86 noob from Costa Rica
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:34 pm
What's up! I just picked up a Corolla 3 days ago and Mike (NST) referred this site to me. His exact words "Join 86garage is the best advise I can give you to start on your new project" So here I am.
My daily driver is a Yaris TS 1.8L dual vvt-i. Some things share in common the Yaris and the 86. Both are small, lightweight, good handling underpowered econoboxes...
I been wanting a 86 for long time and finally ran into a clean one!
About the car:
1986 US spec SR5 Coupe
Recently swapped (2 months ago) BlueTop and T-50 tranny
The Engine was opened, checked and refreshed before going in.
The car came with a few extra goodies: New Konig wheels, Bucket seats from an early gen Impreza GT and a Momo sterring wheel.
My plan is finish the GT-S conversion (LSD, rear brakes, and GT-S bumpers and side skirts) and then going the turbo route.
I'm Shooting for 200rwhp on a first stage and 250-300rwhp on a later stage.
As part of the deal I picked a rare Trust (Greddy) 4AGE Turbo Manifold.
I realize I have a lot to learn and the project course might change but in the mean time I will be looking around your forum..!
And finally the pics:
My daily driver is a Yaris TS 1.8L dual vvt-i. Some things share in common the Yaris and the 86. Both are small, lightweight, good handling underpowered econoboxes...
I been wanting a 86 for long time and finally ran into a clean one!
About the car:
1986 US spec SR5 Coupe
Recently swapped (2 months ago) BlueTop and T-50 tranny
The Engine was opened, checked and refreshed before going in.
The car came with a few extra goodies: New Konig wheels, Bucket seats from an early gen Impreza GT and a Momo sterring wheel.
My plan is finish the GT-S conversion (LSD, rear brakes, and GT-S bumpers and side skirts) and then going the turbo route.
I'm Shooting for 200rwhp on a first stage and 250-300rwhp on a later stage.
As part of the deal I picked a rare Trust (Greddy) 4AGE Turbo Manifold.
I realize I have a lot to learn and the project course might change but in the mean time I will be looking around your forum..!
And finally the pics: