ketodriftke70wagon

this is awesoommmmmmmme!! keep the good work coming!

so that's it pretty much, this is where i am at the moment just putting the exterior back together now then ready to get carpeted and wired up. will keep you guys updated Half painted one wheel will do them all this weekend.

Had to get some new disc rotors as it was cheaper just to get new ones rather than get them machined got a exhaust manifold gasket too

Let her dry for a couple days then started to put stuff on My lip turned out pretty good

So after about 3 months of pottering away at the body work i finally got it all done ready for paint bought some 2k paint. got a paint code of a mates ae85 and got the same factory red colour but in 2k. My old mans work mate use to be a qualified spray painter not long ago so i got him to paint her up for me cheap he did a great job! but as i did it in the garage i was always running the risk of a gust of wind putting crap into the paint and which it did in a few place's. Its not bad so we can buff it out thank god! And in the time i was putting doors etc back on for the exterior to get painted my ae86 brakes and power steering knuckles arrived then once i got doors on the exterior got all painted

Put my mates hayashi street fins on to see what they look like. they are only 14x6 +7 and the have more dish than my wats :/

Got some chrome stuff Got some supension goodies too

Put some more stuff in the engine bay And customized a ae101 strut brace to fit

so then after i sorted my twin head stuff and acquired some wheels i got stuck into the body work. Got rid of all the green primer as that was just to keep the bare metal from rusting and put some all purpose spray gun primer on.

Sneeky wee shot i took when i was bored one day

Also i came across rs watanabe's 14x6.5 for $350 on trademe, i couldnt stop myself and had to click buynow! Put the wats on my mate's rt114 corona coupe for a wee look before i brang them home. Want to paint them gold with polished lip. following picture to show

So then after i fitted the engine i started to do some panel work. the 70 came with a ugly as slant front so i wanted to get rid of that and put a twin headlight conversion in place. At first i was unaware as to how hard it is to find all the bits necessary front the OO=====OO, so i got rid of the slant (didnt bother selling it just chucked it out) and sourced some parts off trademe (i love trademe lol). after buying two bonnet's believing to be twin headlight i opted to buy a brand new repo one. It wasnt a bad fit but it could have been better. And couldnt find twin head valance so bought a repo one too. In total it took me a little over 2 years to find it all (yea i know what ya thinking "f#$k that") but once i had all the parts and put it all on the car it looked awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!. New bonnet New valance Second hand genuine recessed guards (had holes from bolt on flares, bloody bogans!) New bumper New guard indicators New bumper indicators New park lights (from Malaysia) Second hand genuine buckets New bezels and grill Second hand genuine corolla badge And i kept the 72 wiper tray panel as it had the little bump on it that follows the bonnet Heres a couple pics of test fitting In between finding the twin head parts i did some body work and made a front lip out of my 72 old valance.

Time came to freshen up the engine abit then put the 4age into the wagon for the first time

Right so next on the to do list was sourcing engine bits to make my 4age from fwd to rwd. Pretty much after a period of 6 months searching on trademe for all the bits, i found all that was needed including a t50 22 spline with a 1000km old 4 puk excedy clutch kit and front half of driveshaft for $750. . In that time i didnt do much as i was at school most of time other than buying kyb shock inserts and cobra superlows. Gave the struts a coat of black while they were out of the car. once all the front suspension was freshened up i bought some super pro bushes to stiffen her up a bit.

Then gave the swaybar a clean up