And now for something completely different...

[Decs]

so... i thought that in its current state of development it was worth while posting up my corolla.

initially i bought a red ke70 for 500 bux as a daily... well that didn't last long. within a week it had falcon springs and a locked diff. oh and a lip off a magna.



good fun but god the 4k was slow. esspecially when your other car is a turbo skyline... so that had to be fixed.
i knocked up a quick j-pipe turbo setup utilising a rodeo (i believe) turbo, which was waaaaay too big and a zenith carby from a 1.8L volvo. pitty i never got it tuned.


after a few teething problems, it ran nice till the heater core blew, leaked water, and popped the head gasket.



and melted the spark plug away.


so i replaced the head gasket and shaved a little bit off the fuel needle to richen it up. it ran much better this time round... till it developed another severe water leak, i got pissed off and thrashed it anyway, and popped again.

out that came and in went the 3tc. thanks to lawson for supplying the motor etc.


here's the modded crossmember i made to fit it.


with that i put in t18 struts and brakes. with the t18 steering knuckles it had bugger all steering lock so i cut and shut the steering arms shorter. works a treat.

i ended up having waaaaaaaay too much fun in it one night and bending it so i bought a ae71 that had had a 4k conversion (yes i know. what were they thinking?) for $250.


the previous owner thought the head gasket was blown. it wasn't. i got it running again, did a skid then pulled the motor out. in went the 3t.

i also went about converting the t18 struts to coilovers using some china sleeve kits off ebay. $20 for a set of 4. WITH SPRINGS! so cheap! work fine too.


i took it to mallala for a drift practice where the head gasket blew on the 2nd lap. seriously... toyota cooling systems and head gaskets are FUCKING CRAP!


so i fixed that one...




and it lived once again.


then toyota struck again a few weeks later when it started burning more oil than petrol. out came the 3t.

now I'm quite sick of toyota engines... so I'm fixing the problem atm...




some prototype engine mounts. yet to be reinforced.


and bam!








funny... the bonnet closes.



so... plans are:
internally stock rb30e
custom manifold. high mount.
big turbo. unsure what.
megasquirt II ecu.
ford edis-6 crank pickup running 6 individual coil packs
gtr injecters
cut up the trans tunnel to fit a gearbox.
lots of tuning.

should be fun.

then i'll break some diffs.

i have no timeline for this project so it'll happen as time and money permits.

cheers,
declan.

[federal]

i like it, its different....put the 16x10's on it for abit of a laugh....hahaha

[slydar]

you had me till the RB. haha nah still good.

[LIL BLU MAN]

be very interesting i want to see videos of the rb going in it!, how the hell u keep finding cheap ketos :@

[RobertoX]

hardrubbish racing FTW

[MountainRunner]

ahahA Great work man wanan see how this thing goes is that ur skyboi in ur sig ?

[Decs]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (truenosedan @ Mar 28 2008, 01:06 PM) </div>hahaha

oh.. in the hugest possible way!


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@ Mar 28 2008, 01:25 PM) </div>
yeah thats my r31.

[MountainRunner]

PICS OF r31

[Decs]

there's a heap in here from g1... vid too.

[Konakid]

This thing is gonna do the biggest brunouts ever!

Let me know when you get it running dude.

Even N/A it would be spastic!