American AE86 specifications

North American AE86 specifications and year changes

There are three types of Corolla Sport RWD for the US market: DX, SR5, and GT-S, though it seems the DX was more of an internal Toyota designation, as brochures, and the like do not include the DX designation;^[1] it was more of an interior trim level, as most everything else is the same as the SR5. It is grouped in with the SR5 in this list, as that is the commonly used name for all North American Corolla Sport models that are not GT-S equipped.^[1]

• Model Years of production: 1984 to 1987
• Chassis Code: AE86
• Versions: SR5 and GT-S (85+ Only)
• Drag Coefficient: 0.39
• Odometer Calibration: 637 revs = 1 km (Canada Only) / 1026 revs = 1 mile (USA Only)

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SR5 specifications

• Horsepower: 74 hp (67 kW) @ 4800 rpm
• Torque: 85 ft·lbf (115 N·m) @ 2800 rpm
• Weight: approximately 2200 lb (998 kg) to 2400 lb (1089 kg)
• Engine: 4A-C, 1587 cc
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• Engine Type: SOHC 8-valve Inline-4 Carburated
• M/T Transmission: T50, 6-bolt flywheel
• A/T Transmission: A42DL, 4-speed overdrive w/lockup torque converter, mechanically controlled, with electronically engaged overdrive
• Compression: 9.0:1
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• Differential: 6.38" Open with 4.10:1 Ratio, 2-pinion (Automatic) (S292) or 3.91:1 Ratio, 4-pinion (5-speed) (S314)
• Wheels/Tires: 13x5" +33 mm Offset Rims with 185/70-13 Tires
• First 7 Digits of VIN: JT2AE86

GT-S specifications

• Horsepower: 112 hp (84 kW) @ 6600 rpm
• Torque: 97 ft·lbf (132 N·m) @ 4800 rpm
• Weight: approximately 2200 lb (998 kg) to 2400 lb (1089 kg)
• Engine: 4A-GEC, 1587 cc
• Engine Type: DOHC 16-valve Inline-4 AFM Multiport Fuel Injection w/T-VIS
• Transmission: T50, 8-bolt flywheel
• Injector Size: approx. 180 cc, low impedance
• Compression: 9.4:1
• Differential: 6.7" Open (T282) or optional LSD (USA Only) (T283) with 4.30:1 Ratio, 2-pinion
• Wheels/Tires: 14x5.5" +27 mm Offset Rims with 185/60-14 Tires (195/60-14 for 86+ models)
• First 7 Digits of VIN: JT2AE86

Models/specifications

In Japan, the DOHC 4A-GEU AE86 was offered in GT-APEX or GTV trims as the Corolla Levin or Sprinter Trueno, with SOHC 3A-U AE85 version sold in a variety of trims including SR, GT, et cetera. In America, the top-spec DOHC 4A-GEC AE86 was sold as the Corolla GT-S with the SOHC 4A-C AE86 bearing the Corolla SR5 tag, both versions sold with pop-up headlights only.^[1] Euro spec models were sold as the Corolla GT with DOHC engines and fixed Levin-style headlights. The Middle East received the same basic model as the North American market, with pop-up headlights and the regulated 5 mph (8 km/h) bumpers.

Due to a light weight of around 940 kg, and over 120 bhp (89 kW) power, the car could reach a top speed of 120 mph (193 km/h), and could accelerate from 0–60 mph in 8.5 seconds in standard specification.

Drift King

Mr.Tsuchiya Keiichi

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I don't know a lot about his racing career(too lazy to research) but i do know that he is very good at driving and has been involved in japanese motorsports for a long time(he's over 50). He was the driver for Team ARTA (JGTC) NSX race car and also participated in Le Mans. Just incase you don't know the JGTC or Japan Grand Touring Championship is the equivallent to NASCAR here in the USA. Tsuchiya has recently retired from professional racing but can be seen tearin up japan's local circuits on Best Motoring International videos.

Tsuchiya with his AE86 part 1 of AE86 Special. If anyone knows where I can get a copy lemme know!!

