My AE86 is dead. Bye bye, rest in piece. Where can I find an engine importer in Toronto? Is there a place in Toronto called Lucky Star Engine Importer, or something? I forgot. I need a new motor. I need money first. So my project AE86 is bye bye for now. And I only had my freakin' car for less than three months
Should have bought a S13 Silvia. I would have been more happy now with it..
SIGH, it was good while it lasted. I guess that's it for this year. Its time for me to go out and make money for a new motor. Bye bye, rest in piece 4A-GE! ARGH, it only had 220,000 kms!?! What gives??
my question is, did the head actually give out and crack? or was it something like the the head gasket? find out.. they are 2 very different things.
an s13 would have been nice also, but i am sure they have their own slew of problems to deal with also!!!
ry to find out what the problem is exactly.. try to see what the oil looks like, if there is coolant mixed with it.. i know crappy tire sells this crap you can dump into your rad to seal any kind of coolant leak.. this could be temp, but then try to sell the ae86.. i am sure you can make back what you lost, and then get a silvia!
I'll try to find out. The car is at Elite right now and they are trying to sort out my brake problem.. in addition to the crack. I'll let her rest for a while. I'm in no rush to spend another $1000 on the car - just to maintain the damn thing.
It's hard to sell the car. Bought for $2700 + $1500 (est. cost of parts replaced) = $4200. I don't think anyone will buy my GT-S for $4200.
Kenneth is offering his port and polished head for $300.. which is a little too much to ask for. Another guy I know bought a scrap AE86 and he is offering me his head for a fraction of that cost.
Maybe I will use the cylinders and all the other crap off that scrap AE86 and swapp it onto mine, to save some labour. But I assume that it will still be costly.
Sigh, with $1000 I can buy myself another GT-S. There was a mint AE86 being sold for $600. It was probably in better condition than mine. Well, at least I have the sedan to back me up or else I'm really screwed.
yeah 4200 on your car, and that is just in maintence..
how do you know of this 600$ ae86? coupe/hatch?
what may just end up being easier and not too expensive is just to do a complete engine swap with your friends bluetop... shouldn;t be too expensive at all.. and could solve your problems..
what exactly happened when the engine died tho?
i just want to know for my own references..
you can ask jan, jc@actechpc.com, as he had that swap, but with a red top block, in to his ae86, you can ask him where he got it done and for how much..
then again, just save the ae86 in your garage.. and aquire parts slowly.. and next summer you could have a really nice gze.. or even a really rumbling ge..
ken is nuts.. his prices are too high.. good thing he isn;t a sales man..
I think I know who sells that $600 AE86 cuz "3S-FE" gave me a call last night telling me about it. It's actually one of his friend that's selling it to him. It's modified but he couldn't tell what internal mods the guy has done. I saw that AE86 couple of months back and it doesn't look very good, ie. original red paint rusting, etc. It's got 300,000 km on it.
Andrew, thanks. I'm sending Jan an email asking him about the cost of a swap. Argh, this is frustrating. Bought the car to learn to drive.. but now I'm learning to waist money on crappy maintaince.
Kamuri, funning thing was the the AE86 Corolla GT-S that was being sold for $600 was sold in less than one hour.. after the ad was posted on Trader.ca. I guess somebody wanted the car really badly.
CamryRR, it is possible to swap the 3S-GTE motor but it's pretty much suicidal to put so much power into such a small car. I think somebody in UK has done the swap. Talk about power!@ Hehehe With a 3S-GTE the car will just fly!
The fenders look clean, but who knows what's under that paint - I bet'cha it's bondo! Argh, I wish I knew how to restore bodies. I wonder where I can get trained for doing classic restoration (for american muscles, and vintage automobiles.) That's something I'd like to learn for sure.
Andrew, what do you mean by $400 a pop? A swap? I hope a swap for a factory blue-hat is cheap.
kevin, buy the engine and i'll do the swap for you...it'll take me 5 hours tops. engines go for cheap. you'll spend more money replacing the head than if you just bought a new motor.
if you don't want, sell me your car!!! i need body parts.
maybe the 20v was more.. like 1400, but still it is still pretty cheap.. the 4age is hard to sell now.. not alot of people want them cuz the cars just rust away.. no point putting in a gem of an engine into a car that is old and crappy.. it is not a supra!
anyways, what i suggest is to get nick to do the transplant.. i can help
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