The story begins about 5 Years ago.
Every morning I would drive past this "amazing" car. A red 84 Trueno. At this time I only knew the AE86 from when my cousin had one years ago. So id drive past this car going to and from work and sometimes go back to check it out late in the night.
After 3 or 4 months of doing this and telling my wife about how cool it was she went down there and bought it for me.
$500 what a bargain!
So I go down there to pick it up (in daylight) and straight away I can see that I had built this car up in my head. ALOT!
So I could see the paint was bad, it has a little bit of rust, an 80's sunroof, its an automatic and also no 4age. WTF.
Too late now so ill just take it and drive it. It'll be sweet. So I start using it as my daily driver. It rolls around alot and spins out pretty easy which was pretty fun but it was winter and of course raining so all of a sudden im seeing water bubbling through the back seat and soon I have a water feature with fountain in the back of my car. I pulled the seat out and found big holes where the rear belts used to bolt to. Fist size.
When I started stripping the car out I found more rust in the boot, in the rear pockets and wheel arches. Also the front guards had been welded on as the sills were gone in the front now too.
And so the project begins..........
I dont have pics of it back so im just going to show what ive done so far.
This is it after most or the bad rust was fixed.
Here is a list of specs.
Engine and drivetrain:
7 Rib Smallport Redtop 4age
Bigport TRD leads and dizzy cap
Blacktop flywheel
Exedy heavy duty 20V 4 puck clutch
Full RWD conversion
Koyo alloy radiator with 1.3 bar TRD cap
12" electric fan
10 row oil cooler with thermostatic adapter and TRD filter
Total 7000 sm 10w/40 oil
T50 gearbox with shortened shifter and TRD knob
AE86 driveshaft
AE86 Kouki Differential
Cusco MZ type 2 way LSD
2.25" exhaust all the way with 4-1 extractors, Magnaflow high flow Cat, tiny resonator and Buddy Club PRO SPEC3 muffler
Fuel lines, nissan efi filter and AE86 fuel tank
Interior:
AE86 Red/brown interior
Nardi wheel with long boss
USDM cup holder in console
AE86 kouki gauge cluster
GT Apex windscreen washer control with 1 billion settings
Carbon panel in hatch to cover wiper motor
Power mirror switch
Air con removed and all heater ducting gutted
Body:
Rust cut and plates welded then tidied up with carbon
Bare metal outside and etch prime
Dupont paint system
Kouki front bumper
Zenki rear bumper with custom pods
Type 1 mirrors
Bonnet lift
Lipped rear arches / rolled front
Carbon fuel lid
AE86 hatch spoiler
AE86 side skirts
Removed passenger keyhole
Raybrig multi reflector headlights and phillips 4000K bulbs
Redline tail lights
Kouki eyelids
kouki indicators
Suspension:
Front: TRD AE92 short stroke strut inserts with spacers and TRD 6.0 kg springs T3 NCRCA's and camberplates
Rear: TRD AE86 short stroke 8 way adjust. shock and TRD 4.7 kg springs
Prothane bushes throughout
Adjustable lateral rod
T3 traction brackets
TRD front and rear sway bars
Front and rear strut braces
All suspension parts powder coated in antique steel (gunmetal) and steering parts, crossmembers, brackets powder coated in gloss black
Brakes:
AE86 Front calipers with vented, cross drilled ans slotted rotors and TRD black carbon metallic pads (dust covers removed)
AE86 Rear calipers with crossdrilled and slotted rotors and TRD black premium metallic pads
New handbrake cables and Cusco spin turn knob
Wheels:
2 piece 14 x 6.5 0+- Work equip 01's
Smallport 4age with bigport lead conversion
Kouki AE86 cluster
With Work Equip 01's fitted and my own creation rear pods to look like JBlood items
Rear brace
camber plates
24 row oil cooler
Raybrig headlights
Now its ready for top coat.
Today I started to fit the TRD pads and a different set of 86 calipers in the back. Also the T3 traction brackets. They are marked drivers and passengers but thet come from the US so im not sure if they mean their left or mine if you know what I mean. Sort it out tomorrow.
Little update.
Finished fitting rear traction brackets and TRD pads last weekend. 5 hours to do one side and 45 mins to do the other. Go figure?
I think to fit the traction brackets easily your diff mounts have to be brand new not 20+ years old and a rubber mallet would have helped too, instead I had to bash it in with the palm of my hand. ouch!
Today I fitted a new 10 row oil cooler. I decided not to be be so fussy how I mounted this one, so cable ties ftw! This one is quite a bit bigger than the 24 row I was originally going to use and due to the emense sucking power of the super loud electric fan it will be kept nice and cool too.
The new cooler has a remote mount for the oil filter and im also using a thermostatically controlled adapter in conjunction with the sandwich plate that came with the kit. The lines were pretty long too but I think I have made a descent enough job of keeping it all looking tidy.
Just a little update with some new parts purchased and installed.
Rear chop of TRD 4.7 kg springs and bumpstops
With Revolver coilovers/TRD 5 way inserts and Cusco camber plates
Omori gauge install and removal of lighter and chime.
Safety 21 6 point cage.