Grant Scott's AE71

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This is where I have been working on the 4agze since I bought it, out in a small shed at the back of my house. I'm in the process of replacing as much as I can before it goes into the car so that it is pretty much a fresh motor. I'm also collecting parts to go in with the motor including a oil cooler relocation kit, 3 core alloy radiator, cusco engine mounts and a TRD 0.8mm head gasket. I'm really looking forward to having the extra power from the motor when it is in.

The thing I love about this car so much is that it's purely fun, I have no need to pursue sponsors for the car as I love just going at my own pace and doing what I feel like. If I don't feel like drifting, I don't. If I feel like drifting I go out and give my motor hell.



Specs:

Engine, Exhaust & Drivetrain:

Aw11 4age 16v Bigport - Corolla Purple spec
Ae101 4agze on engine stand

- awaiting Trd 0.8mm gasket
- Ke70 triple core alloy radiator waiting to go in
- New relocation oil cooler on the way
Trd 0.5mm Metal Head gasket

fresh seals, bolts and stuff
Trd copy 4-1 extractors
2 1/4" exhaust piping and Axle back 3" megaphone (track) and $25 sports
muffler (daily)
excedy 4 puck clutch - Its gay
Oil cooler kit with braided lines
Standard ke70 rear end locked (eww 3.89!!!!!)
K&N Filter - garbage bin spec
10m Cressida Throttle cable

Suspension:
Cusco Camber tops
Front strut brace
8kg Tein Ae86 coilovers
T3 rose jointed LCA's
Power steering arms
Adjustable panhard rod
Rose jointed 4 link - Apex Engineering
TRD 6kg rear springs
TRD 8way adjustable shocks

Inside:
Good old australian early 80's styling - green dash and blue panels
Some old school saas wheel
Bride Low max
Cusco 6 point
The insides of a zzzzzzeebra
Lucky red dice
A (singular) doraemon
Rim collection and brakes:
14x8 - 12 Hayashi Streets (Old school ones, not off the shelf stuff)
Vented jdm disks up front
Genuine ADM drum rear end!!!

Exterior:
Quad lights
2 Chin lips (one held together with fibreglass paste and zipties, another thats good... for now)
5000k front lights that dont give enough light to see 5 metres in front of you and burnt out both my plugs.

The other great thing about cars and drifting is the friends you make.

I've met some great people through going to the track and just having fun. I owe a great deal of thanks to my friends and family for helping me with this car over the years, I'm sure it sounds cliché, but I certainly wouldn't be where I am today without that help.

A lot of the friends that I have met have been through the two forums www.secretdrift.com.au and www.ae86drivingclub.com.au .
Both of these two forums combined have helped me with priceless information on these cars, finding parts and generally increasing the amount of fun it has been to build this car.

The funny thing is, in the time I have had this car, I have also owned an AE86 and the 71 is far more fun. I definitely want to build up an ae86 down the line, but I feel there is not much point while I still have the ae71. It would be great to build a purely N/A monster Ae86 with big cams, quad throttles, all the gear, just as a weekend car to go for a bash through the hills and take to the occasional track day.



I think one of the Funniest things when I reminisce about this car, as I remember telling some friends many years ago that although I love drifting, I would never get into it purely because it would be like Pouring money down the drain. Well here I am now, and I have spent countless amounts of time and money on this car, and I don't regret it in the slightest.




I love driving it to the track and seeing the expressions on the faces as I drive by, I love the smell of tire smoke after sliding through the corner and I love kicking the clutch at 140kph in third gear to make it down the straight Manji.

But I think the most rewarding thing about the car though is looking back at it after working on it and saying 'I built that'.

-Grant Scott

[OldSkoolToys]

/drool




/pant change

[Axel]

related thread with enough pics & info. to satisfy.... (24 pages worth!!)

and of course, a video to enjoy:

Toffe Apple with a Hint of JDM


one helluva lot of fun!!!!