AE-86???

[jawnewbe2]

ok so i work with a girl that has no idea that she has an ae-86 iasked her if she would sell it to me and mind you the whole time i have been talking about her car she thinks i am kidding about buying her car cuz she wonders why i would want a 28 year old car she said offer me a price and we will see she said she just wants to be able to buy another car i said i promise she can buy one for what i would offer her for it there are only 98,000 miles on it and before her her grandpa bought it brand new . i dont know how much i should offer her any help would be awesome

[Pancho]

have you looked at it yet?
how do you know what to offer if you don't know what sort of condition it is in

[jawnewbe2]

i have seen it quite a few times and the interior is perfect everything works except for the tape player small rust spot on back drivers side maybe the size of a baseball if that motor sounds like it just rolled off the lot this car is almost perfect in my eyes

[KA7_Legend]

I would look on nada. They have a price for classic cars.

[Alavelle12]

is it a gts or sr5 model?

[jawnewbe2]

its the sr-5,
looked at nada but it only gives retail for them

[The Laser]

Originally Posted by jawnewbe2

its the sr-5,
looked at nada but it only gives retail for them

It's always a good place to start though

[Alavelle12]

Id say fair price around $2k maybe $1500. If you plan on building it though, be prepared to spend a lot.

[jawnewbe2]

i was thinking about throwing an 4ag-e in it and using it as a daily for about a year till i know its broken in a little bit then working on the suspension and then the internals cuz its a coupe with flip up headlights

[jawnewbe2]

i really wanted to find a hatchback but i cant ever find one that isnt molested to holy hell and under 3 grand

[Alavelle12]

the problem with the sr5 is that its a carbed motor. so If you want to swap in the 4age, you have to swap complete fuel systems, or design your own custom one like i did. then you have to swap all the wiring harnesses as well. there are a lot of good write ups on club4ag and other websites if you want to look into it

[jawnewbe2]

ok and is there anyone in iowa that i could pay to do that. or would it work if i just took a gt-s's fuel system and swapped it

[Alavelle12]

you can take a gts's fuel system and swap it. You'll want the tank and all the lines. As for a shop in iowa, I do not know of one specializing in them, but I can bet anyone like central imports or someone can do it pretty well. Personally, i'm doing it all myself, just as a project though.

[99eclipse]

to me sounds like your best off to wait out and find a gts's, and ive seen the white one in town it defintly looks clean,

[Alavelle12]

if you're talking about mine, then thank you sir

[jawnewbe2]

i think he is talking about the one here in centerville i was thinking about getting it since she said she would take 1800 for it and i think that i will get it and start doing the swap myself if i can afford it. but wondered if i bought a gts then are the mounts easier to swap in other motors or is it all pretty much the same

[jawnewbe2]

would a 2jz work and if so would it cost an arm and a leg to get it in
or maybe cuz one of my xbox live friends was talking about how he knows a guy with a rb25det in one that makes insane power. i dont know what to do now that i have heard so many storied things like toyota motors wont hold up that the only one that will work right is 2jz i just want someone in the area that knows there stuff not a guy from canada saying he knows this and that when he is prob full of crap thanks for the advise guys

[TheMaster]

Just get a fucking GTS don't waste your time messing with an SR5 unless it's clean as shit but this one you're talking about has a baseball sized rust spot. Not worth it.

[The Laser]

Originally Posted by jawnewbe2

would a 2jz work and if so would it cost an arm and a leg to get it in
or maybe cuz one of my xbox live friends was talking about how he knows a guy with a rb25det in one that makes insane power. i dont know what to do now that i have heard so many storied things like toyota motors wont hold up that the only one that will work right is 2jz i just want someone in the area that knows there stuff not a guy from canada saying he knows this and that when he is prob full of crap thanks for the advise guys

With enough money you could swap in the V12 from a TVR speed 12. If budget is a problem I wouldn't even worry about buying the car.

[TheMaster]

Originally Posted by jawnewbe2

would a 2jz work and if so would it cost an arm and a leg to get it in
or maybe cuz one of my xbox live friends was talking about how he knows a guy with a rb25det in one that makes insane power. i dont know what to do now that i have heard so many storied things like toyota motors wont hold up that the only one that will work right is 2jz i just want someone in the area that knows there stuff not a guy from canada saying he knows this and that when he is prob full of crap thanks for the advise guys

Are you kidding me? Any swap will work in any car, but throwing a fucking 4AGE costs a lot, I don't even wanna know how much a 2j would cost. Biggest part would come down to who is doing the fab work for you because it's not just gonna drop right in. If I were to guess (this is with someone doing fab work for cheap and you doing the work yourself) I would say expect to spend 8-9k if you did it right. Same thing with any other huge swap going in an SR5 you're gonna spend more money then you'll ever want to fork over. This is also just for putting the motor/trans in and having it run. You would still need to modify more if you plan on actually putting the pedal down.

[KA7_Legend]

Is it fwd or rwd?

[TheMaster]

Originally Posted by KA7_Legend

Is it fwd or rwd?

RWD

[Alavelle12]

yea you're looking at spending a couple grand to just do a gts swap. I completely agree with what themaster said about the 2j as well.

[mr.carr]

GET THIS ISSUE OF PROJECT CAR AND IT WILL WALK YOU THROUGH WHAT IT TAKES TO CONVERT AN AE85 TO AN AE86.

[TheMaster]

Originally Posted by mr.carr

GET THIS ISSUE OF PROJECT CAR AND IT WILL WALK YOU THROUGH WHAT IT TAKES TO CONVERT AN AE85 TO AN AE86.

Just a heads up. The AE85 was never sold in America so we don't have those. What we do have however, is the SR5 and GTS, which have their differences. Just don't want to see people mistakingly calling the SR5 an 85 because even though the SR5 is nothing compared to the GTS its a hell of a lot better then an 85.