I've also made up my mind that I'm going to stick with the carbed 4AC engine for the near future
Yeaaa....about that...
With help from Canuckrz, we went out on Saturday night to check out a 4AGE I found on Kijiji. The guy was selling an AW11 with a running 4AGE, but was missing ALL of it's suspension, but he also had a spare 4AGE listed for sale. I contacted him about the spare 4AGE and he said he'd could sell it to me for cheap, $250. For that price, I couldn't resist. It didn't look complete, didn't mention if he had the wiring harnesses or anything, but I mean for $250, why not? I could pick it up and do a bike carb conversion, no need for the main wiring harness.
Anyways, we get up to this guys place, and see the engine sitting on the floor of his poorly lit garage. Asked him if it's okay if we pull the plugs and see if the engine spins freely. He says sure. We pull the plugs and they are coated in copper anti-seize. Good sign. Take the flashlight, check out the piston tops, they look clean, no oil or visable damage. Went to go spin the crank, used a 3/8th drive ratchet, motor spins freely. very good signs. Took a quick look around to see what was missing on the engine, saw it's missing the alternator bracket, spark plug valley pan, waterpump pulley, and the passenger side motor mount. Chatted with the guy for a couple minutes and negotiated the price down to $170 for the engine. He agreed to the price, so I scored the motor.
BUT, this is where the story gets good. He mentions to me that there is a milk crate off to the side that has some parts in it. Pull the milk crate out, it has a MAF sensor with a K&N intake, motormount, alt bracket, 2 OEM Oilcoolers, 2 fans with the clutches attached and the water pump pulley. He says "yea, you can take that too". Score. We load the engine up on a dolly to get it out to the car and realize it won't fit through the door in his garage. He says we can go and move some stuff around to make some space. As we do, we find a couple more milk crates that have more autoparts in them. He mentions that they are AE86 parts from the car the motor came out of. We start looking through them and find there is some good stuff. Wiring harness, ecu, coils, some AE86 suspension parts, etc. He says "Oh yea! you want them? They are taking up space in the garage." I asked how much, he says "Take them, you're doing me a favour".
Canuckrz and I start loading the engine in the back of the toaster and he keeps bringing out more, and more and more and more.... This is what we ended up with...
Engine, 7 milk crates FULL of 4AGE and AE86 parts, new KYB strut inserts, AE86 Strut casings with the spindles, stock exhaust manifold, and not pictured oilcooler fan, AE86 coupe EFI fuel tank, spare clutch and flywheel assembly.
FULL AE86 engine and underdash wiring harness with ECU's
AE86 suspension bits
More suspension bits, pedal assembly, clutch fan
MAF sensor with K&N air intake on it, 2 OEM oil coolers
coils, igniters, resistors, shifter, 3rd brake light, spare distributor, misc other stuff,
AE86 GTS Coupe EFI fuel tank (the fuel filler neck is uckfayer, but I can either take the fuel pump assembly out of it and reuse it in my tank, or take my filler neck off and use it on this tank).
He also has AE86 front and rear calipers, AE86 coupe tail lights and a set of 14" Supra wheels he wanted to throw in, but we ran out of room in the Element. We literally had the entire back of the car packed to the roof.
Total price:
$190!!!!Canuckrz and I were literally in shock as we drove back to my place. I still need to go through everything to see what is going to be useful and what is going to be either scrapped or resold. But what a hell of a deal!
I'm probably going to hold off on swapping it into the car until late in the summer or the fall, but we'll see.