Keiichi Tsuchiya

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Keiichi Tsuchiya
Nationality	Japan
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	1994-2000
Teams	Team Kunimitsu Honda, Team Lark McLaren, Toyota Team Europe, TV Asahi Team Dragon
Best finish	2nd (1999)
Class wins	2 (1995, 1999)

Keiichi Tsuchiya (土屋 圭市, Tsuchiya Kei'ichi^?, born January

30, 1956, Nagano, Japan) is a professional racing driver. He is also known as the "Drift King" otherwise as Dorikin (ドリキン) for his nontraditional use of drifting in

non-drifting racing events, and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport. He is also known for touge (mountain pass) driving. The car that he uses to drive has become one of the most popular sports cars these days, Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno (a.k.a. the "Hachi-Roku" in Japan (hachi-roku meaning "eight six"))(His car is also called "The Little Hachi that could"). A video known as Pluspy documents Tsuchiya's touge driving with his AE86.

Biography

Tsuchiya started his racing career through amateur racing in the Fuji Freshman series, in 1977. Unlike many drivers who came a traditional route via wealthy families or previous motorsport background, he honed his skills from street racing becoming an underground legend. He would continue to take part in the Japanese Formula 3, Japanese Touring Car championship, the latter whilst driving a Nissan Skyline GT-R in the Group A championship and later a Honda Civic in the Supertouring car championship. He went on to score a class win and a top 10 place at the 1995 24 hours of Le Mans in a Honda NSX. In 1999 of the same race, this time in a Toyota GT-One, during the last hour while co-driver Ukyo Katayama was building up pace to the leading BMW V12 LMR he was forced into the grass by a backmarker privateer's BMW LMP, blowing the tire out. They survived the ordeal and went on to score the fastest lap but

were forced to settle for second. At 47 years of age, Tsuchiya announced his retirement from professional racing. His last race was round eight at Suzuka for the Japanese GT championship. After his retirement, he remained in racing and is now an Official D1 Grand Prix Judge and was Team Director for both GT500 (for one year) and GT300 Class of ARTA JGTC Team until the team disbanded their GT300 operation at the end of the 2005 season. He owned the aftermarket suspension company Kei Office until he sold the business to Ogura Racing Clutch in 2005. He also hosts the video magazine "Best Motoring", which features

road-tests of new Japanese cars, including a special section called "Hot Version", which focuses on performance modified cars. He is a guest presenter in Video Option, a monthly video magazine, similar to Hot Version, which also regularly covers the D1GP and sister video magazine Drift Tengoku which deals purely with drifting.

He has been an editorial supervisor on the televised anime Wangan Midnight and Initial D. He appeared in episode 23 of Initial D as a special guest. He also appeared in the semi biographical film Shuto Kousoku Trial 2,3,4 and Max and also presents in the Super GT magazine show in Japan.

[edit] Trivia

• Keiichi Tsuchiya's homecourse is the Usui touge
• Holds the Usui course record with his NSX-R
• When "Dori Dori" was a freshman in circuit racing, he got his race license suspended due to the illegal racing that he was still doing. In the movie, Shuto Kousoku Trial Max, he advises someone to leave the illegal racing scene behind if he is to become involved with professional racing. That is as if Keiichi as himself in the movie advises that to a fictional character using his real life experience.
• His life in driving has parallelism to the Initial D main character, Takumi, as both of them started out to explore their local Touge while doing regular deliveries for their family business.
• He has raced in NASCAR-sanctioned exhibition races at Suzuka Circuit (Suzuka Thunder 100) and at Twin Ring Motegi Superspeedway for the 1998 NASCAR-sanctioned exhibition and 1999 NASCAR Grand National Division, AutoZone West Series races at the circuit, both named the Coca-Cola 500k.
• Trademark color is Jade Green, which appears on his overall, helmet and is the adopted color of the company he used to own, Kei Office. Also was the color of the D1 Grand Prix Kei Office S15 Silvia of driver and employee Yasuyuki Kazama who also wears a suit similar in pattern. On Initial D 3rd Stage the color can also be seen on a sportsbike rider overall and helmet who overtook Takumi as he was en-route to an initiation battle with Ryosuke Takahashi. The color of Tomo's racing suit from Initial D 4th Stage is also jade green, and in similar pattern to his suit.
• In 2006 he made a cameo as a fisherman in the movie The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
• He owns a new suspension company, after Kei-Office had been bought by ORC, dubbed DG5.

[edit] Quotes

"I drift not because it is a quicker way around a corner, but the most exciting way."

"You brake and then turn the wheel, step on the clutch, and pull the e-brake. Release the e-brake, go into countersteer mode, then wait. Wait until you know the car is facing the corner exit direction. then you smile and slam on the gas as you exit the corner."

"This is fun! I wish that Toyota could make cars like this again!" (on the Toyota AE86)

"Countersteer ga usoi dayo na.. (Countersteer is late, huh?)" (from The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, subbed as "You call that drifting?")

