gt4st205

#1

Hey guy's, figured I'd start a project thread. I just picked up this Levin after 7 months of searching for one. They are pretty hard to find with a quality chassis this far north in Japan. This is due to heavy snow, and they use salt here. It needs a lot of body work and could use some TLC on the engine bay and the interior. It only has 126,000 KM's on it, and already has some work (gauges, POS sparco seat, coilovers) As of right now, it will be getting stripped down, banged out and painted dark purple. This thread will be going for the next few years, but we all have to start somewhere!

block

#2

im looking forward to this project!

gt4st205

#3

The paint and bodywork will not be done until march, so there will not be many updates until then.

Soulend

#4

gotta love Japanese Tuners and their favorite mod tool... Zipties... haha

Good luck man I cant wait to see the finished product!

Kevin

gt4st205

#5

Thanks man! You're not a true tuner until you use zip-ties and/or Duct Tape! LOL

mak5603

#6

Awesome car! Can't wait for updates.

---

2006 BMW 330i - 6 Speed - Dinan Stage 12014 Toyota Rav4 XLE

Ted95

#7

nice find, cant wait to see more from this thread!

---

st205 powered ss3 coupe

pandakid

#8

Sweet i got a project ae86 their very fun and very easy to fix.its also my Daily driver heres me and my car in action at a SCCA drift event skit pad.just started learning drifting.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDaoGkBq36I...st=HL1313901989

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESh_z4nu7jc...989&index=2

gt4st205

#9

I can't wait to give updates! Come march this will be my dedicated money pit. We have to wait until winter here though, It's way to humid to paint. Then it's off to get a roadworthy test... then the "track only" stuff might fall into it somehow...

pandakid- Love your 86 man! I'm going to be completely new to RWD, but there are many tracks here that offer classes, so I will be hitting that up!

pandakid

#10

thanks a good site is club4ag.com

gt4st205

#11

Yeah, I checked the out, It's okay. I prefer aeu86.org

gt4st205

#12

Some update: Decided to go traditional "Panda" on the paint. I am having some trouble finding some headlights and a stock front bumper though. The us market has kicked up the price for the whole front end on this car (fixed headlights were mainly available on the JDM ones). Body work is mostly done though! After the bumper gets in the rest of the black paint will go on.

Box

#13

Aww, was looking forward to the dark purple. Looks good though!

---

2001 Miata LS 5-speed

Stambo

#14

Looks great, i'd love to own one but in the midwest it is impossible to find one without salt ever touching it

---

2nd Gen 3s-gte.... It lives!97celiman"92-gt-quit making up random acronyms that dont mean anything. the only real acronym is JDM"

gt4st205

#15

>

QUOTE (Stambo @ Apr 29, 2012 - 10:03 PM)

>Looks great, i'd love to own one but in the midwest it is impossible to find one without salt ever touching it

Well, this one will eventually be coming to the Midwest! Once I get it home you can expect to see me at damn near every meet!

Stambo

#16

can't wait to see it. Where abouts are you moving too?

---

2nd Gen 3s-gte.... It lives!97celiman"92-gt-quit making up random acronyms that dont mean anything. the only real acronym is JDM"

gt4st205

#17

Hopefully I will be stationed back to the Colorado Springs/Denver area In mid 2013.

RabidTRD

#18

You can import one of these?

---

1994 Toyota Celica GT-S 5S-FE 190k Miles. Project car1992 Toyota Celica GT 5S-FE 170k Miles. Daily driver/beater1999 Toyota Camry LE 5S-FE 216K Miles. RIP You will be missed.*ASECertifiedGeneralManager

gt4st205

#19

yes, as long as it's 25 years old.

gt4st205

#20

Update, black added.

S8S8

#21

Love the panda paint scheme.

I had a JDM Levin that I used to do a lot of track days with here in Aus. I miss it heaps!

---

3SGE Beams VVT-i powered Celica

RabidTRD

#22

Pulling the Initial D Trueno look huh? Going to swap the front end with Trueno or keep Levin?

---

1994 Toyota Celica GT-S 5S-FE 190k Miles. Project car1992 Toyota Celica GT 5S-FE 170k Miles. Daily driver/beater1999 Toyota Camry LE 5S-FE 216K Miles. RIP You will be missed.*ASECertifiedGeneralManager

mkernz22

#23

Ahhh, looks so gorgeous!

gt4st205

#24

>

QUOTE (RabidTRD @ May 13, 2012 - 8:24 PM)

>Pulling the Initial D Trueno look huh? Going to swap the front end with Trueno or keep Levin?

Not really going for the Initial D look. The Panda paint was a stock option from the factory. I prefer the Levin front end.

gt4st205

#25

>

QUOTE (S8S8 @ May 13, 2012 - 7:20 PM)

>Love the panda paint scheme.

I had a JDM Levin that I used to do a lot of track days with here in Aus. I miss it heaps!

>

QUOTE (mkernz22 @ May 13, 2012 - 8:47 PM)

>Ahhh, looks so gorgeous!

Thanks! Still waiting on my headlights to get in, any day now. After that it's just a matter of getting it all tuned up so it can pass the Japanese roadworthy test (JCI). Hopefully it's done by the end of this month, I've hit a few snags that has put it past my originally planned end date by march...

gt4st205

#26

Update: car is finally legal! 10 months and $$$$ later!
[/url]
My wife approves of this!

check out that mean mkIV in the background

johnyboy1976

#27

nice

---

Women are snakes with tits

cheela

#28

beautiful. any performance mods done?

---

*1997 Celica ST - 3SGE Greytop BEAMS*1977 Celica RA29 - Classic Cruiser*2005 Matrix AWD - dedded but still hanging around like a ghost2019 Rav4 XLE Premium - Sports mode is fun.

gt4st205

#29

>

QUOTE (cheela @ Jun 23, 2012 - 8:41 AM)

>beautiful. any performance mods done?

There is, but I have yet to start tearing not it. Unknown exhaust (cat back), Unknown coil overs, various gauges, CAI (HKS). Still working oon a full list, the Japanese guy I bought it from doesn't know english very well.