AsleepAtTheWheel's MADHOUSE KE70

[AsleepAtTheWheel]

Hey all,

After much procrastination and a fair bit of CBF'd on my behalf, plus Gilly's endless nagging (Dude, you need to get a member's ride up - I'll even help you), I've decided to get my act together and post up here.

My name's Andrew (or Ando as some refer to me - easy on the Heroes jokes), I'm one of the MADHOUSE proprietors and this is my little golden warrior. It's my daily and fun car most of the time, but I also have half share in a Silvertop 20V-engined Clubman with my dad which is the REAL touge car (grip, not drift). Maybe I'll put another member's ride thread up here one day, but I wouldn't hold your breath :lol:

I bought my little beauty around 2 years ago from a guy in Coorparoo for a great price, who had bought it off another dude 10 months prior. I think he may have been a regular on RollaClub or Toymods way back in the day so some of you might know it. It needed a bit of a tidy up when I got her - I'm pretty fastidious about the way I present my cars, I like everything to be as neat as possible, but often times I find myself short on time and just end up shortcutting something. Guess that's the problem when you've got to drive to work on Monday. :blink: One day I'll get the time to take it off the road for a good amount of time and do a full rebuild from the ground up...

So, enough blabbering and on to the car. Firstly a few pics so you know what I talking about (props to Hao (majic86) and SON57A for the pics). More to come incl. engine bay + interior pics when I get some time. :2thumbs:





List of mods currently looks like this (from what I remember...):

1982 Toyota Corolla KE70

Engine:
Full AW11 4AGZE conversion with all the fruit
SC14 'charger from a 1GGZE running 9-10psi
Wolf 3D V4 with hand controller
Front-mount intercooler
Extractors
2 1/4" Overdiff exhaust with 2" tip :ph34r:
K&N filter
Splitfire plugs/Top Gun leads
Kill switch
1L surge tank (in boot)
VL turbo fuel pump
Battery box (in boot)

Driveline:
JDM T50
Brass-button clutch (no-idea what type)
Custom 2-piece tail-shaft
T-series diff
KAAZ 2-way LSD

Suspension:
Current Ghetto Setup:
Monroe GT shockies
King Springs Low
Full SuperPro Polyurethane bush kit
24mm (I think) adjustable rear swaybar
AJPS Strut Brace
On The Bench:
T3 Camber-tops
AE86 Custom coilover setup with Eibach 8kg/mm springs and KYB SR Special front inserts
Brakes TBA (but huge...)
TRD Green 8-way adj. rear shocks
6kg/mm Springs (to be obtained)
Rose-jointed LCA's
MADHOUSE Adj. rose-jointed 4-link rear
AE86 Steering Rack
AE86 P/S arms

Wheels:
15 x 8 -4 Performance Superlites with charcoal center all-round; wearing
195/45/R15 Federal SuperSport 595

Body:
Cut down plastic-spec bumpers
Ghetto MARKE70 Honda quad-light conversion
IPRA bolt-on flares
JDM GT Badges
MADHOUSE JDM lip (soon)
Massive hole in the roof that someone's filled with a non-opening sunroof that STILL leaks
RUST plus lots of sealant/silicone to stop the cancer spreading

Interior:
330mm Wheel (some Italian jobbie) with boss/spacer
MOMO shifter
Speco Oil Pressure, Oil Temp and Boost gauges in holder
OBX Daytona Bucket on custom rail
Fully-sick K&N Slip-on covers
Old-school Alpine CD headunit
Kenwood and Rockford Fosgate Amps
JBL Splits
Pov Radio-shack speakers on the parcel shelf in custom boxes
10" Sub in the boot for the fully hEkTiC DoOf!! (Seriously though - ICE is definately not my thing, but the last guy put it all in. At least I have decent tunes...)

Best thing about it - my girlfriend HATES it which tell's me that I'm on the right track :lol:

That's about all I got for now - I'll try and keep this updated as much as possible. WARNING: I have a heap of jobs including a half-finished PhD, so progess may not be as fast as you'd expect. I'll do my best though

[green_boy_91]

that i a fuking crazy as car man well done (y)

[Driftspec]

At last, the members ride is up!

Very nice car man, got a lot of attention (from the right people) on the last cruise. Its very unique, thats for sure. Didn't know it was your daily, thats even better, you get to enjoy the car every day.

Look forward too seeing more of the car. Fix the smoke problem yet? So if I drive behind you again, I won't have to cough through the smoke when you floor it :lol:

[AsleepAtTheWheel]

Thanks Keating,

Unfortunately, I think the some problem may be just a bad side-effect of hitting the rev-limiter in a GZE. :lol: I hope it's nothing terminal

I think it needs a tune badly anyway - I'll be taking down to the guys at Crossley in the coming weeks for a dyno tune and a service to try and iron out a few bugs...

[Felix]

very nice, been waiting for this to get put up here

once i'm driving again i'm going to head up to gilly's check out his beast and if your around (y) go for a spirited drive

keen to see a 7age vs 4agze comparison

how's the t series and t50 hold up?

[Gilly]

nice car

can you get them in a mens version??

(says the guy with the less setup car :lol: )

we forgot to take pics today those are good though

[AsleepAtTheWheel]

T-series/T50 combo seems to be fine at the moment although the change down into 2nd from 3rd seems to be a problem. Not sure what exactly is up, but once I get some fresh bushes etc in there, I hope the problem will sort itself out. I don't really want to have to be looking at synchros <_<

Gilly: I realised that when I shot through, but I'll have some time tomorrow and I'll borrow Lozza's work digi and get some more. I went for the nana version cause I prefer the smell of mothballs and wet carpet to the men's version with an carton of empty VB cans on the back seat, a 1988 People magazine in the glovebox and a bonus torn stone wash denim/flannalette ensemble driving suit... Whatever suits you though - might go with your retro haircut...:lol:

[D-limo]

Holy shit I sooo nearly bought this beast a few years ago.. Saw it in a car park one night out at brissie and thought it looked pretty tuff, hopped on the net the next day looking for what prices ke70's were going for and alas the car I was drooling over the night before was fs!!! Looked quite different to what it does now, and was running one of the very first wolf cpu's ever made(seriously it was like one of the first 3 trial versions of the V1) which is ultimately why I didn't buy it.

The front mount is two RX-7 cores welded together I believe.

Great to see where it's ended up.. Very tuff little car. Paint and general presentation looks MUCH better than way back when as well

[AsleepAtTheWheel]

Yeah - luckily that got replaced with a V4 before I bought it. Not sure what happened with the original V1 but a replacement Microtech or similar is on the wishlist for later.

Nice spot on the intercooler - you get a gold star

When this was originally built back in the day there was no such thing as cheap Ebay/chinese 'coolers. I guess this was the "budget" alternative

[obey wan boenny]

This car is hot!!