"Men with guts attack those corners!"

"Sou yuu dake desu. (Just like that.)" (Tsuchiya as he demos a drift)

"The Most Important thing is Balance." (Tsuchiya says this word in every drift action)

"Dou da?" (Tsuchiya says "How's that?" sarcastically to Shikiba Tatsuya, in Shuto Kusokou Trials MAX)

"There's tension on the track, now you see how hard it is. You may be fastest on the street, but unless you know the track, you're not good enough to sit behind the wheel." (Tsuchiya speaking to Shikiba, subtitled portion, Shuto Kusokou Trials MAX)

"I'm afraid if I raced you on the street, I'd push you to your death." (Tsuchiya speaks to Takahiro Yamanaka, subtitled portion, Shuto Kusokou Trials 2)

"What is power without control?"

"Haita haita haita!" (Tsuchiya on D1GP event, commentate that the chasing drifter is closer to the leading drifter, in tsuiso battle)

[edit] Career results

• 1977 Debut in Fuji Freshman series.
• 1977-1984 Ran selected entries in All Japan Touring Car championship.
• 1984 Fuji Freshman series race (Toyota AE86)= 6 wins
• 1985 All Japan Touring Car championship (Toyota AE86) 1st in Class 3
• 1986 Corolla Sprinter Cup-2 podium places
• 1987 All Japan Touring Car championship (Honda Civic)-1 win
• 1988 Toyota Cup-1st overall
  • All Japan Touring Car championship (BMW M30)-3rd in Class 2
• Macau Guia race (BMW M3)-4th overall
• 1989 All Japan F3 championship
  • All Japan Touring Car championship (Ford Sierra Cosworth)-1 win
• 1990 All Japan Touring Car championship (Ford Sierra Cosworth)
  • Macau Guia race (Ford Sierra Cosworth)
  • New Zealand Touring Car series (Toyota)
• 1991 All Japan F3 championship (Ralt-Mugen)-10th overall
  • All Japan Touring Car championship (Nissan Skyline GT-R)-5th overall
• 1992 All Japan Touring Car championship (Nissan Skyline GT-R)
• 1993 All Japan Touring Car championship (Taisan Nissan Skyline GT-R)-1 win
  • Japan Endurance series (Honda Prelude)-2nd Tsukuba 12 Hours
• 1994 All Japan GT championship (Porsche 911T)-1 win
  • All Japan Touring Car championship (Honda Civic)
  • Suzuka 1000kms (Porsche 911T)-1st in class, 2nd overall
  • Le Mans 24 Hours (Honda NSX)-18th overall
• 1995 All Japan GT championship (Porsche911TRSR)
  • All Japan Touring Car championship (Honda Civic)
  • Suzuka 1000kms (Honda NSX)-5th overall
  • Tokachi 12 Hours (Honda NSX)-1st overall
  • Le Mans 24 Hours (Honda NSX)-1st in class
• 1996 All Japan GT championship (Honda NSX)-13th overall
  • Entered NASCAR Thunder Special race at Suzuka
  • Le mans 24 Hours (Honda NSX)-3rd in class
• 1997 All Japan GT championship (Porsche 911/Dodge Viper)
  • Fuji InterTec race (Toyota Chaser)
  • Suzuka 1000kms (Lark McLaren F1 GTR)-9th overall
  • Entered NASCAR Thunder Special race at Suzuka
  • Le Mans 24 Hours (Lark McLaren F1 GTR)-qualified 10th, retired from race
• 1998 All Japan Touring Car championship (Toyota Chaser)-7th overall
  • All Japan GT championship (Toyota Supra)-8th overall
  • Le Mans 24 Hours (Toyota GT-One)-9th overall
  • NASCAR at the California Speedway.
• 1999 Japan Touring Car Championship(Advan Altezza Touring car).
• 2000-2003 he joined team ARTA racing a NSX once again in the All Japan GT championship.

Body AE86 styles(3)

Heaven's Gate - Toyota Corolla AE86

Meanwhile, while the engine build was underway, Asprer turned his attention back to the exterior. With the body mods taken care of, all that was left was the paint. Additional mods to the body include a deleted rear hatch, moldings, and a shaved antenna. Finally, the car was sprayed with a silver/black two-tone paint scheme. Again, to placate his obsession with cleanliness, he had a custom "clear bra" put over the entire front bumper, sideskirts and fender flares to prevent damage from road debris, like the rocks that fall off the semi-trucks that always seem to be loosing their loads. All said, the body and paint took a total of 4 weeks.

