My Corolla(s) progress thread - Lots of pics:::56K FTL!!

[puregroove]

Index post 05/01/07:

10/18/07 New headlights but they never made it on the car, since I broke them.

10/20/07 SSR MK1s, delicious.

11/18/07 Purchased the red ae86 coupe

11/21/07 Purchased the brown TE31 ['76 2dr]

2/11/08 ae86 coupe gets exhaust

2/16/08 ae86 clutch replaced at Xtreme Auto Repair. --couple more pics from my trip to Xtreme

3/6/08 The acquired Work Equip 01s get fitted to the ae86 coupe.

3/8/08 Tech inspection @ GTE

3/15/08 ae86 coupe gets Goodridge steel lines all the way around.

3/19/08 Tanabe rear sway bar came in for the ae86 coupe.

3/20/08 Random shot of the supplies I picked up at the shop. Another random shot of the Work Equips while I was at Xtreme.

3/21/08 No pics, but you can read the update. A # of things were accomplished.

3/29/08 New headlights for the ae86 coupe and grill for the TE31

4/14/08 SSR MK1s mounted, balanced, and fitted to the ae86 coupe.

4/21/08 Back from battle--Black Hills Circuit

4/26/08 Washed the TE31, connected a headlight, mounted the SSR and Enkei meshies.

7/13/08 Shot of Extra Made's bucket seat.

8/10/08 Springs, lifters and cam for the 3tc in the TE31. NRG harness bar, Buddy Club Seat rails for the Extra Made seat, Cusco Front Sway Bar for the ae86 coupe. Weld draglites 15x8 all around... 4.5" backspacing... JBlood replica rear add-ons... JBlood replica front bumper

Somewhere in between here, the NCRCAs were installed on the ae86 coupe.

10/2/08 14" Western Wheels mounted and JBlood front bumper installed

10/24/08 Teaser pic of new front end items--air dam, fog lights, primered fenders on the TE31

10/26/08 Shot of the TE31 at the 3rd Japanese Old School Meet... new weber carb on there, as well.

11/15/08 White sr5 ae86 sold. --replaced with TE38...wagon corolla. Changes to it since acquisition: buffed and clear-coated in a few spots, lowered, rims, front lip, weber, and ganksta leanin' pipe.

11/30/08 Zero Garage's own Lincoln locker, TE31 stripped to the metal. Zero's dual webers test-fitted, dual mikuni's ordered.




Inspired by Hybrid93hatch--much props to his thread. This won't be nearly as detailed as his, but I promise to have a lot of pics.

This will be the progress thread for my '86 sr5 hatch [4ac], '85 GTS coupe [4age], '76 2dr[3tc], and '76 auto wagon[2tc]

So far, I've gotten stock corolla rims for her. You'll only see 3 on the car right now, but I ordered some 195-40-14 Falken Ziex Ze 512s from Edgeracing.com. Good price...

I'm not a Toyota guru. Please, if you have any tips or suggestions, please post them. This thread's purpose is for learning, informing, and advising. I'm sure it will be very helpful for me and anyone else who might come across this.

Updates will be added to the 1st post as they are posted.

On with the pics:::

These are the steelies that were on the car:



Ah, yes. Looks a whole lot better with the corolla rims.



I know, still have a steelie in the rear. --waiting for my tires to come in. At least it's not painted black.



You might be able to see a little bit of surface rust on the passenger headlight. That will be addressed later on.



Driver side of the front bumper is a little off. I'm not too concerned with it right now. It's not bad.



You can already start to see where the previous owner had scraped off oxidation on the rear bumper. --will be addressed later.





Grassroots Motorsports FTW!!







Stock muffler:::ewwww.



minor damage:::



Yes, I love the headlights. I've never owned a car with flip-up headlights:::





Stock 4A





I haven't had a chance to really see what this was. Vacant wasp hive?



uh huh:::high mileage is gangster.



