My 86 track Project

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I suppose its time i put up something..

Hi names Paul, i bought this wee car from GT Central who sourced the car from yahoo japan ack in 2007. it was in primer at the time but i thought it looked the part and apartently was been built for d1 sl i fell in love and the deal was done
spec as follows:

Engine:
AE111 5valve engine replaced, fully rebuilt engine, internals balanced, 0.5mm oversized piston with full balance(all 0.1g difference), Crankshaft dynamic balanced proceeded, Connecting rods full balanced(o.1g difference each), HKS 0.8mmheadgasket, Oversize trumpets, 264 272 Camshafts, APEX Stainless exhaust manifold, Straight through exhaust, Additional cored racing radiator, Twin Fans - one on a switch, Front mount Oil cooler, toyota Ignitor, toyota supra Coil Pack (plus spares), Oil Catch Can, Custom dash, relocated battery (behind driver),FREEDOM CPU (dash mounted), Piggy back ecu, Greedy high flow oil fliter, long life platinium plugs, trd ignition leads.
-pic in my avaitor-


SUSPENSION:
TRD Racing suspension (short stroke trd blue), height adjustable coilovers front, 8way adjustable trd blue rear with trd springs, Cusco adjustable top mounts, Cusco struts x(2 front&rear), power steering knuckles (more lock), Lower arm racing bushing, adjustable C tune Rear control arms Full pillow jointed, adjustable C tune Rear Lateral rod (diagional link setup), Traction brackets, 6P roll cage (with additional strengthing throughout car), Kill switches x2, Door bars, Stainless mesh brake lines, Integra SIR brake system (twin pot on front), Fully Stripped inside, TRD Bushed.

TRANSMISSION:
supra rear axle conversion, Tomie 2way LSD, rebuilt trd gearbox, lightened flywheel, ANEX 4.778final pinion gear, REVOLVER 0.737 overtop gear installed, trd transmission mounts, trd engine mount, Exceedy clutch.

Exterior/ Interior:
Goodline FRP Front fender, goodline front frp wings, sideskirts and rear bumper, Monkey magic FRP Bonnet, J BLOOD FRP rear hatch (one with moulded spoiler), D-max Rear over fender, ssr rims (14's), 2x Bride Racing seat, defi oil temp, pressure, water temp and tacho. interior sprayed charchol aswell as engine bay.

the pics at the time from japan :

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the car was located on a small island so it took a little while to get every thing sorted and get it to main land to port but to be fair to bevan and their contact in japan they kept me updated and even sent me a video from the trip back with her...... nothing to exciting before you click :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rpdeokUEyI&feature=mfu_in_order&playnext=1&videos=w45nu6lZS60
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENKUOg6K5eM&NR=1

then i got some photos of the car wait to be brought to port to find my lovley equip wheels were missing:mad:


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not to worry though because the car arrived asap and even though some prat broke though the back window, perpex is cheap and after a drive in the car i was absolutly chuffed at how well it handled and went compared to any other cam i ever had!

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I got it home and after a few local outtings and 2 track days up in roscommon i decided to give prodrift a shot, it was my first competion and my first time down at the rosebowl.

i decided to give the car a splash of paint and decided on a ford orange after seeing a gorgous mk2 escort in the same colour

Seeing the oval in rosegreen for the first time in person was quite intimidating to say the least and i was quite happy when i discover the amatures ran the inner track. Morning and afternoon progressed quite well i was comfortable in the car although the lack of a hydrolic handbrake was annoying the hell outta me as i was having trouble locking up the back wheels which left me having to work hard to get sideway into two of the corners on the tight inside track.
After qualifying i was delighted to hear i placed 12th! Although happy i new i could do better.

We got the news that after a break for lunch we would be hitting the big oval and the same track as the pros use. After one of the first runs one of the oval one of the driver suffered from understeer and hit the wall, suddenly the reality of that big concrete wall and a low powered car really hit home. I decided to play it safe and slowly build up my confidence on the big oval and after a few runs i was feeling fairly good about the car and linking from the oval into the inner track. Even though the car was setup slighty to hard for the rough outter track i decided to stick with the setup i had for qualifying.