With the exterior taken care of, Asprer started on the interior, keeping it simple and clean. After replacing all the grey factory interior molding with black pieces, he bolted in a set of Bride seats reupholstered using Bride Ergo Gradation fabric, using the Bride fabric on the door panels too. The musical entertainment is handled with a simple Kenwood CD player. Hey, that would have been UBER high-tech in the 80's, right? Other miscellaneous interior mods include a Nardi Classic steering wheel, TRD shift knob, Bride rails and an alarm.

With the interior and exterior in order, it was time to drop the freshly rebuilt engine into the hachi. But before he could do that, Asprer made sure he had the engine management sorted out. To help get the most out of the 1.6-liter terror, Asprer turned to the venerable Haltech ECU. Using the stock injectors, AE111 20V ITBs, and a T3 intake manifold, he's got the intake side covered with style. The exhaust side of the engine also got dressed up for the party too, and sports a stainless-steel Silk Road header, which feeds into a HKS Hi-Power 60mm exhaust with a 96mm tip. The ignition is stock except for a 7MGTE igniter and coil, which help it jive with the Haltech ECU.

While the Hachi has yet to hit the rollers, we doubt that it will generate any earth-shattering numbers. Not that that's a bad thing. The good thing about low-powered cars is that they don't need a big, beefy drivetrain to reliably get their power to the wheels. In fact, other than a TRD short-shift kit, Asprer made no changes to the stock transmission, clutch and viscous-type LSD. The braking system remains 100-percent stock, utilizing new OEM parts.

While it may not blow your doors off in a drag race, the Hachi more than makes up for it with its well-balanced, rear-wheel-drive platform. So, it's no surprise that Asprer put lots of time and effort into the suspension. Rocking TEIN HA coilovers and Cusco anti-roll bars front and back, complimented with Shakitto strut plates and Cusco front roll adjusters, the car is set to carve up the stateside touge.

Helping the suspension keep the hachi planted to the roadway is a set of Panasport Racing 3-piece wheels. Measuring 16x9 and 16x10 front and rear, respectively. The old-school wheels are wrapped in Yokohama AVS ES100 rubber, measuring 205/45/16 and 225/45/16.

Asprer set out on a mission to recapture his youth by buying and modifying one like he would have back in the day. While we're not sure if he feels any younger for his troubles, we are sure that he built himself a ride that will knock the socks off any old-school JDM fan. Hell, even Takumi Fujiwara would be proud to drive this car.

credit : http://www.importtuner.com

Body AE86 styles(2)

Heaven's Gate - Toyota Corolla AE86

With his mind set, he went out in search of a candidate for his supreme buildup, and anyone who's ever gone fishing for a decent 25-plus-year-old car knows what it can entail. If rust or simple neglect hasn't already destroyed it, two decades of abuse and fender benders have often rendered them worthless piles of crap that are hardly worth the rusted steel they are made of. Asprer, apparently, got lucky and found himself a perfect platform. The car was basically stock, with the only aftermarket mods consisting of JDM bumpers, a rear wing, a carbon-fi

ber hood, TRD dampers and a fresh coat of paint. But things wouldn't stay that way for long.

"Being out of the scene for over eight years and being very meticulous, I knew it would be a challenge to build the car to my liking," he says, "my goal was simple-K.I.S.S (keep it simple, stupid)... I told myself to 'build a car for tomorrow, not today.' I wanted a streetcar-no more, no less."

With a vision, he went to work. The first thing to receive attention was the exterior. The proud owner of a 993S, he says he finds the Porsche's OEM widebody irresistible, and set out to get that same mean look with his Hachiroku. To that end, he slapped on a set of Crystal Body Yokohama fender flares. The flares in themselves weren't nearly enough to get he car to where he want

ed it aesthetically, and so the beautification continued.

Off came the JDM bumpers that came with the car and on went a Run-Free front, sides and back. In homage to his anal obsession with perfection, he even replaced every single piece of molding in the car, including all the rubber and weather stripping. With the bodywork done and the Hachi prepped for paint, he moved onto the engine ba

y. Again, his goal was to keep things clean and simple.

The KISS plan applied to the engine build as well. Asprer says although he could have easily gone with an engine swap or some sort of forced-induction, he chose not to, instead sticking with the stock 4AGE mill. We're glad he did, because that engine and individual throttle bodies are nothing short of breathtaking. That's not to say the engine didn't receive any love, though.

