General Mechanical

So I have installed a 4age with jdm t40 bellhousing & ta22 t50 into my ke20. I have installed the clutch master from ta22, and the slave cylinder from the original 4age fwd box. it is sort of working in so much that i push the pedal and the slave cylinder moves.. but not enough.. it needs to travel at least double the amount it is currently travelling to disengage clutch properly. looking at the adm ta22 slave cylinder it is smaller in length to the fwd one i have used, so i am assuming (because i have never really worked on hydro clutch before) that my master cylinder is too small to push the slave cylinder far enough. Is that likely? I really wou…

Spoke to my engineer last night, and I think I'm going to start "accumulating" parts to do the hydrolic handbrake. What bore master cylinder do people usually use? Will be using this with the Bluebird TRX disc brake rear end...

hey all.....when i bought my rolla the dash foam had been ripped out and it was just the metal....as it is now...anyway i wanna buy some new dashfoam but i really can't figure out how to take the top plastic bit that sits over the back of the foam....also i errrr took out the original seats and bought supra reclining bucket seats :P had the rails from the rolla seats welded to the supra seats but now i can't find the nuts/bolts for the seats!!! does any1 kno the thread size of the 2 front bolts n then the 2 rear nuts ( the nuts for the bolts that can't come out of the rail...) I'm not expecting anyone to know the sizes but any help is great... cheers all …

hey everyone, yes (like the title explains) i know this has prob been asked and you will all say use the search button etc etc, and well i did but didnt find much.. i am chasing the efi unit, like manifold ecu wiring etc etc to convert my 4k-c into a 4k-e.. i would also like to ask a few questions about this, such as, will i need engineers cert? would i need to make any other modifications, and also and most important one.. where can i find one? and what price am i looking at to pay for one of these? thanks guys.. cheerz Carl :P

Hey all Was working on my ae86 the other day and put the keys down.. now i can't find them anymore and i only had one key! garghhh Does anyone know if any of the ignition barrels/locks are swappable from other toyotas/cars? i have never seen a ae86 at a wreckers.. so i'm wondering if i can take it out of anythign else?! Thanks!

heres a few pics of my flexplate that was replaced today.... well.. whats left of it.... and again up close..... mechanic said he's never even seen his race car do that to a flex plate.

was reading on here, a guy got all the parts from ke55 to do a manual conversion to his ke55 auto. and the shifter didnt line up? he tried with the ke70 box and it lined up nicely? is this correct? need a ke70 box to do a manual conversion to my ke55? advice and info pleaseeee thanks evan

Hi all, I need the part number for a 3k bigport manifold gasket (gasket that goes between the manifolds and the head (inlet & exhaust)), I've done a search of the forum and typed in "3k bigport manifold gasket part number" but to no avail, my local parts guy doesn't know what i'm on about, supercheap and repco are just a bunch of F#*&%$!ds, either that or if someone could tell me the exact model of corolla they came out in, Thanks in advance, cheers phatke30!

Hey everyone, I am in the process of fully rebuilding my 74 Ke20. It has the stock 3K engine in it, well i pulled it out last week, and the original 4 speed box in it. I got a manifold for a twin weber carb and a twin weber card for it. Any suggestions for a cheap power fix until i can afford for sr20DET conversion?

My girlfriend has a '88 Corolla 4 door. I has about 115k on it, and was just in for a tune, also the exhaust was replaced. Since then, the car seems to be running rich, and idling low, the gas mileage has dropped from 50-60mpg down to 29-30 mpg. Any thoughts on what the issue might be? Bad injectors maybe?

is anyone on the gold coast willing to let me test fit 2 of there 15x8 either 0 offset or somthing like -4 to my ke70 i need to see if i have flared the guards enough -ill pay you -ican contact me on 0401356855 cheers luke

Right, just need another brain to confirm that Ive cooked my ECU. Yesterday I was trying to fix my head light when I blew some fuses, but think I blew more than that. For a bit I had limp home mode, but then everything died, no engine light, no fuel prime, nothing. All other electrics, lights, stereo, heater etc are all still fine. Pulled the ECU out and it just revs as if it was still plugged. Anyone got one I could borrow and perhaps buy if it fixes it? Cheers

the yella terra went into the shop today and had the new drivers door fitted (when i got backed into) and it looks brand new, they did a great job.....until you look at the rest of the car and it looks crap, just doesn't look right. so i think i have to start rubbing it back and painting it. it just looks funny *points and laughs at yella* will post pics in a couple of days when housemate comes back with camera

