Seedy Al's Corona Track Rapest

[Seedy Al]

So, Some of you may or may not know that I have owned this car for about 3 years, Bought it as a rolling shell, everything there but motor and box.

SO this Specs

Toyota Corona AT-141

Factory 4age model

Now Running 7age and link ECU

Has locked diff (these are IRS)

And cressida brakes all round (factory!)

Anyway. I mounted the 7age and link over two years ago, and tried to get a wof, it failed on some rust and needing a cert.... I then drove it to a curb, I fixed it dodge as and it has sat in my drive way ever since..

So I decided track day was the day to get this thing back to its Glory days.

So first was towing back to wortk, was epic, late at nite with no battery.

Next day, drained oils and checked Gear box,

I also pulled apart the diff head and fitted a locked center I got for 2 dozen Beer (Thanks import Enhancments)

Then was the suspention,

ages ago I Had fitted oil shocks out of a celica, these were shit and are part of the reason I claimed a curb,

So I bought some Gas shocks , which are about 120mm shorter than factory corona ones, and I in tern built some coil overs.

In the back I ended up usiing sone shocks i had left over from my RX-30 build, and moddified some commodor sedan springs to suit it.

Next was getting it running and getting All the guages working. Involved a fair bit of wires tracing and pulling apart the dash, as all this ran off the old ECU

And while i was busy doing that, pies was a fucken good cunt and made up my bucket seat mounts for me, so thats done too.

Alos mounted in mean thermo fan, that make sthe car die when it comes on if thehead lights are on, so mean.

And now its running on some random 15's that came on my datto 1200, and look fucken mint on it (maybe need to be a bit wider at the back)

But yes, All that is left is the wheel alighnment (is so out right now it is so scary to drive).

Cant wait to drive it properly, I have spent a week and a helf soild on this thing,

So pics (sorry not very many, have been to flat out to stop to take pics)

Firstyly

The way it looked (mostly) for the last year or so (not how lo the rear wheels hang)

the diff Head, not very exciting, but cool that I can take it out of the car I love IRS!

And the locked center

Diff head with no center

The difference in front shock lengths

Idea of the rear camber now its lowered in the rear

And where the fins sat in thre guards on the hoist

The motor (not much to look at)

Adn how it looks now

I think front still maybe sits to high, may recitfy this.

Anyway, so Happy, cant wait for track day, which is like, 4 days away. raaar

Allan

discusson

http://www.oldschool.co.nz/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=13862

[Seedy Al]

raar was pretty happy with how it went on the track at track day Number Three

few things to fix

Main ones being,

1: Re mounting the coil paks on the motor

2: Fixing leaking diff

3: Replacing cnter Hangr bearing for drive shaft

And I thkn the vehicle would benerfit from a few more mods for sure

need a bigger better radaitor, as temp was creaping up in high revs.

And also, front camber is all up the shit, casuing epic understeer sometimes

So, I thnk some rose jointed Bottom arms will help dial in a few degrees to over come the over steer a little

Still, drfted well

raaaaaaaaar

Allan

[Seedy Al]

So given that the next track day is coming up i figured its time to sort out all the shit that isnt right on the old girl

So I dragged it back to work after filling the tires with Air,

tow started it (starter is all up the shit)

And yeah, checked over it as usual.

So my list of things to sort out

Well, Firstly is the front suspention, when it was hacking the track it tended to under steer, so Im going to rose joint the bottom arms

Next would be remount the coil pack as the braket i made broke.

After that maybe redo the exhaust as the current one hits the ground sometimes

And also, fit a full alloy r32 radaitor as the temp was getting up high last time.

So yeah, Seeing as I got it all running, it became time to celebrate (closed roads and shit)

As it came out from under my trees at home

and some stuff

Allan

[Seedy Al]

ok some up dates

have been doing a few things on the cunt, did how ever get destroyed with a cold but

heres some shit

Finished making the spacer for the starter motor, magaged to take a pic of the template, but failed to take a pic of the accual thing

boo hoo and shit

Also have re mounted the coil packs as where they were were just getting way to much movement on top of the motor

And now im sort of split up on a few jobs

have pulled out my spare bottom arms for rose jointing, and had a look, seems i am going to have to mount the sway bar mounts off the strut as opposed to the bottom A arms

this shouldnt be to bad to do, just means i will need to dissassemble struts to weld, much sucks but oh well. Going to see my buddy that works at a bearing shop to see what he can do for price etc on the rose joints, want good qualtiy shit, and not sure what sort of quality the stuff i have is at the moment,

Also, as for the radatoir, had a measure up and looks like an r32 radatoir will be super sweet , so getting a price also for a full alloy one from red line, all i know is that it should be cheaper than $350 and will completely full my radator support. So no more over heating ever! even in burn outs

WIN WIN WIN!

and the other thing im looking at now is the exhuast. AS me being me, I need a fucken side pipe. BUT the issue her is my car is low, like low low really, low enough for the current exhuast to smash into the ground on some road bumps. So how to side pipe a low car????

