Jarrod's Beams Powered Drift and Track Project

[Corolla86]

Hello everyone, My name is Jarrod. I have had my sprinter project for a few years now, so I though it was about time I got motivated and make a built thread for it.
My project hasn't been the fastest one to complete, although now its nearly done.
When i started this car i was only just a second year apprentice living away from home. so i didn't have the cash or the time to progress it as fast as i wanted.

The car is an aus delivered 1984 shell. When I brought it my intentions were to build the car up for just grip events. I wanted to do tarmac rally and hillclimb in it.









My first real goal was to get it rolling. it didn't take long to do.
Since i had now got the car rolling it was kinda put to one side. I was on the lookout for parts.
I could never find the items i was looking for, so i brought another shell.

This shell was a jap import and it had alot of the stuff i was after, like a dash, windscreen, pedals, rear gaurds, and a whole lot of other things.
The shell its self was pretty rough, the roof and pillars were bent, and it had a rough underside. the car had holes in the chassis from where the cage was bolted, it was originally panda, then painted orange, then white.




So then I slowly started to return my car to more of an original shape by removing the flares.

Underneath the flares was not a pretty sight



I must admit, my next decision was not the best one I have ever made.
I have never been great at body work, I tend to get a bit bored of sanding and bogging.
when i look back now, i should of cut away more of the car and simply put more of the original guard in the car.
but anyway, i got the grinder out and...



then,


and replaced the front guards with better ones.


Once all the panels were properly welded up, they were ground back and roughly smoothed out with bog,.

A fair amount of time had passed since i had originally brought the car,
The car was now at a stage where it was nearly driveable.
It now had a gearbox and a 4ac.

I made the decision to go away from the 4a series. go for a 3SGE Beams.

[Panda BVB700]

good choice id say im not far off doing my beams conversion into mine got alot of the parts sorted, from what ive seen very well worth it

[Corolla86]

I knew that if i was to go for the beams, I wound not be able to do any tarmac rally. but it didn't really bother me.
There were not many rally events, compared to track days and drift events.

So i brought a beams and j160, then got out the grinder again


I was feeling a bit lazy and just brought some engine mounts from buddyparts. then i fabbed up a gearbox mount and started making the tunnel around it.




The engine sat really good in the bay. it was nice and far back.
After all the tunnel work was done the car was completely stripped back, sanded, and painted.
I decided to go for a nice cheap structural primer, then to paint the inside of the car and engine bay white.

[FoldKing86]

Fuck me dead, well done brother, well done, looks super clean.

[Corolla86]

In the front end i also put in some ke55 LCA's and steering tube, RA40? Tie rod ends, Power steering arms and 50mm RCA's. That i made and will be selling soon because i made a batch of them, (along with a few other bits and pieces)



I started to wire up my haltech ps1000,

Due to keeping it simple and ecu limitations i only have vvt running on one cam.

To be continued. getting photos and stuff organised

[t-nol]

Great work so far.
Does the shifter have to sit so high? The custom tunnel looks massive !!! How is it when your sitting in there?
Whats the rectangle hole for above the trans tunnel?

[Corolla86]

so the car was really starting to get there now,
I machined up some caliper adaptors for FC caliper on the Mini Disk
I got some 15X8 rota grids, they fit well

[Corolla86]

The tunnel really isn't too big, i will put a few more pics up in a sec, the shifter position is pretty good. the j160 has nice short throws.
the rectangle hole is there to make it a bit easier to do any work on the back of the engine.
I remember jay duca basically having to pull his motor out to change a hose back there.

[t-nol]

Yeah with the dash in i can see it better.

[Corolla86]

The car was getting soo close to running now,

I put the clutch master in, the original setup was not going to work. so i made up a remote reservoir and used a banjo bolt in the master


And an exhaust


Brough a seat and harness and harness bar


made up hydro handbrake and put in bias adjuster


battery in boot


All wiring done


and engine bay done,





In the bay i put in a turbosmart fpr, and a civic rad..... the rad isnt there anymore, now been upgraded.
I had built the car to run on e85, at this stage all that was left was fuel system, and tune.
I used 10mm hose to the rail and 8mm return. the hose is ethanol compatible