beams engine

[BGTrueno]

has anyone ever fitted the beams/yamaha engine thats found in the alteza and ss3 celica to any ae86. if so is it much of a job and has anyone any pictures/videos of the result. thanks

[firehawk]

Bill Sherwood has, at least;

http://www.billzilla.org/AE863SGE.htm

A guy here in Finland is also working on putting a blacktop Beams, Altezza transmission and rear axle into his AE86 but I don't know how far into the project he's in at the moment.

[Apolan]

does that mean he'll be swappin the entire rear suspension too?

[BGTrueno]

that will be some mint car when it's finished. cheers for the link.

[firehawk]

Apolan Wrote:does that mean he'll be swappin the entire rear suspension too?

Yeah, when I went to see the car in January, he had already fitted the entire RS200 Altezza rear subframe to his AE86, along with the shock towers, shocks, suspension arms, diff+axles, etc - the whole works. Pretty much everything starting from where the front edge of the rear seat goes had been reworked from sheet metal and steel tubes. Outside it looked all normal except for the tyres which protruded from the wheelwells by a fair amount - needs big flares to cover them. Next time when I go to see the car I'll be sure to take my camera with me.

[Apolan]

Hopefully he'll leave the body as stock as possible and go for the wolf-in-the-sheeps-skin look Do take pics nekt time!