Fantapants 82 ke70 corolla

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Hey guys and gals.  

 

Hopefully this is ok, it's a build from Tassie. 

 

Anyways, 82 ke70.  Has had a few different plans.  But currently desperately need to get her running for early next year. 

 

She has spent the last few years on a rotisserie, but progress has been good lately.

 

It's work is almost done, chassis and body work basically done and engine well on the way.

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So made some moves on the sump today.. 

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So close to bottoming up the sump today.  Just need to eel the bolt tubes and she is Apple's.  Finished the trap doors and also installed a cross guide to the pickup.. 

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Moving along.

 

The exhaust is a hell of a tight squeeze.  2.5inch stainless. Ground clearance was my primary goal .... hence the stupid amount of effort lol.

 

In the end I'm gonna have to hard mount the back end of the exhaust to keep it from banging around. 

 

I have a flex join to alleviate the binding (I hope lol) 

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So.  Attempt 37.4 with pics. 

 

Have welded out bendy boy. And played with slow pulse.  Not my preferred style, but nice to learn things and the results were ok.

 

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So a quick bit of back ground (sorry this is the first place I've had to keep 2 build logs going and I'm a bit slow on the follow up lol) 

 

I've had the car since 2007? Give or take.  She had 80 thousand and was in speccy  beautiful condition.  Plan was always for a simple clean blacktop 20v and daily.

 

We then moved to tas and fast forward to 2014, not much had changed.  She had wheels and suspension but that was it. 

 

I started to gather bits, 3sge and 6 speed, ecu etc for a conversion before my first boy was born.....

 

Then in late 2014 I was admitted to hospital for a mystery condition.  Turns out I had had a severe reaction to a common medication.  This admission lasted 6 months and left me permantly disabled.  Im pretty lucky with the depth of side effects considering what it put my body through.  So the last 5 years have been predominantly rehab, learning to walk again, and gain basic functions back.  Over  the last 18 months, things have progressed well, and ive been abke to start  playing again and have made some solid progress.

 

I'm under the pump a bit to get my car running by the time Leo my son starts school full time in the new year.  So hence the recent burst of enthusiasm lol.  I'll try and keep things clear and logical but feel free to ask for clarity in the discussion thread...  

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So been slowly plodding away at this still.

 

Chrissy is hard to keep some steam up. 

 

But the back of the car is nearly finished. Fuel tank is all done and fuel lines sorted to the front of the car.  Had to modify some top arms, but the wheels are on and everything kinda basically works lol