General Mechanical

is anyone elses car the same as mine, my 1972 ke20 had the id plate on upside down and so does my 1971 car but the 1974 one and the 1973 cars have them up the right way, is anybody elses car the same??? also my 1971 car has drums on the front but unlike the ke10 drums these are twin leading shoe ones so they have two wheel cylinders instead of just one also does anyone have a borg warner diff in their ke20??? my 1971 car has little pull down handles under the dash to open the airvents on the dash, it also has one of those grills with the small squares and the lines on the fuel door go across instead of up and down

hey all,does anyone know where i can find some 3.5,3.7,3.9 diff gears to suit mini borg warner diff for my ke30...ive only found 4.1s and 4.3s so far!!! does anyone know if corollas came out in other ratios that will fit????? any help would be great..thanks p.s. my diff has inspection cover on back.

Hi, Just been cleaning up a 5K I have ready to install it into a car of mine. But I was interested to know about the carby they run. As the one on this 5K I have is well dead. So I want to use the one off my 3K will it be jetted right? Also does anyone know the compression one of thee 5K's run? Mine is a dished piston motor if that helps? Cheers Cameron

posted this on toymods - but I know there are a coupla subscribers who don't necessarily get over there, so I'll post here as well ... Well, the 32DIR on the 4K is haemorrhaging fuel (seemingly) from every available seal and partial orifice after a year of use ... well, there's a nice coating of red fuel and dirt shite all over it ... and I'm suspecting fuel pressure may be the culprit. I'm about to slap a 32/36 on the 4AC and (in addition to fixing the 4K's problem) I don't want the same issues on this one ... I have the stock 4K fuel pump pushing fuel into the weber - I think the toyota pump is in the 7-9 psi region, where as the weber probably wants some…

Hi guys just reading up on all the different ways to lower the rear of my car and was just wondering i anyone has just inverted the top leaf and left the rest the same, instead of getting the eyes inverted. What did the car handle like and how much did it lower it. josh

Hi guys. The speedway team I'm with has purchased a Junior. We haven't raced it yet. Over the last couple of outings for this car it's spun so many times it's a bit of a joke. Well the laughter is coming from a corner nearby as I have to sort it. With the car up high and the wheels sitting on blocks I saw the problem straight away. The leaf springs aren't set right. To get tilt in the car they've put a straighter leaf set in the left rear. With weight on the LR leaf set is actually bending the opposite way to what it should be doing. The right side leaf set has about a 1/2" curve through out. Not much suspension allowed here. Is this a 'normal set up' on one of these cars…

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Iv got a 1984 AE71 and i want to upgrade the steering wheel and iv found a 92-98 AE101 AE102 Toyota Corolla wheel and a Toyota Celica GT4 ST185 Steering Wheel and i was wondering if they will fit my car?

hey all well my corolla atm has a 3k and i want to get rid of that but i don't know what to go with next 5k or 7k i know the 7k would be more powerful but they are also harder to get and parts are hard to get arnt they :lolcry: the 5k will be more cheaper and less powerful but are parts still hard to get thnaks lukey

I'm chucking a 4AGE on carbies (because carbie are Sik :wink: and sound awsome :hmm: ) into a rather clean RT40 corona. Mounts are sorted, carbie linkages are sorted, exhaust is sorted, cooling is sorted, fuel is sorted, clutch is sorted (RT40's have hydro clutch from the factory :y: ) However ignition isn't sorted. I've heard rumors that you can use a 4AC dizzy, with a sleeve and all's good? is this possible, do you need anything else, an ignightor for example. Has anybody got ignition kits for carbie engines? Others have suggested a Sigma Dizzy? is anything else required? need asleeve or mounting plate? the only other thread I found was back in Feb ad didn't re…

I was just wondering how to tell if my 3k has a big port head can some one pleese have one because i think i have two :D thanks heaps Lukey

called industrial springs today they quoted me 300 bucks and about 2 months waiting for a pair of custom fronts, any ideas on where else i can get custom springs? maybe even stiffer springs from another car thatll wack in? cheers

I am turboing my 20 valve and am at this stage looking at a Stainless manifold and a brand new t3/t4 turbo kit including intercooler piping waste gate everything i need but i am not to sure if the t3/t4 will be to big or not if it will be is there anyother better suited turbo out there please note i am only going to run around 6-8psi. I have a microtech and stuff so that is not the prob. Will be drifting lapsprinting and in the motokhana. Cheers guys

