GOLDMEMBER--Does my wagon make you horny baby? does it?

[luca]

After many months of searching I've finally found my first car...

a 82 ke70 wagon with a blown headgasket, leaking rear drum, no handbrake cable and a couple of little dings in the bodywork but it has hardly any rust in it.

The guy who owned it had it stored out the back of a workshop and my dad saw it there when he went there to drop something off, I picked it up the next day for $750 with 6 months rego.

About two days later I saw a add on gumtree for a 84 corolla wagon with no pictures, I organised to have a look at it that day and got it for $200 with the only things wrong with it being badly banged up on the rear left arch area and a leaking drum aswell. I then switched the good parts from the slant front into the flat front, the seats, rear lenses, hatch dampers. etc

UPDATE!
Driveline
-4k
-k50
-no egr rubbish
-advanced timing :p

Suspension/brakes
Front
-8kg ajps coilovers
-kyb excel g ss shocks
-adm ae86 brakes
-xt130 lca's
-power steering arms
-lock spacer
-40mm rca's
-techno toy tuning camber tops with needle bearing upper
-newish brake pads and lines
-caster arms wound out
-various nolathane bushes
-no swaybar

Rear
-sierra shocks
-reset leaves with an extra leaf added
-1 inch lowering blocks
-new bushes
-cut down bump stops
-welded diff (which sucks)
-new brake shoes

Wheels and tyres
-13x7 hotwires
-cheap shitty tyres

exterior
-no roof racks anymore
-removed rear bumper and tow ball etc.
-all inner lips flared
-mud guards removed
-no spare tyre
-taillights off red wagon

Interior
-370mm momo monte carlo without thumb indents
-techno toy tuning steering wheel spacer
-saas fixed back seat
-tacho dash
-a random gear knob
-handbrake button
-good passenger seats out of red wagon

Plans
-put original diff back in
-add a rear swaybar
-better tyres
-install 4age

[drift kid]

Lools good, with the coil overs it's all about budget and experience, if you don't have much to spend, keep it simple and and a sleeve kit on your struts, if you have a bit more cash and want something nice get some aftermarket coils *cough* shockworks *cough*

[luca]

is it just my computer or are all the images I put up really small? and thanks for the reply drift kid, I think I will end up with a sleeve kit, what struts should I be looking at getting to make into coilovers?

[Matt]

Good purchase.

Putting the 4age in , the quickest / simplest way is to buy mounts off jordo that bolt the 4age into the ke70 xmember, buy a gearbox xmember off the ae71.



You'll need the hydraulic peddle box too, which can be modified by the same guy above or buy an ae71 one. Clutch master / slave is available from AJPS cheap.

After that you have to tackle the wiring, which is confusing at first but not overly difficult. I might have some exchange looms available in a few weeks and I have a couple of FWD cut n shut manifolds too.

Being a wagon, i'm not 100% sure on the tailshaft choice

[luca]

cheers for the info and the link matt, ill defiantly look into that when the time comes

also is there any difference between adm and jdm a86 struts? as a pair of bare 86 struts have come up for sale locally for under $90 and im considering getting them to turn into coilovers?

[Big T]

They are identical aside from brakes.

[stahlz_ae86]

Price is about right for struts, expect to pay 200 for hubs though. Better off starting with RA40 or XT130 for price, stub axle size and brakes.

[luca]

Well its been a long time between posts and im hoping to update this more frequently as I progress.
ive sold the red wagon on and bought all the usual ke70 bits as you can see in the updated first post, ive also bought a manual ae71 and twincam ae82 so will hopefully be doing the conversion pretty soon.

[luca]

More photos.