to AE? or not to AE*56k warning*, That is the question.. Options

[Valo666]

So my celi's head is about to blow on me amd ive been figureing how much it would cost to replace my head or get it fixed. So its gonna be up around $2000 for a new head, cleaning, rebuilding, gaskets and installation and then duin the timing. So i found out i can get the threads on the one spark plug that is messed up replaced/recut/coiled for around $300. But it would still leave my head a ticking time bomb. So i got an e-mail from my friend Renato who is living over in japan. He had his AE86 for sale a few months back. I was thinkin of buyin it but my dad refused. Any ways, i was thinkin of sellin the celi again and buyin his AE86 and throwin a silvertop in it. His AE is absolutely mint condition, comes with 2 sets of rims and 3 sets of tires. 1 for drift, 1 for street and 1 for winter. Any ways, heres the pics of the AE as is now.




he has the trunk plastics just not installed cuz they arent cut for the strut bars



Mods: Sprinter tails, JDM badges, KAAZ 1.5way LSD, KGMM springs, 45 way adjustable Tokiko shocks, TRD suspention bushings, bigger sway bars, stainless braided break lines, Sparco rally wheel, momo shift knob, 2inch stainless mandrel bent exhaust system, and he has the pieces to make a short ram or CIA for the 4age. Motors got 156xxxkm on it. Car is like a street legal go-kart. And im Sept, im goin back 2 school and im gonna be livin alone. IE im gonna b drivin to work and to go shopping only. SO im thinkin of gettin somethin a lil better on gas and somethin that would be fun to run around. Plus if he still is selling his car for as much as he was b4, i could buy the car, do a silvetop swap and buy new brackets for my other sparco.

What do you think??

This post has been edited by Valo666: Jan 9, 2006 - 7:29 PM

[Valo666]

All im relaying is my buddy told me hez gettin a 6speed trans from some JDM Toyota car to put into his AE86 when he swaps in his 20v black top. I have no idea of what trans it is. If you wanna ask him his nane is KnightX on TN. Feel free to ask him. And as for me needing 2 AE's if i wanna swap, i wont. My friend tore 4 of them apart while he was building his drift car and he has like 16 big rubber tubs full of parts in his garage. Plus im gonna be getting one of the guys on TN who does ST swaps all the time to do my swap. As for the 5S, I went onto Carparts.com and searched for a 5S with good KM on it, for a reasonable price, and relatively close. Cheapest one i could find was one out of a 93 Celica that was in Stoney Creek(approx 1.5H away, close to the closest race track), it had 168xxxKM on it, with no warrenty what so ever and they wanted $600. I found a few other places that were asking $800 with a 30 day startup warrenty on it but it would take a lil over a month to get it in and it has about 150xxxkm on it. Finding things for Celica's up here is rediculusly hard to do. I live in Toronto, Every thing for at least an hour n a half in every direction from the core of the city is developement, IE no scrap yards. Canada is very different than the States. Ive been to plenty of big US cities, Detriot, Atlanta, Tampa Bay, Clevland, Louisville, Chatanoga, etc. And every city that ive been to in the States has been nothing like Toronto. The area around us is called the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). At first Toronto was just Toronto, now Toronto includes Toronto, Etobicoke, York, Scarbrough, Missisuaga, Vaughn, Burlington, Oshawa, Woodbridge, Concord, and like 2 or 3 other towns. It may be easy for some people who live in smaller towns that are surrounded by rural area's. It may be easy for people in Cali to get stuff, but up here, good luck. I also researched and looked around at every Japaneese Engine place within an hour from where i live and no one had n e thin instock that was respectable.