Brads ae85

[bradae85]

Hi everyone,

My name is Brad and im from Christchurch NZ (a.k.a earthquake city lol!!!)

this is my ae85, i purchased it off a mate in march 2009, it came stock apart from a very rough slivertop 4age conversion.
Since then it has been slowly modified and daily driven

Specs:

Engine-
silvertop 20v 4age
coby extractors & 2.5" exhaust
hks pod filter
carbon fiber spark plug and timing covers

Drivetrain-
t50 22 spline conversion (k50 blew 2nd gear) with genuine ae86 pedal box and cross member
custom 1 piece drive shaft with upgraded universals
heavy duty clutch
trd short shifter
te71 disk brake diff
TRD 2way lsd


Brakes-
Wilwood 4pot front calipers & custom brackets
znoelli slotted rotors (VW golf gti turbo)
ae86 handbrake cables


Suspension-
BC gold adjustable suspension kit
techno toy tuning RCAs
Adjustable rear trailing arms
nolathane replacement of every bush
adjustable front & rear strut braces
New ball joints
New rack ends & boots
New tie rod ends

Wheels & tyres-
Sportmaxx 002 15x8 -0 offset
20mm spacers front & rear
195 45 15 Continental sport contact 2 (front), 195 45 15 nankang ns2 (rear)

Body-
VERY rough factory paint
custom matte red guard (thanks to one night in the hills lol)
vertex copy body kit (freshly painted thanks to a lady rear ending me)
factory levin chrome weather shields (best value for money mod i have done $20)
facelift indicators and bumper lights (would love some facelift eyelids)
Semi sealed headlights
Narva ultra blue h4 bulbs


Interior-
Bride Brix drivers seat
OMP copy steering wheel
TRD duracon gearknob
Juran hand break button (for extra drift)
some stickers
sony headunit, speakers, amps & slimline sub
battery in the boot

probably lots i have forgotten

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we had a good snow this year too

[bradae85]

ill post up some more better photos soon

[Rice86]

Nice car mate n g'day!

New Zealand seems to have a lot of very high quality ae86s out there, well at least in the picture lol

[Kenex05]

looks like there is a lot of Trueno in NZ. envy

[bradae85]

There is alot more truenos than u guys get in Aussie, probably because the majority of our cars are imports, unlike Aussie who has lots of ADM ae86 Levins. Truenos are still more rare than Levins here, I organized a meet up/ cruise last year and out of a dozen hachis there were only three truenos! I will have to organize another soon and post up pictures. I have mates with much Tidyer examples than mine.

[bradae85]

so um....
new motor is in took me and a mate or two 3 days to pull out the old engine, gearbox, radiator and pull off all the auxillary parts (was just bare long block when i got it i.e block and head) and re install it all. now that everything is in it WONT START!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!! motor cranks over, there is fuel in the cylinders and spark shown on timing light. but wont start. my battery has allways had a problem turning over the starter since i put the battery in the boot. cranks very slowly and weak. so i have installed another cable from battery to the starter. still doesnt crank any harder. all the sensors i can see and remember pulling off are connected back up.
any ideas or comments would be appreciated.

cheers , brad

[bradae85]

also i allways see people on here replacing there standard lca's with xt130 corona lca's. this is for extra length im guessing? i have searched on trademe (nz's largest auction site) for any parts for a xt130 corona but nothing comes up. also i work at repco and searched for xt130 in our data base and nothing. is there any other arms that give a wider track that will fit. I like having camber but need more flush!!!!!

[McLEVIN]

Did you get sigmas? They are longer than xt130. but they fit.
People sell them on here all the time just get them to post them wouldn't be that much I shouldn't think

[bradae85]

has anyone had the same problem before? changed motor then wont start? what should i check? what could it be?

[bradae85]

Hey so I've put some real thick grounds in now, as mine was lacking any. Put two on motor( one from starter mount bolt, one from power steer pump bolt) and a nice thick battery ground in the boot. Now it cranks hard! But still didn't start. My starter started smoking after cranking for around 30-40 seconds, is that normal? And there was only one spark shown on the timing light over that whole time cranking. Please!!!!!! Any help would be appreciated