replaced by the dealer under warranty.
 
I feel like 86 prices will go up a bit since the new ones are so hideous (personal opinion ofc) and the whole E10 fuel thing will have a lot of older car owners looking for new. My mk2.5 mx5 ran like a bag of spanners on E10 and I cant see many older 'cheap' sports car owners willing to pay for the premium fuel, which is only not E10 for another 5 years, and not able to afford modern sports car prices which seem to start around 30-60k these days. 

hold on a sec while i just pick my jaw off the floor......k. OMG this looks so tidy. I love seeing when people put a lot of time and effort (and money) into the small details and this has really paid off. Nice work!

Cool vid, i actually learned stuff!
 
When it comes to alignment and what not I'm always on the side of 'better let a professional do this' because I've never quite understood it and had the space or equipment to do it...also I cant afford to be killing tyres every few 1000 miles 😮. I'm surprised you could stand driving that distance though with alignment this messed up, when I got my 86 it was all out by around 1-1.2 degrees and it was like driving a 4wd with a bust diff, car kept sort of skating side to side at anything over 40mph. 
Glad you got it sorted now, hope that's all your steering issues ironed out!👍

So another silly tale in the saga of the 86 - It failed it's MOT last week!   Nothing seriously.. only the fact it burnt through it's front set of tyres in 3000 miles.. How? you ask? Well simple.. the alignment was screwed.   It's all my own fault ofcourse! I put such an emphasis in to the rear alignment after a load of toe totally scrubbed my rear tyres clean last year that I went about carrying out a string alignment on them which went pretty well but I totally neglected the front end after doing the recent steering arm and bushing replacements, that along with the fact i've never truly done an alignment on this cae meant it was totally out of wack!   So after having the tyres replaced and the alignment sorted the car drives a thousand times better, it's night and day with pretty much any and all bumpsteer/tramlining totally gone it feels so much nicer to drive and more importantly safer.   Here's a look at my before/after alignment settings, but you've been warned the front is a train wreck! (This isn't the print out i received from the alignment shop, i just simplified it for my video and the original bit of paper has a coffee stain on it now thanks to me!)  
      I go in to much more depth in to this in my latest youtube video where I talk about the effects of Caster, Camber and Toe on a RWD car - I do know these things, I'm just stubborn and tight when it comes to paying people to work on my car. Don't be like me, get your alignment sorted!    

Yeah that's the massive plus side to the LS, the less tech and fancy stuff the easier it is to identify problems, fix and mod. First car i ever worked on was my brothers 1.3i Austin mini, so simple u could pull the thing apart and have it back together in a evening :D! Also i didn't know that the ali LS where that light! Being able to say you have a 2 door v8 coupe is cool but I think the engine sound alone will tell people without having to say a word. 
 
Also you might of wanted a turbo 86....but why not have a LS turbo'd 86  
 
Only way i could really see any engine matching the CoG would be a straight swap for another subaru engine or a porche one. After owning a kayman S for 2 months, finding out it had a scoring on the section the pistons are and its a common problem Porsche are aware of but did nothing, costing £11,000 to repair, I don't think i'd ever trust them again.  As for the SR20 i never understood why anyone would use one instead of a FA20....in a standard s14a its 0-60 is 7 sec, and only does 22 mpg tops. Its old hat and just for the sake of having a common turbo engine, its not worth the downgrade, especially since you can turbo a FA for around 3-5K anyway.
I'm also with you on the side of not being the first, give it a few years and I think at the rate people are destroying LS/RB26 and BMW's are becoming more common and cheap it wont belong before there's a sea of people doing it. Just gotta be patient 
 
THAT'S FIGHTING TALK MR !! 🤣

Did you just have that engine lying around? love how you just casually wheel it out like its not biggie haha!
While i get everyone doing LS swaps due to how common they are, I feel like its somewhat of a downgrade (same with people putting 2jz/sr20 ect) because they are older, heavier and less efficient engines. Sure its easier to make them around the 350+bhp mark and parts are super easy to find but the change in COG and difference in fuel consumption and efficiency of the engine itself using old tech always put me off, but if you got the resources there go for it. No matter what engine or turbos etc u got nothing sounds better than a v8 or 12.
 
