My circuit sprint Sprinter

[balistic]

Well I've been hanging around here harassing people for a few weeks now so thought I had better post up my car for everyone to see.

Its an ADM AE86 Sprinter. I purchased it with a seized 4AC and plan to turn it into a dedicated track car for circuit sprints. I currently race a WRX in the WRX Club Super Sprint Championship - but that car is also my daily driver and I want to get a little more serious with the racing.

The immediate plans for the car are:

ENGINE:
- 4AGZE w/ T28 turbo
- FMIC
- Haltech ECU

DRIVELINE:
- stock T50 gearbox
- stock S series diff (CIG locker)
- JDM front discs/calipers - stock drum rears
- Wheels - Superlite 15x8 8 spoke(unsure of offset just yet) running R spec tyres

BODY:
- stripped to bare essentials(seat and steering wheel!) and sound deadening removed.
- Flared guards
- seam welded chassis
- 6 point CAMS approved cage
- fixed back racing bucket drivers seat

Some pics - please excuse the quality, I'm using my mobile phone camera!

Here is the car before I picked it up:

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/119766.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/119767.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/119768.jpg

..the only performance part on the car was the Whiteline strut brace! http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/dry.gif

[balistic]

..ok, before I get all the experts telling me I'm going to break gearbox/diff/axles and the brakes wont cut it etc.. blah.. Yes I know. But whats to say I cant have fun whilst breaking things! http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/tongue.gif

Being a track car - the plan is to develop it over time. Originally I wanted to run it stock standard to get a base for which I could compare back against for the modifications. But seeing that the engine was seized I figured I may as well concentrate on getting that done first and fix the body up whilst its minus a driveline.

So first things first - the original plan was to turbo charge the 4AGE engine I had, so I went out and purchased a hi-flowed T28 turbo from an S15 Silvia. I then stumbled across a turbo charged 4AGZE engine for sale with everything minus the turbo! I've agreed to purchase the engine off the guy and am currently waiting for it to be removed from the current car.

So onto the body work! When I bought the car, it had had some front end damage at some stage. It was repaired though and didnt look too bad on initial inspection. The person selling the car assured me that the chassis was straight. There was very little rust which was good! After removing the engine and stripping everything from the engine bay I noticed some slight deformation of the front chassis rails http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/rant.gif also the radiator support panel had been very dodgily repaired and had about 2 containers of bog thrown at it! So it'll be off to the panel shop soon to get the chassis checked out and straightened if need be. I'm also looking for a replacement radiator support panel if anyone knows of one available? My attempts to straighten the one I have were in vain due to the bodgy repair on it originally.

Pics of car minus dead 4AC
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/119780.jpg

...notice the TopStage lip http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/biggrin.gif

So whilst I'm waiting for all that I decided I would flare the guards to accomodate for the sticky track rubber! I am really happy with how it turned out - and this is before using any body filler! It took me about half a day to do both guards. I'll be doing the rears next but am waiting on a MIG welder to weld the inner panels up.

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/119782.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/119783.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/119784.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/119785.jpg

After a quick coat of primer to stop the bare metal rusting for the moment:

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/119786.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/119787.jpg

The other front panels dummied up to see how it looks:

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/119788.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/119789.jpg

[madnzer]

thats gonna look grouse mate http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/smile.gif

for the rear guards, are you just going to pull them out like the fronts, or actually get some flares on there?

[Gilly]

never seen one of those LEVIN grille badges

[green_boy_91]

sick prject man hope it goes well http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/2thumbs.gif

[Bustin_86]

Looks wicked awesome dude, very nice job on the guards!

Justin

[balistic]

Thanks guys - happy with the progress so far. Yeah for the rears I'll be hand flaring them the same as the fronts, I'll be following Joels handy instructions for flaring the guards here:

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forum/in...;f=6&t=2002 (http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=6&t=2002)

The Levin badge came on the car when I bought it, I think it may have been hand made by the previous owner http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/smile.gif

[5PRNTA]

i followed that diagram to do my gaurds aswell and they turned out fukn unreal so many thanx to the guy that posted it up its been alot of help

[slipknot86]

nice work. u reckon the adm t50 box will handle the extra punch of the turbo for long?

[balistic]

nice work. u reckon the adm t50 box will handle the extra punch of the turbo for long?[/b]

I'm hoping the T50 will last a little while if I be careful with it, I'm hoping to have to upgrade the diff before I need to do the gearbox. But eventually I think i'll end up fitting a W series box.

The shell is being looked at by the panel shop this week to determine if the front chassis rails are bent and if so they'll be straightened. I'm chasing down a replacement radiator support panel at the moment too and should have that in the next couple of weeks. http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[RobertoX]

car looks good man! good luck with the turbo, im doing similar

i have also have a rad support

[D0R186]

nice one man!

also those levin badges came on every jdm levin, i threw mine away http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[balistic]

The shell is currently at the panel shop getting the front chassis rails straightened http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/tup.gif

Hopefully I'll organise for the 4AGZE to be delivered next week some time, a replacement radiator support panel has been organised(thanks to truenosedan). Everythings happening but I dont have anything to work on this weekend http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/sad.gif

..might have to start reconditioning bits and pieces which are going back on the car(brake & clutch cylinders etc.)

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/greenbounce.gif

[D1]

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/2thumbs.gif hey man the project looks good. Just a word of advice do the w5# conversion asap and diff. I broke 5 t50s in just over a year and did two crown wheel and pinions... i now have a t series and a w58 all has been good besides the one crown wheel and pinion... Good luck with everything.

[balistic]

A quick update!

The shell is back from the panel shop - chassis rails all straightened out! Still to do some small rust repair on the rear guard, hammer out a few dings and flare the rear guards, plus fill in the sunroof and replace the rad support! I got myself a little 150amp MIG welder so am right to start getting stuck into the body!

I now have the engine(4AGZE bottom end) and most of the associated bits and pieces!

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/123249.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/123250.jpg

..now I'm busting for the Xmas break so I can start getting some stuff done!

[Stuck]

your headlights dont look straight bro

But nice .. keep us updated

[balistic]

your headlights dont look straight bro

But nice .. keep us updated[/b]

The front guards/lights/grill/front bar etc are all basically just sitting on there with a couple of cable ties in that pic coz I wanted to see how the freshly painted front bar and lip look. The radiator support panel is f*cked and has been welded up previously with a couple of kinks in it - which means the distance between the front guards is about 10mm shorter then it should be. So the lights and grill dont quite squeeze in there properly at the moment. http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/ohmy.gif

This will be fixed once I replace the rad support http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/tup.gif

[DRFT - 86]

coming along well man...

[balistic]

Resurrecting this thread from the the grave!

Some slow progress has been made on this lately, Ive been creating a build log(blog) here:

Half-Arsed Racing Build Blog (http://halfarsedracing.blogspot.com/)

Feel free to check it out and post comments, still some catching up to do on the blog so stay tuned. Car is currently off getting roll cage installed.