Aussie ae86 rally car

[mc68]

greetings from Australia

a little background, i have have owned 3 ae86 (3 doors) in my few years of sprinter loving...all under the premises of them being race/drift cars...the 1st two were a little too rusty for my best interests, so they were striped to the last nut and bolt and almost given away..i bought this particular shell about 18 months ago, and since ive never made a race/rally car before, and don't earn enough to pay someone to prepare it for me, i have done most of the things on my own

i really should have kept a tab on how many cutting discs, linishing belts, wire wheels, sanding discs have been used on this car.. it was originally doing to be a drift car, until i started servicing at rallies for work, and driving a few autocross's and motorkhanas in borrowed cars...i was hooked, the dirt is just too much fun!

as there really arent alot of rallied ae86's in Australia, im hopeing a few people on this board who rally them can see this and tell me your impressions (seems to be a fair few in finland and stuff)

anyway.

When i started.









(spot the rarer car here)



to get the buckets nice and low i had to cut out the floor on both sides and remove that hump that usually sits there then weld in rails.



My DMS struts, which are yet to be mated to a stub axle...that will come.




seam welding






And as it stands nowish. It gets painted in toyota royal blue over xmas


Basically it wont be very radical.

i have everything to bolt back in,
from the top of my head
Zenki disc rear end (kaaz diff, 4.8:1 ratio)
bigport 16v (at first, to get used to the car, have a black top 20v bottom end that im building up with quad throttles etc)
Autronic Smc ecu
rx7 series IV front brakes
trd bushes thoughout, usual things
Bilstien rear shocks

thats all i remember now, obviously all the other rally car normals like seats, harnesses trip metre and stuff

here are some old pics of my old shells (white one was crushed)




lemme know what you think

Andy.