Nz Style in Australia

[slpery86]

yeah, i often consider converting to trueno, had all the parts to do it before, but by the time you pay for all the panels, convert it and paint it, its still a 4ac s series rear end aussie spec, much cheaper in the long run to just buy a trueno.. which i will do at some point, really want a silver panda zenki gtv trueno, hard to find though so may settle with a white panda zenki instead..

anyway, continuation of the story!

since the levin has an oil cooler and no grill bracket i decided to put the fogs on it



casa on the sprinter





Levinlookalike

closer look at the levin

agressive



i love zenki levin lights



digi dash



the seats are so comfy





together



since i had the car out and i hadnt driven it i took it for a little spin up the road, that noise!

after i bought the car i wanted to get on track asap, i found a guy who could no longer attend the morning session at queensland raceway so rang him and bought his spot

now the clock was ticking, i knew the gearbox had issues, it wouldnt downshift so i had to change it, was given another t50 and a free trd short shift with it too I also needed to swap the front and rear sway bars and i also picked up a bolt in cage that came with the car at the same time



got the car up in the air



drained the box, removed driveshaft, unbolted box but it would not come off.. it was stuck to the point id swear id missed a bolt but i hadnt.. so after a few failed attempts i decided to call it a night



after work the next day armed with daylight and a pry bar i managed to get it off but it was so tight!







swapped crossmember and thrust bearing onto the new box and tried to put it in, after over an hour it still wasnt in everytime id get it up on the jack, at the right height, id try to slightly twist it to line it up and it would fall off, was losing patience.. luckily for me one of my flatmates friends was staying with us for a little while, he asked my flatmates what i was doing and after they told him he came down to give me a hand, godsend! was so much easier having two people lift it and wiggle it, was on within 10 minutes! relief..

so chucked the shifter back on, filled it with oil and took him up the road to make sure it was all good, he liked the car and was a bit shocked when i put it sideways, shifts so nice too



got the front sway bar on and called it a night

got home the next afternoon, the drift day was the next morning, got the rear sway bar in and swapped over the seat rail on the bride as it was a dodgy home made one with only two bolt holes

then i tried to turn full lock, unfortunately the mesh hit on the body so i took the casablanca off the sprinter and put them on, still touched, got ahold of some 10mm spacers, still touched but only just..

so managed to get it all ready to go for the track, hired a ute, hired a trailer, went to load the car on at 1am..



argh! losing patience.. managed to find some wood around and was enough to get it on, finally, relief, its all ready to go..



after not much sleep woke up to a sad looking sprinter!



but a pretty cool looking levin



got on route to track! life long dream of track time about to come true

arrived, signed in, bought queensland raceway licence, parked up and met a few 86 boys id been talking to online











unfortunately the go pro i took malfuntioned so all i have are a few cellphone vids

was my first time out so i was spinning a lot, but i was going hard!

heres a driveby

a few spins!

getting a little better

carrying a bit more speed

and a couple corners from outside

unfortunately my phone died earlier on, started to get the hang of it towards the end of the day, linked the whole track twice! going out again on the 30th so will make sure to get another go pro!



we lined all the ae86s up at the end of the day for a group photo







the rear left went down to belts as the high speed corners were all right handers, luckily it was 5 mins before the end of the day



and a few photos that have popped up since the event

















and did a lot of this



if you managed to read it all congratulations! haha

more pics and vids after april 30th track day