Gooooood evening. My name is Beau and this a thread of my corolla. I've only had the car for a little over a year, but I'd like to think it's come a long ways. I went through all my photos related to this thing and I'll upload the ones that aren't super boring.
From 2015 to early 2023, I had a 1995 supercharged m3. At the end, it boogied, had my favorite wheels in the best size and coolest finish, couldn't be happier about the car
Small update. My ORC throw out bearing showed and ARP flywheel bolts showed up, so I tried to install the super single. I removed the trans and stock clutch/flywheel. Went to install the ORC flywheel and found that none of the bolt holes lined up. Turns out that my crankshaft only has 6 bolt holes while the new flywheel has 8. I guess ae86 4age has 8 holes and Mr2 4age has 6. Pretty disappointing to find out, so I reinstalled the stock stuff and tossed the super single in a box.
Next I started mocking up oil cooler stuff. Mounting the cooler itself should be pretty straight forward, but mounting the sandwich plate and getting the lines figured out looked like it was going to be a pain because of how much stuff is on the left hand side of the motor.
This is where I find out that relocating the alternator to this side was going to bite me in the ass. Between the alternator, starter, headers, and motor mount arm, there is room for jack shit. I removed the headers to have more room to mess around. No matter what way I rotate the sandwich plate, something always hits something. A buddy told me about these super low pro radium fittings that might do the trick
Talking with another corolla guy, he ended up notching the motor mount arm so he could clock the sandwich plate in a way that would work. Ill update this when those come in.
Ordered the Group A Motoring replica oem rear bumper. After that shows up and gets painted I think the exterior will be complete for the time being.
we love a good carb rebuild/tune
Small update. Took the car to my buddies place to use his lift for installing the barking brake cables. Didn’t feel like doing it on the ground. Cables are connected and working! Found the the right rear caliper is leaking a little bit of fluid, so I’ll need to look into rebuilding or replacing that.
I’ve never been totally happy with how my seat was positioned with the street faction seat brackets. Just wasn’t able to lean the seat back as far as I wanted it to be. So I made some new holes and cut parts of the bracket where it was contacting the seat. Feels way better now
I ordered new gasket kits, main jets, idle jets, and accelerator pump jets for the webers. My car has always ran ran rich (like 10 on the wideband at WOT) and breaks up super bad if you try to do a pull in 1st gear. While waiting for that stuff to come in, I pulled the carbs off and took them apart to clean and look for debris and what not.
Everything looked to be in good enough shape. Should have the car back together by next weekend. I’ll list the old vs new jet sizes when I get back into town, can’t remember them off the top of my head
Little update. Took that spare engine apart. Top end looks good, cylinders look good enough. Nothing a ball hone can’t fix. The crank on the other hand is pretty smoked. Not sure if it’s saveable or not. I feel like my best bet is to either take it to a machine shop to see what they think, or find a used 40mm crank. I could easily get a 42mm crank, but then I’d need rods and pistons, which is a rabbit hole I don’t feel like going down for an engine I don’t need currently. Into the corner of the garage the engine goes haha
I finally ordered the seals and what not to assemble toe gts rear end.
Nothing exciting. Just new wheel bearings, retainers and housing seals. Reassembled the axle and tossed it in the car
I didn’t realize that the rear section of the sr5 driveshaft is a hair longer than a gts, so when I backed the car out of the garage, the driveline was binding and causing the worst noises I’ve ever heard this car make. Ended up finding a gts rear section locally and scored a koyo rad with an e fan for 80 bucks. I’m going to ditch the e fan and stick with the clutch fan though
A slow day at work turned into buying shit off of croooober that I want but don’t need. Ended up getting a used ORC super single. It’s a little rough, but the discs don’t look terrible. I guess time will tell. Looking forward to the 8lb flywheel and cool startup noises. Waiting on the throw out bearing sleeve and some e brake cables to come in to just install this stuff at once.
That’s about all I have for now
hell yeah makes me wanna go 15's on mine
Thankyou! It's been a good time so far!
this things fucking sweet
Sup with that Gen 1 cummins tho?
Nothing very new with the car. Did some drifting. Car didn't skip a beat. Forgot to close latch my hood. Even street drove to the track, which I haven't done in about 3 years. It was a refreshing feeling.
Next things will be a rear axle rebuild kit for my gts rear end, rear bumper/ paint work, and some additional cooling components. Until then, I picked up a 2 shit t50's and a 16v engine that I was told spun a bearing for dirt cheap. I already had a messed up t50 laying around, so I'm going to try and mash together 3 fucked up t50s to get one or two decent spares. The engine would be cool to have as a spare or build on the side, but I need to disassemble it first and see if it's even usable.
