#buildthreads My (and together with a cousin) "at the end of the day it's just a corolla" AE86.

Car as we got it

we started with the rust one, and it’s on the final stage of the rebuild, we just need to paint it and start to move stuff back into the car again. at this point we will not remember where goes everything so…

Our idea with this proyect was:

Ok, we reaaaaaally want an AE86, but they are so expensive (10.000€) and we have no money. So one day my cousin Alex told me, dude a friend of mine sells one, it was a proyect he never started, and its really cheap because its so messed up it needs a lot of work.

So we went to see it, and it was cheap enough for us to buy it, and everything we save every month went to the hachi. We have mechanic experience, but not with this kind of huge proyect, so most of it was new for us. And the car was fully dissasembled on the inside, and the wiring was off, and we had no where to look where the pieces go. It was a big puzzle the first month.

Anyway the owner was so nice to us, and now we are friends. They say when you sell a really special car you usually keep in touch with the old owned, and in this case was like it. We are friends, he helps us a lot (he have another AE86), in fact we didn’t pay him for months and it was fine… geez, we own him so much, and he will be our teacher, since people (and him too) says the AE86 is tricky to drive. we’ll see.

Our guide is:

• Restore it
• Improve it
• Drift it
• Crash it
• Rebuild again

we just at step 1, and for more than a year!

The owned said “the car was running fine last time we fire it up, some years ago. should be no problem” as long as you get a batery, fix the intake and a few more details.

The chasis was in good shape. We have no experience dealing with rust, so we were a bit scared of it, but only a couple places were bad, like under the spare wheel, and around the wheel arch. nothing serious so far.

we expended weeks cleaning everything. but it payed at the end.

It was a bit scary the looks on the pieces. But the owner told us he drove it around a circuit while raining the last time the car moved, so it was all wet and went into the garage. So we really hoped everything was good under that rust layer. and it was

Our first idea was to trash the engine and put it a new silver top, or even the black top (we have it on a box, lying around in the floor) but we had no money (we’re like MCM, no budget at all so…) and we thought we should learn to drive it first with the small engine, we have time later on to put in a serious one.

We decided to rebuild it, and it was fun as hell, and we learned a lot!

Now we just need to paint it, and buy a couple of things to finish the engine. We took it for a head gasket work, check on all the internals, tolerances were ok, cleaned everything, new seals, magnet bolt for the oil, new belts and all the usual stuff.

WHAT IS THIS!

Yes fellas, we don’t belong here im affraid.

In fact I have a question for you all.

I HAVE A PRIUS.
And an AE86..
And an Alfa romeo with a boxer engine.

what makes me here? I alwais feel bullied with all the prius hate =( im a worthy CT member? a shame to you all? haha.

At this stage we just need to paint it. And if i get lucky ill get Yasid to desing a kick ass paint job for it, we will see =)

We found a lot of texts lying around in the back of some pieces. we think they are notes about assembly, since there was even ones done with a welder in the plastic.

we are going really slowly, since we screw up everything all the time. but as we learn the job is starting to be better, faster and we don’t waste so much materials on it.

This is one of the reasons we went for the rebuild of the engine, it was pretty beaten up. but since we opened it we found the other owned had rebuild it once and it was in a pretty good shape.

The T-VIS was a funny one. We had no idea on how it worked, and it was broken, it was stuck. Using Toyota manual, we maded to work again, and learned how it works. we were thinking about a small electric motor or something that open up and close it on demand, and it was just a small magnet moving a small piece that blocks the air from getting sucked at the valves. (I might screw on the terminology, sorry)

Btw, if you wanna see all the proyect (in spanish, sorry, but you can see the pretty pictures, we have hundreds and some random videos) the web is on my profile.

And regarding "At the end of the day it's just a corolla", wich is true