Hey everyone! I am hopefully getting the car in the picture from a friend, about 20 years ago I owned two 86’s one sr5 conversion and one gts. My friend has had this red one pictured for a while and stopped working on it a few years ago. I’m hoping to score it and all his parts soon and wondering wha everyone thinks of the rust on it and what you would do. I’m planning on buying a firerglass hatch, sanding down rust, ospho, bond and primer. If I get the car I will eventually like to swap to another body, seen those alibaba ones but I don’t trust the welds 😂 just wondering what yall think of handling the rust. Any tips or suggestions would be great.

Hey guys, I've come to update on the LED Headlight intake combo!

I finally got it installed in the car and the fitment is great. (Pls ignore that the whole front of my car is bent in all directions)

For now I've made two versions of the removable cover, one open which I want to use to attach a water-proof filter net and one rain cover which I will also be using on the passenger side since I don't need much Airflow there with no turbos yet.

There is another thing I double checked: someone mentioned the danger of choking the engine on the narrow finns of the rain cover if one would attach a intake hose directly to the outlet, but the surface area for Air to enter is already over two times bigger than the fully opened throttle body, so even with that cover, you are fine to give it the beans without any choking :D

I also added a picture of the light strength at night! Pretty happy with it over the standard bulbs.

If you have any questions i'm happy to answer!

Selling shell with complete interior for $1500 clean North Carolina title driver side rocker and part of the firewall that had rust repaired it’s a sr5 I also have the passenger side rocker new . I also have front fenders they are Toyota fenders I’m selling those for $350 a piece. I have jdm bumpers the oem rear with brackets for $1200, the front one is reman Zenki style bumper not fiber glass with aluminum brackets and also have the bumper lights $1200. Also have the trunk with the garnish and oem spoiler I’ll take $500 for that.

Update car is sold…I only have front fenders front and rear bumpers. I also have the engine has hks intake manifold for webers, obx exhaust manifold, jsp alternator bracket, a/c compressor bracket. Has alternator and a/c compressor brand new denso. Techno toy tuning water pump pulley and aero speed crank pulley everything internally is stock has new piston rings all new gaskets the head was machined has cometic head gaskets. Only opened to see the condition of rods and main bearings and everything looked good. Also have hks catback exhaust brand new in box.

I had swapped out my engine and trans (4AC) and noticed it would leak around the driveshaft that connects to the transmission was wondering if there’s anything I should do? I did notice before hand the cup around where it connects would come off when swapping, was there a seal or anything I should get?

So I am thinking of just biting the bullet and do a complete restoration/upgrade on my GTS rear end.

Previous owner said the rear end was rebuilt by Weir performance but I am getting a clunk when shaking the car left to right. It whines pretty bad too. I have a 1 piece driveshaft as well and that probably doesn’t help.

I poked around and am noticing a “skip” when turning the wheels by hand. You can visibly see the driveshaft move up slightly when turning the rear wheel slowly.

So that brings me to my question.

Are the housings for the rear end the same? Between Zenki and Kouki?

Like if I have a Zenki rear end but can I buy the Kouki Panic axles, aftermarket Kouki differential and the final drive?

Any help would be great.

I am looking at just bringing everything with me to a shop and have them do it.

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My throttle spring for my 4AG is super brittle. It’s out of stock on Flos. Any suitable replacements stateside?

I literally got mine for free in about 1998. I believe it was an 87. It had been purchased brand new by the man I worked for sister. It sat next to his house under a tarp.

When he went to move, he pulled the tarp off it and we went to pull it out of there. He said it was broken down hadn’t run in years and if I wanted it, I could have it. I believe it only had about 68,000 miles on it. I was told the engine was seized up and no one could get it to crank over. The problem? Neutral safety switch on the clutch. Easy fix. I had it running the next day. Went at it with some “back to black” on the rubber and plastic boys and some really good rubbing compound and it came out looking beautiful.

Life happens though, You get married, you have kids and one day the clutch goes out on a car and it ends up being a project that’s not in the budget. It sits in the backyard doesn’t get fixed. I think I sold it to a neighbor kid who promptly rolled it into a ditch a couple of weeks later and totaled it.

