Corona_man

Started stripping out the car today. Insides of the doors look good, no nasty rust hiding away in the bottoms as they usually do. Had to replace both bottoms of the gaurds , and the inside of the boot lid. And started doing panel work on the gaurds boot and Bonnet.  Also removed the bolt on flares , as they aren't my cup of tea.

Hey man , where Did you get your LC-1 wide and from?

Hey mate Iv got another whole spare car sitting , you still after some?

Ok cheers. I get a semi retired guy to make my driveshafts, he only chargers $70 but he doesn't balance them. Never had a problem with crest until I went to another certified. Il give Rowe's a ring

Yeh but they are way over priced

Hey guys, went for a cert this week and guy said I have to get driveshaft balanced. Where's the best/cheapest place to get it done around the tauranga/mount area? Cheers

Hi guys just wondering if anyone on here has dealt with Mike Reid in papamoa for a cert. I'm from tauranga and usually go to Paul Satler, but he's leaving the country and won't be back til November. He told me to contact Mike Reid. I'm getting a ke70 with sr20de certed. Anyone had any problems ?

And FINALLY! I got it running. It's not running right, it won't hold it's idle. It starts to die so I have to stab the gas to keep it from stalling. The carb is probly full of shit. I might throw a rebuild kit at it. I also have to get a different fuel regulator. I must have a high low pressure one. I can't get the fuel pressure below 6.5psi, it should be no higher then 4psi for a bridgeport.

Here's a link of the first start up

Sorry about the shit quality

I also fitted some gauges to my original dash. The 3 main ones for a rotor, oil pressure, water temp, and oil temp. I cut out the old heater controls and out in my new gauges. It doesn't look original, but then non of the car does so it doesn't matter

I have to fit these in here

So first things first, remove all the brackets and crap behind it

All removed

I cut out the dash to fit in my new panel

Measured up where to cut the holes

Trial fitted them. They fit well

I needed to make up another bracket to hold the gauges in. They have little 3mm nuts on the back, so used these to hold them in

I also need a switch for my radiator fan. I decided to put it where the old heater fan switch was

Cut it out and glued in new switch

The dash is a textured look. I didn't want to just paint the new panel black as it would look out of place, so I decided to use that wrinkle paint. It came out the same texture as the original day. Quite happy how it turned out

And the finished product

Got all my wiring done. Everything works which is good. I tidied up all the original wiring as well .

Just a picture of the wiring for the alarm

I used a lot of these plugs as well. They are great and make things really tidy, and are easy to disconnect if need be in the future

My alarm turned up as well. I am up to wiring up the inside. I'm going to install the alarm myself. I will take a few pictures but not to much. Wiring is boring and most of the people won't know what's going in anyway. A lot of people stay away from the wiring jobs on there car but I like to learn as much as possible and do everything myself. I used to be a house sparky so that taught me a lot and I can just use all I learnt when it comes to car wiring.

Next update will hopefully include a video of the first start up...if it's going to run that is.

Here's a picture of the engine bay all done. I have wired it all up and ran all the hoses. I didn't take pictures of wiring. I should of though, there was a lot of wires that needed running. I tidied them all up and put them in split case tubing. It looks clean and was what I was after

Installed radiator and got some hoses. The hoses in it now are just temperary, I will get some blue silicon hoses.

Also a picture of the front of the car with the oil cooler

Also got some window tints. And me being me, decided to save on money and do it myself. Didn't take much photos if the process, it's pretty straight forward. Just clean windows throughly, and out heaps of bubbles in it when u install tints, that way you can move it around when u apply it

Got all new window and door rubbers off ebay for the car. U pay half the price off ebay as you do from New Zealand.

Installed the front windscreen. If u haven't done one before, it can be quite a mission. U out a small rope in between the rubber then pull it out to install rubber. Way to hard to explain and couldn't be bothered taking pictures of it.

All glass installed

Got a new waterpump. Put the Gilmore pulley on it and it looks the part

Brand new ally radiator turned up. So did my radiator fan

I also polished up the radiator, it came in like a Matt silver finish. I like shiny so gave it a quick hit with some metal polish. Came up good

Mounted the fan onto the radiator. That's easy to do

Also the radiator I order is a RX2 radiator. Originally they have one of the heater hoses going to the bottom radiator outlet. I'm not using this so I had to weld it up

Oil cooler mounted. I also had to cut the support panel that runs down from the latch to the bottom of crossmember. I needed abit more room for oil cooler

Mounted in with oil lines hooked up

Oil fittings turned up. So got my oil cooler mounted up. Originally I had it mounted up behind the grill, but I decided to mount it just behind the front bumper.

Cut a hole for the lines to go through

Add up to brakets to weld to the car, so oil cooler can be removed if need be

Brackets welded to the car

Got my clutch lines made up. And brakes master and clutch master cylinders put in. I used a Mitsubishi sigma brake booster, it bolted up with hardly any modifications. And used a clutch master cylinder from a series1 RX7.

Got some pipe and flare nuts, and made up pipe and flares myself.

Next was the accerlerator cable. The one on the right is the corona one, and the one on the left, is out of a starlet, that's what I had to make it look like. I used a modified cable and it wasn't to hard to mount up. The accelerator pedal was easy as well. Just made up a piece to weld on the end. Drilled a hole in it for the cable to fit into.

Pedal modified

Cable installed in the car, works good

Also got a K&N filter. It didn't fit so I just modified the rubber bottom of it. Marked out the hole and cut it bigger. Drilled a hole in the centre for the bolt to come through, and put a nut on it , to hold it in place. Done

Got some new Bosch coils. And also made up a bracket to mount them

Bracket made up to hold coils, then il bolt it to the firewall

Coils mounted.engine bay is abit dusty

Out my new fuel line back in the car, and got all the fuel lines hooked up. Just mounted a inline fuel filter before the fuel pump.

I just put the fuel pressure gauge on the side of the fuel regulator. I had to cut and re-tap the fitting to make it fit, but it was no drama. Also used braided fuel line to make it look shiny

I decided to re carpet the boot, and make it look abit more better then factory. Usually the coronas just have a flat piece of foam in the boot floor. So I had to make up a whole new boot lining out of plywood and the carpet it. It wasn't to hard, just made templates out of cardboard .

Drew the template onto the wood then just cut it out, pretty straight forward

More cutting and making it fit

Doing the other side

Most done. Just going to mount battery box in the boot, and the fuel pump in the boot. Hopefully the fuel pump won't be to noisy

And the finished design

I might have to redo carpet. I left a battery sitting on it, and it's flattened out the carpet and it looks abit rough

Righteo, it's been over a month since I posted anything. I did say I was going to get this done before I do any other cars, but I can't help my self. I bought another ke70 and am putting a sr20de into it. I am going to make a small build thread for that shortly. But I do have a month of updates for the corona.

First off I got everything painted. Doors, and guards are all done, valance all done. Everything is put back on the car. Iv started getting lazy with the photos though, But will still try take them when I remember.

Doors in my make shift bake oven. I put the doors in my van for a couple of days, and this baked on the paint good