ajg193

Not sure, I haven't really paid any attention to the car. It is a 1600 High Compression one. I think my brother is wanting to sell the motor.

We have an English one and it has round mounts

That was the only time I have ever done that. Noone was willing to let me use their welder and I was 1000 km from home.

I had a rust hole in my AE92's floor, failed a WoF. Patched it up with aluminium drink cans and hot glue (no welder and no money at the time) and took it for a WoF at a chinese place in Christchurch. They didn't even look at the patch. Drove the car a few more months before selling it to someone that wanted the motor, got $1100.

So I was going over the bottom of the car with a brush and whatnot to clean off dust and dirt so I could apply new undercoat and water started leaking out from next to a bung in the spare wheel well. FUCK. So I pulled the spare wheel out and found a fairly decent quantity of water in there (I think I had some wet stuff in the boot once and failed to check if it had decided to get into the wheel well or something.... grr) So I cut up a piece of old welder that was laying around outside and welded it in... Came up pretty average, I haven't used that welder before and it seems that the gas must have been a bit low. But here is a picture I went on and undersealed bottom of the car and whatnot, bloody expensive thing to do. Went through about 3 L of the stuff. I was a bit too close to the tank while spraying it so it make some sections where it looked a bit rough. But other than that it came out not too bad. And on the bright side: The car has no rust now (as far as I am aware).

Checked that, no change with that CRC Engine Start stuff. Checked the spark plugs, they are clean.

Is the other guy paying for the damage?

Rebuilt the carburetor today, was a waste of money in my opinion. Made no difference to how the engine runs, the carburetor was basically in good condition already. Here are a couple of random pics from before the new parts. Didn't get any photos of the new stuff.

It's interesting how the perspective of the image makes the higher starlet look so much bigger

I put brand new spark plugs in about a month ago, old ones were still mint though. I converted it to an electronic distributor at the same time, timing was set to 8* when that was done. EDIT1: It had the same idle before I put the electronic distributor in. EDIT2: I also checked all of the high tension leads when I did the spark plugs, all were well within tolerance.

The engine doesn't sit perfectly still while idling like some of the other 4Ks I have seen. I was told this is caused by the idle mixture being off, I fiddled around with it and did that lean drop method where I wind it in until the RPM suddenly drops and then back about 1/4 of a turn or so, but it has made no difference to the slightly shaky idle. Does anyone know what could be causing it? It stayed the same after setting valve clearances a while back aswell so I'm fairly certain that isn't the issue. Could it possibly be caused by a bit of carbon build up in the intake manifold from when the ignition was way off and it backfired a bit? Thanks '>Discussion Thread

Could do. Not sure whether it would be safe though. The rolliness is a good indicator that I am going too fast around the corner already, if I stiffen it up I will probably just end up sliding all over the place.

I just don't see the point in lowering cars. It is great how it is, just as high as my dad's ute. A little rolly around corners though.

I wish I understood the meaning of that... I'm guessing you mean lower it?

Project: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/41910-ajg193s-1983-kp61-sprint/ If anyone has any suggestions or wants any information or anything, post away.

I've had this car since June 7th 2013, I haven't particularly done too much work on it in that time. I bought it with 54,700 original km on it, but there were a few things not too good on it. Things that needed attention when I got it: - Top strip of covering on doors was peeling back and shrinking Fixed - Gearbox was noisy and sometimes crunched into gear Fixed - Front left guard had been repaired pretty dodgily at some point Replaced with a guard which I took to bare metal and resprayed - Front bumper is cracked on one side and a bit bent Fixed - A couple of bumper mounts are a bit crap Fixed -Speedo/odometer is reading 8% off, ie I am driving 100 but it says 92 Fixed with LSD - Little dings in random places Some have been fixed - Small amount of surface rust All fixed, whoever came up with the idea of rustproofing when new is a genius Things that went wrong on it after some driving: - Points/condenser went bad, fixed that but they started to go bad again quickly, appeared to be that the bushings in the distributor were wearing out. Replaced the distributor with an electronic type. - That's about it Some quick stats from my maintenance log in the car: (OUT OF DATE) - Spark plugs changed on 6/12/13, NGK BP5ES - Distributor replaced with electronic version, 15/12/13 - Oil and filter changed, 28/11/13 (~3,000 km since last change), Castrol GTX 20W-50 This oil seems too thick for the car and it takes a few seconds to build pressure when starting cold - Gear oil changed, 10/10/13, Caltex 80W-90 Fuel (after correction for odometer) - Average fuel consumption (~ 2 people in car): 7.37 L/100 km - Fuel consumption on a long trip (with full load): 5.01 L/100 km Replacing the door trim strips: Completed: 28/09/13 First step was to find some materials: - Brown lino of that colour was impossible to find (or at least after a day of driving around asking) so I settled on something a little darker. - Contact adhesive, I bought 1 L from Mitre 10. Stupid idea buying so much. I left it in the back of my car and it spilled. Good thing I had it inside a cardboard box. - Paint brush for adhesive. - Craft knife for cutting the material. - Pen and straight edge to mark material. - Solid surface to work on. - Phillips and flat head screwdrivers. - Scraper. Before: The process involved removing the door hande, arm rest, black trim strip and mirror control. There were some clips holding the door card in place. I used the flat head screwdriver to unclip them carefully and then I pulled the strip off the door. The old adhesive and foam was an absolute bastard to remove. It took almost an hour. I then used some screw drivers as wedges about 10 cm down the side of the door card to hold it away at the top. This allowed me to apply the new strips. After (note the colour changing VW) : All in all it came out quite nicely and that new brown actually looks good. Replacing the front left guard: Completed: 12/1/14 The old guard was pretty crap. Someone hit something with the car at some point and must have completely munted that guard. The one that was on it was not even the original one, it was either off a red car or a blue car or both. The back bottom quarter was a replacement section welded in and the whole thing was covered in bog and was cracking like anything. The trim strip was also put on an angle. I ordered a guard off of Olds Cool and had it sent up. It had a few dents in it when I got it but it was solid on the whole. I got the hammer and brake pad out to remove the dents and set to work on it. It was covered in old cavity wax on the inside, which was an absolute bugger to get off. I used a flap disk on the grinder to get rid of the paint BAD IDEA it is almost impossible to get a flat surface with the grinder. I ended up spending hours upon hours priming and blocking the panel to get it decent. It has a few little pinholes from rust down at the bottom on the front, but I killed all of the rust and prepped it so they shouldn't cause any future issues. I would have welded the holes if my mig was working. Before: Working on the new panel: ( I don't have many pictures of this) Installed: It still needs a nice polish Some random pictures of the car: Future plans: - Continue to tidy it up - NO LOWERING - NO NEW WHEELS - Possibly some new nolathane bushes or something all around some day

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TOYOTA-COROLLA-KE70-TE71-TE72-4K-CARBURETOR-REPAIR-KIT-/310384291043 Do you reckon that would work?

4K Carburettor Kits Hello, Does anyone know where I can get a kit for rebuilding a 4K carburettor, and what sort of cost would it be? Thanks.