Legend of LongGrain. An AE86 success story. Part 1

You mean the x bars? Or the lateral bars that come down from the hoop to the floor?

Most cars have those going to the same point as the x brace, connecting to the rear shock towers, However corolla shock towers are not load bearing or structural, so we had the lateral bars go to the frame rails, and the x-brace tie to the shock tower bar.

Lateral bars. I'm more about aesthetics of the cage. But it's cool that it ties into the frame.

So am I. i think it looks rad having more than one plane of bars going across the quarter windows. I definitely dont think it would have looked cooler having those bars go to the shock towers like the rest of them.

got some more parts.





/gay race car parts.

Going down with satty this weekend to put in work. fuck waiting around.

Updates from this weekend.

Started off answering a desperate cry for help. My bro (satty) needed a stout towing vehicle to move some heavy crap.

Honda fit to the rescue, hauled this 600lb 2jz and a trans without even knowing it was there. This thing is awesome at hauling engines.



Got to DW and my engine was in the bay taking measurements and getting mocked up for mounts.



I dont know why everyone has such an issue fitting the motor and being able to close the hood. setting it on the subframe revealed that it should not take much work, but there was some oil pan clearancing that could be done to help out.

Upon taking the lower pan off, I was relieved to see that the engine looked brand new inside, not even oil stained.



Then off came the upper pan. An equally brand new looking rotating assembly.





I did not take a "before" picture of the oil pan, so here is one from google.



you can see on the bell housing side where it bubbles up to match the transmission. This serves no purpose really other than to probably add some bracing.

Somewhere in here satty's retarded cousin showed up to pay vinny to put aftermarket wheels on his car, and upon his first test drive, he made it about a block from the shop and tried to get his ken block on, it worked.



So that was a minor setback for the day, having only a honda fit (with a 2j in it) and a jetta to try to pull it out with. (succeeded though)

And here is a cool picture of another customer's supra at vinny's, thing is COOL.



my front suspension was back on after lowering it another inch so i set my fender on it and its pretty low (mind you, this is with no engine, or anything else in the bay.)



back to the oil pan. we chopped the rear part off, leaving the trans mating flange and welded in a plate (not really necessary, but it will stop dirt and grime from getting in the bell housing. Vinny did not want me to take a picture of this because it was not finished here, but I did anyway.





And then Ironically, I forgot to take a picture of when it was finished, so that's all you get.

Here is a cool picture of the top of the upper pan, its very race car like.

Meanwhile satty was plasma cutting and grinding on my subframe. and came up with this.



it looks very nice.

It will look like this when it is finished.



We made the parts for the mounts too, now its just a matter of assembling the engine, bolting on the trans and putting it back in the car to tack the mounts in place for final welding.

we also did some other things like cut out my shifter hole to (hopefully) accomodate the long ass 6sp trans, it might need to go even further than where we cut it, but we'll see.

Moral of the story is the beams 3s is built like a brick shit house (whatever that means). Thing has oil squirters even though it is not turbo, has huge oversized beefy rods, crank is machined and balanced, Oil pan is reminiscent of a dry sump configuration straight from the factory with tons of bracing, Not to mention the 11.5:1 compression, full titanium valvetrain, etc in the top end.

since no one cares.

This thing was scraped up, almost scraped through in one spot (i think it was just from being dragged on the foor at some point)



3/16" skid plate



and






shifter bracket is not bolted on properly in this photo, it will be about 2" further forward than this in real life, you can see the bolt holes where it should be bolted in the photo.

Man, this shit is going to look fucking crazy when it's done. I like that plate u welded on ur oil pan. Fuck pot holes.

I'd give up anything to be able to have a car like this. Being a Toyota-nerd, this is exactly how I want an 86 to be. OG street look on the outside, serious business on the inside. Two fucking thumbs up.

I cant wait to see this thing in action, awesome build man!

That weld on skid plate is bomb as fuck. This car is a spaceship.

thanks dudes.

as expected, not nearly as much got done today as we had hoped for.

hopefully the engine/trans will be mounted for good tomorrow, or a year from now, who knows.

Keep ya head up player rice! I know how it feels. I know it sucks not driving what you are building.

Shits definitely looking up though.

Got some more parts and did some more things.

kill switch


Lug nuts



battery hold down (not actually mounted to car yet)



helmet stuff and things


engine mounts

engine mounts are finished

Nice. Is BEAMS setup significantly taller than 4A? Those bad boys are low mount as fuck. Sweeet.

Yea, its way taller, by like 4 or 5 inches iirc (with the engine cover on). Creates huge hood clearance problems. Most people just space their subframe down like 2", but i'm not really a fan of that. nerd roll center shit aside, i'd rather have my subframe in as close to the stock location as possible.

With this setup i should be able to close the hood if we trim the hood skeleton.

in other news: mil spec chassis harness is just about finished. Mark just sent me these pics tonight.

I got ^^^ that stuff.



engine mounts are done



engine sits in there nicely



Trans mount is also done, had to do a full custom piece for this.





And mocking up radiator



radiator is custom as well, took a CX racing ae86 unit and shopped the inlet, outlet and mounting tabs off of it, welded the holes shut, flipped it around and welded them back on the other side, have to do some mounts and fab up an upper support.

Looks good. I'd remove that paint job on the radiator though. ETA?

clubfr jam or die trying.

in my head it is do-able, but who the fuck knows.

In my head no star bash LAST year was doable, and i was very wrong.

Nachtmensch wrote:

Looks good. I'd remove that paint job on the radiator though. ETA?

But really thats minimal, I know you've been dropping obscene loot on this in the past year or so, so really I'm just rooting for you to finish it so I can suck your dick about it.

thanks man.

the radiator was already like that. I had bought a koyo that I had planned on modifying, but vinny had this one already modified for his 20v car, all brand new otherwise, and the work was already done, he said I could have it, so i sold the koyo. I dont care about the logo really.

some updates from today. I finally got to go down and do some work on the car.

First we modified the thermostat housing so that the water outlet faces forward instead of sideways.







should make for easier radiator hoses.

The top one, well. I'd say it lines up pretty well...




It was refreshing somewhat to see the car with a fender on it, made it look less like a pile of shit.




welded in a "bomber" bar for no reason really other than we could.



My headlight backing plate things (whatever that part of the core support is called) were all mangled and rusted to shit so we decided to take them off, one of them was welded on so poorly we smacked it with a hammer like twice and it came off.



If any of you remember my S13 build, this part is called "not learning from my mistakes"

So we made a new upper tie bar for the core support.






This thing is actually a lot closer to running than it looks.

thats all for tonight. Thanks for reading.

Man, it looks like u still got a ton of shit to do to it. Shit looks good though. I need to come down there to check this crazy shit out in person, King cobras on me.

I love all the small detail's

It makes it even more awesome

thanks homies.