Ae86

**LittleRedSpirit** · September 14, 2010

Hi guys, I picked up this car from ebay last week. Its a pretty untidy car but with a weekends cleaning, welding and then paint it will be excellent.

Specs are as follows:

ADM AE86 chassis.

Bigport engine

ADM t50

Kaizen pipes

Cut and shit manifold

AE86 JDM diff with discs and lsd

JDM tailshaft

RCI fuel cell - 30 litres

2 litre surge tank

Carter lift pump

VL turbo pump

Koni yellow rear shocks

cambertops and camber pins

Spare smallport with manifolds came with it

Couple sets of mags

ADM bumpers with a lip

Race seat - aluminium bucket with removable liner, very comfy actually.

ADM Brakes

The seller claimed the diff and motor was rebuilt but yet to be confirmed. he also said the front struts were trd but I havent confirmed this, they are non adjustable is all I know.

Came with a Microtech to suit some other car and its wired for it.

Has most of the interior minus stock seats and its in a bit of a sorry state.

The shell is mod plated to 2 seater capacity already. Not for the engine or diff tho but thats a formality with this setup.

Plans:

Strip and clean the shell.

Rust repair and paint the shell, colour change to peak white 2pak, might even get a kit for it but we will see.

Return to a more original state with some normal interior and stock front seats.

Rewire to suit stock bigport computer.

Sell it once its done and all legal etc.

Ditch race fuel system and install a jdm ae86 fuel tank.

I'm a fixer not a destroyer, so even though I could make a lot parting it I will be resurrecting it and giving it some love.

mungi mods · September 14, 2010

been there seen that...

we can rebuild it .... make it faster, stronger , able to leap tall hills in a single gear :lol:

**Trev** · September 14, 2010

Good work Matt, be good to see the transformation.

Jesseb369 · September 14, 2010

nice nice. Always loved the 86! I like the notchbacks myself. But either one is a piece of history :D

**LittleRedSpirit** · September 14, 2010

Yes I prefer the notchback but you gotta take what you can get with ae86s.

Its really just to save it and sell it to someone with an appreciation of what a complete and classy car is.

ae824ate · September 14, 2010

Looks like my latest buy, minus all the good parts haha. And mines got more rust. Like the sound of your plans for it too. Looking forward to seeing your progress, it might give me some inspiration.

Edited September 14, 2010 by ae824ate

ca18ae71 · September 15, 2010

hey matty nice buy , i have my old bp loom and ecu and heaps of other shit if u want it

**LittleRedSpirit** · September 16, 2010

Cheers mate already found most of what I need, might be bits and pieces to get Ill let you know.

NIZLAH · September 18, 2010

nice to see some love for the infamous 86 Matt.....................

philbey · September 20, 2010

cool. I used to drive a hachi, back before everyone called them a hachi and all the drift kings were importing their Initial D dvd's. Awesome fun car, looking forward to seeing what you can pull off with this sucker!

mungi mods · December 30, 2010

repairs and rust removal/plating commenced :lol:

pics when matt gets to it...

SLW42 · December 30, 2010

Good to see your giving it some loving mate

Shotgun fuel pump and surge tank when and if ya sell it :yes:

EDIT: aslong as somebody buys my shit 1st :P ,

Edited December 31, 2010 by SLW42

**LittleRedSpirit** · December 31, 2010

The fuel cell is sold. I still have the surge tank for now. Make an offer if you want when you are ready.

Yes indeed there has been a lot done and organised since I last posted. I found someone who was turning their ae86 into a drag car and succeeded in getting everything I need minus the door trims, hatch and bonnet, and seatbelts. I'm tossing up buying a Seibon CF OEM bonnet and hatch combo for it. Its just so annoying to find old steel parts that need fixing and still will set me back $500. Anyhow, more thought is needed there.

Heres some pics of the rust. The places where the car was cut down in the rear lower wells has been closed up. There was a little rust in the gaurd. I'm going in today I might have a play with the Mig and see if I can finish it off. I need to grind a seat mount out of another car to weld in, I'm thinking a ke one could do. The person who cut the car up removed one of the threads in the floor pan to fit their alloy seat, which I now need to replace.

There's a small amount of rust near the pillar vents that I will look at also. I will have to go and collect my sandblaster from my mate that has it to clean up the under body in the thing.

Once its all solid metal again I will wire brush it, grind it to shape then I plan to put a decent layer of an epoxy resin over it. We have this araldite type product at work in tubs that will do a nice job of permanently locking out all the water from the areas that have been taken back to bare metal, as well as coating the fresh welds.