When in the market for a car, you can always buy the latest model of a Toyota Camry and just be the happiest person alive. You'd be dropped into the life of luxury and comfort. The ride would be smoother than silk. The car will have heated front seats to toast those buns, an acoustic noise-reducing front windshield for an even quieter ride to-and-from the grocery store and the office, and you'll have a futuristic voice activated touch-screen DVD navigation system with an integrated backup camera. If you really felt like treating yourself, you can get the option with the hybrid 4-cylinder so you burn off even less dead dinos! What more could you want in life, right?

Wrong.

Because at birth you were injected with 110 octane. So a mere Toyota Camry-of-very-easy-and-good-life will not do. What your petrol-head instincts tell you is that you need a mid 80s Toyota Corolla coupe that rattles, creaks, squeaks, pops, and makes your ears bleed. It wouldn't have any carpet, nor back seats. There wouldn't even be the slightest hint of an acoustic noise-reducing front wind screen! It would be a car with a ride quality would make even the most understanding of significant others run away and call you a loon. Because well, you are loon. But damn, the happiest and most content loon alive. 

This is an 
1986 Toyota Corolla coupe owned by an absolute nutter named Brad. He likes to build stupidly insane cars that make zero sense to the non-110 octane infused human. He took this Corolla coupe, threw on a T3 coilover front suspension kit with KYB AGX shocks…

…and TRD cut rear springs for the back.  

Brad employed a set of customized 15×8 -10 Boyd Coddington wheels with 195/45/15 Toyo Proxes T1r for the front and 15×10 +0 Diamond Racing steelies for the rear with 205/50/15 Federal 535s.

An EngineLogics custom non pop-up headlights replaced the traditional OEM pop up headlights. The complete exterior of the car was redone with an Origin aggressive body kit. Custom front fender flares were molded to fit the aggressive Boyd Coddington wheels.

The rear fenders were also completely custom to make room for those 10" wheels. The car whole car was finished off with a fresh coat of BMW Barique Red Metallic paint. The red metallic paint looks brilliant under the Texas sunlight. 

The interior of the Corolla is a far fetch from the luxurious, quiet, and comfort of a Camry. Brad stripped the interior completely. The two stock front seats were taken out to be replaced with a much lighter set of ChargeSpeed bucket seats. The interior carpeting as with the door panels were also completely removed for that hey-I'm-so-hardcore-I-dont-need-creature-comforts lifestyle and well… losing those few pounds of dead weight helps with performance on such a tiny car too. A Nardi 350mm Deep Corn, which replaced the stock wheel, was mounted with an NRG slim hub adapter and an NRG quick release hub. A C's short throw shifter and ChargeSpeed shift knob were the cherry on top to complete the interior.

The back seats were removed to make room for a six-point roll cage complete with door bars. The roll bar's harness bar is used to strap on the Crow Enterprise 5 point belt. So far everything with the car is of the usual looniness right? Pop the bonnet and you'll find an insane asylum that even the likes of Nurse Ratched would not be able to keep under control….

What you're looking at is no mere 16 valve 4AGE, or even a newer 20 valve, but a 1UZFE 4.0L V8 from a Lexus LS400.

And with that, I think I just heard Nurse Ratched put in her resignation papers….

With a car is the size of a ladybug, which also weighs in at a feather light 1900 pounds, and an engine that throws the car with 300 horses, you have a pretty deadly combination. That, by the way, was a massive and gross understatement –massive.

The 1UZFE mated to a W58 5 speed transmission out of a 1986 MKII Supra with an EngineLogics drive shaft leading to a Tomei 2-way LSD matched with a Weir Performance 4.77:1 ring and pinion, completes power to delivery journey. An Autronic SM4 ECU tuned by EngineLogics keeps said Lunatic in check. 

All the technical jargon that was mentioned above all comes down to this: a nutter taking out his loony bin out to a local track event to drift. 

You can't expect such a car to stay clean after so much abuse can you?

Brad and his Corolla coupe look like a match made in heaven when out on the track. The car accelerates at an unbelievable rate and the car just sounds like the most feral and rabid of beasts when Brad has the "go" button pinned down. 

Brad also keeps it real and does his best to Keep Drifting Fun with his looniest of loony bins. 

You've got to have some crack in your skull to be driving around this instead of something that is more of a complete car. But really, would you? If you were given the choice of a brand new Toyota Camry or this, would you take the Camry instead?

Nah. Of course you wouldn't. Neither would I.

So, welcome to the loony bin. 

-Linhbergh