rwd_mayhems 1980 Toyota Corolla

[rwd_mayhem]

I bought this car for $650 which i was pretty stoked about. standard AE70, 3AU and 4spd and straight away put sum cheap 14" mags on it.

I thought the gap between tyre and guard looked a bit rude so had to lower it, also replaced big plastic bumpers with nice chrome ones and got rid of the fender mirrors. I ruined the rear guards so i could get the mags to fit.

eventually decided the mags had to go, so got my standards white walled, then it looked awesome.

Then i went and lost my licence, and decided to 4age it, i couldnt find a motor/loom/ecu anywhere so ended up buying a fwd at160 celica which had a running 4age.

Took it out, sent the whole loom up to grotty to get cut down to something manageable.

while this is being done i let my sister borrow my car, and she ended up smashing in the door, so had to get a new door too!

ended up swapping the fwd 4age g/box for a whole donor KE73 wagon, which i stole the front doors off - they had mirrors which i was missing. and sold off the other parts.

also at the same time got a ST141 corona diff, it was an aussie assembled one so had a borg warner LSD, got the mounts etc welded on to it and put it in

also got hold of some 13x7 supalights cheap

got it going the night before i got my licence back, exhaust ended at the extractors so the neighbours wernt very happy.

so i drove it round for a month or two with half an exhaust, standards on the back and silver doors, eventually got green stickered for modification no certification - no big surprise. so became the big mission of getting it up to cert standard.

went halfs on a KE70 wagon that wasnt going, i took the front seats which i got told were from a integra but turns out they are actually s14 silvia seats, also got 4 215/50/13 toyos with good tread.

The rear was full of rust and the gaurds needed to be pumped out properly to get the supalights to fit. so got my mate to do it, did a very good job

so with the rust removed i went for cert, i failed first time and had to tighten up the play in the steering, and had to get higher springs to get the 25mm travel required. a few other small things i did too. got cert and wof/reg after about a year of being green stickered.

I drove it round for ages like that, happy with what i had done to it.

after getting sick of how rough it looked i decided to paint it, so got a mate of mine who knew what he was doing to help.

alot of sanding and straighting was involved

also found something interesting, the whole rear quarter had been replaced previously

also found some more cancer so replaced it with metal and boged over

also pumped out the front gaurds

so brush primed some bits and even more sanding

finally ready for primer

and finally primered, there wer still small dints so put this putty stuff over them

and all painted up, after the primer there is a coat of mettallic grey, then a maroon then the red and finally clear coat.

at the same time i put some rear levin bucket seats in it.

also put in a TE71 fuel tank

The motor was getting very tired so it needed to be replaced so i finally put together the two engines i had in the garage.

The head had mild cams, adjustable cam gears, port n polish, and a head plane which i put onto a standard block, taking the risk that it was all good.

as i had never done this before i was pretty organized doing it, reading the manual to the exact instruction

got the old engine out

cleaned up all the bits and pieces and replaced other things

decided to paint the engine bay too, chose gloss black because its simple and looks good

got the new engine all assembled and in, took a bit of fideling with the timing to get it running properly but is sweet now.

So that motor had fucked rings so i ended up replacing them, big end bearings and head bolts.

Currently green stickered and am half-way through getting it back legal - have been to vtnz and fixed everything it failed on, just to get a recheck sometime very soon hopefully.

[rwd_mayhem]

Got off greeny finally! ended up having to replace the whole rack, but im glad i did because the power steering works much better now.

also got myself some new wheels - 13x6.5 ssr starsharks, look alright but they dont fill my gaurds enough.

had to go for a cruise so took a few photos with my mates 1600

next thing to do is all to do with the wheels - get some wheel spacers or something to fill the gaurds, get some new bolts for the imitation 3-piece look and get some thinner tyres to be stretch-fitted on.