So as of last night I now own an AE86 going to pick it up tonight (gotta trailer it) and then start working on it this weekend. Looks like the xB is going on the back burner for a bit!

pics pics

in for pics!

is this the rattle can white coupe that was on Cl w/ the purple sportmax's?

^yeah X2

AE86's great project cars

I should have pics tonight when I go and get it but yes it was the rattlecan white with the purple sportmax rims lol

I was looking @ that too :P

I keep looking at a Supra TT on CL.......it has been off and on for months,the car has a lot of miles but it would be nothing more than a weekend cruising car.........wish I had more money to blow on toys.......

that was a tempting deal...but i had to pass it up

wish I had more money to blow on toys.......

Me too, well at least on other cars as well

Got it running this sunday, I took some pics too but my camera is acting up, I'll see if I can get them up tonight!

Looks like the kid started the swap but never finished it...

ugh the AE86... i love and hate those things... but its a hatred that can only come from owning one... lowering it is like the most expensive endeavor on the planet. you need the springs and of course the struts/shocks (cause what is on there is blown 99% of the time). then you need an adjustable 4 link and lat rod or the axle wont sit right and you will get hella grip on right hand corners and none on left. oh and the tension rods in the front will need to be adjustable or the caster wont come in and of course you need camber plates up front for obvious reasons. and while you are at it you might as well replace all of the super tired bushings that you will encounter in the mix of all this with polyurethane. oh and then lets not forget the adjustable front sway bar you will need so that you can fight the sometimes insurmountable understeer. and at the end of all of this you still have a car that can handle pretty good but doesnt even have 120 bhp. and lets admit it... the whole time you are sitting there wishing it was a LEVIN cause they look way cooler than the TRUENO. oh but just a heads up... if you want the most bad a$$ed looking 86 in the world... instead of putting fender flares on it (played out) go to a company called "J-BLOOD" and get there 20 mil over fenders... they are super awesome. that and since i had em i havent seen another set in person. and skip the 20 valve motor if you dont already have it (you mention a swap) and just stick with the 16 valve... you can make plenty of power on that while staying N/A.

oh and p.s. if you are an aspiring to do anything except look good in this car (i.e. drift, autoX, time attack) anytime you find axles for sale you buy them. cause they dont make them anymore and i even bent them in my SR5. if you hit anything they bend at the hub and you are screwed.

http://www.j-blood.com/pic-labo/p_ae01.jpg

AWESOME

I heard tC struts/ springs will fit in tose you just need different top mounts...just heard this not 100% though...confirmation?

lol The suspension mods, lat bars, and everything else is already planned, I know what I'm getting into no worries there, after all, it is a project car. The struts and shocks on the one I got are actually in good shape, but I do need new springs, the kid that owned it before me decided to chop the crap out of the ones that are there, stupid kid. Already saw that I need the camber plates as the camber is off way beyond belief (positive camber on the passenger, negative on the driver), so I will be ordering those with the springs end of this week more than likely. And in reality I like the way the Trueno looks way more than the Levin (sorry just my opinion) but not to say I don't like the Levin, it's bad a** too. The swap is actually a 4AC to just another 4AC but he swapped from an auto to a stick and did a terrible job, so I'm in the middle of fixing that so the car is at least drivable, but I will be swapping to the 4AG sometime later down the line, the engine was actually relatively easy to find I found. Car will probably be set up for drift, it will be my second drift car I've set up so yay! lol Thanks for the heads up though, any info is awesome :)

Those over fenders do look pretty cool though!

nice man congrats!!!!!

still waiting for pictures

Post some pictures!!! haha

^x3!!!

PICSSSSS

Hey Clok... was good to meet ya @ the vid store... good luck on the project..

god that car is a _____ to work on but its at its last stages. even with the modified springs and being slammed to the ground the camber is minor. so i dont know what this person is talking about. (the camber is actually better than my dropped tc)

in anycase i dont see what _____ing about the difference between the trueno and levin is going to do since really its a matter of preference and if he wanted one over the other he would have got the other one instead.

its almost to the state of being mechanically finished just needs timing and than the carb tuned. other than that its a runner. looks way better with the sport maxes installed correctly. lol the kid we towed it from made um..... a mess of it. so not only did we have to roll the fenders but flare them slightly. (tastefully of course.)

and than repair the horrid damage done to the stock bumper when such said ex owner decided it would be rad to make a cheesy body kit out of zipties and rubber home depo siding. rolfl

his car is almost ready for the road. so well see what we can do to get it finished.

its already much much nicer than it was to begin with, due to the work we have done.

things our club has done to the car
repaired and manufactured new clutch cabling/lines.
major rewiring of the front end electrical, and realignment of the headlight clusters,
body panel repair/manufacturing.
front clip repair.
clutch and gas pedal repair,
gas/throttle cable manufacture.
suspension: spring, strut, and wheel repairs.
re bleeding the brake lines.
body modifications to accommodate oversize wheels,
had to reset multiple body panels.
repair spring setup due to difference in height.
repaired ground wiring.
re manufactured stock bumper trimming.
we stripped out massive parts from another ae86 shell. (woot!)
repaired the power steering rack,
multiple carb repairs..
massive amounts of loose hardware, including carb leaks, exhaust leaks and the like.

things needed.
seat brackets.
strip out interior
tune carb
timing
new exhaust
proper springs, bushings, and struts.
body repairs.

things wanted
you name it... lol


thanks to kanchi's advice i lent clockwerk my old set of springs i forgot i had.

anyways it will be good to see it done.

still waiting he he

still waiting he he

PICTURES!!!!

begining to think this isn't true if there isnt any pictures ha ha ha

Took awhile, but here are a few pics, I'll have some updated ones soon (been really busy)

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=158727344&albumId=2154341

Hey Clok... was good to meet ya @ the vid store... good luck on the project..

Hey good to meet you too, thanks man, it's gonna be a helluva project haha.

may pick one up this week if my car sells.

Nate........we will miss you and your car.........really you will not get any hotter women in a M3..........well maybe you will........you area a sexy man..........with a deep voice........hell yeah........hell yeah...... :rofl:

Hahahahaha

no BMW, im gonna keep it in the family, youll see. hopefully

no BMW, im gonna keep it in the family, youll see. hopefully

^almost sig worthy!

Muffler showed up yesterday, gonna try to get it on the car next week!

bro, we need pics mann haha, unless you wnna wait until the unveiling ;)

lol I have a link with pics, I'll have some updated pics when I can get some work done on it next :)