Golberg's AE71 4A-GZE Skid Bucket

[Golberg]

I thought I'd post up a new rides thread to welcome my newest member of the family.

This will have been the 5th E7 I've owned.

Here it is then:






I really don't know WTF is up with that gear knob though, its fucked as. I need to find myself a stock knob.

Current specs:
Manual CS-X AE71
El-bodgo carpet half ripped out
Non CS-X rims
4AC with blown head gasket
Basically a well used country car

Principals under which the car will be built:
- Car is to have only bolt in mods (for easy reshell)
- All work is to be done by myself (I don't know how to do something, I'll learn)
- I don't really care what the body looks like so long as it drives well
- Wherever possible all modifications will be done in such a way to appear standard or more standard than otherwise. (by no means an easy feat with most things)
- If there is a genuine Toyota part which works, it will be sourced.

[Golberg]

10/02/13 Well the staged build idea has gone out the window. I'm not wasting my time there, I'm just going to build the car once and build it right. Planned specs:

Engine:
- AE101 4A-GZE Engine
- Full rebuild including the following new genuine parts
- 0.5 Oversize Pistons (bore of doner engine was warn)
- Rod & Main Bearings
- Oil Pump
- Water Pump
- Full gasket and seal kit
- TRD Headgasket
- TRD Engine Mounts
- Cusco 175mm oversized harmonic balancer

Gearbox & Clutch:
- Rebuilt W58 with bearings and syncros
- Correct shifter position for E7 platform (More info here: !)
- Niteparts Bellhousing (The one, the only, best A-W bellhousing)
- AW11 225mm Flywheel
- Clutch undecided

Diff:
- Corona MX13 MKII F-series differential
- Fully rebuilt with new bearings and seals
- 4.556 Ratio Gearset
- TRD 2 Way LSD

Brakes:
- Rebuilt JDM AE86 front callipers
- ST141 Corona Rear disc brakes

Steering:
- Rebuilt AE86 Steering rack
- Power steering arms
- Lock spacer

Suspension:
- Greddy Type-S Coilovers
- Greddy EDC system
- Whiteline adjustable top trailing arms

Electricals:
- 1.4kw Genuine Denso Starter (More info here: )
- AW11 MR2 Genuine Rebuilt Denso Alternator and bracket

Interior:
- Driver & passenger Bride recliner
- Dash swapped for dark blue dash
- Full cage
- Drivers 4 Point harness

Exterior:
- 14 Inch Watanabes in gunmetal grey (whatever sizes I can find)
- Random hotwires & other 114.3 x 4 rims as skidders
- Series 1 T18 Tail lights
- Pin stripes and bump strips removed

I'll add more as I firm up plans and come up with more ideas.

Any comments or suggestions as to what I should go with, please do comment.

[Golberg]

These are the latest updates on each part of the build:
Car Exterior:
Still looks the same as a year ago, except maybe the rust holes are a little bigger.

Loving the towbar, I think it might have to stay


Engine:
Painted engine block


Gearbox:
Gearbox partially apart, awaiting further tools to proceed


Diff:
Just chilling in standard MX13 form, waiting till the engine and gearbox rebuilds are finished.

[Golberg]

Nothing to see here.

[Zach]

Pics? sounds dope.

[joeschmo_57]

good plans
how long will it take to finnsih stage 1?

joe

[bams_keto]

good work golberg,
hope this one is clean unlike the others
lol

[Golberg]

This one looks like a pig in comparison to my red AE71. But in saying that its not too bad a shell from what I can see. I honestly have had fuck all time to even look over it, I just picked it up the other evening. But as far as I can see its reasonably rust free, the rails are straight and un crushed too. There are little bits of surface rust here and there, but not much which has gone cancerous.

But anyway, I'm not planning on doing anything to fix the body, but I might change my mind. I'm basically after pig which looks trashy but has money spent in all the right areas.

After all, I've got my daily 71 for the super clean car.

I'm aiming to hopefully complete stage one by the end of the year. That largely depends on funds though, but since I've started a full time job now that shouldn't be too much of an issue.

[ke_70]

ill b watchin carefully.

[Golberg]

Got some better photos up now.

When I have time I'm going to pull the bump strips off and remove the CS-X stripes.
Badges will remain there, I can't remember their condition though, if the silver has come off them a lot I'll probably spray them black.

Also leaning toward widened steelies. 14 x 8 or something thereabouts. I'll have to see what 114.3 x 4 14inch steelies there are to choose from in my mates wrecking yard. The only downside I can see from them is that they'd be heavy.
But a big plus for me is that I could have many made up so I could easily swap rims at track days and still have a matching set on the car.

Anybody in the Wollongong-Sydney area had steel wheels widened? If so how much and where?

The other thing I've been thinking about is what I want to do with the body work. Its not a VERY rusty car, but its got plenty of little bits coming through here and there. Being a white car though its pretty easy to spray patches and blend the paint well enough that you wouldn't easily see that its been sprayed without close inspection.

At the same time I'd really love to have a total shit-spec body. There is just some classy appeal to me of the motorfix cars and I just love the beaten up, rusty, slammed look. But on the flip side this thing will not be engineered and be road registered at least for now.

The sensible side of me is winning atm so I think the car will basically look something like this
Outside:
Surface rust sanded back and sprayed white
Bump strips removed, stripes removed
Bumpers sprayed matt black
Badges sprayed matt black
Possibly spray the handles matt black
Matt black widened steelies

Inside:
Swap dash out for uncracked dark blue
Put in majority of dark blue dash
Stripped door trims (down to the Masonite sprayed dark blue)
Dark blue carpet with all sound deadening removed
Dark blue CS-X passenger seat
Dark blue drivers bride recliner
Dark blue CS-X rear seats (when on the road)

Might to a photochop to show my vision.