While the car was waiting for paint, the engine was yanked from its home between the car's fenders and was carted off to Mike Lizardi/Competition in Eagle Rock, Calif., for a refresh and a bump in horsepower. Upon it's arrival at the engine shop, the mill was torn down and built back up, with style. The stock inline-4 now sports the stock bore and stroke o

f 81mm and 77mm, respectively, and features shot-peened rods and chamfered crank journals. Other mods include tighter-than-stock bearing clearances for better high RPM reliability, and forged 11:1 Arias pistons and rings. The whole assembly is held together thanks, in part, to ARP rod bolts and the oiling system retrofitted from an OEM 4AGZE engine.

With the engine apart, Asprer had a chance to massage the Hachi's cylinder head, and that's just what he did, again turning to Mike Lizardi/Competition for a port/polish and a 3-angle valve job. The top-end mods continued with the installation of a set of HKS intake and exhaust cams, with 8mm of lift and 264 duration and 9mm of lift and 256 duration, respectively. Keeping the valves pressed firmly against the camshafts is a set of TODA single valvesprings.

Body AE86 styles

"Sprinter Trueno" badged AE86 Corolla

Both the Levin and Trueno variants were offered with either a 2-door coupe or 3-door liftback (sometimes called hatchback or coupe) body style. Both the Levin and Trueno were generally identical, apart from fixed, rectangular headlights on the Levin and pop-up headlights on the Trueno. Minor bodywork changes were made in 1986 which resulted in different tail lights for both Levin and Trueno models, along with the coupe and hatchback styles. The models sold between 1983–1985 are commonly referred to as "Zenki" and the models sold from 1986–1987 are referred to as "Kouki". The liftback version is considered to be more rigid and lighter version of the two.^[1]

Heaven's Gate - Toyota Corolla AE86

ult Car Comeback

When it comes to the AE86, there's really no denying the cult-like following the little Toyota commuter enjoys. And no, we're not talking about some crazy Hale-Bop shit where all the Hachi owners get together, don black Nike's, drink some poison and wait to be taken to another world...

While an obsession with old and underpowered commuter cars may be a bit odd to some of us, it's a lot healthier than jumping on board with the likes of Tom Cruise or Luis Farrakhan and joining a UFO worshiping cult.

It's still kind of ironic that the little econo-box from the Star Wars era enjoys such huge popularity today though; when back in the day, they'd hardly get a second look. The recent surge in the Hachiroku's popularity might be attributed any number of factors, but we have a sneaking suspicion there has been one major influence: drifting. And If we didn't know any better, we might be tempted to think that Junior Asprer is just another "Johnny-come-lately" to the old-school import scene who's played too much Initial D. But we DO know better.

While there may be some validity to the claim that the Hachi's popularity is linked directly to the fact that Takumi Fujiwara, Initial D's protagonist, drove an AE86, Asprer's ventures into the import world predate the drifting explosion by years. In fact, he's not even a drifter. Part of the import drag racing scene since it's infancy, Asprer was the first person to break the 12-second barrier with a FWD turbocharged Civic-way back when a 14-second Honda was still hot shit.

A quick look at some of his previous cars, like a 1981 Celica and a 1980 Celica, gives us some perspective as to what makes the Hachi so appealing to him-basically, it lets him relive his youth. Unlike some AE86 owners, who first learned of the once inexpensive RWD Toyota though films, games and magazines, he actually lived through the "old-school" era. Interestingly enough though, his decision to buy a Hachi sprung from his love of his old Civic drag car.

The car that he broke records and made a name for himself with in the import drag racing world was one that he says he'll never forget. The car was the first rear-wheel-drive converted import drag car, but regrettably, he sold it before he even made a single pass down the 1/4-mile with the RWD configuration. After selling the Civic, Asprer tried to grow up, and pursued a career outside of drag racing. Working for NASA/JPL as a systems analyst, he missed his racing days of yore-wishing he had held onto not only the Civic, but also his other old-school cars too.

"About four years ago, the 'old-school' fad was the hottest thing around and continues to be," Asprer says, adding, "If you were fortunate enough to have kept the car you built 12+ years ago, you were set. Me, well, I didn't."

Regretting his decision to part with the Civic, he quickly got the itch to build another ride. He says he chose the AE86 because he always admired it back in the day, plus the fact that JDM aftermarket parts are still being manufactured for the car played a big part in that decision.