How close are you to Vallejo? I have my gts front seats but I'm in tucson until mid July then I will be back up in Vallejo for a little while if you haven't found any by then I can bring them up.

Chamber gnomes?

Always excited to see more of your work sir thank you for sharing!

And although I haven't recognized anybody from my other forums on here...the gold car is still relatively top secret. Suffice it to say it has eight more cylinders than the Corolla, and at least one turbo.

So i decided to get this over with instead of just updating my non build thread when i do stuff. So I bought my Corolla October 10, 2014 from a less than stellar human being. On paper it had two owners before me and a mere 77,000 original miles! Oddly the motor had been rebuilt 30,000 miles before.....

Elvin Wes wrote:Its not that clean in person.
But its my GTS AE86 Coupe.

Looks wayyyyyyy cleaner than my two owner, 77k original mile coupe....must have actually been in a garage at some point

Super jealous that color looks great

Yes I wil be doing this very thoroughly as its my first weird Frankenstein motor, for the sake of the OP's question I'm tempted to just toss it in in its current state to see what it puts down but as the bottom end has just under 200k miles I definitely want to rebuild it before it sees any serious ...

Thanks for posting MtLemmon86 and pulling the thread back on topic lol. If you start a build thread you should PM me a link. No problem! I was going to do a not so stock rebuild but for the sake of this argument I might just put the 7age together with the stock head I got with it to see how it comp...

I just bought one, getting it rebuilt this week when it's swapped in I'll post the before and after dyno. Hopefully it will simplify the decision for you, since this seems to have gotten a bit off topic. http://i59.tinypic.com/15d41go.jpg http://i60.tinypic.com/2vt9njo.jpg http://i57.tinypic.com/2ib...

Ya I was kinda hoping it would get moved to owners/builders when the classics topics got deleted so I wouldn't have to make a whole new thread, but I guess it would be better to do that before I get any more done to the car.

My amazing girlfriend was nice enough to paint my mirrors for me, since they were looking fairly Dalmatian.

Thanks guys! Here's a kinda crappy sunset pic by my house.

Excellent work! Definitely keep us updated!

Don't have the maps. He recommend that turbo so I was curious to see what everyone thinks. Really would like to run the garret GTX 2867r but the price is crazy high I ran that turbo on my MK V gti and loved it, peak torque came at 2800 rpm and it felt amazing, granted the GTI is 2.0l and 12:1 compr...

My latest mountain excursion

Peanut butter and jealous of your rolla...awesome build

Ya I got my rca's and a couple other things from them, not sure who I talked to but good people for sure. I had thought that was the last thing I needed and they happened to have one in stock at the dealer, so ya turned out i would be hunting for a good AFM anyway but what can I say I was just super...

Nothing too crazy lately just a small little project inspired by one of my favorite builds, I haven't gotten around to putting any sort of speakers back in the Corolla and honestly I might not as my Bose Bluetooth speaker is more than enough for me right now. So this is what I put together to fill t...

400 dollars for a stock crank pully? jesus. I would have given you one for free. Don't tell me that now haha that would have been awesome, to be honest I was kinda impatient and usually went for the quickest way to get what I needed this time around instead of really looking around for good deals. ...

I know! The only other eight six I've seen down here was one of the techs at desert toyota but I don't think he's on the forums. We should caravan to some of the SoCal events for sure.

I honestly can't tell if we are all just getting trolled at this point...

Would love to come up next time and track with you, I haven't been to wild horse since it became wild horse. Car looks great!

Jondee you hit the nail right on the head with your posts, the amount of information on here and the previous forum that's archived is substantial. It was an invaluable resource while I finished the restoration on my Corolla, literally every question I had during the process had been answered on her...

Snow in Arizona?!? I know there's snow in the other pictures but that's up the mountain so it doesn't count...

New steering wheel courtesy of forum member fiveten, thanks again!

Pictures from the maiden voyage up the Lemmon Mountain

Does anybody know where I can find an AE86 and also performance parts for AE82 five door liftback like the one in the picture :D No idea about ae82 parts but to there's a few very nice examples of the AE86 for sale on here in the classifieds, or scour craigslist every waking moment, as soon as one ...

Dug these up out of my spare parts bedroom today should compliment the interior nicely.

metal headgasket require 2 very good mating surfaces. The head is often times fresh, but frequently the block is still in the car, and the blocks surface isn't clean and true enough for a metal gasket... so they can leak. Metal headgaskets seal their best with 2 fresh surfaces to seal Stole the wor...

I go up to Vallejo where my first house is to visit friends around this time of year, sounds like there's more 86 action up there than in in tucson...if we're doing a meet is love to meet some f you guys in person I should be up there next week unfortunately my only Cali legal car is a Porsche....