My Levin GT Coupe

[GT Coupe]

Hey all long time browser first time posting, thought I would post up my Levin for all the world to see.

I've always wanted a AE86 race car, so for some stupid reason I put my turbo KP60 Starlet race car (which I had only just finished building and hadn't even really had a chance to use yet) up for sale and brought a 1984 Levin GT Coupe, and started the building process all over again. Plan is to keep it road legal so I can drive it to the track, since I only live 5minutes away from it.

The person that i actually brought a car off had planned on using it as a rally car, but lost interest. It ended up sitting for many years untill i brought it.


Heres some pictures of the day i brought it home, the car is totally stock apart from some aftermarket headers and a little exhaust. The last owner started to strip the interior but seemed to have given up (i believe this is the only thing that he actually did on the car in all his years of ownership)
Looks a bit rough but really its not to bad, body is straight and the paint isn't to bad really considering its been sitting round for years, it of course does have the usual AE86 rust in the boot and rear guards plus the usual other random bits

Now because this car is a GT that means it has factory T series drum rear end instead of the T series disc rear end. I had to decide if i should keep the drums, or pull the disc rear end out of my KP60 and swap them over, in the end i've kept the drum rear end since i would rather keep the car true its factory GT specs. I did however take my brand new TRD 2 way LSD out of the KP60 since it had less then 100kms on it there was no way i was letting it go with the car.


Fast forward a few weeks:
The wheels really bugged me so one long weekend i stripped them down and repainteed them in their orignal gold colour, i think it made a car look a lot nicer. A set of TRD springs were also fitted to rear that same weekend.

Fast forward a few more weeks:
Since i had the guards/bumper/front struts etc off i thought it would be a good idea to slap some fresh undercoat round the place, once i was finshed painting i refitted the strurts with some nice TRD springs

Fast forward to today:
Pretty much at the moment i can't move forward with this untill the rust is fixed so hopefully in the next couple of weeks the car will be off to the panel beaters to get all fixed all, then once thats done the car can be sent off to get the rollcage fitted then once thats done it will be time for some new paint
Heres a picture showing how the car looks at the moment all stripped down and new wheels

I'm not really as far along with this as i wanted to be but hey good things take time

Car is still pretty stock but heres what i've done so far:
TRD Springs
TRD 2 Way LSD
M's Racing intake
Ummm yeah thats pretty much it