My build: Turbo 85 corolla
02-04-2007, 08:56 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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My build: Turbo 85 corolla
Its a bit choppy since I raped another one of my forum posts but u get the general idea. Updates include rc550s and a 16g.
It all started wit this :
Bought my first AE in 2002, it was "ontario mint" ! They lied, it was at bet 6/10. I raced it for one season and started the bodywork. Half way through i found this pretty little bitch.
The newer AE was a red 85 gts. It looked awesome it was a 8/10 when I had it up on the hoist looking at it. I had it painted m3 mica black and begin the heavy modding.
And begin list:
New brakes on all four corners, I went through 9 fenco calipers before I found 4 that worked. This was the 2nd biggest pain in the *** ever, but nothing compared to removing four links. The stainless lines weren’t to bad, BUY LINE WRENCHES they make life a 1000x better. The rotors were decent so I left them, I should of got new ones but I was already into to much of my budget.
Suspension:
I ordered my AGX off club4ag, mr2/camaro combo. I really really like these shocks, they are pretty nice for the money. I found them a bit under dampened for the 8/6 setup I was running but not to the point where they didn’t work. On the front I initially used an 8kg 8” spring on a short stroked housing. I did this myself, it was super easy, the hardest part was probably getting the gland nut off. You may find the oem gland nut doesn’t fit quite right with the kyb’s, its ok use them. The provided gland nut is for mr2 use onry. The kybs from the camaro in the rear are straight forward and easy, they go on and off like oem. Rears were trd 6kg springs.
LSD
The trd unit is a 1.5way lsd in the rear. I pulled the axels myself, and popped the centre housing out. The pumpkin is the only thing on the car I paid someone to setup. I wasn’t comfortable so I got yota to setup my diff, I put new seals and new bearings all around. Pay attention and make sure u replace everything u can, exp seals, crush sleeve and the locks on the diff. You will most likely have to grind off the nuts on the driveshaft retainer and use all new housing gaskets.
When removing the axel scribe it so u can put it back on the way it came off!
Appearance: The body work I did initially was done to quick. I had to get the car on the road so I halfassed it. I had holes under the windshield which I had to cut out and reweld all new metal in. This was hard and quite time consuming, not for the timid. I got a jblood bodykit from andys, the skirts were complete garbage but the rest fit arlight.
Wheels: MY ROH’s are 15x7 light and rare as hell. You never seem them, and no you cannot have them.
Fun stuff:
Powah: First motor was a 3rib 4age, I tossed it away even tho im stupid and shouldn’t off. Just cause u aren’t using the motor don’t get bored have 10 beer and take it apart …
I stuffed in a late model ae92 4agze. Tossed the supercharger stuff and all the wiring onto ebay and what not. I used all the bluetop accessories, including the water pump and hardware. Blue top cams were in the motor, and seemed to be ok in the shim department.
Intake is a redtop intake i converted to rwd.
The motor was seriously gummed up all to hell, which is probably why the poor thing died after 300kms. I should of take the time hottanked it and got a new oil pump. Lesson learned ….
Turbo:
14b dsm turbo, freshly rebuilt and ported, was running 1bar. Intercooler is a custom core with the end tanks facing the motor for less piping. Piping is 2.5” and downpipe is 3” to a 2.5” reducer. The manifold is a homemade log mani
Cooling: Custom 1 off honda rad, i made my own mounts and the rad was dirt cheap.
Fuel: 440cc supra injectors with a 195 walbro
EFI” good old megasquirt with edis, waiting on neil to give me the high res code!
Stuff left:
Supra front brake conversion: I’m using the adaptors from BRIAN and fittin mkII supra front brakes rotors pads ect. I’m using the AE lower control arms but with supra shock spindles. The spindle housings have been shorted 40mm like the rolla ones . Ill be using an MKIII brake master cylinder, with an AW11 brake booster converted for my own use. The bias will be taken care of by a supra bias valve and a willwood or tilton brake bias.
Rear mkI 79 supra rear diff. I managed to find TWO one open one lsd, I left all the mounts cept the spring perches. Im going to weld the perches onto the diff but about .5 inch higher. I found the trds were to low in the rear for my liking. I’m using a battleversion lat bar and home made heim 4links. The top 2 lnks will be off centred so that the mki mounts line up with the AE body. The brakes on my diff are just as big as the fronts !
1 off custom aluminum driveshaft and W58 tranny mounts.
Niteparts bellhousing with a late model ae92 clutch,fly and pressure plate combo. 220mm I belive or 212 I forget.
Exhaust will be made by me with 2.5” stainless tubing, overaxel with a U bend.
Now im redoing more bodywork … This time properly, I have cut so much metal out its hideous to look at . Ill have pics up soon, just haven’t had a chance to take any shots yet.
Unfortunatly i didnt take any snapshots before it blew up.
