DIY: Hopeless project.

[Rascal21]

Time for another update (seems to be a 2 year-space event for me).
This is a 2 post ordeal I suppose, since I can`t fit enough attachments into one post.

Not much has happened with the AE86 except the addition of a OBD Bluetooth box for troubleshooting bank, stfp, ignition etc.
For those interested the price was 30 USD and product name is OBDRead (google it or facebook it), it works with 20v`s (nothing yet for 16v`s).
I want to get the car on the road this summer, which means cage = out, stock`ish seats, to that end I have acquired some Celica-Supra front seats but I am in dire need of rear seats (if anybody has some for GT-S coupè, give me a shout!)

The wagon on the other hand, a lot has happened..
Acquired these:
   
And these:
   

It required re-drilling strut tower tops but from there on it`s a simple affair.
   
   

I can alternate between stock AE86 struts and AE86 Revolver SPL coilovers per demand.

Back to improvements, wiring on the car was done in a hurry and on the fly to get it running with 4age ASAP.
So it was revised from this:
   

To this:
   
   
Still need Body>EFI firewall plug but still, it`s not too shabby compared to how it was (wires everywhere).

Furthermore, most AE86 motor swaps does not come with the ECU 14P, so I acquired one:
   
And soldered it in:
   

The passenger side EFI 14P>Body 14P also always misses from the AE86 swaps, so had a look through my parts bin and found an AE82 passenger side junction box, which had both ends of that connector for both, EFI and Body, that`s going in next:
   

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Moving on, I`m tired of using switch for Fuel Pumps, Injectors and Coil.
New Circuit Open relays are 100 dollars (add 50 dollars with shipping and tax).
So I made my own:
   
That`s going in along with the EFI/Body plug..
ECU will earth the second relay when detecting engine revs, thereby powering up the Fuel Pumps, just as intended from factory

Also, I constantly had heater problems this winter, and in the end the Heater Console gave out on me, for 40 years the switches to push/pull finally took it`s toll, and the thin stamped sheet steel in the switches gave out, rendering further operation of heater console hopeless.
Add to that, the TA40 heater console is molded INTO the dashboard panel, so I would have to acquire an entire panel, just for the heater console.

Furthermore, it`s a bother to diagnose EFI without Warning light, and everything associated with the TA40 dashboard is generally a "bich" to work with, if it`s pulling a single wire, replacing heater blower resistor or whatever, I have more scratch scars than I care to count thanks to that.

Up here, functioning heater controls is VITAL, windshield can fog up at a moments notice, and I want better access to everything behind the dashboard.

So that`s why I did this:
   
And this:
   
And yeah you get the rest:
   
   
   
Engine lamp, SPD sensor, oil pressure, parking brake and door light remains to be wired in (working on that now), but other than a slow tach at de-accel it all seems to be working just fine.


Plans are in the work for TA60 rack & pinion & TA40 sedan 4-link conversion, I`ve acquired a TA40 sedan rear axle and poly 4-link+panhard bushings, link ends (cut stock items), strong thick-wall stainless steel pipes, right and left handed nuts & bolts, and panhard bar.
But need 2mm sheet to make up the body brackets and roofed working conditions.


Oh and also installed adjustable ae86 rear shocks.
But they lasted all of 6 months on these roads, so it was back to the stock Tokico items.

Also acquired another project last winter, but haven`t done anything with it yet, so more on that later.

I`m not power hungry so I quite like these engines as they come from the factory, hence why there isnt much, if any, engine build stuff going on here.
I like fiddling with and putting money into everything else though!