As time gets closer the list is slowly gettin smaller on my new race car. but now i have a dilemma i need some help on. i ordered for my S/T 4age a set of leads and timing belt and half a dozen other things but they all don't fit!!! i did a little research and found that i have a motor from an AE92, not the AE101 as i have read about every where else... is this motor good or bad. any difference? more to the point is the wireing diagram's the same for the AE101 to the AE92????

i was taking my trim off just before and i can to taking the window winder thing and i had no clue how to get it off LOL?? its on a ke30 1977 if it makes any difference if some one can pls tell me woudl be great cheers

well, people always say you can put 1ggte pistons and rods into a 4k going off the measurements etc, so i thought to prove it true or false, having the majority of the ingredients. not a perfect experiement, but close enough. you will need 1ggte or gze or ge rods, so long as they are not gen 3 1ggte rods you will be fine, as these have a bigger big end. the ones i had had .25 oversize bearings, so they were a little tight on the crank, but for my purpose all was well. i also had no bearings on the crank, don't know what id done with them, bin I'm guessing. but it was bolted in, so again, close enough :lolcry: i took the rings off the piston for ease of use. and…

i have a auto corolla and when i put my foot flat to floor it doesnt rev as hard as it used to and doesnt seem to take off that much seems to have lost power i havent touched anything in it but i did put some of than petrol that contains like 10% ethanol in it like 1 month ago but it should of effected it straight away? lately ive just been using usual unleaded

Howdy! At the moment i have my ae86 sitting on the front lawn with a standard 4ac in it with a busted head... either cracked/warped or blown head gasket, as there is steam coming out of the exhuast, it misses and when i crank it with no plugs it shoots water out the holes.. hahaha Luckily for me, when i bought the car it came with another head that had been rebuilt, port n polished, fitted with dual valve springs and had the compression raised. It also has a custom ground cam in it too(I'm going to find out what the specs are soon). I also received manifold with two fully rebuilt weber carbs on it. I am unsure of what the carbs are though.. is there any markings o…

Hey all, we just took a diff out of a KE70 and I was under the impression it was an S series as that is what I was told. But I would just like to know how to identify an S series vs a T series diff? No doubt theres some easy/obvious differences. Pics may help, but whatever. Cheers!

hi i am looking a building up a car to do a bit of competion khana cross i was wondering which engine out of the 4k and 3k would be more bullet proof in not having major repairs done all the time also i have read the faq but it is not making alot of sense i was wondering what specific things i could do to get better preformance for rallying Thanks

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Hi Guys Does anyone know what if any other engines share the same intake manifold pattern as the 4AC. Wether it be datsun engines, other Toyota ones etc..... Thanks Mike

Hi all, i'm converting my ae71 to manual and have to put the spigot bearing in. I've never done this before so is the bearing meant to be a tight fit in the back of the crank?. On the box for the bearing it says 38x14. I got it from a bearing joint so it should be the right one and i've cleaned the hole it has to go in, but i can't get it in short of belting it in with a hammer. Any ideas? Cheers, Eddie.

hey my carby isnt the best lately ive been having to on a cold startup pump the pump arm of my stock 4k carby to get fuel to the engine for it to start could there be something wrong with my fuel pump or is it the carby? thanks

hey guys, I'm thinking of buying another corolla. to save the trouble of getting the engine tunned or what ever ( only casue I'm spent money on getting my 3k fixed n running sweet) i was planning on swapping my current 3k out of my ke30 which has an auto box and swapping the engines over, both engine wil be 3k's. the 3k which run of the auto box will be going on to a manual. i have no time during the week due to work and the only time i would ahve to do it is over the weekend.. I'm not to mechanicaly minded but know how to do bits n piece ( i aint stupid other wise) what would i need to do the swap and how much time would it take? CAN I DO THIS??? any…

Hey guys just wondering what way you turn the air fuel screw on the carby, if you want to make it rich and make it lean?