Hay guys the nuts thing happened to me today!! i finally got off my fat ass and put a motor in my 70 wagon!! Anyways got it all in there an running pretty easy only took about 5 hours to do complete change over!! once it was running for about 5 mins i turned it off started packing up my tools to notice that there was smoke pouring out of the engine!! HOLLY f@$k!! I thought as i ran to see that the positive going from the batt to the starter was melting an every other wire around it!! There was so much smoke my hole shed duched in like seconds!! I couldn't get the positive clamp off the batt cause i did it up so i had to cut the positive wire with some plyers!! Ill try to…

ok heres the go, i have a ke70 corolla which has a fire breathing 4k, serious power there, but all those 30 kilowatts have told me that i need more, so i am askin what would go well. ive looked at 4a, but al;l the good ones are fwd and not all that great, what would fit with only a bit of stuffing around and give me some serious road-drivable power? thanks guys ~andrew~

I'm thinking i want to paint the centre of my simmons gun metal grey, (currently alloy) and i was just wondering if any one has unbolted the outer rims off these things. They are b45s if it makes any difference.Will it make the out of balance or centre or anything. Will i need to etch prime them as well? Thanks guys!

Hey all, I've just done a search on here and came up with a thousand topics........................... Question- How on earth do i remove all of the sound proofing/body deadening from the floor inside my rolla? i'd be buggered if i'm going to spend two days with a screw driver slowly picking away at it. I've been told that i need to use some sort of heat gun? WTF? Any help would be greatly appreciated! cheers phatke30!

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…

Just discovered this page today, and oh what a relief. there actually IS people out there that are experiencing what i thought was rare. the feeling of an old, rear wheel drive corolla, a pissy engine, and yet still a giant smile on their dial. =D anywho, i'm 19, my name is nigel, i live in adelaide and this is my rolla its a 1984 Toyota Corolla CS sedan, KE70 with a 4K 1.3L engine its done 245,000km, been serviced on a regular basis, and has almost imaculate bodywork. the only modifications that i have made so far are: - new seat covers (let me know what brand to buy to fit the damned rear bench seat) - pioneer sound system - it once had a back l…

sorry guys i know it's not a corolla but it's still a toyota haha! the car is a 2.4 EFI corona, just wondering about idea's for custom home-made intakes some of you blokes have done or seen. Looking at building one my self as i find doing crafty stuff like that fun. i'm basically asking about what's been used, what size piping, how it was routed, gain or loss of power etc (yeah i know it's an intake and i won't gain 100 hp but it's just a little extra). if i go too big of an intake will i need to retune my motor to put more fuel in to cope with the extra air coming in? sorry about all the questions google just hates me! i've included 2 photo's to show my current sto…

Ok so yesterday and today I was out in Stanthorpe on my parents property (dirt track most of the way (ofcourse I would've done a silly thing or two to see what it had) on the way back the idle was fine, idled at about 800, got to my little brothers godmothers house to see how she was, had to move the car out of the road of another car, it was fine, had trouble as usual trying to keep it idle when first kicked over, but it was fine, got one the road again, still fine, on they way home it was idleing a bit low, went out again and it stalled, but was going down fear and just coming off of the clutch so it kicked over again, then it just stopped idleing pretty much and was ei…

I will readily admit up front I know very little about carbys, so please go easy if I sound like a bit of a tard! I have a KE35 with a 4k block and 3k head in it. It generally runs quite well, but it won't idle for crap. Generally it will idle ok for a few seconds (sometimes a minute or two), then will start to shake and miss a bit, and then just stall completely. Sometimes it will try and stall as soon as I engage the clutch when slowing down for lights etc, although if I just let the clutch out and roll start it, it will generally idle happily for a little while. If I sit with my foot on the accelerator a bit (sitting at 1500+ rpm) it will sit quite happily inde…

Hi, Need some mind power by some gurus on here to help me with my idle issue... The other day was driving my KE11 and when crusing down a road at any speed if I jumped off the noise pedal car would pop a bit (so lean out pops ok all cool). Pops started to get more frequent when off the throttel so I figured car running a tad lean. Then BOOM car stopped ideling. But when driving with throttel open 100% fine. So I did the whole undo idel screw blow some compressed air in to clear idle jets spray in some carby cleaner put screw back in. Toyota specs say start at 3 turns off shut. Due to a semi mild cam (kicks in around 3500RPM) my idel screw is 3 and 3/4 off seat…

hi a few days ago i put a rebuilt carb on my 3k but now it idles high and there dosent seem to be any leaks or anything... help anyone? ;)

Hi All, Previously i made a post regarding some fuel pump decisions i had to make, i opted for the mechanical pump for reliability and ease of installation, pump went in a treat and there was a noticeable improvement on the first start however now the car is struggling to idle. Not idling at all would be a better way of putting it. this was my first time playing with fuel systems so has anyone got a tip or suggestion as to why this may be happening and how i would go about achieving a solid idle again. I am going to play around with the timing this weekend also as it may be up to that but i figured it wouldnt hurt to gather some other opinions. Cheers

