AE86 GTV-Multipoint Cage, Beams, AP Brakes & Brides

[Conrad]

Well, I picked myself up a nice clean 87 Levin GTV as a base car and after careful consideration about money and costs involved with tuning the 16V or 20v and various conversations with Ian G I decided to go for another engine. The car is booked in for the work in mid Feb so in the meantime a bit of strip down work has to take place.

Here is the car before I start




























Plans for the car;

New engine and box.
Custom exhaust system
Throttle bodies (Later)
RS Fab Radiator (inlet & Outlet re-positioned to suit F20C
Modified Dashboard (Undecided yet)
15" Long Champ Wheels. (Coming this weekend)
RS Fab Multipoint Roll Cage
Shell seam welding & strengthening around the front end.
Run Free Type II bodykit - front Bumper, side skirts & rear bumper
J-Blood Carbon bonnet with central vent (ordered and on its way)
Crystal Body Yokahama Lightweight FRP tailgate & catches (ordered and on its way)
A pair of new bucket seats (undecided on what)
Front & rear brake upgrade (discs & calipers Undecided what yet?)

Colour Change ~ who knows what colour

Items Removed from Car (Which will end up For Sale)

Healthy 4AG (see above pictures) comes with Cusco exhaust manifold.
Standard (good condition) interior. Will get it dyno'd and health checked prior to removing.

Healthy gearbox (unsure if TRD or not - will confirm later)

Standard Radiator

RS Watanbe 14" wheels used

HKS Cam Pulleys new & unused

HKS timing belt new and unused

HKS exhaust turbo manifold new & unused

Cusco engine mounts new & unused

Bride Bucket seat (good condition) with AE86 drivers subframe

Any little items that are under the bonnet

Side Skirts

Original Front Bumper

Original Rear Bumper

Original Tailgate (No Glass)

Fujitsubo exhaust system

[manipula]

Wahoo, another one! By the time I get round to doing this all the bugs will be ironed out! Are you another UK member?

The car looks lovely to start with actually, really nice.

Daft question for yourself and Ian I guess, I see you both mention ITB's at some point in the future but in my admittedly small amount of research I'd always thought the F20 is a very difficult engine to improve on and I wondered whether ITB's would actually bring any gain?

Anyway, good luck! Keep us posted, I know I for one am rivetted to the build diaries of any of these conversions, as it's genuinely something I hope to do myself.

[Conrad]

manipula Wrote:Wahoo, another one! By the time I get round to doing this all the bugs will be ironed out! Are you another UK member?

The car looks lovely to start with actually, really nice.

Daft question for yourself and Ian I guess, I see you both mention ITB's at some point in the future but in my admittedly small amount of research I'd always thought the F20 is a very difficult engine to improve on and I wondered whether ITB's would actually bring any gain?

Anyway, good luck! Keep us posted, I know I for one am rivetted to the build diaries of any of these conversions, as it's genuinely something I hope to do myself.

Yes, car is a very clean one, underneath is unbelievable, hard to believe its 20 years old but I did look at some rubbish ones before I found this I'm in the UK but I have a good friend down there in NZ (Rotorua) Robbie Ward at R.I.P.S ltd (they make fantastic RB30 skyline engines)

The F20C is probably the most advanced engine that Honda currently produces in standard form. There are slight gains to be made in a combination of ECU, ITB, Ports & combustion chamber work, cams (lift change and small duration changes) & exhaust manifold, basically undoing anything that was put on the engine for emission control purposes. I dont think doing these in isolation has much effect but 20 FW HP should be possible with all of them. We'll see......


Cheers

[robokill]

Hey Conrad,

N1 hachi's (import ?)

if you wanne lose the watanabe's let me know They would be a great asset to my restoration project. And the bride seat?

Will you use it as full drift car?

[Conrad]

Robo, yes it was a JDM import Car will be used for track days, circuit use mainly but it will no doubt end up sideways at some point

[manipula]

I've been back to look at the pictures of this several times, it's making me all hot under the collar!

You mind me asking how much it cost once it landed in the UK £'s wise? No offence if not, I'm just wondering as prices were all over the place when I left in December, some cars going for huge money, then other sitting for sale for ages.

[Conrad]

YHPM

[Conrad]

Well, the engine & box has arrived









Onwards & upwards

[manipula]

When that's cleaned up and sat in the engine bay it's gonna look very yummy.

And when the lottery win comes in, ITB's and a big assed carbon airbox please!

[Conrad]

Should free up some HP when the power steering and aircon pumps have been removed