These are bearing I spung:
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update2:
Update on the ontario mintness. I have cut out even more .... since these were taken.
Shot of the supra rear end.
update3:
This was saturday, i was making supra brake short strokes while Pitobread was gettin high from paint fumes.
HAH !
I made this without booze!
update4:
Hurray updates!!!
Here u will see my fancy supra rotors, which are nice n thick and bigger than lil wee girlie stock brakes. I shortstroked my supra housings and put my gcs on. They are 8" springs with extra long perches. Spring rate is a tittah bouncing 8kg. I peeled all the old grime and ***** off and painted the entire area with rocker guard, i also hammered the fender wells in for good measure. IF u look closely ull see the patch i put it where there was some rust
You cant seem em but there is a ton of glorious prothane bushigns in there.
No longer red:
You can see the IC piping holes here.
t3 camberplates: In ordre for these to work properly i took the old strut tops, and popped the bearings out. I used the inner race as a spacer by cuttin it in half. You have to keep enough space at the top of the strup top so that the shafts can clear the plate for angle. Thi salso keeps friction down and keeps the shaft from rubbing the bearing races.
mr2 brake booster, 2 new brakelines which ive re routed out of the turbos way and an mk2 supra brake master cylinder.
In order to make the brake booster work i had to modify the rear of the booster. ITs to long so i used the new cleve thinger and shortened the rod some. The lenght and throw is now the same as stock.
The mr2 steering rack, you need to make 1 custom mount fo rthe passenger side and use the oem one on the left. The rack had to bge lenghtend so we took two steering colums cut em up and welded me togehter. U can cut the bottoms and but em together. You leave a bit of the shaft sticking out the top to butt inside the column on the car. Weld repeat.
Painted 79 supra housing.
I welded the gts spring perches onto it, took some math but came out well. The rest of the mounts i left.
rice: mk2 supra calipers
flare removal
I spend days cleaning all teh crap under the car and spraying with more rocker guard. Its nice n clean now and i dont get crap in my eyes'
As u can see im done almost al lfo the rust repair, i regret to say i halfassed the wheel well lol but fawk im sick of it. Its all welded and smotherd with seam sealant.
[img]https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/turbotincan/tom016.jpg[/img
It all started wit this :
Bought my first AE in 2002, it was "ontario mint" ! They lied, it was at bet 6/10. I raced it for one season and started the bodywork. Half way through i found this pretty little bitch.
The newer AE was a red 85 gts. It looked awesome it was a 8/10 when I had it up on the hoist looking at it. I had it painted m3 mica black and begin the heavy modding.
And begin list:
New brakes on all four corners, I went through 9 fenco calipers before I found 4 that worked. This was the 2nd biggest pain in the *** ever, but nothing compared to removing four links. The stainless lines weren’t to bad, BUY LINE WRENCHES they make life a 1000x better. The rotors were decent so I left them, I should of got new ones but I was already into to much of my budget.
Suspension:
I ordered my AGX off club4ag, mr2/camaro combo. I really really like these shocks, they are pretty nice for the money. I found them a bit under dampened for the 8/6 setup I was running but not to the point where they didn’t work. On the front I initially used an 8kg 8” spring on a short stroked housing. I did this myself, it was super easy, the hardest part was probably getting the gland nut off. You may find the oem gland nut doesn’t fit quite right with the kyb’s, its ok use them. The provided gland nut is for mr2 use onry. The kybs from the camaro in the rear are straight forward and easy, they go on and off like oem. Rears were trd 6kg springs.
LSD
The trd unit is a 1.5way lsd in the rear. I pulled the axels myself, and popped the centre housing out. The pumpkin is the only thing on the car I paid someone to setup. I wasn’t comfortable so I got yota to setup my diff, I put new seals and new bearings all around. Pay attention and make sure u replace everything u can, exp seals, crush sleeve and the locks on the diff. You will most likely have to grind off the nuts on the driveshaft retainer and use all new housing gaskets.
When removing the axel scribe it so u can put it back on the way it came off!
Appearance: The body work I did initially was done to quick. I had to get the car on the road so I halfassed it. I had holes under the windshield which I had to cut out and reweld all new metal in. This was hard and quite time consuming, not for the timid. I got a jblood bodykit from andys, the skirts were complete garbage but the rest fit arlight.
Wheels: MY ROH’s are 15x7 light and rare as hell. You never seem them, and no you cannot have them.
Fun stuff:
Powah: First motor was a 3rib 4age, I tossed it away even tho im stupid and shouldn’t off. Just cause u aren’t using the motor don’t get bored have 10 beer and take it apart …
I stuffed in a late model ae92 4agze. Tossed the supercharger stuff and all the wiring onto ebay and what not. I used all the bluetop accessories, including the water pump and hardware. Blue top cams were in the motor, and seemed to be ok in the shim department.
