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Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Thu, 14 October 2004 11:11
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It started off as a comic (Initial D) that I bought during my exchange program in Japan, and then I watched the anime series on TV, but while I was on holiday in sunny Gold Coast I just happened to see a local 1983 AE86 Sprinter for sale in Nerang.
So I sent the seller an SMS at about 9am and told him that I wanted it no matter what condition it was in, if all he wanted was $450 according to the ad. As I expected an oldish dude rang around 11ish and asked if I was keen. I said I could only come check it out later that arvo and if he could hold it for me. He said yes and was really confused why I wanted it so badly.
As the day progressed he rang back and kept bumping up the price as people were offering him more and more. In the end he said someone was coming down at 2:30 with cash to buy it, so I got off my arse n went and got the car before that.
So now I'm the proud owner of a sack of shit  It dosen't have a panel on it that dosen't have any rust on it. The guards are a bit more rolled on the inside than usual indicating it had bigger rims on it at one time. The dash is cracked due to heat really badly and it has 478,000 k's on the odo. The indicator stalk it broken off. It drives ok though considering its a carby engine, and its done sooo many k's. And the underbody is dead straight.
I'm organising transport for the car back to my hometown of Melbourne, where I'll start rebuilding the car gradually. I'll be changing it bit by bit to be a replica of Takumi's 86 Trueno in Initial D (something I've always wanted to do) and a bit extra (I'm thinking either 4A-GZE with an HKS 5A kit or a 3S-GTE with some sort of custom turbo setup). I'll be doing most of the work myself.
I might as well introduce myself since I'm new here... My name's Shan, I work for J-Spec Imports as the IT backend person, I speak basic japanese, so access to AE86 Trueno parts and manuals and mags shouldn't be a problem.
I'm also an Admin at Skylines Australia... which means I'm a Nissan person  I currently own an R32 GTS V Selection II which is being converted to an RB25DET with a TD06-25G and a BN Sports Widebody. While my car's off the road, the 86 will become my daily driver. Being a member of SAU, we organise a lot of track days (being CAMS affiliated n all) so the "Hachi Roku wannabe" will try to make an appearance
The 86 once done will also sport a Team Super Fun Happy Sliders banner, its basically a spoof of the Jap Drift team names that me and a few mates have made up. I'm in the process of getting our website up and running.
I used to (in 1999) own a toyota sera which I did an engine swap to, from a starlet turbo. So this won't be my first toy... but its sure to be the most fun one I'll have.
Pics soon when the car is back in melb.
I'd like to hear some ideas that you guys would have for the car. I know I'm not the first person to think of making a Initial D replica, but I've wanted to do it for the good part of 7 years since I picked up that comic in Osaka
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Toymods Social Secretary
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Sydney
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July 2002
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Thu, 14 October 2004 11:27
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GO the superfunhappysliders!
im sooo jealous 
Welcome aboard btw! There is heaps of info here on sprinters, crazy conversions, shit for sale.... and heaps of guys who are freindly and always willing to say HELLO!
Good to see you have finally found the "better" product
OK!
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Melbourne
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August 2004
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Thu, 14 October 2004 11:31
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Heya funkymonkey!
I'm pretty new here too, but i'd like to say welcome man! Congrats on the 86 purchase too.. i'm going to get my 86 in november - the red panda!!
I dont know if you've already read, but theres a huge 86 meeting on december 12th for the drift nationals .. heaps of Sydney/Adelaide dudes are coming and lots of 86 toymods people will be there too!
Sounds like you have a mad ass job! dayyym.
Dori dori supah fun happi slllliidaahs! 
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I supported Toymods
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sydney.au
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August 2002
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Thu, 14 October 2004 11:35
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funkay monkay!!
sup & welcome to toymods!
you might know me from sau and from jspec 
hehehe
tell gareth hes a jackass! hehe
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Location:
Melbourne, Australia
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October 2004
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Thu, 14 October 2004 11:50
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haha Garth... I had a feelin I run into you here...
I was tellin Gareth today that I should ring Garth n tell him the good news and have him teach me how to drift my Carby fed beast. I dunno if I'll specifically get mismatched rims like you tho dude, I seem to like age old classis... Tanabes...
As for the Dec 12th meet.... sweeeeet that's my birthday!! lol I dunno what to bring tho, my R32 or my 86... my R32 would be in better shape than the 86 come Dec. Or I might bring the soon to be J-Spec super secret project car.
Dmonk86... yeah job's pretty cool... I get to check out funky ass cars and not have to deal with any clients. But if I screw soemthing up then there'll be a lot of people not getting their daily auction lists n stuff Oh and I tend to get yelled at a bit and things thrown at me if the website goes down... lately I've become the coffee bitch too, but I'm trying to get a rotational coffee bitch system happening.
Oh and atm anyone can join the super fun happy sliders... check here for details.
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Melbourne, Australia
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October 2004
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Thu, 14 October 2004 11:54
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There's a lot of money to be made by offering old people with Toyota Sprinters bottom dollar for their car before they realise how much their car is worth to the potential Driftaholic. Its cruel but so much fun.
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I supported Toymods
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Thu, 14 October 2004 12:03
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ahh yeah
i have a full set of watanabes now, i rotate them as i feel but i like my purpose mismatch, its like haivng 2 sets of wheels
theres alredy a takumi replica, right down to the engine!
checkit : http://www.belperformance.com.au/project/ae86na
ps.bring your ae86, we ae86 nutters dont care if ts a boro rusted 86! BRING EM ALLLL!
