nzstato Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Ok, this might be out of left field. But what is the length of the KP lower control arm (pivot) to ball joint and what is the dimension between the chassis rails in the bay. What are the differences between the KP and AE86 set up and does it lend itself to modification? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dell'orto Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Main difference is Corolla uses separate swaybar and castor arms, Starlet uses the swaybar for both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpr Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 i should be able to measure some stuff for you tomorrow, as my starlet is up in the sky at the moment. a gentle reminder maybe required though. to add to the above. starlet uses cast control arms. so isn't really cut and weld friendly. like the proper steel ae86 stuff. the factory starlet stuff can be made to work pretty good, i wouldn't go changing it all to ae86 stuff unless getting pretty serious. but then you'd probably just go to a custom setup anyway. depends what you want to do with the car too i guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Aren't the bug eye ones different length than the rest as well? I could be talking about the complete wrong thing here, steering component names and functions go over my head a bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzstato Posted June 19, 2013 Author Share Posted June 19, 2013 i should be able to measure some stuff for you tomorrow, as my starlet is up in the sky at the moment. a gentle reminder maybe required though. to add to the above. starlet uses cast control arms. so isn't really cut and weld friendly. like the proper steel ae86 stuff. the factory starlet stuff can be made to work pretty good, i wouldn't go changing it all to ae86 stuff unless getting pretty serious. but then you'd probably just go to a custom setup anyway. depends what you want to do with the car too i guess. Thanks, the distance between struts (tophat to tophat) would also be helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpr Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 lower arms are 300 from center to center of ball joint at bottom. probably 280 at top as they are on angle 965 ish to centers of strut towers didn't measure chassis rails, do you want between the rails or where the arms bolt to x member? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzstato Posted June 23, 2013 Author Share Posted June 23, 2013 Those dimensions are looking promising, yep, both between the rails and between the x member bolts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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