Legend of LongGrain. An AE86 success story. Part 1

wow this build is great!

This is turning out so fucking awesome. Love the core support bar thing. Dimples.

got some pics from vinny today, almost got the headlights all lined up and finished up modding the tension rod brackets so that the oil filter and sway bar clear.

sorry but vinny sucks at taking good pics haha.

Went down and did some stuff yesterday

finished my gauge cluster panel and covered it in some black vinyl, also powered up the stack to make sure it works





Trimmed the dash to fit in with the cage, It kind of looks like dick, but whatever, dash was trash anyway. Ran the chassis harness through the car as well. Decided to mount the ECU to the dash bar, You can see it sits right below the bottom of the dash, perfect access for serial/usb ports. Its just zip tied there in the pics, were going to make something to hold it there. the fuse box is going to sit on the trans tunnel under the dash, making something to mount that to as well.




installed engine harness put the engine somewhat back together, mostly for pictures sake since it has to come back out anyway to install clutch/flywheel



Mounted the vacuum block (well, drilled holes for it anyway, didnt have any bolts the right size) and tomei FPR (used a factory bolt hole/bolt for this. and made the return line going from the rail to the FPR.






Also got this sweet thing from satty.



This thing is getting ridiculously close to starting, have to run power/ground from the battery to the starter/alt/relay board/kill switch, put gas tank in and run lines to the front, and install clutch, flywheel and starter and it SHOULD fire up.

Wat else do u need before paint? Can't wait for this thing to be ready.! Also was up u going to be at cfr jam this weekend coming up?

basically before paint I just have to finish mounting shit on the inside, like the hydro, etc. core support needs to be finished, and some random body work/rust removal.

Yes, I will be at jam next weekend, Simba asked me to help out staffing.

Dope! Koo then we shall see u there.

P.s don't forget it to put those gym socks back on the itb's. lol

oh yea

finna get weird. Who's all coming up?

Me, Trucky, Dave, Ed and homeboy.

alright these updates are so lame that I wasnt even going to post them, but this forum has been dead for days now and it makes me sad. So here is some really boring shit going on with my car.

headlights are mounted up to the new upper tie bar. they line up pretty good, much better than they did before.






Had to make some braces for the lower part of the headlight buckets to bolt to



And some rust repair.

There was a hole in the door jamb that was covered up by weatherstripping, rusted out pretty bad. all good now.



And here by the door hinge.



the core support is totally done, with radiator mounts and all that good stuff, I just dont have pictures of it.

Apparently it has a crash bar too. More pics to come.

Update without any photos.

Went down yesterday, pulled engine out, put clutch, flywheel, and starter in, put engine all back together, made a sweet silicone hose to loop the heater lines on the back of the engine.

Driveshaft is going to be here wednesday, I'm going to try to start this bitch next week.

D*S LongGrain wrote:

Update without any photos.

Went down yesterday, pulled engine out, put clutch, flywheel, and starter in, put engine all back together, made a sweet silicone hose to loop the heater lines on the back of the engine.

Driveshaft is going to be here wednesday, I'm going to try to start this bitch next week.

YESSSSSSS

this is gonna be one of the coolest cars the midwest will ever see once its done i think.

Unfortunately didn't get it running this weekend, but did make some good progress.

Made all the battery/power wires. Its so nice working with all new wiring stuff.




Mounted firewall bulkheads for the starter and alternator power wires.





routed the wires along the passengers side, and rerouted the chassis harness to follow the trans tunnel.





Then we hit the kill switch and luckily everything powered up.



We got to test the headlights and so far everything is working as it should.

We didn't have time to throw the motor back in and try cranking it because vinny was still doing some welding in the bay. Next weekend i'll be back at it.

Holler when you're down next weekend. There's a good ass drive through joint by Vinnys that I would like to eat at.

i will do that, what place you talmbout?

hey dudes. this car ran yesterday. And I didn't get a video, so fuck you.

i'll post some bullshit pics in a minute.

OK, all of these pics turned out REALLY shitty for some reason. Seems as though HDR was turned off on my phone. Whoops.

My friend and I went down to DW yesterday hell bent on getting that first startup. Left Green Bay at like 6 in the fucking morning even.

anyways. First thing on the agenda was to finish running all the power/ground cables. These pics are boring to you probably, but if you know me, I don't know shit about wiring, and I did all these cables myself from drawing the diagram on, so fuck you. I think they look nice.






Next I fucked around with my front wheel fitment a little and got it about where I want it. might lower the front more though.



then we put the gas tank in, I didnt take any pictures of that part, or the part where we put some gas in it, just imagine it in your head, except it was probably better than the in-your-head version.

Ran all fuel lines and hooked up the vacuum lines. Everything looks sloppy now, but once I decide where the vacuum block is going to sit I will make it look nicer. This was just a quick and dirty mockup. also the core support/rad/headlights obviously aren't on so I have nothing to do with the wiring for those.


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and well. After a few tries and working out some cobwebs, it started up a few times. I was an idiot and forgot to bring a laptop to talk to the AEM, which would have helped a shit load and saved us a bunch of time, but oh well, next time we will get it running all sweet.

Then I just fucked around with my interior a bit to see what it was going to look like. tossed the dash in, mounted switch panel, marked the spots where the hydro needs to go, and then found out the panel I made for the stack doesnt fit, the wiring harness on the back hits the dash bar for the cage. Fuck me, right? oh well.

Yes! Good shit brotha. Almost there!

Thanks fam.

Good news man. Lets see it finished and tearing it up again!

went and fucked around with this thing again today. Need to be able to put coolant in it if I want it to run properly (need to get it up to temp) so that meant finishing the core support/front end. Which also meant fitting the body panels.

Was amazed to find out that the hood actually fit without dropping the subframe. Take that, everyone else who's ever done this swap. Suck my dick because I'm better than you.




Good panel fitment. Like stock!

I did have to cut out the skeleton on the bottom of the hood, so its all floppy and shit now, which I think is pretty cool because thats how all the J dudes have been doing it forever.




also brought a laptop and plugged the ECU in and loaded a new tune on that bitch.




and check out this sweet shit right here.

Spoiler on top of a spoiler. WTAC!!

All the glue that kept the skeleton to my hood froze and broke off on the Carina once. Looked all sick while driving, haha.

Salty ass fit though, ugh.











Put this thing on the ground!
I should shut the fuck up.

fit is looking real gross, its been way too cold to wash it here. It was down to -5 last week.

Canada problems.