I think if I ever end up doing a engine swap i'd be looking at one from the current generations of BMW (B5830) since alot of them on stock internals are now pushing 600bhp no issue, and if using the current Z4 3.0 litre its technically from the toyota family too. And thanks to how common BMW are now specially with every inner city posh boy with no driving skill owning them, sourcing one from a scrap yard isnt too hard. 

and the Prius wheels and tyres 😓

and the Prius wheels and tyres 😓

Car looks absolutely mint, also mad props for actually putting the cost of the build so far. Tired of seeing people putting project builds and going on about it being cheap n easy then never putting the cost just saying its cheap XD 
 
Hope you enjoying the car looks like all the hard works paid off 👍

My average mileage was 35mpg NA, with the Harrop it's 30mpg.

Not gonna lie, the first 1-2 hours of the trip was just the M602 from Salford to the M6, then the M6 to M53. First 18 miles took longer than the next 37 which would be only like 30-40 min. This was around the time they just started up the whole smart motorway stuff on the M602 and M6/Ring road. And yeah I almost died when i got in the car the next day and saw only 1/2 the tank left coming bk. Tho it  was only 1.8 celica, it did roughly the same mileage as my 86 on 99ron, but a little bit less on standard 95.
If your doing MCR to blackpool daily I hope someones helping with that fuel cost 😆 I was spending like £6k a year at my surveying job on fuel and they wouldn't even give me company car because I would 'add to many miles' >.>
Happy with the GT86 at the moment on long trips. V power got me roughly 42mpg over a 500 mile trip, 99ron momentum is about 32-40  depending if its town or motorway driving. I wonder how a supercharger or turbo would change that tho o.o

I think as long as your going for 18's there shouldn't really be a  issue. Ap's own site states they are designed for 18" wheels (provided your going for the 6 pot). Not sure about how the ET or width would effect it but if its only a 7.5" you could always get some extra clearance with spacers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Don't know why no one has recommended this so far but this is by far the best tool I've ever seen to help explain ET, size etc. Pretty accurate too!
http://ft86motorsports.com/wheelitfit/
Just bang in what you want and see what it looks like compared to the standard set up.
 
Also nice choice of wheels  I'm looking into getting some DR10 work wheels 18x8.5 et32. Gunna be super close and might need a bit of adjustment but they look so sweet. The most unspoken thing I notice, since everyone points out 'poking out', no one seems to mention if you have too wide wheels with a high ET your wheels will catch your suspension. A friend of mine had a insane amount of jap wheels lying round and we where trying some on my car, he had some green D9R 18 x 10.5 et 48 and they couldn't even touch the studs because they hit the shockies about 2 inches before the start of the thread >.< 

dude I've drove brand new 911 turbo s, Caymen S, a 600bhp M3, a M4, a RS6, m sport 235i, GTR black edition....all of them felt boring to drive because the car does all the work. Most of them (especially the BMW ) felt like sitting in a lounge watching TV. They are so efficient it doesn't feel like driving at all compared to a or manual/mechanical car. They all felt similar to my old mans 4.5l v8 range rover, but with less roll. Before my gt86, my daily drive was between  a 450 bhp Evo 5 and a toyota celica.
Out of all the cars I've had access to the most fun to drive honestly have been my brothers 1.3i original mini, the evo 5, GT86, 750 bhp R33 skyline and the wifes NB Mx5.  All of these cars felt more like you where connected to the car. You can feel everything and you are....mostly...in control of everything. Every fancy fast auto box car I've drove felt like the car did 90% of the work, specially with traction control, auto adjusting suspension and AWD systems. True a lot of these  dead/ boring feel may be due to other electronic systems in the car like those previously mentioned, but with auto boxes its another aspect of control you remove from yourself and let the car do for you. Anyone who says that all the new tech doesn't takes away from the actual driving experience and feel of a car, simply hasn't actually experienced a good manual car. 
 
Your claim about serious drives further down this thread  is true. Serious drivers are about lap times and as I originally stated, they are far more efficient and better because no one can change gear faster than the most recent boxes. Top hyper cars are all about the badge, big numbers and lap times. Nothing about fun or the feel of driving. 
 
Also the supra may end up with a manual eventually since they are adding manual boxes as a option on the next M4 and Z4 models. Since the supra is a reskined Z4 its possible 😮

aww man the effort put into this REALLY pays off. Looks awesome! 
I was never too sure about the V2 Rocket bunny (all pics i see are either photo-shopped to death or have stupid 'stance' wheels at crazy camber angles) but damn this changes my mind for sure. 
 
Good work ^^ cant wait to see more!