Intake is a redtop intake i converted to rwd.
The motor was seriously gummed up all to hell, which is probably why the poor thing died after 300kms. I should of take the time hottanked it and got a new oil pump. Lesson learned ….
Turbo:
14b dsm turbo, freshly rebuilt and ported, was running 1bar. Intercooler is a custom core with the end tanks facing the motor for less piping. Piping is 2.5” and downpipe is 3” to a 2.5” reducer. The manifold is a homemade log mani
Cooling: Custom 1 off honda rad, i made my own mounts and the rad was dirt cheap.
Fuel: 440cc supra injectors with a 195 walbro
EFI” good old megasquirt with edis, waiting on neil to give me the high res code!
Stuff left:
Supra front brake conversion: I’m using the adaptors from BRIAN and fittin mkII supra front brakes rotors pads ect. I’m using the AE lower control arms but with supra shock spindles. The spindle housings have been shorted 40mm like the rolla ones . Ill be using an MKIII brake master cylinder, with an AW11 brake booster converted for my own use. The bias will be taken care of by a supra bias valve and a willwood or tilton brake bias.
Rear mkI 79 supra rear diff. I managed to find TWO
one open one lsd, I left all the mounts cept the spring perches. Im going to weld the perches onto the diff but about .5 inch higher. I found the trds were to low in the rear for my liking. I’m using a battleversion lat bar and home made heim 4links. The top 2 lnks will be off centred so that the mki mounts line up with the AE body. The brakes on my diff are just as big as the fronts !1 off custom aluminum driveshaft and W58 tranny mounts.
Niteparts bellhousing with a late model ae92 clutch,fly and pressure plate combo. 220mm I belive or 212 I forget.
Exhaust will be made by me with 2.5” stainless tubing, overaxel with a U bend.
Now im redoing more bodywork … This time properly, I have cut so much metal out its hideous to look at . Ill have pics up soon, just haven’t had a chance to take any shots yet.
Unfortunatly i didnt take any snapshots before it blew up.
These are bearing I spung:
[/img]update2:
Update on the ontario mintness. I have cut out even more .... since these were taken.
Shot of the supra rear end.
update3:
This was saturday, i was making supra brake short strokes while Pitobread was gettin high from paint fumes.
HAH !
I made this without booze!update4:
Hurray updates!!!
Here u will see my fancy supra rotors, which are nice n thick and bigger than lil wee girlie stock brakes. I shortstroked my supra housings and put my gcs on. They are 8" springs with extra long perches. Spring rate is a tittah bouncing 8kg. I peeled all the old grime and ***** off and painted the entire area with rocker guard, i also hammered the fender wells in for good measure. IF u look closely ull see the patch i put it where there was some rust
You cant seem em but there is a ton of glorious prothane bushigns in there.
No longer red:
You can see the IC piping holes here.t3 camberplates: In ordre for these to work properly i took the old strut tops, and popped the bearings out. I used the inner race as a spacer by cuttin it in half. You have to keep enough space at the top of the strup top so that the shafts can clear the plate for angle. Thi salso keeps friction down and keeps the shaft from rubbing the bearing races.
mr2 brake booster, 2 new brakelines which ive re routed out of the turbos way and an mk2 supra brake master cylinder.
In order to make the brake booster work i had to modify the rear of the booster. ITs to long so i used the new cleve thinger and shortened the rod some. The lenght and throw is now the same as stock.
The mr2 steering rack, you need to make 1 custom mount fo rthe passenger side and use the oem one on the left. The rack had to bge lenghtend so we took two steering colums cut em up and welded me togehter. U can cut the bottoms and but em together. You leave a bit of the shaft sticking out the top to butt inside the column on the car. Weld repeat.
Painted 79 supra housing.
I welded the gts spring perches onto it, took some math but came out well. The rest of the mounts i left.
rice: mk2 supra calipers
flare removal
I spend days cleaning all teh crap under the car and spraying with more rocker guard. Its nice n clean now and i dont get crap in my eyes'
As u can see im done almost al lfo the rust repair, i regret to say i halfassed the wheel well lol but fawk im sick of it. Its all welded and smotherd with seam sealant.
[img]https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/turbotincan/tom016.jpg[/img
02-04-2007, 09:52 PM
#6
3.0 BAR
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 7,785
Re: My build: Turbo 85 corolla
Don't miss my 86 at all. Only thing I miss are clutch kicks. I made my own 4 links for cheap and got the how-to as a sticky on a 86 site I used to go on. It's also on club4ag but that forum is down and still is so I can't give you that link. Made my own panhard bar too. Nice setup you have going though.
02-04-2007, 10:34 PM
#10
1.5 BAR
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 1,147
Re: My build: Turbo 85 corolla
Originally Posted by stillnoturbo
Are there alot of rhd cars in canada? I know the rolla isn't rhd but being canada allows that stuff.
