Built like an A-10 (Thunderbolt II aka Warthog)

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May '07 - Spool from a legends car supplier on ebay (BTW legends cars only use ZENKI axles) and a new 4.10 R&P from 600racing.com made by Motive gear.




Jun '07 - Came up with a better rear brace vs my old Ueo style one that got damaged.




Jul '07 - First prototype of the fender braces.




Nov '07 - Made my own heim joint sway bar links, which made my already stiffer bars even more awesome.




Mar to May '08 - Broke a pinion tooth on the 4.10's which lodged in between the gears and bent the spool. After 7 of them, I got tired of blowing T-series (6.7") Ring and Pinions so I researched, found and swapped in a MA4x Celica-Supra F-series (7.5") differential. Also sometime previously I got rid of my old traction brackets and switched to BattleVersion.




May - Dec '08 - The weekend after getting the diff swap done, the motor I had been beating on for 3 years siezed. Lost interest in fixing it for a bit so it sat for about 6 months before I got another motor from the junkyard. Unfortunately while this used motor ran and drove awesome initially, it ended up rod knocking the same weekend after I got it running. Started it Thursday, dead Saturday night. Found a piece of the camshaft lobe had come free and ended up making it far enough to damage the #2 rod bearing. I was able to baby it home, and then yanked it back out.







Feb '09 - Rebuilt the motor, had a bit of a rush as I started rebuilding it after work the week of an event I wanted to make. Started on Tuesday night after picking everything up from the machine shop, finished building and installing the motor as well as the initial break-in 11:30pm Friday night. Only to turn around get up at 4:30am, after falling asleep at 1:30am to load up and drive it to the track.






Here's some video taken from that day.

I'm at 1:36 for a brief second:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcpGWEQcBG4

On car:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdTrNVXFE8A


May to Jul '09 - Blew my 3rd T-50 trans, so I decided it was time to upgrade this as well. Made my own W58 adapter plate set... and like the motor rebuild there was a trackday the following weekend. So I made the trek down to so-cal to willow springs for all star bash to give the W58 a thrashing.





http://speedhunters.com/archiv....aspx

Quote:

The event was dominated by S13's and S14's, but there were a couple nice AE86's on hand.This humble little 16-valve powered hatchback was laying down some very nice runs.

http://motormavens.com/2009/08...-pt-4/

Quote:

The driver of this AE86 came all the way down from Sacramento to have fun tearing it up with the 240 guys. He was killing it all day long, making smoke with his bone stock bluetop 16valve 4AGE engine! RESPECT!!!

Nov '09 - Event

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiMbULP1P7Q




Dec '09 - Got a good deal on some Colt camshafts 261/268 (intake/exhaust) with 8.33mm lift. And also a shine auto front bumper, and made a custom bash bar/bumper support.








Jan '10 - Event.

Fast forward to 5:25 for 95mph entry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kubkk7LhdTk




Feb '10 - Front bumper lights, thanks to Dan/Oldeskewltoy! And made some custom tow hooks.








May '10 - Sold & shipped the 4age...