Project Lowball - TE72 T18 SE

[floody]

I've had a bit of an on again, off again affair with this thing!

I got it in 2008 as below.





Daggy!

Minus some rideheight, plus some 13x6.5" +4. 13x7" -6 Riversides w/185/60R13 federals:











Did about six months daily duty in my charge, abused the hell out of it every time I drove it, but I looked after it.

So I sold the Riversides off, moved it on to my partner's brother, used funds to cover some Meisters for my Skyline.
Next owner ran around in it for about 4 months and beat the crap out of it, hit stuff, people backed into it, finally wanted more luxury and got indebted to his teeth to own a shitbox Subaru..ran out of rego in late 2009 and sat parked outside his house from then until today.

I repurchased it at bottom dollar, chucked a battery in and drove it home, this is how it sits:



The next phase is to be a sideways one. Collecting parts now.


Its not as bad as it looks. Paint is stuffed, but its not rusty, at all. Driveline is stock, but its sound. Interior is ratshit but comfy enough (and about to get a Recaro). Everything works, all electrics, all instruments, heater, everything. 12 months before being parked up it got new shocks and a few bushes, new sealed beams, new rotors, new pads, new shoes...

In all I know everyone who has owned it in about the last 13 years, which is kind of cool!

[jakel]

This looks like it will be an awesome project!

[John70]

I had dreams for my 83 te71 with 3t twin carb motor untill some dick bounced off a maxima, and a 318 beamer then into the ass of my te..
Still own her and don't know what to do with it, mint little car with one old man mechanic owner and a bent chassis. Anyone need parts.. haha

[floody]

Kept running into dead ends chasing wheels on forums and such. Slapped a lowball bid on these...won the auction.







13x8, 13x9.5. Negative something offsets from the looks.

[floody]

Yay! On the way. Keeeeeeeen as.

[stahlz_ae86]

Good to see you own this again. Something about T-18's just sucks as a general rule imo but I always liked this when you put those photo's of it up in 08 with the 13's. Good to see it will be wearing some again.

[*E7*]

if you need to swap halves for your rims, i have three and a half sets of those same rims to mix and match if you need, or i can use one of my centers to have some new outers spun up for you.

let me know.

-Dave
(ps... when they arrive...)

[Jdm-Mcc]

13's <3

If this is as low as benzo's ke was with these wheels on it, it will rule hard.

[floody]

Hey Dave, I'll let you know if I need to mix and match, though I think I'll just make the car fit them.

Yeah man it will be low. Not sure what I'll do power wise though, may just be stock and slammed at this stage.

[floody]

Well rims are still on the way, few weeks yet I reckon. Bought a Bride rail which should have suited the Recaro LX I bought for this...arrived this morning but turned out to be a bent heap of shit, hacked about, bits missing and not even resembling the pic posted by the seller on here. So not sure what I'll do with that now.
Evolving a plan for front coilovers, trying to find bilstein AE92 inserts but they seem to have disappeared off the face of the earth. Aussie prices on them are also bullshit, the same item from local distro is easy 3x USA price plus shipping.

So...
Bilstein for 3000GT
Body: 265mm
compressed: 380mm
extended: 480mm
Stroke: 100mm (have also read 120mm which would make compressed length 360mm)
Body diameter: 36mm

vs

HTS
Tokico HTS
Body length: 332mm
Extended length: 476mm
Extended minus Body: 144mm
Outside Diameter: 43.5mm

Seems like they must have a lot of exposed shaft as they're even shorter in the body again but extended length and stroke is pretty close. I'm told the usual aftermarket bilsteins for AE86 are 36mm dia. also.



^Thats what they look like apparently. I think they're for a 3000GT. My concern is about the fact that they would seem to have ~115mm of exposed shaft that is doing SFA. Normally wouldn't be a big deal except with bilsteins the gland nut has a wiper so you can't just machine up a deep gland nut to take it up, an


Anyone know where to look for Bilstein gland nuts to suit AE86 struts (I'm making the assumption they will be the same fitment as T18 ones)?