After a few good runs i found myself in the quater finals against a very sweet looking candy red ps13 from limrick. Being honest a heavy shower of rain at this point was my saviour preety much elimating the disavantage of having a lower powered car. I was running 55-60 psi in the back tyres all day while it was dry so i reduced this to 35. It was ridiculous how slippy the track got with the rain and after both of us spun on each others lead lap it went to a final run which i managed to edge it and proceeded to the semi-finals to face a black sr20 from limrick (apoligies his name slips me atm).

After the heavens opening i let out more pressure from the tyres which seemed to do the trick as my competitor spun while leading leaving the door open for me to go through to the final. In the final i faced the giuseppe pizza s15 driver who was driving his mates blue s14 for the day.

At this stage the track was starting to dry makng life difficult for both of us and after 6-4 4-6 the final was brought to a re-run. I was delighted at how the day went and decided to just go for it. i lead first and pushed to hard coming into the inner track hit some of the wetter track and spun. On the follow i pushed hard but no mistake was made and i held my hands up to a deseved winner.

I was delighted with my second place and place in mondays pro day (killarney rally was on) the last time rosegreen would be run for prodrift. Monday came and it was a scorcher of a day. i had some problems on the day and didnt get to qualify which lead me to have preety much the whole car rewired.

Heres a small clip from the qualifying lap i did get in that day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpwmBSU3MII

After getting the car up and running again i ended up selling the engine and box with the plan to convert to a sr20 set up. Shortly after i ran into some health issues and the car took a back foot. And i lost interest in the project.

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A while back i picked up a redtop sr20 and box for resonable money reigniting the origional plan. As things stand i have some dishy 15s, downpipe, mani, engine, box, engine mounts and gearbox mounts all gathered but been on the dole is making progress slow. Plans are to get an alloy rad and possibly v-mount the intercooler and hopefully win the lotto making everything i want to do a hell of a lot easier....Long winded terrible what boardom will do to ya :D

[Micko]

real nice car preferred it when it came in first though.

Paddy and bevan brought in some real beauts during their importing time

[Tekno Twinky]

Hi paul ,fully awesome but i dont like the orange or the sr20 plans!

The spec is unreal too i like the equips you had on it too and the primer colour was sweet..:)

All in - an awesome 86.Best of luyck with the future plans!

Any bits for sale?

[Prodrifter86]

Dam the orange ruained it IMO

lovely car though

[Gar-4-age 86]

Cool car man wheels are awesome as for the spec holy fudge:cool: you sellin that bonnet or bumper by any chance??:)

[s00045732]

real nice car preferred it when it came in first though.

Paddy and bevan brought in some real beauts during their importing time

they sure did mick i got 3cars of the lads and was delighted with them all, id say the flip coloured cam had to be one of my favourites its was so mad and different at the time


Hi paul ,fully awesome but i dont like the orange or the sr20 plans!

The spec is unreal too i like the equips you had on it too and the primer colour was sweet..:)

All in - an awesome 86.Best of luyck with the future plans!

Any bits for sale?

cheers man, didnt think youd be in favour of the sr20 :p but needs be and i had a 16v cam aswell at the time i sold it so it didnt bother me, origional plan was to build a 7agte (not sure if youd view that any better either) had a engine got and all but it just worked out a hole lost less complicated with a sr20.
Unfortunly the equip wheels never made it over to ireland much to my annoyance



Dam the orange ruained it IMO

lovely car though

thanks anyway man, i quite like it not a lot do to be fair but at least i tryed something a bit different. Im planning on changing the colour again when i get the powerplant in, thinking graphics or graffiti themed!

[s00045732]

Cool car man wheels are awesome as for the spec holy fudge:cool: you sellin that bonnet or bumper by any chance??:)

cheers man, nah im not selling them preety hard to get, darren mc was looking into getting a mould of the front bumper but it wasnt in good enough nick to do it with, maybe get on to him i think he said he got sorted after? if you wanted someone to make a mould of the bonnet youd be happy to have a look at her and see if you could though

[paddy_last]

Sweet car man ah don't take the easy way out putting an sr in it.

[stevek]

god, you would miss rose green wouldnt you ?? :(

[ae86-connell]

very nice man

[peterhouze]

i most call down some day for a look at this sayin your 5 mins walk from my house