RoCo Performance AE86 V8

[projectrollas]

holy crap!! i cant believe my virgin eyes, this is hard core porn.
cant wait to see it running.

[Nuts86]

that engine of yours is mounted fairly far forward, what you want to be careful of is the rear end 'bouncing' while cornering which will happen if too much of the weight is forward of the front wheels. I had this problem with my 1UZ and solved 70% of it by shifting the engine back about 10cm. The back of the rocker covers on mine now sit about 5mm behind where the firewall used to be. Nice build by the way

[roco]

right, had big problems with the rear suspension, my original idea was to get ae86 coilovers so I wouldn’t have to fabricate turrets in the rear, and I could change the end to suit the axle, so I bought a set, but when fittling them I relised they didn’t fit???, it turns out they were for a turreted ae86.. Like WTF. Anyway, in the end if I was going to have to turret the rear end I was going to do it properly, so I orderd k-sport s13 rear coilovers, and got to work.
Big hole



the finished product, my sexy new turrets,




coilovers bolted in, lookin sweet. Man the more I do on this the more I wana drive it,

[roco]

Since I have the s13 rear end, which gives me about 30mm extra track each side,
I have decided to put the s13 front end in aswell. Lca’s, hubs, brakes, coilovers, and using the ae86 top mounts, and ae86 tension rods. Makes for about 40mm extra track each side on the front end, and a very big upgrade in brakes. Also the s13 steering arm is about an inch shorter, but with a ae86 manual rack and the extra track, you get a whole lot of lock.

Striped down the front end ready for new set up.


here you can see the difference in length between the two lca’s, and the length of the steering arm.


massive difference between the brakes, huge vented rotors and much bigger callipers.

[roco]

mounting the s13 lca. And hub assembly.



New K-sport coilovers and new adj tension rods.



Steering lock first attempt.

[roco]

I then did a few adjustments to the steering.
And now I am very happy with the angle of lock.

[roco]

Right, assembled most of the drive terrain, and sat it
down off the spit for the first time in a year.










Engine bay all prepped seemed and primed.


Inside and tunnel seemed and primed.




New fab’d cradle for the fuel cell.


Rear axle, needs to be lower.




Seriously wide on the front, alot wider than rear,
may need overfenders on my overfenders.

[roco]

the pic of the engine seems to be misleading. i bet the bulkhead back about 4-5 inches, and sat the engine back under the wiper housing. the itbs are litraly 5mm from the metal seam, and the heads are under. its as far back as i can put it without cutting into the wiper housing. ill have to get new pics of the engine in place.

Nuts86 Wrote:that engine of yours is mounted fairly far forward, what you want to be careful of is the rear end 'bouncing' while cornering which will happen if too much of the weight is forward of the front wheels. I had this problem with my 1UZ and solved 70% of it by shifting the engine back about 10cm. The back of the rocker covers on mine now sit about 5mm behind where the firewall used to be. Nice build by the way

[banpei]

Overfenders on overfenders!

[ZaX]

This is how it looks on my car with s13 suspension





CBY does the job nice.