w00t... just bought a project car...

[Evo_Lee]

No interest watching initial D...surprising I have only watched it once at a mates back in Aust this year for the first time.

Grp A internals was an example...the question is not expense.

Dude, you need to do some more research.

[funkymonkey]

3S GTE would be nice, but they came in Celica GT4's and there's not many wrecks of em in AU. The one in the Caldina's what I'd probably use tho.

I'll be trying to make the car as fun as possible on a budget, which means avoiding getting parts from Japan and trying to get habib rates from wreckers in Australia wherever possible.

I could use the engine from the AU Corolla Sportivo, VVTL-i 2ZZ-GE. Expensive as its a newer engine. But nice N/A power and its available locally.

But the easiest thing to do would be to get a 4AG-ZE (even tho it was never sold in AU) usually in jap wreckers for about $500, chuck a set of HKS or TRD cams, or perhaps maybe if luck's on my side, get a 5A stroker kit from HKS.

I will be researching it a lot more... in the meantime I'm gonna concentrate on gettin the car back to roadworthy state and maybe start restoring the interior and planning my finances to see what I can afford to do and what not to before my imagination gets the better of me.

Till then I'll drool over my copy of Option2 May 1997... Hachi Roku special (with complete instructions on how to maintain/update the AE86's).

[Kaido_RR]

hey funkymonkey,

my mate just bought himself an aus-spec 86 also but it has a 4AGE in it goes pretty hard and with its exhuast sounds like something out of initial d

I love those car, i am thing project 86 also when i get some cash

good luck, keep it N/a and drift it

[Tosh]

MR2 3SGTE WTF they sit  E-W!

so??

[Tosh]

I'll be trying to make the car as fun as possible on a budget, which means avoiding getting parts from Japan and trying to get habib rates from wreckers in Australia wherever possible.

or perhaps maybe if luck's on my side, get a 5A stroker kit from HKS.

riiiiight...

[Evo_Lee]

so??

read the whole thread first...

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Funky, if you really want to go with a 4AGZE and the AW11 one's given their age maybe not be thin on the ground, you can always use one out of a AE92 but they are also E-W...will also need work but are newer.

My mechanic here has a sweet 86 which you may have seen in the Japan thread. Though you have said you will try not to source from Japan, if you need any stuff or advise you know who to call. He's the one who has Grp A internals...basically a race engine....but currently out after killing it a few months back at Central circuit.

[funkymonkey]

if a 5A kit comes up at the jap wreckers I use or at yahoo auctions and its under a grand, then I'll snap it up.

I'm prepared to spend up to 6 grand on the car excluding all the costs incurred so far to buy the car and chuck it on a truck to melb.

[funkymonkey]

Nice one troy... I might pop up to japan next year sometime, might come have a lil chat with you guys (u n rezzeh). But yeah, thanks for that tip, I've done an engine swap in my old toyota sera (turbo engine from a turbo starlet) but that was a very easy straight forward swap. Since then I sold that car n bought a 180sx "ichi-go", and then the R32 n now this

[Evo_Lee]

not coming for TAS?...else come to the Osaka Automesse in Feb.

My mechanic sold his BNR32 for the 86, the GT-R he also killed at Central circuit LOL. Though he misses his GT-R his 86 is no short of fun...makes me want to buy one too.

I'd personally save the money, keep it NA with the 4AG and have fun revving the tits off it.

[Tosh]

I have read the whole thread and don't see why it's such a big issue to put a 3SGTE into an AE86

[Evo_Lee]

Have you done one and from which 3S? out of a Caldina or MR2?...never said it was not possible...everything is possible. It is the time, effort and COST involved in converting a 3SG to RWD and finding out that there is very little gain when you could have just turboed the 4AG or Beams 3SG!

I know a few guys in Aust have done it but ask around here and the J-guys will tell you why bother!

[funkymonkey]

finding a wrecked altezza is hard enough, let alone a Beams 3SG. Also I'll have the R32 for turbo fun. I'd like to keep the "Gaijin 86" N/A or supercharged for constant response (because I'll most probably try to learn how to drift in it, so I want soemthign predictable).

[drakan69]

ahhhh predictable drift is soft

but sounds like your already having killer fun

will be good to see some photos when your done

[funkymonkey]

hehe car's on a truck on the way to melb now can't wait to unload my sack of shit :)