How willing are you to ressurect a dead AE86?

[Orion ZyGarian]

I just remembered at a local "junk"yard in Sarasota (Al's No Bull Pick n Pull) they have a SR5 or GTS Corolla there in the back...two actually, but only one is RWD (checked myself). It has a big smash in the front end, maybe a light pole or a tree, but else it looks okay. If you welded a front clip from Japan you could probably be just fine.

[JapDanny]

You can find SR5 Shells not wrecked for not that much and not have to go through with the body work .

Not worth it IMO

[fathead]

+1

[hachibill]

if its a strait body i'd say go for it.

[taka86fc]

I rarely see good SR5 these days. many of them are rusted bad. How many people think the original GTS worth mose than SR5-GTS?

[ae86driver]

i've done a sr5 to gts conversion for a buddy of mine.nowadays its real hard to find a good shape orginal gts.that conversion was alot of work,i rather find a not so bad gts than to do another gts clone from a sr5.

[æ86]

mine is a conversion

[Orion ZyGarian]

wow, I didnt think the conversion was THAT bad...I believe all SR5s were manual too...or maybe all GTS. I dont know, I'm not much into drifting really, rather a fan of light RWD cars though.

Also, thats not even a "junkyard". They have some good shit in that! An old 80's Bimmer, MkII Supra, 3 Mk3's (2 of them are 86.5-88s, one is an 89 and literally in pristine condition) an old Jaguar that was probably like $30k in its day, and I mean old one. had a nice DOHC I6 still in it. I believe there was also a rolls royce there. Plenty and plenty of Camaros, none of them but one still had the engine (V6, go figure). Plenty of 1G DSM 1.8s too.

[agentAndy]

mk2 huh.
celica supra or just celica, or celica gts?

[Orion ZyGarian]

Celica Supra. I knew right away when I saw it that it was. Celica and Celica GT-S' look very different from it. I never cared too much for Mk2s, despite their MUCH less weight and almost exact looks of Mk3, a truely beautiful car. Uh oh, are you getting 1JZ ideas? Bad Andy! :P

[REY]

my hachi is an O-RI-GI-NAL GTS.. HOA !!!!!

[Jap]

change the gas tank , rear end , motor andthe suspension bumpers and a SR5 is a GTS too ....

All America got was the AE86 chassis .

[Orion ZyGarian]

SR5s are AE85s

I'll look next time (in a year) whenever I can go back

[aphxero]

orion: no they arent. If you wanna know what an ae86 is its just the skeleton of the car. toyota didnt wanna spend all the $$$ to crash test the inferior chassis of the ae85. And it wouldn't pass anyway.

take away mechanicals and an sr5 or gts are the exact same thing.