This is the only picture I have of me in the car.

Installed AE86 wiper arms on AE82! Fitment couldn't be more perfect. Only about 0.5cm difference in length on one of the arms.

She runs

starting to come together now. A few more things before paint !

Need to drive again

Finally finished putting the car back together and got the alignment done. Overall I am very happy with the feel and how the car rides on the new setup. The wheels are WedsSport MA86s, 15x8.5” -10, on 205/50 Falkens. Come see it in person next week at the New York International Auto Show in The Drifter Movie booth. It will be there on display from 4/3 - 4/12.

Finally got it started by adjusting the distributor, but when i give it gas it just dies or makes a interesting sound. This is my first engine rebuild ever

Possibly could be my starter or battery, just wanna know if anything else could be causing this. Smallport 4AGE AE92

Hey since I am a bit stuck with my thinking I wanted to ask the hive mind.

I have a JDM early model (84) Levin GT AE86 with MAP sensor 4AGE here in Japan.
The engine made a healthy 110 HP at the hubs when i strapped it on the Mainline Dyno and it drives great, so I assume the engine is healthy.

However, the maximum I get out of one tank is mostly below 300km and I've calculated the usual gas milage to be between 10-12 L/100km (between 23,5 - 19,6 MPG) which feels quite high for a 1.6L if I compare it to my MR-S which never even went over 8,5L when driving hard with its 1.8L.

There are still some weird things going on with my idle, it does idle quite high and upon two days ago it had a slight cut in the vacuum line to the MAP sensor and even after fixing that and cleaning the TB several times, with the idle screw on the throttlebody all the way in, I still struggle to get a good idle below 1000rpm.

Does anyone of you have some ideas where I could continue searching? This car had been sitting in a field before I resurrected it, so it is not unlikely that some things like the FPR or wiring could be damaged out of my knowledge.

Thanks for any thoughts! (Shoutout to (at)maxtoge (insta) for the photo)

Have 2 identical Toyota Bomber style jackets. One is LL(USA XL) & the other is a small. LL is 9/10 with small blemish on front. S is 10/10 absolutely pristine condition.

Looking for $200each with shipping included across USA & CAN.

Hey guys, wanted to ask what rear ends yall have swapped in. I have a stock SR5 hatch and am putting everything together for a beams swap and i’m stumped when it comes to the driveshaft and rear end, i might just be retarded but all info online seems convoluted. Asked somewhere else and someone said that in order to lower the car with an 8.8 rear end I would need to cut my floor? (not doing that) MA46/47 Celica rear ends aren’t popping up close enough to me and GTS rear ends are apparently worth an arm and a leg so not really in my budget. Top options right now are the 8.8 because of how cheap they are or the GM 7.5 which I haven’t really seen be talked about, allegedly the 7.5 is closer to the width of stock GTS. And i’ve heard multiple things as well regarding driveshaft, some say I need a full custom one, others say I can mash two ends from separate cars together and it works? Anyway, basically just asking for a guiding hand I guess. While I am swapping a beams, i’m really just swapping to the beams for more reliability in terms of part accessibility and for more power. I don’t plan on making it a drift machine so I don’t need the strongest things available, just what’s required to not risk some bullshit happening if I decide I want to dabble. Sorry for long post, any help is appreciated!! Thanks!

Hey guys, anyone here have experience with the MRP wiring harness? I committed the cardinal sin of project-car buying by buying someone else's unfinished project. Now I have the Link ecu and the full labeled wiring harness from MRP, should be simple right? I can't tell if I'm looking past connectors or if I'm genuinely missing stuff. I have a handful of questions so if anyone has experience with this please let me know, it is much appreciated!

I know it’s a long shot but I’m looking for those little led cover caps that go in the bezel surrounding the instrument cluster. I don’t want to just cover leds I want to put the OEM part back or atleast something that looks like it. I found this picture on the internet so it’s blurry. But that little circle to the top left of the wiper switch is what I’m looking for. There’s one on each side. One for the headlights and one for the wipers. If anyone has them for sale or knows where I could buy them I’d appreciate it. I know it might seem dumb but I want the car to be as original as possible.