Through the fucken Sill

So thats the plan, going to do a 3inch out the passenger side before the wheel. but will run most of the exhuast 2 1/4 for now as its only N/A at the moment but plan to turbo later

there is going to be a fair bit of work involved to do it propperly, as I do someday plan on getting it all certed

first step so far was making room to get the pipe out the side, which has included C notching the current chassis rail to tuck it up a bit.

thats as far as I am now, will buy a 3inch hole saw tomorrow to get the inner sill open

Win

Anyway pics

Template of spacer, now made out of 4mm alloy plate

Remounting of coil packs

Fisrtly where they were the first time

Making of bracket

Where bracket is now located

And coil packs mounted up and wired (missing leads ovcourse)

And the side pipe work

First cut out of chassis and 3mm plate welded in

Then plated sides with 1.5mm to give extra strength back to sill (will tidy up a little)

And where exhuast will be exiting in Sill

man, so much usless writing

Allan

[Seedy Al]

So yip,

have decided that i will infact be side piping

SO much so that I have cut a fucken big hole in my sill haha

So heres some sweet sweet pics

(read shit pics)

So, firstly, i cut a hole in the inner sill, to where i want it to enter. you can also see the sweet prevouisly cut chassis mod

Next was to remove the outer sill, and after having a good look reasling there is also a center member in there to, which i had to drill out the spot welds on the out side to realise.

Then deciding what how much of the sill to cut out and marking it up

then bam, a hole and what the center member looks like, So that gout cut out too for now

Then started mocking up the 3 inch as to where it needs to go. I have a lot of work a head of me and fuck all time.

Also have ordered my r32 radatior, which is going to be so fucekn good for cooling

Almost insanly good, So will pick that up on tuesday most likely

Takign pictures and holding stuff at the same time doesnt really give a good indication as to how it will look, but all in very short good time

CDL

[Seedy Al]

ok so took most of the day off to get this pretty much sorted besides a final weld around the pipe and sill and then deciding weather to flush mount or not

At the moment thi is how it is

Fistly a how much or the sill i had to move to get decent welds going on on inner sill

Then re welded on the back of the inner sill

And how far the exhuast is which cant be removed from vehicle

And the start or rewelding up the outer sill

And how it pretty much looks now, which is terrible with all the exposed welding haha

the bits used to coonect up to new section from old via a flange

And how it looks on the ground,

im kind of half half on which way to have it, flush mount would be so sweet, but i like this look too

Anyways

Love

Allan

[Seedy Al]

So small update.

Did the whole skid thing for gazs stag doom.

First time out, got some sweet over heating. Turns out my Fan wasnt operating.

Did some fun skids though,

then on next run out, eletric fan came loose, kinked on an angle and fully brake off three fins, into my radiator core.......

So now im not sure i will be able to fix it in time for track day

[Seedy Al]

Fuck i had to pull this build thread out of the depths thats for sure

So anyway, this has beeen sitting round to long, so hvae decided it really is time to sell

So first is the warrent\went to VTNZ the other day and asked about side pipe.\they said as long as it isnt functional and I cut it back to the sill then it should not be a problem

So sweet. cut it back today.

Something told me i wouldnt like the look so much, and i was right, but hey

A legal car is a legal car

So today went from this

To this

had a check over, all lights etc are working and everything looks pretty good, Factory seat is back in. So tomorrow, is the moment of truth.

Also here is a random pic

Fuck it better pass haha

Seedy Al

[Seedy Al]

Soooooo................

just took corona for a WOF at VTNZ

Failed on a tyre due to the mean rear camber it packs

i am pretty fucken happy

So will get some tyres and be away laughing!

then it will be up for sale

So get your wallets out.

[Seedy Al]

ooooooooooh

So now I'm going to fill this thread up with all ther random pics i have in my folder

Some pre. rebuild pics of the engine bay etc

one fucked rad

Engine bay mid paint

Bling bling

more radiator than you can shack a dick at

Rolling on 14's

And as it sits

PS: this is pretty much up for sale.

its a sad time, but it needs to make way for a less sedan type vehicle.

So many fond memories