Figured I might as well start one of these...
After a quick inspection of my last 86 it was very obvious that all of my running gear was unscathed so I began looking for a shell to swap into. Although I had previously promised myself that the next 86 I bought would be JDM I had also thought I would sell my old one to buy the JDM one with the cash, so that idea seemed binned. I had a couple leads on ADM cars with rego, very nearly bought one, then it was sold as I was on the way with cash in my pocket I found this car out of rego and defected in SA. As I was always going to be registering it in a different state I was always going to have to go over pits (which were required to clear the defect) so no big deal for me. I couldn't get there to inspect it myself but a mate who lives in the area and tinkers with his GTR went and looked for me (didn't pick up on a couple of 86 specific things but I was mainly interested in overall condition)
So in the end I had indeed bought a JDM Levin GTV as my next 86
I'm now in the process of swapping over most of my old gear into this car, a few things will stay, like the disk to disk LSD rear end and the AJPS harness bar, but the suspension, engine etc is all getting transplanted.
I do have some time up my selves this time though so I am not going to be cutting too many corners, and it all has to be above board anyway because it will need to pass engineers and rego...
So, what’s this first part of any 86 build? Pulling lots of stuff off! Here is was the car looks like at the moment:
In the end what I hope to achieve is a street legal, 2 seater, daily that I can enter in drift comps with, with few changes...(will be driving it to/from events from the ACT) I want to get to lots of rounds of superdrift this year (not expecting to go well, never even been on any of the tracks involved) but they are good fun anyway and it should be a good way to go around part of the country and meet you lot . Seriously looking forward to being behind the wheel of a hachi again and getting out to a bunch of tracks and getting better at driftering!
So final specs SHOULD be something like this:
AE92 GZE (standard computer)
eBay spec monster radiator
JDM T50
JDM T series
thinking 15" superlites or sportmax rims for street (keeping challengers for track as they offset fail for street )
coilovers in the front
PS arms
TRD blues + aftermarket springs in the back
1/2 cage
UltraRacing front 1/4 braces
Harness bar (probly just run belts for street though)
thinking about getting some swaybars
ALL new bushes
possibly new engine/gearbox mount rubbers
AJPS panard bar
extractors and over diff exhaust (gotta be quiet for massive highway k's)
and (don't hate me too much) A/C (it IS going to be a daily)
Finally, I can't promise that I’m not a dick sometimes, but I reckon I’m not most of the time, and I reckon a lot of people probly look at my forum nick and just think "Jerk", but as it says in my sig I really have converted to loving the old school Toyota family and I have always owned at least 1 86 since late 2005, so it should probably say 86 driver or something like that by now... /rant (just had to get that out of the way)