HachirokuGTV's 86LIFE

[hachirokuGTV]

The story begins about 5 Years ago.
Every morning I would drive past this "amazing" car. A red 84 Trueno. At this time I only knew the AE86 from when my cousin had one years ago. So id drive past this car going to and from work and sometimes go back to check it out late in the night.
After 3 or 4 months of doing this and telling my wife about how cool it was she went down there and bought it for me.
$500 what a bargain!
So I go down there to pick it up (in daylight) and straight away I can see that I had built this car up in my head. ALOT!
So I could see the paint was bad, it has a little bit of rust, an 80's sunroof, its an automatic and also no 4age. WTF.
Too late now so ill just take it and drive it. It'll be sweet. So I start using it as my daily driver. It rolls around alot and spins out pretty easy which was pretty fun but it was winter and of course raining so all of a sudden im seeing water bubbling through the back seat and soon I have a water feature with fountain in the back of my car. I pulled the seat out and found big holes where the rear belts used to bolt to. Fist size.
When I started stripping the car out I found more rust in the boot, in the rear pockets and wheel arches. Also the front guards had been welded on as the sills were gone in the front now too.
And so the project begins..........
I dont have pics of it back so im just going to show what ive done so far.


This is it after most or the bad rust was fixed.

[banpei]

Nice project!
What exactly are you planning to do? Complete rebuild?

[nmwisima]

Those rims...

[hachirokuGTV]

Here is a list of specs.

Engine and drivetrain:
7 Rib Smallport Redtop 4age
Bigport TRD leads and dizzy cap
Blacktop flywheel
Exedy heavy duty 20V 4 puck clutch
Full RWD conversion
Koyo alloy radiator with 1.3 bar TRD cap
12" electric fan
10 row oil cooler with thermostatic adapter and TRD filter
Total 7000 sm 10w/40 oil
T50 gearbox with shortened shifter and TRD knob
AE86 driveshaft
AE86 Kouki Differential
Cusco MZ type 2 way LSD
2.25" exhaust all the way with 4-1 extractors, Magnaflow high flow Cat, tiny resonator and Buddy Club PRO SPEC3 muffler
Fuel lines, nissan efi filter and AE86 fuel tank

Interior:
AE86 Red/brown interior
Nardi wheel with long boss
USDM cup holder in console
AE86 kouki gauge cluster
GT Apex windscreen washer control with 1 billion settings
Carbon panel in hatch to cover wiper motor
Power mirror switch
Air con removed and all heater ducting gutted

Body:
Rust cut and plates welded then tidied up with carbon
Bare metal outside and etch prime
Dupont paint system
Kouki front bumper
Zenki rear bumper with custom pods
Type 1 mirrors
Bonnet lift
Lipped rear arches / rolled front
Carbon fuel lid
AE86 hatch spoiler
AE86 side skirts
Removed passenger keyhole
Raybrig multi reflector headlights and phillips 4000K bulbs
Redline tail lights
Kouki eyelids
kouki indicators

Suspension:
Front: TRD AE92 short stroke strut inserts with spacers and TRD 6.0 kg springs T3 NCRCA's and camberplates
Rear: TRD AE86 short stroke 8 way adjust. shock and TRD 4.7 kg springs
Prothane bushes throughout
Adjustable lateral rod
T3 traction brackets
TRD front and rear sway bars
Front and rear strut braces
All suspension parts powder coated in antique steel (gunmetal) and steering parts, crossmembers, brackets powder coated in gloss black

Brakes:
AE86 Front calipers with vented, cross drilled ans slotted rotors and TRD black carbon metallic pads (dust covers removed)
AE86 Rear calipers with crossdrilled and slotted rotors and TRD black premium metallic pads
New handbrake cables and Cusco spin turn knob

Wheels:
2 piece 14 x 6.5 0+- Work equip 01's
2 piece 15x 6.5 +10 Potenza

[hachirokuGTV]

Little update.
I have basically been gathering up parts and have just finished painting the engine bay. Progress has been pretty slow I know. Just waiting on a few parts from Toyota to finish converting the Smallport 4age into rear drive. So just a few pics of the paint work but soon will have engine installed.
Have also pulled everything out of the front to be powdercoated and should have it all back at the end of the week, and have a Koyo radiator on its way.

[DJexor]

DAMN!! respect!!

[hachirokuGTV]

Thanks!

[Jan Pedersen]

OMG That car is going to be SWEET

[Max Havelaar]

I like the interior, the colours really give me that 80s feeling!

[DJexor]

Max Havelaar Wrote:I like the interior, the colours really give me that 80s feeling!

You have to look at oldskull's car. He's got the same interior in the Netherlands. :wink: