Greets from Germany

[Hanzo]

Greetings, my name is Steffen.
I live in germany near the black forest.
So lots of nice winding roads.

Right know i'm driving a BMW E36 and a Lotus Exige S2.

A friend of mine bought 2 AE86 a few weeks ago. I joked that i would buy one. After a restless night of thinking and watching Best Motoring i contacted my friend and bought the AE86 coupe.

Unfortunetaly the body need a full restauration. On the good side it has a LSD, tuned cams (idle it pretty rough) and an oil cooler.

My goal is to build a nice weekend car. The problem with the lotus is that it is very capable but to get the most of of it you need a racetrack. And to a certain limit it is pretty easy to drive.
I want a bigger thrill at moderate speed if that make sense.

[banpei]

Welcome Steffen! And congratulations on your AE86!

(03-27-2021 09:54 PM)Hanzo Wrote:  Unfortunetaly the body need a full restauration. On the good side it has a LSD, tuned cams (idle it pretty rough) and an oil cooler.

The (German) AE86 came standard with a 1.5 LSD and oil cooler, or do you mean it has received upgrades?
Any ideas on the type of cams? (lift/duration)

Quote:My goal is to build a nice weekend car. The problem with the lotus is that it is very capable but to get the most of of it you need a racetrack. And to a certain limit it is pretty easy to drive.
I want a bigger thrill at moderate speed if that make sense.

I've recently seen a video where a certain person said a very similar thing.

[Hanzo]

@banpei i didn't knew that the german AE86 came with oil cooler and LSD from the factory.
It is indeed a german model from 1983 and a catless modell

In regards to the cams we will have to look inside the engine.

And I would be interested to see which video you saw.

I will try to use quote feature next time i haven't used an forum in years.

Edit: At least on german websites the AE86 coupe had 1.6l

[Mylesmck]

(03-27-2021 11:53 PM)Hanzo Wrote:  Edit: At least on german websites the AE86 coupe had 1.6l

...I think he meant 1.5way lsd... welcome to the forum by the way!

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[Hanzo]

(03-28-2021 01:14 AM)Mylesmck Wrote:  

(03-27-2021 11:53 PM)Hanzo Wrote:  Edit: At least on german websites the AE86 coupe had 1.6l

...I think he meant 1.5way lsd... welcome to the forum by the way!

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You are definitely right and thanks I'm glad I found this forum. I wasn't fully awake when I edited that.
I will make project thread when I start my restauration.

[zenki]

Welcome. Looking forward to seeing your resto.

[Hanzo]

(03-28-2021 01:16 PM)zenki Wrote:  Welcome. Looking forward to seeing your resto.

Thanks. I will start in 3-6 Months. First thing is a giant buy list.
And a rough project plan. The good thing is a friend still has a lot of AE86 parts and they will arrive in few weeks.
Also a few parts like headlights seems very hard get or pretty expensive. That will be a nice scavanger hunt aka "Schnitzeljagd" as we call it in germany.

[Bean]

Welcome and best of luck with the restoration. I hope I can make some progress myself when back home.

[Hanzo]

(03-28-2021 07:47 PM)Bean Wrote:  Welcome and best of luck with the restoration. I hope I can make some progress myself when back home.

@Bean i looked in your build thread. It seems that you are from switzerland. I live 10km away from the swiss border. Maybe we can met in the summer and go for a drive in the swiss alps.

[Bean]

I'm originally from Switzerland but don't live there anymore. I'll be in Switzerland in June though - maybe we can have a quick meet (if we do I'll see if decryphe will join us with his Trueno). No Corolla though as it's not registered right now and I still have quite some things to do to make it road legal in Switzerland again. If things for once go to plan I should be able to make it with my Z though