...and maroon interior FTW!!


More pics and updates to come:::

Update 4/20

Ooo...lookie lookie what came in yesterday :







I got a lot to do today. --will update when I'm done.

Thanks, again for your feedback and comments.



This was today. Fuel for the day's progress.
I'll upload more pics when I get home:::

Don't know if you can tell the difference but I had the new tires mounted (before and after animated .gif):



The still:



Update 4/27

Hmmm, decisions, decisions.

I know some of you are like this, too. The rims have to be pleasing to the eye. I just couldn't do the Celica rims anymore.

I did a little bit of shopping this week.

Enkeis are 15 x 7 30+ offset
SSRs 15 x 6 and 15 x 7

I like the Enkeis so much that I'm tempted to roll with the pair on one side and the SSRs on the other.












Update 5/01

I finally got some pics with the SSRs on the 86.
The tires are 195 60 15...blah:::

I tried to keep as much natural lighting as possible.
They are brightened just a bit 'cause the sun was setting.







Almost flush...still looks good, though.



Before and after (from Celica to SSR):

[spacelion]

And another pops up! I'll be watching this thread. Props for the GRM sticker...mag r00lz :boobies:

[Ltdnismorace]

noooiiiiice

[Stormhammer]

oOo - yeah thats a mud wasp nest - nothing to worry about

looks like a nice project btw, I'd double check that timing belt.... unless you know when it was last replaced... last thing you want is it snapping

[an0therh22]

this should be fun to watch...

[bigdare23]

nice!

[thinkskater]

dont go crazy like hybrid hatch did. but cant wait to see it hammered with a 20 valve. things have potential.

[thecoolcutter]

You got an awesome platform to work on! Props for joo!

[puregroove]

Thanks, guys:::

This won't move as fast has Hybrid93hatch's but I will update as the 86 changes.

[Ltdnismorace]

so what are the initial plans anyways? You gonna rebuild the motor or just go or blow for a while

[puregroove]

Cosmetically for now, I am going to clean her up as much as possible. I have no major plans for a "real" paint job in the near future. Ever heard of the 50.00 paint job? I am very handy with the can. I'll let the pics speak for themselves. I don't find paint jobs practical for DDs. Making the car look newer and cleaner is first on the list of things to address.

My reasoning for this? I had my hatch painted a year ago and it's just not worth it for a daily driver and everything you put the car through. Other people suck...don't know how to drive and don't give a flip about the paint on your car (use your imagination).

Suspension will be next on the list. I can't stand cars at stock height. Throw me some ideas. I'm also searching on corolla sites for ideas. Extra Made is looking into some options for coilover setups for me as well...suspension components included.

Motor-wise, I am thinking boosted 4agze. Who knows, if I stumble upon some extra $$$, it might be a bigger motor. But the A-series motors tend to keep the weight distribution at it's optimal.

Feel free to throw me some ideas, guys.

[silversol]

looks good

[Ltdnismorace]

a kid here locally to me in WV is attempting to put one of the celica type S motors into an AE86 right now, Don't know how he's making it work being a FWD engine, but it should be pretty nice if he ever gets done, don't know anything about these cars or what would be involved with that swap but it would give a nice powerband in that little car I imagine.

[Frög]

nice thread.. keep it up and nice DD!

[puregroove]

thanks, guys::

[santacruz77]

that stickers adds 10 hp they said so in there mag a while back, car looks good

[Tinton]

Nice AE86. I'm into Initial D and stuff so I love that car!

One question though. This might be stupid, but whatever. In Initial D his 86 has a redline right at 7500 rpms I think. Yours redlines at 6000. Is that due to a different engine, like something they used in USDM?

Love the pop-ups too. Both my cars have them. Have any problems with the pop-ups yet? I've had to rebuild the motors in my '88 Fiero, and I had to replace the headlight motor system in my '86 with a newer gen system. I love the sleek look they give though, so its worth the extra work.

