My god im so tired.... we built this car over a ten day period. prob got 30hours sleep in total. but it was worth it im in love wit the car and think it look awesome. we recieved this car from japaneseusedcars.com about four weeks ago, i had to leave for formula d round 4 so when i returned we had 14days till prodrift rosegreen. these picture were taken on tueday july 17 we started off wit a ex N2 ae86 built by suzukijidosya in japan bhp: unknown weight: 885kg {} {} {} {} {} work began that evening and we tore the car apart and called it a nite at 5am. the car was quick but as wit all 4ages produced little torque so weight loss was top of our list and im proud to say we hav produced the lightet ae86 ever (until the next 1) {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} we welded in a new sheet of steel in the rear and modded the wheel arch where the fuel filler once was {} we removed the front panel for better air flow to the carbs {} {} {} we rewired all the dash and moved the gauges from the centre console to in front of the driver {} {} {} {}
heres the rear fibreglass hatch. we removed the inner skin to save weight, the doors also got this treatment. in fact all panels on the car are fibreglass, we even moulded panels that we didnt already hav, bonnet, headlight covers, doors and rear hatch all in a 10 day period. thanks to driftkits.eu for suppling the rear bumper and sideskirts.lexan was used to replace the rear glass and side windows {} {} first fit of our ae86 fibreglass rear quarters {} {} {} the fuel cell was moved to the middle of the car and battery relocated to the passenger floor {} {} {} {} {} we had to weld in a X bar on the drivers door as we were running fibreglass ones and the interior looked like this when finished {} this pic was taken at 9am thursday morn the 26th we rolled her out for her first test run after pulling an all niter cos of a late decision to build a new axle for the rear as we were unhappy with the initial of its own lsd. we then mocked up all the panels and she left for paint at 2pm {} we collected the car at 2pm friday. major thanks to mark sheehan at ms crash repair for having the car done so quickly. oh and the wheels arrived.......... big thank to work wheels for them {} it was final assembly time. all panels were fitted and suspension settings changed to my liking and all camber, castor and toe settings changed {} {} {} this was taken about 1am fri nite {} by 2am the car was completely finished, all that remained was to add the people who made it all possible {} {} {} {} we finished the vinyl at 6am and headed for rosegreen at 6.30am for sat eve practice. i was lookin forward to driving her so we set up pit and heres the first shot of her in action {} {} sunday was a little disappointing we qualified 17th and just missed out but all in all v happy wit her first day, rosegreen is such a horsepower track and everybody in prodrift has horepower but mondello is a different story....watch this space......... {} {} there u hav it, the new mcnport ae86 N2 we hav built europes most sucessful drift car (our sr86) using the ae86 platform. the sr86 has since moved on to prove its worth in america and now we plan to develope a na ae86 to take on prodrift again and cement our place a europes no. 1 drift tuner bhp: still unknown weight: 7**kg (lets say less than 750) official photoshoot to follow........ special thanks to my sponors japaneseusedcars.com Falken Tire work wheels window warehoue irl driftkits.eu ms crash repair also thanks to: Charlie Damo stephen Phelim spec: Engine: IN304 EX288 high lift camshafts / TRD valve springs / TRD head gasket & head 0.5mm shaved / ported & polished / Light weight AE92 pistons / Light weight gudgeon pins / TRD rod bearing / TRD Crank bearing / Lightened flywheel 3.7kgs / TRD engine mount / TRD transmission mount / OBR45mm carburetors / full transistor distributor Transmission: D-speed metal clutch / Cusco lsd suspension: TRD shock absorbers / mcnsport springs / cusco top mounts / mcnsport inner tie rods / ueo outer tie rods / cusco rca's / TRD and powerflex bushes body: mcnsport fibreglass trueno front fenders (alo available for levin) / mcnsport fibreglass trueno bonnet / mcnsport fibreglass trueno headlight covers / mcnsport fibreglass doors / mcnsport fibreglass rear hatch / mcnsport fibreglass rear quarter / Origin front bumper / vertex style rear bumper and sideskirts / TRD rear wing / lexan glass wheels: work meister s1
Lovely car, looked very nice in Rosegreen, fair play to you Darren for keeping the na 4ag competitive.
Haha, it's was Levin and turned out to be another Trueno Nice, very nice! Fingers crossed for the n/a tune of 4AGE, hope it would do some nice 3rd-2nd-braking-clutch-kick-and-slide-slide-slide drifts...
looks badass i cant imagaine how nimble it must feel with all that weight reduction. Also really surprised at how much metal had been taken out how is it structuarally? does the rollcage sort that issue out or were there additional amounts of bracing/reinforcement? screw rolling/flaring arched just replace the whole lot with wide wings
Well done on the fast build! I think I prefered the car with the Panasport C8's and wide arches though...
Great work, Darren! If things work out, hopefully I'll be able to watch this car compete next year Looks like Falken is taking care of you over there as well.
Fair play Darren she looked mad in the docks when I saw it 1st but WOW she loooked unreal in the paddock on Sunday.Best of luck with it!