nzae86's TRD ae86 N2 Race Car Project 2

Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 11:55 pm Post subject:

man that engine is sexy. i have it up on my destop as if it were a chick. Worship

keep up the great work.

Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 11:22 am Post subject:

Well progress has been very slow again, as work seems to take up most of my time at the moment, I have been working at planing and placing all the components for the fuel delivery system as you see lots of Earls fittings are involved!!
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The area looked quite large beside the fuel cell but when you have to fit in a surge tank,two pumps,filters,return lines and then the diff pump as well then things start to get a bit cramped.

I have decided on the place for the dry sump tank , to try and spread the weight evenly and keep it as low as possible.
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And while I was wasting money I bought this as well, the perfect licence plate for this car!
AE86 : Projects > nzae86s TRD ae86 N2 Race Car Project 2

I am racing my Rally car tomorrow so there goes another weekend and next weekend I am co driving in the GT3 in a 2 day Tarmac event http://www.targa.co.nz/ so progress will be slow.

Joined: 09 Jan 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Cork, Ireland

How will you fair out safety wise with the dry sump tank in the car, wont you have to firewall it?

Itsuki Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 19 Location: Philippines

gorgeous build man

Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 12:40 pm Post subject:

Well it has been a long time since I have had time to work on this project but now that my work is slowing down with the rest of the world I will have some spare time again!
The car went back to my panel guy who sorted all the last little bits of body work , as I told hime there was no rush ,he gave it a home for about 4 months.
I am now fitting the body kit to the car and have made the move to a tilton floor mounted pedal box as well. This gives a lot more room under the bonnet for carbs and trumpets.
So all that is left to do before paint is build the seat mounts , lengthen the steering column as the floor mount pedal box moves everything back quite a bit and test fit everything else. Also in the next couple of weeks i will make my new fibre glass bonnet. I have another set of rear TRD springs on the way that have had a bit cut out of them so I will see how the height looks with them in it
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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject:

Hehe, I see that your N2 project has been in the background for the summer just like mine. Smile

Looking pretty good!

I can imagine how crowded the right side of the engine bay is on an RHD car with sidedrafts so the pedalbox is probably going to help a lot. Having just mounted the seat on my car, I noticed that there's absolutely no clearance for my head with a helmet on. Moving the seat behind the lateral frame beam would help but then I'd need a pedalbox and an extended hub for the steering wheel. Is this what you're planning on doing?

Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:08 pm Post subject:

Ive seen rally cars done like this over here for the Taller gentlemen like myself

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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:44 pm Post subject:

Fabulous work sir! Worship

so excited to see the progress!

Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:07 am Post subject:

Cant wait to see the finished product!

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:50 am Post subject:

Eircamae86, We had to do that to our floor pan to get us away from the roof with a helmet on. Works a treat.

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:21 pm Post subject:

Looking forward to seeing the finished result of much hard work!
Are you going to run the N2 in any racing class in NZ or did you build just to have it Puh

Would be cool to see your car run at Tsukuba in the yearly AE86 Battle!

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:49 pm Post subject:

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 7:12 am Post subject:

Another small bit of progress today , making my FRP bonnet ,
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I had gel coated these the day before so I will finish this tomorrow with a bit of luck when I resin the inner and outer together
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The completed item weight is less than half of the stock part.
It all takes so much time when you are manufacturing so many parts for this car, but at the end it will be built how I want it done .
This is just a hobby . Smile

Itsuki Joined: 12 Feb 2009 Posts: 14 Location: CA

are axles really better for driffting? i never knew until i joined this forum

Iketani Joined: 16 Dec 2008 Posts: 33

Wooow man, you kiwis are really good car builders^^.
Just jokin for the "kiwis" Smile

Great car, a really interesting project. I will be watching this post.
Cheers

Ryousuke Joined: 10 Aug 2008 Posts: 146

i reallly like this project, i like the car, the engine and you workshop is very nice. it must be really good to work in a nice workshop like yours.

good luck, i cant wait till there is progress Drool

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:05 pm Post subject:

Awesome project... Congrats...

Iketani Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Posts: 29

Very nice build.

Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 2 Location: CA, U.S.

man, i just came by from club4ag... amazing work... i can wait to see what the final product is aswell as power output! Thumbsup

Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:59 am Post subject:

Well a bit more progress, work tends to get in the way of me finding time to make progress !!

I managed to complete my fibre glass bonnet today and roughly fitted it up , I will shape it correctly tomorrow
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I will weigh it , but would safely say that it is less than half the steel original.
My seat has found a home and as you see it is set back quite a bit so the steering column will need to be lengthened as well . I needed this set back to fit the floor mount pedal box
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The pedal box and floor is done as well
AE86 : Projects > nzae86s TRD ae86 N2 Race Car Project 2

And the dry sump tank now has a bracket to sit in as well as a strap to support it , the bottom of the mounting bracket has a spigot that goes through the floor so that the tank can be drained in place when giving it an oil change.
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I hope a bit more progress will happen this weekend

Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:03 pm Post subject:

That's looking very good. Amazing work, and when I saw the seat before reading that part I thought it was set that far back cos you were a very tall person (6' 5" +). lol

Keep up the good work.

DJ

Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:07 pm Post subject:

You forgot the most important peddle Confused

Ya man, have to leave Oz this year to sort my Visa out,then come back, NZ man, I have to see this car, Im serious, you got a spare room & a drinking problem?

Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 12:18 am Post subject:

Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 12:38 am Post subject:

genuine Levin too?
Or a (very nice) KE25 'converted' to TE27 spec?

NICE car! Puh