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Location:
Melbourne, Australia
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I supported Toymods
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Thu, 14 October 2004 12:15
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lol
its your funeral! haha
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Location:
Melbourne, Australia
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October 2004
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Fri, 15 October 2004 00:26
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Gareth sends his warm gooey love
The car has an open diff... we tried to drift it before loading it on the truck... open diffs suck teh ass.
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Adelaide
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September 2003
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Fri, 15 October 2004 00:32
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Someone was selling a new unused 5A kit here in the last few weeks !!!!!
478,000k's is not bad for a little box !!!
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I supported Toymods
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Adelaide
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Fri, 15 October 2004 01:01
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welcome to t o y m o d s!
the december 12 raodtrip aint just for 86's tho, teh soars will be coming
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Baulko Hillo
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April 2004
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Fri, 15 October 2004 01:05
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Heya Funkymonkey! Always good to see another boro hachi hittin the streets.....
It would be funny to see Garth teaching you how to drift tho
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I supported Toymods
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Fri, 15 October 2004 07:55
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| AE86slut wrote on Fri, 15 October 2004 11:05 |
Heya Funkymonkey! Always good to see another boro hachi hittin the streets.....
It would be funny to see Garth teaching you how to drift tho
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hahaha yeah
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Melbourne, Australia
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October 2004
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Fri, 15 October 2004 08:32
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| bbaacchhyy wrote on Fri, 15 October 2004 10:32 |
Someone was selling a new unused 5A kit here in the last few weeks !!!!!
478,000k's is not bad for a little box !!!
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Lol I freaked at 400000+ coz my r32's done just under 90,000k's. But when I did the maths its about 23,000k's, so that's ok...
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Adelaide
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November 2002
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Sat, 16 October 2004 07:02
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Haha when I read 'Hello from the other side of the fence', my first guesses were you were either gay or a Nissan driver
Welcome aboard!
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Melbourne, Australia
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October 2004
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Sat, 16 October 2004 11:05
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lol... I'm on the phone to my jap agent to track down a 4A-GZE... currently listening to him suck air between his teeth as he writes stuff down and checks out a couple on Yahoo auctions.
Grr that noise is gettin annoying...
I'm thinking either a 4AGZE, or a 4AGE with a 7A conversion now. I contacted a dude in japan who's built a 7Age and he's gonna email me instructions... how excitement... Only problem is he says its not as responsive as the 4AGE, and also the max revs is lower than the 4AGE. Also he reccomends getting custom built internals from Toda... joy...
And yes... at the end of the day I'm still a Nissan driver
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I supported Toymods
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Sun, 17 October 2004 04:07
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1a is a stroker engine dude
naturally it revs lower and as such less responsive
and yes, stroker 7a's have a have a tendancy to flame on, so best starting with a strong engine
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South Australia
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Sun, 17 October 2004 08:46
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I don't get it - Initial D isn't even that good an anime anyway
Welcome aboard btw!
Look in the tech & conversions section and hunt down any post by Ed_MA61 and his 'ilk' if you are trying to build revable NA engines etc!
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Melbourne, Australia
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Fri, 22 October 2004 01:14
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while looking for trueno parts n 4agze engines in japan a couple of days ago, one of the car yards was selling this car...
http://www.j-spec.com.au/list/index.php?ID=1359
soo tempted to bring it down as parts but it'd be a shame to rip it apart. Ah well, added it to the mailing list, hopefully someone down under will bring it in.
What amuses me is that it says "SPRINTER" in the back... instead of the usual Trueno badging. A while back (1990's) it was all the rage to make the Trueno's look like their overseas counterparts, so apparently there's a fair few with Sprinter and Corolla GT-S written on it.
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I supported Toymods
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Adelaide
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July 2004
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Fri, 22 October 2004 01:19
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Yeah i saw that thing, bit expensive for a drift boonger, but is it a 4AGZE?
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Sutherland Shire!!
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July 2004
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Fri, 22 October 2004 01:33
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i saw that sprinter for sale last nite $450 for a 86 is a bargain good find mate. crazy how quick it got sold after just looking at it less than 12 hrs ago.
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I supported Toymods
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Fri, 22 October 2004 01:40
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the sprinter is on the lights right?
thats a stock taillight of all JDM truenos manufactured from 1983 to 1985.
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Melbourne, Australia
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October 2004
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Fri, 22 October 2004 01:41
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ended up buying it for $650 because people kept ringing in offering more for it, when it got bumped up to 600 i got the shits and paid cash ($650) n took the keys off em plus the rego papers
As for the trueno, the guy said something about the car having a full racing spec NA 16V engine, so I'm guessing the usual N2 spec internals.
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Melbourne, Australia
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October 2004
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Re: Hello from the "other side of the fence"
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Fri, 22 October 2004 01:44
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| ae86drift wrote on Fri, 22 October 2004 11:40 |
the sprinter is on the lights right?
thats a stock taillight of all JDM truenos manufactured from 1983 to 1985.
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Whoops, I meant GT-S... i found the "sprinter" wierd, since everyone calls em trueno's n levins (well rebin) up there, i don't see many ads for toyota sprinters in japan.
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