Project Lowball - TE72 T18 SE

[floody]

I've had a bit of an on again, off again affair with this thing!

I got it in 2008 as below.

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/163029.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/163031.jpg

Daggy!

Minus some rideheight, plus some 13x6.5" +4. 13x7" -6 Riversides w/185/60R13 federals:

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/5/0/6/5/188681.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/5/0/6/5/44700.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/5/0/6/5/44701.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/5/0/6/5/44703.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/5/0/6/5/44704.jpg

Did about six months daily duty in my charge, abused the hell out of it every time I drove it, but I looked after it.

So I sold the Riversides off, moved it on to my partner's brother, used funds to cover some Meisters for my Skyline.
Next owner ran around in it for about 4 months and beat the crap out of it, hit stuff, people backed into it, finally wanted more luxury and got indebted to his teeth to own a shitbox Subaru..ran out of rego in late 2009 and sat parked outside his house from then until today.

I repurchased it at bottom dollar, chucked a battery in and drove it home, this is how it sits:

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/520931.jpg

The next phase is to be a sideways one. Collecting parts now.


Its not as bad as it looks. Paint is stuffed, but its not rusty, at all. Driveline is stock, but its sound. Interior is ratshit but comfy enough (and about to get a Recaro). Everything works, all electrics, all instruments, heater, everything. 12 months before being parked up it got new shocks and a few bushes, new sealed beams, new rotors, new pads, new shoes...

In all I know everyone who has owned it in about the last 13 years, which is kind of cool!

[jakel]

This looks like it will be an awesome project!

[John70]

I had dreams for my 83 te71 with 3t twin carb motor untill some dick bounced off a maxima, and a 318 beamer then into the ass of my te..
Still own her and don't know what to do with it, mint little car with one old man mechanic owner and a bent chassis. Anyone need parts.. haha

[floody]

Kept running into dead ends chasing wheels on forums and such. Slapped a lowball bid on these...won the auction.

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/5/0/6/5/192184.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/5/0/6/5/192186.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/5/0/6/5/192188.jpg

13x8, 13x9.5. Negative something offsets from the looks.

[floody]

Yay! On the way. Keeeeeeeen as.

[stahlz_ae86]

Good to see you own this again. Something about T-18's just sucks as a general rule imo but I always liked this when you put those photo's of it up in 08 with the 13's. Good to see it will be wearing some again.

[*E7*]

if you need to swap halves for your rims, i have three and a half sets of those same rims to mix and match if you need, or i can use one of my centers to have some new outers spun up for you.

let me know.

-Dave
(ps... when they arrive...)

[Jdm-Mcc]

13's <3

If this is as low as benzo's ke was with these wheels on it, it will rule hard.

[floody]

Hey Dave, I'll let you know if I need to mix and match, though I think I'll just make the car fit them.

Yeah man it will be low. Not sure what I'll do power wise though, may just be stock and slammed at this stage.

[floody]

Well rims are still on the way, few weeks yet I reckon. Bought a Bride rail which should have suited the Recaro LX I bought for this...arrived this morning but turned out to be a bent heap of shit, hacked about, bits missing and not even resembling the pic posted by the seller on here. So not sure what I'll do with that now.
Evolving a plan for front coilovers, trying to find bilstein AE92 inserts but they seem to have disappeared off the face of the earth. Aussie prices on them are also bullshit, the same item from local distro is easy 3x USA price plus shipping.

So...
Bilstein for 3000GT
Body: 265mm
compressed: 380mm
extended: 480mm
Stroke: 100mm (have also read 120mm which would make compressed length 360mm)
Body diameter: 36mm

vs

HTS
Tokico HTS
Body length: 332mm
Extended length: 476mm
Extended minus Body: 144mm
Outside Diameter: 43.5mm

Seems like they must have a lot of exposed shaft as they're even shorter in the body again but extended length and stroke is pretty close. I'm told the usual aftermarket bilsteins for AE86 are 36mm dia. also.

http://www.allshocks.com/productimages/R36-5022-H0.jpg

^Thats what they look like apparently. I think they're for a 3000GT. My concern is about the fact that they would seem to have ~115mm of exposed shaft that is doing SFA. Normally wouldn't be a big deal except with bilsteins the gland nut has a wiper so you can't just machine up a deep gland nut to take it up, an


Anyone know where to look for Bilstein gland nuts to suit AE86 struts (I'm making the assumption they will be the same fitment as T18 ones)?

[shift_rook]

from me fitting mine what i had to do was shave down the body to make the 36mm's fit, for gland nut's hit up quadrant suspensions in vic. just make sure you have a part number for the shock and they'll be able to help you out :)

[floody]

So hang on...36mm inserts are tight in the strut housing?

I'm having second thoughts about these 3000GT ones...it wasn't initially obvious to me that they have 80-100mm of shaft above the 'yellow' part. If they were pulled up flush with the gland nut they'd have that much extra shaft sticking out...It turns out they're designed to be retained from the base of the strut., and I'm not sure if thats achievable with the toyota strut body/foot.

[4drs1seat]

ahhh this is your t-18

<3 mike

[floody]

So wheels arrived (cool!) but I have to move house so it will be a few more weeks before I can rubber them up, and start building some LOW coilovers.

Turned out to be 13x9.5J -10, 13X8J +5, 8s are pretty close to strut body so I will probably run a small spacer and some longer LCAs to match the poke to the rear. As they sit, the rears have the inner safety bead about level with the guard edge, fronts are about level between guard and inside of the front outer lip.

Here's some shitty running-out-of-light-excited-to-open-wheel-packages pics.

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/521172.jpg


http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/521173.jpg


http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/521174.jpg

[4drs1seat]

no no no this will not do!

tyres asap!

-machinegun mike

[Jacobxxx]

+5 will sit with heaps of room when you have coilovers

[floody]

Well right now you would barely fit a coilover threaded sleeve between the wheel lip and the strut, so I reckon it will need spacing out. They may even be slightly more positive than that. Its ok, for what I paid (I played the auction-nobody-else-is-keen-to-bid-on game again, has paid off in the past) having to space the front is no biggie.

It would appear the front centres and inner lips are exactly the same as the rears so it should be a snap to make them say 9J -8 with some 1" wider outer lips

[floody]

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/521780.jpg

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http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/521782.jpg


This is just a mock-up. I chopped the stock springs basically in half so I could judge clearances and how much flare is needed etc. I am building coilovers for the front (TRD yellows, otomoto sleeves, 8kg springs, ?? tops) and just sierras with foulcan springs in the back. I think it will end up a little lower all round. Badly needs front spacers.

[akasod]

sweet get out the arch roller now and start flareing the shit out off it cool project dude

[Robo86]

looks sick man!

[Bustin_86]

All it needs now is suspension sorted and 4age for max motorfix esque tracktime!!!!

[Delazy]

ppfffftttt 4age???...now now justin, need i not remind you.... ;) :P :P :P

[jakel]

Build the 3T?

[floody]

T-motor all the way. Would like sidedraughts, cam and valvesprings though! I'd nearly turn for a 20v, but to be frank, my 4A-GE experience has been pretty underwhelming.
New suspension in the first few weeks of the new year, I'm going interstate over christmas/newyears but will be elbows deep in it again when I get back.

[jakel]

should be good then! I would have built my 3t but probably would have cost more than the 1uz I got :)

[Delazy]

Built t motor all the way!! Love mine and it's stock ATM!! Schnider package due any day now however!!