Hi guys,

Thought I'd share a bit of my coupe with you.

Heres how it started about 2 years ago:







It had a pretty basic list of "mods":

Spooled diff, Buddy Club Spec 2, End links with Polyurathane bushings, stainless steel brake lines, T3 coils , Tein camber plates, Tanabe strut bar, Cross drilled and slotted rotors, Sparco Sprint 5 (Still FIA certified), Lightened flywheel, Sparco Sprint, NRG harness bar,NRG quick release. It was fun, but lacked that "wow" factor.

Fast forward 2 years and here we are:













Heres a run down of the new parts:


EXTERIOR:
Dura flex front bumper, fiberglass aero, origin rear widebody, cut and widened front fenders, made drop vent for hood and power by maxx hood spacers, neon green lexan rear windows, enkei mesh up front American racing mesh rears. Dunlop dz101 star spec fronts, dz101 rears all four 195/50-15.

INTERIOR:
FD Spec cage, sparco sprint drivers seat, buddy club passenger, corbeau purple sfi harnesses, aluminum dash and center display, apc gauges, factory fuel gauge, summitt stepper tach, nardi 370 wheel, used a Ron Francis bare bonez chassis harness and switch panel. The cell phone holder on dash is what I use for my speedometer.

ENGINE:
Silver top block, blue top head, bored to 83mm, custom head gasket, compression is around 11.5:1, je forged pistons, crank and rods where tempered, arp rod bolts, high volume oil pump, fully rotation assembly balanced, head was lightly ported, 3 angle valve job on supertech valves, toda valve springs, crower full race cams and hks cam gears, oil filter relocation and rx7 oil cooler, godspeed radiator with dual fans, custom overflow tank, mikuni phh 44mm race carbs, t3 pulley set and trigger wheel, Ford EDIS with autosport labs ignition controller, obx header, t3 test pipe to buddy club under axle with supertrapp tip, light weight flywheel and xtd stage 3 clutch.

SUSPENSION, DRIVETRAIN, BRAKES:
T3 tension arms, front suspension is custom 240sx DIY coils, 240 lca that are boxed, 240 crossdrilled rotors and calipers, I get 62 degrees of steering angle, one piece drive shaft, weir solid pinion spacer with 4.77 spooled rear end with oversized weir axels, rear trd adjustable greens, lowering 6k springs, crossdrilled rear rotors with potterfield r4s pads, steel braided lines on all four, booster delete with willwood master cylinder, cnc hydro hand brake with willwood dynalite rear braking system.

It is soooooo much fun now. Theres just a few issues I have to work out, like the EDIS system on the manifold, it likes to heat up and cut out at ~8,500 RPMS when it should go to ~9.5-10,000





Cliff notes:

This:

To this:



Then the head cracked. Swapped it out and got tired of the headaches with this motor.
I just picked up this from a buddy:



Full CA18DET swap for into an AE86. Has a lot of oil leaks and blown turbo, but the price was right. Ordered a complete gasket kit along with ARP head studs from the amazing Russell @ Nissanparts.cc today. Got half of it torn down today.

Anddddd test fitted the FMIC:




Last week I picked up a T28, Earls SS turbo lines, ACT 6 puck, DEI turbo blanket, GKTeck reclocking kit and a few other goodies. Stripped most of the CA down, getting ready to ship the head off to the machine shop.

Plans are to pretty much rebuild this motor, swap it in, and have fun next season with a reliable engine! Cant wait!

Tore it down to the block:



Then put it back together:





Right now Im finishing porting and polishing the manifolds, along with moving my rack forward to stop over centering

Man I'm so jealous of this

Thanks! If people are interested in this ill post a teaser pic of the new cosmetics!

I fawking love this build!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice job sticking with the car bro!! Soooo many would have passed on that car and let it get junked but you revived it, great job! Keep up the good work!

This is where Im sitting now:

Nice build. It's good to see another CA powered AE86 on the board. What ecu/wiring are you using?

Great build man! I always feel like the CA is the underdog

Thanks guys!! In regards to the harness and ecu, I'm using both stock for now, until I can afford nistune and bigger injectors lol. And yes, the CA is under appreciated! They stopped making them because they were too expensive to make.

Just a minor update, we were able to finish moving the rack forward so the car is now on the ground. I also dropped the flywheel off to get resurfaced.

Progress today!

Innercooler placement is just about there!





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nategreat923 wrote:Thanks guys!! In regards to the harness and ecu, I'm using both stock for now, until I can afford nistune and bigger injectors lol. And yes, the CA is under appreciated! They stopped making them because they were too expensive to make.

And at the time the (racing) market demanded a more modern 2liter engine after the FJ20 was gone.

We finished the wiring, got new driveline bolts, new output shaft seal, put the driveline in, added Redline MT90 to the transmission, and put Mobil1 synthetic into the engine.



We also found a turbo Volvo in Pick-N-Pull and yanked the innercooler piping, which ended up fitting nearly perfect.

Looking good! Getting close now

nategreat923 wrote:

That's a 2nd gen RX-7 oil cooler, right?

I have one myself; still need to get it mounted up though

What hose fittings do you have on the oil cooler end? I think the ports are M8 x 1.5, and I wasn't able to find any hose fittings like the ones in your picture.

Thanks!

Well, I picked up a S15 turbo, got 99% done, just need to finish the downpipe.

Also the body is a wee bit different

Nice!!

more more!

Thanks elvin!

It's running! 3" straight pipe sounds savage!

http://youtu.be/IWxhUT2xSts

Well got it running great yesterday, so we loaded it up for a 2 1/2 hour drive to go slide it and ended up having a coil pack go bad. Regardless, when it was running it was insane.











http://youtu.be/C2l1J_yR4Hw

Car looks awesome man dig the cream and black scheme! Sucks about the coil but I know it was a blast before

Thanks! The coil pack crapped on me right here on my first run:



Spent the next half hour and 3 runs trying to diagnose it.

Been a little while, but started working on it again.
As of right now I got my rear end taken out, and picked up a Celica-Supra unit to replace it with







Now I need to find some drilled and slotted rotors for it, and hook up the brake lines