EvoBilly Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 ok this is a project of mine ive had it for a while now so i'll start at the beginning and bring everyone up to date TALK HERE this is when i first picked up the car not going turned out the hose clamps on the fuel line was lose and wasn't getting any fuel pressure it already had a 4 age conversion done and certed but was very rough with the engine on a huge angle which made the drive shaft on a Z sort of shape made it vibrate real bad found that there was a heap of vacuum hoses that had been pulled out so the map senser wasn't hooked up and the tivis so first goal was to get it running better put new spark plugs leads dizzy cap etc hooked up vacuum hoses now it would idle and was driveable still needed more work checked timeing and it was way out and i couldn't get it to adjust in thought it was a tooth out so tryed moving that all it did was make it WAY advanced or WAY retarded went to a mates place he had a engine looked at his dizzy and noticed the cap clips were a fraction different so stole that and put it in and swaped all my bits on to it that brought the timing into were the marks were and made it run like a dream so ive since been told that there are 3 different dizzys for the 16 valve blue tops next was time for a wof and reg took it down for a check the guy didn't like the way it was lowered with cuz springs with only 2 coils in the front and reset springs with lowering block holding it hard on the bump stops in the back and according to the cert plat the ride height matched but he wouldn't give me a wof till i lifted it a bit so out came the lowering blocks in the back well i hunted for some new springs for the front i found some std ke30 front springs but for some reason there a different diameter and the top and bottom of the shocks plus the shocker have been shortened so went to a car wreckers with one of my struts he had a huge bin of springs from unknown cars found a pair of king springs that were bang on for size and put them in made the car way to high in the front so they came back out and with a little cut cut shhhhhh lol they were brought back down to a suitable hight and were well and truly captive as the shocks were short as back for the recheck he was real happy with it so it was all legal YAY next i found that the engine was on cortina engine mounts that was holding the engine real high had a mate that had a S1 12a mount in his shed that was the right thinkness so used that and made a dummy one out of a bolt and wood for the other side to see if it would fix my engine hight and angle issue and what do ya know it did the car is starting to get real good but every time i fix somthing it seems somthing else goes wrong the exhaust had been made for the engine on the angle now that it was down the exhaust bent up and went "rattle rattle rattle" on the floor with a quick chop and weld that was solved and a trip to repco turned out that S1 Rx7 mounts don't exsist anymorre if anyone can help me with a idea to fix this PM me next on the shopping list was a set of mags found these through a mate 13x7 superlites they look mint as you can see the height the wof guy made me put it at is bout 50mm higher then cert plate says so im looking at changeing this soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvoBilly Posted May 12, 2010 Author Share Posted May 12, 2010 car specs: 1979 ke30 toyota corolla engine 4age 16 valve blue top gearbox T50 diff std (soon to change) lowered (but not enough anymore) 13x7 superlites bucket seat plans for the car: lower it again pull engine and box out and repaint engine bay and engine and box tidy the inside of the car paint the outside a new color Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvoBilly Posted October 19, 2010 Author Share Posted October 19, 2010 got board and have no money to spend on my car at this point had my mates 18x9s volk rays in my shed there 4x114.3 and 5x114.3 so thought i would give them a try on the dirty 30 they bolted on and spun fine looked all good to drive on till i droped it to the ground and found the gards sit on the wheels lol took a couple pics plan is to paint the car one day but need color ideas want something good thats not the same as everyone else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvoBilly Posted April 21, 2011 Author Share Posted April 21, 2011 update time been a while so i took the car for a wof and was looking all good till the wof man opened the bonnet he was just but to shut it then he lifted it up and says "is that rust" gets his pen out and stabs it through the firewall how would you like it if i went to your car and stabed my pen through it well i guess if it wasn't rusty it wouldn't get through so that was a FAIL took it home and un bolted things of the firwall to sand and work out what is needed to fix turns out theres a bit more rust there then first thought that some nice person has covered with BOG. so at this point done some grinding and cut some bits gotta find someone to weld so the car has been left for now hopfully have some pics next update in 6-9months time dosn't help that i have 13 other cars on the go at the same time little money making ideas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvoBilly Posted January 29, 2013 Author Share Posted January 29, 2013 right plan is to take this to nats in the photos above it looks way better then what its like today lol plan * fix rust - semi done * find wheels - did this but don't think they gonna work now * find seat rails - DONE * find all missing bits that were stolen off car for other car - MOSTLY DONE * paint - FAIL DIDN'T HAVE TIME * wof reg - DONE * lower to a more ground hugging level - DONE EPIC GROUND HUGGING * take to nats - GOING TO BE DONE all this before nats should i fail i have a back up or 2 in form of a mk2 escort or 55 ranch wagon which both need a few jobs doing next post i will make more intresting with some pics TALK HERE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EvoBilly Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Well alot has been going on but nothing has really been finished i borrowed some 15x9 steel rims was planing on running to nats on these but front wheel studs to short and lack of time and money to fix this also tyres need to be a lil smaller they catch on the body make stearing bit clonky so 13x7 it is spent last night lowering this to the max well lowering i found that one of the rear brake cylanders had poped so going to replace that tonite i hope found a couple water leaks hopfully all fixed now also found a couple vacume leaks fixed them now my tune is bit out of wack put the timing light on set it to were it should be and it drove like shit so i adjusted it to were it sounded best seems to run good had planed on having it all painted and done to a theme but bad weather and getting sick slowed progress and im stll doing body work so its gonna look rough for nats but should run good and make it there was lucky and passed a wof with clean sheet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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