If I were you I'd convert it over to JDM (RHD and all that) and keep it looking stock. And possibly swap to a slightly more powerful, less worn out motor.

I bet you get this question a lot too....you drift in that? lol

[puregroove]

that stickers adds 10 hp they said so in there mag a while back, car looks good

15, bro 15 hp

Tinton,

I'd say the 6k redline is due to the 4a. Maybe someone else can chime in.
...and no problems with the 'pop-ups' yet. I'll probably take some WD40 to quite a bit of things on the hachi, too.

I'm with ya on all the rest except for the RHD. I think money could be better spent elsewhere. That's bling I can do without, unless I had bought the hachi with it already.

No, sir. The car is too underpowered to drift...unless you really got some speed already. I hope to drift it in the future, though.

[Ed]

damn it i wanna do my own little project bottom up too...

nice gl with it man!

[SniperJoe]

Tinton and puregroove.

The redline is at 6,000 because the car is an SR5, not a GTS. The engine is a 4AC angine rather than a 4AGE, which is the fuel injected engine. The 4AC has a carb instead.

puregroove, one of the recommendations that I would make to you as another person who is building an AE86 is to get a new set of suspension bushings. The bushings are 20+ years old and it makes a big difference to freshen them up before further upgrading the suspension.

[Doppelgänger]

high milage??? nah, mine was high milage.... 420,xxx miles when i sold it It was all original, no accidents and factory paint!

[puregroove]

^^^dang:::yours also had the gap on the front driver-side.

Thanks, SniperJoe.

[HachiDori]

Sexy progress. Mine is going for sale. Got something new.

Want to buy a Uras N+ front bumper? or the meshies?

[puregroove]

^^u have pm bro

[VTAC SONN]

nice project

[puregroove]

Ooo...lookie lookie what came in yesterday :







I got a lot to do today. --will update when I'm done.

Thanks, again for your feedback and comments.

[puregroove]

This was today. Fuel for the day's progress.
I'll upload more pics when I get home:::

[puregroove]

Don't know if you can tell the difference but I had the new tires mounted (before and after animated .gif):



The still:

[BigTs13]

nice hachi. im lookin forward to the future posts to see what u do with it.

[puregroove]

Hmmm, decisions, decisions.

I know some of you are like this, too. The rims have to be pleasing to the eye. I just couldn't do the Celica rims anymore.

I did a little bit of shopping this week.

Enkeis are 15 x 7 30+ offset
SSRs 15 x 6 and 15 x 7

I like the Enkeis so much that I'm tempted to roll with the pair on one side and the SSRs on the other.

[Extra Made]

I love this project! Keep this up, Man! Can't wait to see the end result.

[Ltdnismorace]

you're starting to rival DZnutz as wheel whore, very nice though. send me the set you don't wanna rock and I'll throw them on the jetta.

[5spdfrk]

Pretty cool project you got there!

[Fuster_Cluck]

Inspired by Hybrid93hatch--much props to his thread.

That is truely awesome to hear

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[puregroove]

I finally got some pics with the SSRs on the 86.
The tires are 195 60 15...blah:::

I tried to keep as much natural lighting as possible.
They are brightened just a bit 'cause the sun was setting.







Almost flush...still looks good, though.



Before and after (from Celica to SSR):

[WalkS]

awsome Eddie, i love the gif you made you have some skills with the computer!
you got a pm

[puregroove]

^^Thanks, bro:::

[puregroove]

lol...So, I'm finally getting a chance to work on the 86 again.

Man, it's been some time since I've updated.

Call me a ricer, but these came in yesterday :



They have city lights as well. Don't worry guys, the car will definitely stay clean.

--will have more pics after I get them in.

[cactusEG]

my brother told me when when road with u the other day in this car, he said its fuccking bad ass..

[Dirty Octopus™]

Hey Eddie you wanna let a brotha borrow the 92's?