new parts: Leen AE86 6MT

We've been monitoring a great thead on ae86irl with interest for a while now, as some really tasty IS200/Altezza 6 speed gearbox to rwd 4AGE kits are being designed, developed, and built right here in Ireland! Time to share with the rest of you if you have not seen them already! The system uses this finely machined piece of 6082T6 Aluminium to mate the 6 speed J160 box found in the Altezza/IS200 directly to the 4AGE bell housing.

The first few units have been made, which I find amazing, many of these well thought projects never get off the ground, and we are looking forward to the initial results which should be soon as they are reported to be testing in car this month.

 

Leen Gearbox Conversions are behind all this magic and you should really check out his very good website with loads more pics and information. I especially like the very elegant solution for keeping the shifter position in the factory place, no butchering of the transmission tunnel here! GarageHachi is tempted, a tuned 4AGE + 6 speed with a 4.1 final drive for nice highway cruising sounds so good..

Leen Gearbox Conversions

Project Pictures

pic of the day: roof lip

Redlines, boot lip AND roof spoiler you say? Hmmmm....

Head over to OMGDRIFT for more pics and a tasty car feature!

random video: ITB's breathing hard

reblogging this beautiful 16v music from hachiroku.com because I believe the world needs to hear it! If ever anybody needed convincing about staying n/a....

random video: 4age sound off

On paper I think the GZE makes a nice street engine, and sounds great with its distinctive supercharger whine, but in my head the 20V sounds soooo good, and is a pure n/a engine! Either way it makes for a great soundtrack..

"I love my 86..." pt5

The best one so far imo, caz its features 2 of Ireland's best 86's!!!!


Garage-D TV - I Love My 86 - David Welsh from Low Brain TV on Vimeo.


the other 4 can be found here.....http://vimeo.com/23601673

random motivational snap!

Unfortunately I have nothing to report since my last blog, I'm still trying to get together some funds to start buying parts for the rebuild.The champion little 4ag is still going, but knowing it needs all this work is always on my mind! The body is starting to show its age too, along with my "winter damage", so a respray is in the planning now too. Meanwhile to keep my motivation going, Kev spotted this very nice shot of my Trueno over on drifted.com. It was a nice reward after spending the evening valeting the car. Delighted!

worth a look: KSD eng

Another small shop I came across while net mining.

http://www.ksdengineering.com/Corolla-84-87-AE86_c_4.html

KDS sell KONI  short stroke inserts for ae86 dampers , which is something I haven't come across before and there very reasonably priced too @ 135 euro for one front s/s damper!!

KDS sell a few nice bits like Beatrush and some other cooling goodies.
One Different piece they sell, is this IACV ( idle air control valve) block off plate! I dunno though??! why not just repair or replace the iacv , but anyways pic and vid below!!! ( be sure to turn the sound down
on the vid ;) )

GRP4 fab

Group4 Fabrications are deffo worth a bump here! They have some nice parts for 86's and some good universal gear that would suit any kind of track car!

Link to there ae86 specific list :  http://www.grp4fabrications.com/index.php?cPath=42

I'm liking there new alloy front hub for increased track width by 10mm and I imagine a saving in unsprung weight too, which would improve handling as well......

http://www.grp4fabrications.com/product_info.php?cPath=42&products_id=635

Main site link http://www.grp4fabrications.com/index.php

A worth while site if your building any kind of track car!

  

Birth of a TE37. That is all.

I want another car just to have more TE37 in my life :)

random video: nice sprinter in action**!

"looking ae86" VID!

あさやん LOOKING AE86 :: ひとみＧＯ 走行会 ２００８ from Laurence Janus on Vimeo.

little vid I fumbled across out there....

Non-Hachi related , exhaust sex....

Powercrafts youtube channel is definitely my favorite youtube subscription! It's full of screaming v8/10's!!

Noisy Ear Sex Inside , TURN UP !

Sadly they don't have any vids of there full ae86 system up , but hopefully I will be able to sort them out with something in the future!!

There latest two uploaded clips......

win on the auctions!

Its been a quiet one this month, mostly a bit of money saving for parts for all 4 of the Garage Hachi fleet, but last week I was very lucky to be forwarded a link to my precious 2-door Redlines on the Yahoo Auctions. With just 20hrs left and amazingly no bids at 8000Y, (they were listed in exterior aero rather than rear lights) I placed my bid via JAA. Checked it the following morning and I had won! They do not come with the centre "garnish" but I already have one with the two small white lines. I think that is the only small difference so I will just spray the number plate surround a fresh satin black for the time being. Can't wait for them to arrive now and give them the Plast-RX treatment before fitting.

I have seen two versions of 2D Redlines on the auctions, some have just one stop/tail bulb per side, and others like these have two, so it looks like my light loom will just plug straight in and I still get the nice dual stop tail / parking light set up.

Also yesterday we attended the Prodrift 2010 Finals and there was some AE86 only parking arranged which was pretty cool. It was freezing cold and I only thought to take a picture towards the end, by this time a few other 86's and an 20v swapped E7 Corolla had already left, but it was still nice to park up with some other nice Hachii. If I find some more pics of the line up on the net I will post them up.

Hachiroku vs gt300 class

Cool retro jap video of the gt300 class Trueno! Theres not much of an ae86 left in it tho ,as it uses a tunned 3sgte. But still cool to see the lengths a hachi can be pushed to

New juice box site!!!!

this is a must add,
some quality pics and vids going on here
http://juiceboxforyou.com/

plenty of hachi related pics of course!!!!!!!!!!!!1


juiceboxonline from juice box on Vimeo.

Keeping the 86 alive in FD

I'm following Formula Drift like crazy this season and was disappointed to see taka go out early with his big Smash last weekend in rd 1 , but just came across a recap of his '09 adventures in FD, enjoy..........

Taka Aono 2009 Formula D video from Ross Fairfield on Vimeo.