Koen's 86 - every drive a new issue

[Ivan141]

I have 15x7 0J Konig Rewinds and those did not fit without some rubbing (especially the fronts, but rear could touch too). Silver with polished lip btw....

[Power_uP]

Normally I'm not a fan of green cars, but that shade of green looks really gorgeous.
Someone in Japan even made a model of your car (not really, but it looks almost identical).

[Koen Bongers]

(07-22-2025 10:10 PM)Ivan141 Wrote:  I have 15x7 0J Konig Rewinds and those did not fit without some rubbing (especially the fronts, but rear could touch too). Silver with polished lip btw....

Hmm, not promising. I guess with 195/50R15 tires? Going a bit narrower makes it easier I hope I've bought them, so I'll try it some time.

(07-23-2025 12:09 AM)Power_uP Wrote:  Normally I'm not a fan of green cars, but that shade of green looks really gorgeous.
Someone in Japan even made a model of your car (not really, but it looks almost identical).

https://youtu.be/ZNl9_ce8a_U?si=efNXqXyhDWr8-G4r

Awesome! That's a lot of detail for a driftbody on a RC car. Looks very similar indeed. I do have a set of redlines to copy the model but I'm missing the Equip's and the Ganador mirrors so I guess I'll leave the car as is

So on my to-do list for the silver car was fitting new valve seals due to some blue smoke from the exhaust. It started producing this after a small trip on the motorway.

Followed the guide on this website https://www.aeu86.org/how-to-3/engine/di...tem-seals/ and started opening the motor. I've bought all the suggested tools including the adapter to put air in the cilinder except for the valve stem pliers (which I did need ). The tools are really cheap in the Chinese webshops these days. Worked fine



After removing the camshafts I found some marks on the caps and the camshafts themselves. Not very promising. After fitting the new seals I tried the car and the issue is still there. The experts think it ran without oil at some point in its life and resurrecting the car last year with 2.000km of driving probably made it worse. So it needs a new engine ... winterproject

Well, at least the other car is still working. Went to JCS and tested my wiring booth fix. It worked



And did some driving to celebrate 86-day a few days ago. Ran fine, so I guess it's done for now

[Koen Bongers]

So I did some 86 stuff last month. Not a lot of actual building/repairing but did collect some parts and saw some cars.

First I found an engine for the silver car. It's a 7-rib big-port from an MR2 with the 42mm crank. It popped up on marktplaats and I decided to buy it. It was low mileage (according to the odo-meter) and it ran so that's something.

Does anyone know if my stock ECU will run this? (after transferring all the bits to make it RWD again of course, only the bottom-end and cilinder-head will be from the MR2)

And while picking up the engine I found the grommets for my green car

They are used to guide the wiring from the "boot" to the headlights in the MR2

A week later I went to see a Black Limited in real life.

And some other cars of course. This was at 86Fest in Ireland. Took a plane because the silver car wasn't running The show was different this year with a lot of other old Toyota's and even some newer cars on track. But nice nevertheless. Nicest car on track was a K-swapped N2 kitted white Levin, but I forgot to take a photo

And this red rally car really drew my attention. It runs a 1300cc Suzuki engine with 200hp, a sequential and a Ford rear axle.

Really cool build with an insane amount of modifications (coilovers with moved pickup-points, dry-sump, Ford swaybars, electric powersteering, digital dash, fiberglass everything, ect). 800kg and in some <1300cc class (hence the Suzuki engine). So this gave me some inspiration for a new stupid plan.

I've decided that I want to do some amateur rallying in 2026+. And for this I need a car. I don't have much experience so I don't want a fast car in some class where I would be a moving roadblock. So a 86 would be perfect Almost every rally in NL and BE is starting to add historics. Here you can drive with old, "slow" cars and just have fun.

After some research I figured out that it would be very difficult to enter with my green car. The amount of modifications allowed are very strict. Basically you have to follow the homologation of your car for the correct era if you want to be in the historic class. The AE86 has a Group N and Group A homologation (https://historicdb.fia.com/car/toyota-co...oor-ae86-0 ) which means my throttle-bodies, exhaust manifold, gearbox, rear-axle, wilwood-brakes and some other bits aren't allowed.

So I had a good reason to get another car and there was one for sale for quite a while. It has all the correct bits and there is room for some improvement when I want to make it faster (it's allowed to fit a 5-speed dogbox, a shorter diff-ratio, decent coilovers all around and some adjustable suspension arms). It already has a rebuild engine with cams, programmable ECU in original casing, period AP-brakes and the correct cage. All this is checked by the FIA if it complies with the homologation and logged in a Historic Technical Passport. So it can enter the historic class

Only disadvantage was that it was located in Sweden but after a long roadtrip it's now in NL.

Previous owner is a true rally and 86 enthusiast. He's 72 years old and has 50 years of rally experience. He's still driving his other 86 rally car!

Also has another complete Levin 3-door shell for sale with a cage and LSD rear axle. Rust free, looks straight and has all the panels/glass. Only missing the engine and interior. Even comes with Danish papers to get it on the road again. If anyone wants to start a track/drift/rally project, this is definitely the cheapest way to do it.


So now I can spend the winter tiding up this car and get it registered

It needs a bigger brake mastercilinder. Any advice? It has to look OEM the booster is the 2 hole version (non-EU I believe)

[banpei]

Wow! You've had some great 86-experiences!
That Suzuki-powered rally car certainly is very interesting.

About the homologation: yes, those FIA specifications are quite strict. If I remember correctly, Toyota homologated a few more options later throughout the AE86 life with stronger rear axles and such. But everything is supposed to be OEM-Toyota.

About fitting your current ECU to the 7-rib engine: this depends on the engine specifications. Here in Europe, the non-cat engines are supposed to have a higher compression ratio (10.0:1 versus 9.4:1) as it would be allowed to run on leaded gasoline. This means the fuel maps between cat and non-cat are different. Similar to the AE86, the MR2 came with cat and non-cat versions.