Corona_man Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 Also got my gearbox tunnel sorted out. Wasn't to much of a major, just had to cut some new bits and weld them in. Iv also started doing the panel work now, I'm bare metalling the whole car 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 Took all the guards off and lucky me, both guards and sills are rotten as. Previous owner had a poor poor job of trying to patch it up with body filler haha. I'll be doing it the right way, with new steel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 The front of the sills under the guards, is the worst bit of rust in the car, they were both completely rusted out. It was abit of a mission trying to shape the round into the new patch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 Got the new patches welded in, come out alright Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 I also pulled the engine out, it's all fitted in now, time to start cleaning up the engine bay, getting rid of all the clips, and all the holes everywhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Started tidying up the engine bay. Decided I'm going to put the battery in the boot, so will remove old battery brackets. There's heaps of holes everywhere, looks abit of a mess at the moment but will get there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Started stripping back all the engine bay paint , trying to get it all clean steel, but gave up after a hour, of getting no where haha. Ended up getting the engine bay sand blasted, a million times easier! . It takes so long doing it all by hand. I am still going to do the rest of the body and panels by hand, but that shod be easier , as there's not all the little nooks and crannys like in the engine bay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Started welding up the holes . Had to cut a little but out of the firewall to clear the clutch slave cylinder. The slave cylinders on top of the bell housing, and also the starter motor is around the opposite way to the original toyota one. Bloody Mazda like doing things different Also decided when I was taking the motor out, it was abit of a mission to lift the motor and gearbox up over the radiator support, so I cut the middle of the support out. Made up a new one with a couple of 6mm nuts and bolts each side, so I can just bolt in and out when I want. Hopefully it won't affect the certification. Tried making it look factory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 I also going to pick up a ke36 wagon on the weekend , so progress with this might have to be out on hold again for a month or so haha. These cars keep popping up and I can't resist to buy them haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Right bit more of a update on the beast. Got to keep motivated on this project. Got so many cars , I just got to get rid of them and stick with one haha. Got the engine bay all done. Now been doing the body. It is not a easy job stripping a car back to bare metel the old fashioned way, by hand. It takes a long long time. I would get it all blasted back to metal, but being a student I'm to poor for that haha Got all the body done and all the panels, it took me so long and there's a lot of surface rust on the roof and guards Found abit of rust on both front doors, hiding in the corners filled up with bog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 I got some rims sorted also , some 15x8 DTM F1Ds . I know they arnt going to be everyone's cup of tea, but Iv decided I'm painting the car red, and the gold centres will look good with the red car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Not much of a update. Been busy working on a couple of other ca I have. Have run out of funds for the corona, so need to sell a couple more cars to get some more money, the poor life of being a student. Recently just finished a ke36 corolla, and plan to finish a ke30 corolla in the next couple of weeks. Then I will get stuck back into the corona 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 So finally a update on the corona. It's been a long time, have had a few other projects Iv been doing. Am going to be struggling to get this done , this summer, which is a bit of a bummer. But anyways, I couldn't get the car sitting as low as I wanted, well not legally anyway. I had the leafs sitting flat, and 2" lowering blocks and there was still a big gap between the wheel arch and the tyre. I could have put bigger lowering blocks in but then wouldn't even be able to make it over a speed bump without the U-bolts hitting the ground. Only way I could see was to out another arch on the car. I pissed around abit trying to get a bolt on flare, but didn't like the look of a flare, specially on a oldschool ride, I personally think it makes some older cars look ugly. So I had a newer corona out the back of the property. After a few measurements, they looked similar. I cut the front wheel arches off the guards Arches cut off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 After running them through the Shrinker once or. Twice, I had them lined up. They fitted the original arch off the corona quite well. Got them all welded on Got the wheel sitting at a nice height now. The wheel in the picture has 25mm spacers, so I'm thinking of getting some more rims, some 15x9s will fill out the guards nicely, without the need of spacers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 After a lot of pissing around, and I mean a lot!, shaping the arches and getting the lines in it perfect, it took a long time. Couple of photos of it all primered. And also paneld the rear quater panel. Still not perfect but pretty good. Will finish it off in the next few days. And the other side Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Iv also decided to use another style front end. It's off a RT81 model corona. Only problem is the guards, bonnet, and valance are all different. So all that time spent bare metalling and patching the original guards and bonnet was a waste of time haha, Orwell, it was good practise I suppose. I had another stripped out corona out the back, that has been sitting there for about 5 years now. Took the guards and bonnet off and one guard is mint and the other has rust all through the bottom. The inside of bonnet is full of rust, it's going to be abit of a major to fix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 I really want to get the b odd painted and the motor in and running, that should give me the motivation to finish it off. These project cars that take awhile , loose motivation rather quickly haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Righteo long time since Iv been on here. Time for abit of a update. I recently just started getting stuck back into the corona. Have had to much other cars taking up my time. I recently just did a restoration on another corona. Wish I could have just put the 12a into it. It turned out awesome. Picture of before and after Before After 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Anyways, got the guards and bonnet off the other corona all bare metal.heaps of little bits of rust all over them. Need to use deoxidene on them. One of the guards already had a patch put in it.it was still good, so I left that. The other one was stuffed so I had to put new steel in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona_man Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Also put in some new threads into the sills where the guards bolt to. This is a good tool to invest in. A riv nut gun, well I think that's what it's called. U just drill a hole then out in the threaded rivit. It works the same as a rivit gun Put more steel in the front doors. They were both rusted in the same place as the rear doors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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