kakico wrote:Grant
Have you tried with Dr Occa, for the plugs.
I just got a distributor from him, and supplied me with the OEM plugs
cheers

I'm not sure who that is... do you have a username or email for them?

I've always been annoyed by the crappy headlights that came with my car, and surprisingly they never blew out, but I decided it was time to upgrade anyway. These Hella lights take standard halogen bulbs that you can simply swap out, instead of switching the entire sealed beam casing. https://i.imgur...

Welcome to the board! Looks like you're doing a great job refreshing the car. It's overwhelming at the start, but just keep a TODO list and hopefully you will slowly be checking things off faster than the list is growing. :lol: Starting with a 20v gives you a lot of potential for the future if the w...

Okay thanks, I might look for some larger Toyota injectors if I can find them... I don't think I'm looking to go standalone ECU anytime soon.

If I swap injectors wouldn't I also need a bigger fuel pump? I'm actually not sure what the flow rate of the stock one is.

Just posting to pay my respects. I'm sure a lot of knowledge around the A series engines we still use today came from building engines at that shop.

What's the story behind the engine in that picture?

oldeskewltoy wrote:That looks pretty good! Other than the TVIS dip, the torque looks good.

Yea I'm pretty happy with it. What do you think about the AFR?
How much better could I get it running with a tunable ECU?

I just got home from the dyno, and I'm pretty satisfied with the results. Seems like I might be able to get things running even better if I want to continue down the tuning road. Below are the good runs, first a run in 4th gear to 5k RPM, then a run in 3rd gear to 7k. https://i.imgur.com/CKeJqQt.jpg...

Gazoo Racing are making replacement looms and it seems that Toyota themselves are having issues with some of the plugs. The instructions state to re-use a couple of the connectors on the new loom. https://toyotagazooracing.com/gr/heritage/ae86/ Download pdf at bottom of page. Wow thanks for that li...

"I'm also planning to find a local shop with a dyno to get some baseline numbers for horsepower/torque. I have no plans for aftermarket engine management yet, but I'm interested to see what this engine is actually putting out. :D " as am I... We will find out soon. I have a dyno appointme...

Yea I don't check the other categories much because there is hardly anything new. I mainly just log in to keep my build thread going. :lol: I'd like to see the forum keep going. There is so much good knowledge here about our cars. It should be pretty straightforward to move threads... although there...

Another quick update! Since my engine was running pretty smooth with the stock intake/exhaust, I went ahead and installed my Injen and Martelius parts. 8-) https://i.imgur.com/DJv4Edc.jpg The fitment of the Injen intake could have been better in my opinion, there is very little clearance between the...

Excellent build !!! As to going with synthetic or conventional. I'm using a combination of both now. I had been using a 5W-30 synthetic, which worked well on the street. But on the track "at constant high RPM's" I pi$$ out way too much oil through the breather system, with the lighter wt ...

Well it's taken forever to find the time to post this update, but the big news it that I finally have my car running again! :D :D Before installing the engine I had to reinstall the transmission and replace some of the shifting components... the throw out hub was very worn along with the shirt fork ...

Do you have any pictures of the repair? If I could get my hands on another full AE86 harness I would actually like to figure out how to make reproduction harnesses... the only thing I keep getting stuck on is finding the old Toyota style plugs. If anyone has leads on where to get plugs I'll take the...

Thanks for chiming in Dan. The compression ratio is for the small port high comp piston is 10.3:1, so with some material taken off the head/block (I don't have exact numbers on those in front of me), and a stock head gasket at 1.2mm thickness (torqued), that would put me very slightly above 10.3:1 (...

Okay here is where I left the gears, you can see they are almost at zero, but not quite. This adjustment kept the openings and closings of the intake/exhaust values lined up exactly with the cam card, otherwise I think they were happening 10-20 degrees before/after they were supposed to. It is inter...

Moving onto degreeing the cams here, which I've never done before, so it was very good to learn the process and practice it many times until I felt comfortable that things were set correctly. How much (if any) did you have to adjust your cams to get them set? The picture looks like your cam gears a...

This is going to be a huge update as I have been pretty busy over the past months, but haven't had much if any time to post about my progress. I'm now nearly ready to start putting the engine back into the car! It's been a really fun process seeing it all slowly come together, and I'm really hoping ...

Amazing progress as always, thanks for the update. Your future self will be glad you documented all this.
It seems like you're getting closer to the point where you can actually start putting more pieces of the car back together rather than cutting rust off.

Another rather boring update, but last weekend I pulled out my transmission. https://i.imgur.com/kz5rux4.jpg First it needs a really good cleaning, but I will then take it off to be inspected and have my MFactory 5th gear installed! https://i.imgur.com/x3WaRHk.jpg I'm also going to swap the drive ge...

The old engine is out! The hardest part was really just getting the input shaft detached from the engine. I can imagine it being a pain getting lined up when it's time to put the new engine in. :lol: https://i.imgur.com/Xsr0XML.jpg https://i.imgur.com/IVe8Efp.jpg Now I have plenty of room in the eng...

Nice job with the rebuild! It cleaned up really well. When you reassembled cam gears and timing belt, did you just set the adjustable gears to 0 until you get the engine running to do a finer tune? I have some Toda cam gears, and I'm wondering how to set them for the initial start up... Also, what d...

At the beginning of this thread, the build sounded a lot like the one I'm currently doing. A mild performance build without going too crazy. I was originally going to just do a stock rebuild, but decided to add Tomei Poncams and high compression pistons from Traum. I'm still using a first generation...

It's been another long period of waiting, but I finally got my engine back. The bottom end is all assembled, machining and balancing is all done, and it's ready to put back together. I'm first going to paint it with some "black oxide" coating to make it look more OEM. https://i.imgur.com/3...

I have another quick update on the engine build. Basically I'm waiting on rods from Molnar rods before I can put everything back together, and I don't have an ETA for those parts yet... Over the summer I had the bigport head cleaned and ported by oldskewltoy! ( check out his thread here ): https://i...

Quick update on my engine rebuild. I finally received all the parts I needed! https://i.imgur.com/MplITuA.jpg?1 Some other gaskets and stuff aren't in the picture, but these are all the important parts. :) In other news I swapped my steering wheel for a JDM one. I've always thought they look way bet...

Keep it up with the posts. It is pretty quiet here these days. I recently pulled my AE86 out for an inspection after a decade of it sitting in the barn. I am unsure if I want to start the journey on the car or simply sell it as-is.. It sure is quiet, but I'll keep updating this thread even if I'm t...

Here's my "budget build" redtop bottom with bluetop rotating assembly, ported and polished big port head, ceramic coated the stock bluetop piston, gze cams and thats about it. Running t3/t4 turbo, boosted to 15 psi on E85. For fuel & ign, stock ecu, decapped scion tc injectors to 750c...

All depends on what you are looking to get out of this engine. The PonCams are good for sure, but I've kicked down on my cams for a more "friendly" in town drive-a-bility. Seems everybody wants to scream their engine everywhere they go. Haha, yea I'm definitely not planning on redlining i...

Thanks for all the guidance everyone. I am planning on having OST clean up the bigport head, so maybe I'll see if he can hook me up with any additional parts. :) If you already have the PonCams, go with those, if not look for a set of cams with 10* less duration and as much lift as possible to work ...