1985 Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT APEX kouki from Japan

[sheppardpat47]

Hey guys!

Haven't posted in MONTHS here lmao

So, basically there was lots of shit going on.

First, here are a couple recent picture of my car :


I created the AE86 / 4AGE French speakers club, now about 185 members and going strong! The logo was made by a member's wife which is an illustrator, I made stickers (inside the windshield, like "Crit'air" vignettes) also, the logo is not made with AI, because I hate AI slop logos with a passion.


Been at the Jap'n'Car Festival near Paris, on the Linas-Montlhéry racetrack with people of my club 30/31th of may 2026. Was good, but got banned from the racetrack because I've done a donut during the parade after seeing a friend do one (deserved, presented my apologies to the crew etc)
Lots of AE86s, AE92s...



I also happened to meet the Drift King at that event, and he signed my AE86's ashtray. Which I clear-coated the day it was signed lol.



30th of June, met another legend, Sung Kang (Han from F&F) ! This guy was ADORABLE, he was so kind and humble! The red AE86 is actually a friend of mine and he came with his car all the way from Paris, Sung Kang actually drove the car from Braine l'Alleud down to Brussels. Absolute legend.
Sung Kang came in my car at the very very end of the event and he was like "damn man your car is very clean", very kind. He liked the fact there was a few AE86s owners there, told me about his cars etc. Very cool



2nd of August, event at Spa Francorchamps "Spa Asia 2026" very nice event where I invited people from my club to come, not many people came but hey.
I parked my car in front of Arcade Belgium's stand, since I'm friend with them and they had the Initial D cab, they even took Chunithm, a japanese rhythm game I love to play.

Otherwise, the car has been driving fine, but I can feel sometime very subtle "fuel cut" but like, for a tenth of a second. That's the fuel pump telling me "hey, I'm going to die on you, and leave you stranded" lmao, I need to do a complete overhaul of the fuel system, but again, this car need so much expensive work that I don't want to do now because it's not mandatory.

It needs :
- A/C system overhaul (priority for me, prevent me driving when weather is hot)
- Fuel system overhaul
- Ignition system overhaul (new ignition coil perhaps)
- New timing belt
- Engine bay respray
- Rust removal underneath and respray
- Rust removal behind windshield...

But since I'm so obsessed with A/C I'm going to fix the A/C first. I've got a secondhand A/C compressor from a kouki AE86 Levin to fit.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to throw flowers at me, but this car is in absolute amazing condition both exterior and interior, and I'm driving it, it's not a car that drive 500km a year, I've drove like what, 20.000km since march 2025 (when I got the license plate) it's been so reliable and I've drove it quite hard too, not all the time, since I'm 90% of the time on the highway, driving at 120kph, 4500rpm.

Another video for y'all 4A-GE enjoyers.