Hi all, PRE-EMPTIVE CLIFFNOTES: worked 5k motor is slow, thinking stupid amount of carbs may be the issue. want lump idle back ,and am worried i wont be able to engineer with webers on Looooong time lurker, rare poster here, looking for a little bit of advice I have recently put a worked 5k into my corolla, with the following mods as told by the previous owner: 5k engine, (ex rally car ) balanced, blueprinted, flat top pistons, lots of head work, wild cam ( can't remember all specs but 500thou lift ) custom made valves, pushrods and rocker gear. twin 40mm dcoe webers. Extractors. this was all copied and pasted from a thread on the motor's previo…

Hello does any one know the weight for 4 k pistions?? and i was wondering how much skirt you could take off it before the become unrelable (standed pistions only) and all so has any one tryed grinding there own cam ? i have a spare and the way i figer why pay some one else to do it when i can learn by stuffing it up and trying a difent appproch and learn a bit more plus if i stuff it up it will only reck my valve train i got spares but no money (2 kids and wife) and all most got a launch control hooked up i just need to find some thing that turns 12v 32a pulse (form points) in to a growing frequent voltage the put a varable ristor to a relay to cut the point going to the…

has anyone on here dismantled an sc12 and changed the seals behind the bearings any info on this would be appreciated, and would really like to talk to someone who has done it before if there is anyone apparently the only way to get the bearings out to change the seals is by destroying them or heating them as i have just found on another site, but you need to make them hot like 200-400 degrees ish, to melt the glue to push them out anyway, has anyone done before?

hi guys how are ya. i was just wandering if any one could please help advise me if a ae82 -86 model 4age model hatch corolla front sway bar will fit my ae92 1994 model car ?? iv found one at the wreckers and my car does not have a front sway bar at all,allthough iv fitted a white line strut brace recently to it. any ideas guys please?? thanks cheers glen

Hi All, recently I was given a vacuum gauge and I was jusrt wondering what a vaccum gauge actually tells you. I hooked it up to the line from my vaccum advance on the dizzy that runs to the carb. the vacuum seems to build up when accelerationg until the second butterfly opens it then goes down. is the vaccum just pressure building up between the time of the fiirst opening and the secondary opening??

As per title. 5.5, 6 or 7 inches wide.. What's about/available and what do they cost. Could i get some pictures too? preferably on KE2x's ;) Thanks.

Hi, Does anyone know whether you can get bolt-on spacers/adapters to change your PCD from 114.3 ---> 4 x 100 or vice versa? If so, where? Or any alternatives? Thanks

hey i was just wondering what front springs everyone uses in there ke3x's? my 36 had custom cuts in thr front, and just put some pedders in but the lowest pedders said they had was 1.5" lower and now my car is sitting at least and inch higher then it was before if not more. was just wondering what everyone else uses and what's the lowest ones you can actually buy for them? Cheers Matt

how do you remove a 4age sump? dented and f@$ked from transporting ive undone all the little 10mm bolts that hold it on its droped down about an inch or so and it feels like its grabbing onto something ? could be the baffle any help please as i'm in the middle of the job cheers

hey I'm very new to this whole rolla scene will be getting my rolla back in couple of days but i really want a ke20 just unsure of the interior size like I'm over 6foot tall and not the skinnyest person out just wondering if my dreams are crushed because of my size. My mate has a datto 1200 coupe i fit in the snugly just wondering the comparison between the two??? :)

Hey I need some advice! I'm in the middle of doing a few things to my car. Okay I've got a 2000 Corolla Levin in a metalic dark red. Do I... Silver wipers Silver grill Silver rims or Black grill Dark red or black wipers Black rims or Black grill Silver wipers Silver rims (not much different to what i have now) Or I really don't know what to do! Does anyone have and of there own suggestions??? Ps. I have red calipers at the moment but I'm willing to change them. Thanks Heaps Everyone!!! I'll post pics as I go!

I thought that some people here might find this useful because ordering suspension parts for the front end of AE71 Panno has been a nightmare for me. The parts were listed as fitting KE70/AE71 and as the pictures show, they are different. My car is a 1984 AE71 Panno and the KE70 parts are off a 1982 model sedan. KE70 parts are on the left. AE71 stuff on the right Tyres are 195/50/15 King Springs Low (part no. KFRL-16) and Stock Springs Low (part no. Makita angle grinder) Strut clearance pics of AE71 and KE70 KE70 spring on AE71 Strut

hey i have a problem with my 4age in my 93 rolla idling when the AC is on she idles at about 600-1000 when ac is on and is unstable, she doesnt just sit on 1k or 600 she moves all over the place!!!! does any one know how i can fix this? my 4age uses too much fuel she goes through pretty much a full tank in little over 150ks and i have only a pod in the car, can anyone help on this?

well i first noticed it at the bp, open the cap and "PSSSSHHHHHHHHH" then my old man complained of a bad fuel smell.... any suggestion on a test procedure? i personally think its the charcoal canister is blocked??? thanks people Evan