Yes, we missed part 21 out and people complained to the office DW Complaints helpline, so lets do it now. Cast your minds back when Phil turned up one morning grinning like a Cheshire cat in his new toy, a fully ITB’ed AE86 Corolla. The idea was to buy it, tidy the wiring up, map it, and go and drive it on trackdays – a key part of our new venture TrackCulture (officially launching early 2011). But Phil being Phil has decided that a half bare shell restoration and a minor race car build is actually going to be more fun. 😀
As with how many of these things start, the 1 million year old 4AGE started running a little strange, and after a quick compression test we confirmed one of the cylinders wasn’t in a healthy place.
And then as these things tend to go, once the engine is out, you think – well, I’ll just tidy this up. And patch this up. And restore this bit.
Anything that wasn’t totally solid was removed – there was quite a bit, but all the important bits were solid.
Soon, the entire front end of the car was stripped for a full metal rebuild.
In fact it was so light that after the gearbox started coming out, we realised it was going to fall of the ramps backwards as the rear axle was keeping it totally out of balance!
But BoonBoon came up with a decent enough plan, and we attached a 12j to the front to counter the weight.
Steve-O tested out the new bottle of gas on the welder…
… and set about restoring the AE86 back to life!
And what do you do with a dead 16 valve 4AGE? Well – You replace it with a 4age with 4 more valves of course. So a black top 20valve engine was supplied by TJZ Engineering, and I believe there’s already some 20v cams, and a few other goodies on the way.. 9000rpm here we come. 🙂
See you next time!
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Good work, 20v ftw!
That looked a bit different on Friday.
should be inspiring me to crack on with my car.. isnt though..
20v should suit track use alot more than road/drift use.
I like to think that Paz is standing there thinking, “man i need an ae86 again”
I can assure you, after stripping it to bits, im not. Hahah. Once were ripping in it though, we’ll see!
Come on Chris, come to the darkside..
My white 2dr i showed you at JDM wembley finally has real man wheels on it 😀
Although the manifold cracked again! cant remember what you told me about bracing it
against the chassis?? would you mind PM’ing me ? pleaaase 😀
Or i could just bring it to DW, pay you lot money and then you guys can work your own skills?? 😀
Oh noes! you took too much of it apart – put it back together quick or you’ll have a bare shell before you know it! – and we all know how that turns out.
I SO want your jobs! Good restoration there 🙂
agree with swampy:P
and this is gonna be awesome
Here we go again lol
It’s so good to see an old legend like an 86 being maintained so well!
You guys at DW don’t mess around! Hat off to you boys 😉
respect to you guys!!! after our visit yesterday, I was impressed!!!
Glad you liked Kam’s tour!
Wew! Best.
Mr M now in one of the greatest toyota ever?!!!?????? That 2JZ must have torqued some sense into him(excuse the pun)…absolutely top stuff… ^_^
Mr M now in one of the greatest toyota ever?!!!?????? That 2JZ must have torqued some sense into him(excuse the pun)…absolutely top stuff… ^_^