Some pics I took yesterday, ae86 meet

[RobertoX]

Hi guys,

Yesterday I went along to a track meet in my local area and there were 2 classes for ae86's running. I thought I'd post up some pics and share with you the glory of amatuer AE86 racing in Japan
The sound of about 20 highly modified 4AGE's on track at once is just awesome!

The 2 classes were GT and N1
GT is the top class and is pretty open to any sort of modification really, there were turbos, and many different types of suspension replacements (I couldn't tell if there was any restriction). There were about 20 or so cars.
The N1 class is basically very amatuer, only stock cams and inlet manifold allowed, also must use a bigport 4age as far as I can tell. You can't run fibreglass doors and windows must be glass for the front and door windows, quarter and rear can be plexi. Suspension seemed to be pretty open though. There is a regulation tyre- Dunlop Z1 which comes in 14x185, 14x195, 15x195. In this there were about 10 cars competing.
Common engine setups are, exhaust + air filter/induction, high compression (AE92 rods and pistons, TRD headgasket), ported head.
I'm still getting a bit of work done on my car but hopefully next time I'll be running in N1...

There were also 2 unrelated classes, 'open' for basically any car (these looked pretty nuts and were fast!) and a 'sports class' which had lightly modified cars and compacts.

Anyway pics:

First up are all the GT's
From memory this was the 2nd fastest and also the sexiest:







Orange Katana









Basically all the cars had some hot wheels:





I think this was the fastest: (this name seems a bit familiar)





This was nuts, I'm not sure whether I like or not but there was a lot of attention to detail put in! And it was quick.

That is turbo running quads and NOS... He told me that he wasn't using the nitrous on the day though

Gearbox is Altezza 6MT

Pedal box:









This Bride car seemed to be very well put together, only average performance on track though (I think the driver was only learning though as he span out on the slow warm up lap lol)









From here is the N1 Class.




The Trueno coupe looked very nice, until he nudged someone and put it into a wall...

[RobertoX]

These are the open class cars:

Wide body rex with some ridiculous ant lag!



Out of all the Open class this civic was fastest on track... for some reason he dropped out after qualifying. It was bloody fast though!



VTEC / Lightweight class:
This s200 had all removable panels replaced with CF ones, it was amusing seeing it get beaten by a very stock looking S2000 and a Civic.



And I saved some of the best eye candy for last
Not on track but apparently the last round he was... and very fast too!

[slide86]

OMG OMG some actual MODIFIED ae86's and not the regular junk that we have in aus.

so jealous of you to get to see this meet. you are a lucky man

[todd]

nice!
thanks for sharing robertoX.
the mix of rice/purposeful mods on that pink levin are interesting. no doubt it would be pretty serious though.
and always love a nice cream ke70 with quads.

[focus_7]

very cool man. thanks for posting

[RobertoX]

No problems, but I have to disagree about 'junk'! There are some awesome AE86's in aus... I reckon I there is as much innovation in Australia as there is anywhere else in the world.
There were definately no 1UZ's out there! I didn't see a 3S either... (except for the one in the S15!)

Next round I'll post some more...


By the way there are a few more pictures in this alubumn:

[Dom86]

Cool man.
You must have been almost in hachi heaven.
I look forward to seeing more.
Thanks.

[Breaka]

I'm in love. Must've been awesome seeing them in the flesh!

[Konakid]

top stuff dude, quality reading.

[driftke70]

nice, any pics of the 3s in the s15

seems like a great idea to me