I believe I now have one good trans. One of them wouldn't come out of gear, the other had all of the teeth come off of the front gear and take out the input shaft bearing. Decided to take apart the less fucked one. After getting the tail housing off, I found that the shift rod inside of the tail housing was bound up. Continued to split the cases and check inside. I have no idea what I'm looking at, but everything looked to be in good enough shape
No slop in the countershaft and everything spun okay. Removed the shafts and took the cases into work to throw in the parts washer.
Good enough for me. Next was to remove a snapped tail housing bolt. This thing was in there and took some persuasion to get out
Still need to run a tap through, but it's out. Next I took everything home and reassembled on my favorite dryer/workbench. There's no seals or fluid in yet, I just wanted to check all of the shift forks and make sure the trans goes into all of the gears, which it does so I'm pretty happy about that. I put a different tail shaft housing on with a different shift rod. Seemed to do the trick. I'll probably update this with photos of the other transmissions and engine when I get around to those
After getting the car running and driving well, I picked up a set of 13" mk2's, replica zenki bumper/lip, and seat brackets so I could throw my zeta 2 and brix in.
I believe after this I took the car to its first event. The car drove horribly. Most of that was probably my fault though. 175 series shit tires, low power, and manual steering with stock angle made this thing a trip to drive. A little bit of time went by and I picked up an hks sport exhaust, a set of Colin project starsharks, and I believe a replica uras front bumper off of marketplace.
next on the list was to swap out the worn stock rack for a t3 manual rack with new rack bushings. The difference this made was day and night. I didn't drive the car much in the spring time because I decided I wanted to get the car painted. I took the trim pieces off and started sanding the car in my spare time. Held my ganadors up to the door to see how well they'd fit. Not too bad! I probably spent hours looking at photos of corollas to see what color I wanted to go with. I ended up keeping the body white and going with silver bumpers. Seeing a photo of Phill Lees car made my mind up for me. I dropped the car off at my friends and a couple weeks later I had a shiny car
Beyond stoked on how the car came out. While they had the car, I tried to repaint all the rubber coated window trim. Pretty big pain in the ass and could be a lot better, but I'm okay with it for now. The stock mirrors, headlight buckets, eye lids, and license plate bracket came out much better. They also painted a noby booth wing that I picked up. Looks great on the car. The car will get a jdm rear bumper and will be painted to match the front, I just still haven't picked one up yet haha
First time drifting the car with the new rack and nice tires. Car feels great. Unfortunately the day was cut short from the only remaining shitty part of my exhaust snapping. I ended up getting the materials to make a new pipe and tried making something myself. Doesn't look the best and I'm not a good welder by any means, but it looks way nicer and hasn't broken yet
I think the next part is I ended up buying a set of equip 01's. I've always liked these wheels and I'm happy to have a set. The window of the spokes on the front pair are painted teal, but they'll get painted black over the winter. I think I had the wheels for 6 months before getting flares to fit the rear wheels. Over the last couple of weekends I messed around with mounting tires and installing the flares. I also installed the ganadors on the car. I think the fit the car pretty well. I still need to do some tinkering with them and paint them body color, but I'm super into it.
There's a lot of gaps and parts I left out, but that pretty much brings things up to date. There's just a couple exterior things I need to do and I think the car will look pretty sweet. Hope to get lots of driving time in this thing.
I drove it around for a couple days trying to get the engine to clear up, but the amount of smoke coming out of the exhaust made it impossible to want to drive this thing. One of my friends was selling a 16v motor, Weber carbs, and an an msd box for a deal. The engine was out of an mr2, so I spent a little time getting the rwd specific parts. Carbs in a car are new to me, so I had to get some linkage and little things like that. After the SQ alternator relocation kit came in, it was time to drop the 16v in
One day I was browsing OfferUp and stumbled upon a really shitty corolla that I had to have. Turned out it was only 10 minutes from my work. Story was the guy blew the headgasket and parked the car under a tree for 3 years until he listed it up for sale
sadly the front wheels weren't included, but the car did have some goodies. T3 extended flca's, Cusco 4 link, spool, old d2 coilovers to name a few. I got the car home and started ripping the top end off do replace the headgasket. She had the sauce
One of the valves was seized open, cam and rockers were rusted, milkshake everywhere. Can't believe this thing still fired up. Gave it the ole spit shine and got it running and driving again