AE86. Finally, after lots of thinking – do I need it or not, trying to decide – will I have time to build it, where I’m going to use it - I bought it. While searching for the “right” car - I managed to bang on lots and lots of people, annoyed everyone – cuz I wanted it to be CHEAP, have a GOOD SOLID body, and to be a LEVIN…
When I saw THIS car – it was on Driftworks (www.driftworks.com) site, advertisment was placed by someone from Japan… Well -it was CHEAP, but at first glance – it was not in great shape at all (front damage) and it was Trueno Coupe (ahhh!!!)… Well – thought I will ask about it, got the price for it landed in Lithuania – and backed off… Cuz I was unsure if this was the Right car…
After months of searching – Andy from Powervehicles (www.powervehicles.com) offered it again to me… Got Email from him with pictures and little spec list – and started to think about it again… And as money was “burning my pocket” I thought – what the hell – went and bought it.
So here it was – my new toy to play with: 83′ AE86 GT-APEX Trueno with Ae92 Engine and LOTS of goddies to start with 
While it was in transit from Japan, I started planning, buy things for the project. The idea was to equip AE body with S13 chasis – and to drop a 4agte Engine in it to have anough power to play around with.
Bought some very first parts for the engine:
4AGZE Pistons / Rings
4AGZE Rods
ACL main / rod bearings
And some other stuff smal stuff…
Once the car arrived – after some quick inspection – found out it had NO RUST AT ALL! Anywhere! It was IN TOTALLY perfect condition, and I could not believe my eyes – how good as the Base it was!
So the first thing was to get the body straight again, and so it went to bodyshop of a friend of mine, who does all the metal works for more then 20 years now – and as I say – has a Golden hands 
We got it on the straightning stand – and works got started:
3 days later – finally some signs of Trueno face:
And another few days later – it was standing on its’ own:
After last picture – AE86 got her name – Pitbull! Cuz it was looking like one with different color “eye” and lots of battle scars! After I saw this look on it - I clearly new – Trueno face will stay on it!
That’s it for PART1 – there will be more on the progress of this car – cuz it’s been in the works for almost a year now – so a lot of stuff is done already. I will try to update as often as possible – so stay tuned!
