What It’s Like To SHRED A Simple AE86! Low Power Can Be MORE FUN! 

Yes!

Came to comment this 🤣

TRay mentioned Chelsea a few times in his recent AE86 videos, sounds like Chelsea found him the set of Webers iirc? I’m sure they’ll make a video

I was literally thinking the same thing when I saw this 😂

Yeah Adam can jump in there to since he got one and Jimmy O as well get em all together !

Couldn't agree more!

fellow Alexi fan :)

318is compact > 86s

They do the same with Miata’s that’s honestly why I’m starting in the miata lol it’s a turd I can send to the moon

Nothing like slow car fast…

Yeah I hate to say this, I truly do, but I have a few AE86's and they're hard to find cheap unless you wanna deal with rust. If you think "Rust is to a minimum" GT-R was a sad story/funny meme, wait till you see an AE86 with copious amounts of metal moth on it. It gets SO bad on them it's not even funny. You cut the rocker off and think that's all you have to do, easy enough repair with a metal break, anvil, hammer and welder. Then the inner sill is about halfway gone too, so you drill the spotwelds out and lightly touch the floorboard inside it with a wirebrush wheel and rusty pieces from where it tied in on floorboard is just spraying your face too. It gets so bad, to the point you need every metal working tool + repro panels to patch a rusty AE86 back together, we're talking 4-5k in tools alone, MiG welder (get a good one that runs 20 amps & 13 volts or less, Kemppi Minarcmig or Esab Caddy), metal break, hydraulic press (to recreate flanged gussets & inner sills), shrinker/stretcher machine (to recreate wheel arches etc) english wheel, planishing hammer, compressor, sandblaster, etc. You need a whole garage/workshop for it. Then there's the quarter panels and back panels, up to 800E a piece, and there's no floorpans, framerails, firewall, chassislegs etc available, all of it has to be done manually, has to be traced out and guesstimated as best as possible on cardboard and drawn on a piece of fresh steel (also expensive) and hand made on the tools you bought, fitted, drill out spotwelds etc, priming, sealing, underside products, if you get really *nal about it you can spend YEARS. And that's after you disassemble the car and crack the digital clock bezel which you can't get anymore, and getting the rear axle out when the 4-link bolts are rusted to the metal liners inside the bushings (another 300E for new 4-links), etc. I'm on all the forums, all the FB groups, and I've literally seen THOUSANDS give up before they even had the car disassembled/stripped down to a shell they could actually start repairs on. Then there's all the little things that break, I already mentioned the bezel, then there's the headlight switch, fuel sender, fuel lines, brake lines, wheel bearings, diff, transmission (which is weak and made for cars with only 50% the power of a stock AE86). The brake calipers, you can spend 1000E on all 4 corners and that's WHEN they pop up for sale at flos.ie, unless you blow 2k on stupid wilwoods that don't even let you put OEM wheels back on. If you want a rust free one then you have to pay 20-30k for just a base car that isn't set up for you, and spend another 5-10k on top of that to suit your needs and that's discounting power mods, so much frankenstein'ing on those Corolla's to even get them ballpark'ish. And did I mention all the ebay scalpers, swindlers and more than a few toxic people in the AE86 community? So then what do you have? A car that isn't even remotely consistently competitive even in grassroots events, a kid with one hand on the wheel in an E46 with a modern drift-style rear squat suspension is gonna pull away from you through every corner and transition. If you're a 18-25 year old and wanna have actual FUN, you can get a way better car for 20-30k, S13's are still relatively available, but a cheapo E46 Diesel (which I also own) is currently the best and cheapest base IMO because other than M3's they have the strongest rear axle (188k) and already has the strong diesel transmission. You can get all the parts from wreckers and typical online euro-parts sites. From there it's a tried and tested bolt-on recipe, you slap in some TA Technix coilovers for 250E, have a friend modify transmission to accept a 1JZGTE (2-3k), Links ECU (1k) tied into the OEM loom (1k dyno sesh), 316-328 instrument panel for higher rev counter, and RacingDiff's all-bolt-in solution Limited Slip Diff (2-3k) which allows you to keep the whole original drivetrain, most of the suspension, full interior and comfortable to drive, and with a minimum of fuzz. The BMW Ex6's are the Euro equivalent to the famous JZX's, to the point you can interchange hoods between JZX100 and E36, true cruisers and weekend warriors and they cope well with increase in family, you can still comfortably daily them if you don't go for 1200hp internet delete. The interior on them is nice and cozy, more than enough head-room, armrest for chill cruising, and you can get flatscreen entertainment on ebay for 80E, the list of mods is endless, accessible and affordable and actually make a difference unlike the AE86 that always seems to lack power no matter how much money you put into it. The Driftworks Nascar V8 powered AE86 and Dmac's Rotary 86 for a couple examples = relegated to dust collection, for good reason. With about 280-350hp in an E46 you're not having to forge the engine, you have an 86-like experience retaining enough traction due to not INSANE power, and they're so easy to drift you don't even need aftermarket knuckles because the factory steering lock on them is just STUPID good. And unlike the 86 which opens its own doors when drifting, minus wheel arches, boot floor & diff crossmember (all easy fixes if you catch it early) the E46 is built like a rust-defying Main Battle Tank, mine was already a beater when I bought it 4-5 years ago, utter abuse on salted roads and every time I put it on my lift to inspect it = Nada rust, zit, zero, none, minimum maintenance, and it just... keeps going. I welcome any and all new AE86 owner, but I hate saying it, the days of getting a cheap gokart you can just beat on and discard when done is loong gone. I wouldn't recommend doing it unless you're an experienced wrencher and bodypanel beater, and know exactly what you're getting into.

Great to hear the car's held up for you. Do you ever miss the RB?

@@RearWheelZeal I miss the sounds and revs, but the stock KA is still easy enough to slide around. I run 235 ironmans in the rear with 0 camber and 1/16 toe in which really makes it even more of a momentum car being as gripped us as the power allows but I keep up with 370's and g35's with HR's no issue. Just never left off the gas and only need 2 sets of tires for the rear for a day! lol

Hell yea

Low power cars take full commitment and that's what makes it fun 🤙🏼🤙🏼

I still like to check out FD for top-tier builds, but there's plenty of appeal to the grassroots cars not filling every camera shot with tire smoke. Don't sleep on that motion blur.

FYI Jimmy this is your old coupe!

@@richienolag woah! Really! Thats fucking cool!