Hi i have recently rebuilt my 4age ae82 twin cam engine with 4agze pistons. standard throttle body got the inlet whole port and polished along with the head and some lil mods to the butter flys that open and close. hks cams and gears not sure of specs have them written on the cam sheet gotta dig it out but I'm looking at getting it dynoed. can they change any think or over ride any setting in the computer to make it faster or any thing like that ect ? looking at fitting super charger in the future thats why i went with stronger pistons and all that sorta stuff.. please any info would be great cheers

Hey everyone, So I've swapped out my old points dizzy for a new electronic one with an internal ignitor. It runs fine and everything but the ballast resistor is causing issues, occasionally the engine dies and I just have to fiddle with the connections on the ballast resistor and off it goes again. I've just had a quick google about upgrading points dizzies to electronic ones and from what I've read you no longer need the ballast resistor once you've upgraded to an electronic dizzy as the resistor is just to prolong the life of the points. So tomorrow I'm going to remove the ballast resistor, but now I'm wondering, will I need to upgrade the coil as the voltage would inc…

I'm running a 4K 1300 ke 20 and I can't seem to get the car to start eventually i can but its taking ages like 15minutes of be pedal down and pumping with the choke on and off. I poped the bonnet and i expected the new fuel filter i bought to be full of fuel but its half full so am i right in assuming theres a blockage somewhere in the fuel lines? any advice or tips or the solution would be much appreciated guys or if it could be something else... cheers

hey all I'm having trouble with my ignition i started the car once and left if to warm up came back to find it had stalled went to start it again and ran for a tiny bit but assoon as i let go of the key it cut out. it done this several times i just thought bugger the fuels gone. tryed again once i got it to flat ground done the same thing then i noticed that if i turn it over and then hold the key half way between ON and START just anuf for the starter to cut out that it would run fine but once i let go of the key it cuts out!! :D help would be much appreciated cheers scott.

hey all i need help was sold a coil and ignitor, apparently for my smallport. problem is - were having troubles identifying exactly what the 4 wires correspond to... we have every single wiring diagram and pin out diagram the internet can host in several hours of foruming and googling! apparently smallport ignitors arent supposed to have 4 wires either... apparently? do i have a camry ignitor or something? or should i stop listening to my mates who say my shit is wrong? can anyone confirm this? HELP!

Hi, In a few months I plan to build a mild 5k for my car. For a while I have been considering different options for my build, but had not thought about rockers much. I know of some people who build holden 6s and similar era engines, and one of the mods they do is to install roller-rockers and up the rocker ratio. This aims to have the valve accelerating off the valve seat faster, and to produce reasonable power without having to run huge lift in a street car engine (that would result in rapid wear and lack of driveability). Has anyone tried/considered altering the rocker setup in a k motor, and are there any of these parts around for such a small engine?

Independent rear differential conversion 1979 KE30 I am wanting to put independent rear suspension in my KE30 and am wandering if anyone has any pics of successful builds or any tips offered would be greatly appreciated. I would like to keep the build toyota and gain an lsd in the process. Thanks in advance...

Got the 5K driving finally. Driven a few times with no filters (they're coming...). The exhaust note is wicked, nothing too intrusive, but the bloody induction noise is really quite staggering (Twin DHLA 40's). I don't expect it to change too much, but has anyone noticed whether Ramflo's/Unifilters make much reduction in intake noise? It still needs a bit of tuning here and there which might alter it. What have other people done to quieten there twins down? I'm thinking of making up an Airbox for it with a pod. Let me know. TP

Hey people, I got a 1980 t18 lift back with a 3t-c motor and a 5 speed manual gearbox. Does anyone know what motor will bolt staight in, because the motor in mine is blown and i just wanna get it up and running for the moment so i can drive it. Cheapest option possible at the moment. Thanks

Hey guys, I'm currently revising some of the info in the FAQ in regards to the K-T50 gearbox options. All I want to know is: Does a T18 T50 gearbox have a 20 spline output like a TA22, or a 22 spline like an AE71/AE86???? Would like an answer asap so I can include it! :dance: Cheers, Si.

do ALL 5K motors have hydraulic tappets? are 3K and 5K rocker covers and distributors identical and interchangeable ? were 5K motors standard equipment on any Aust delivered cars? when were 5K's first and last built approximately? any help would be much appreciated, thanks pete

Hi, Other day I got a few parts off NOPSI that used to be Super Jamie parts. In the box there are some good condition pistons missing the toyota logao and have 040 stamped ont eh top. I am thinking there 40 thou over sized pistons for a 4K but I have a picture here for you buys to have a look and see what you think about them. Also What is the logo inside the piston from could that be the brand? Ok now for the jig. This jig was int he box with pistons and push rods so by the looks of it and a guess it looks like aperfect rig to put conrods on to see if there the right size. My guess is that. But why would you need a jig for your conrods? As I know it isnt a ji…

I'm having issues with my idle, it's jumping around between 600 and 1000 rpm all new plugs, dizzy,leads, coil, points, rotor, reconditioned carby about 8000 kms ago. What would be causing it?? Would it be vacuum related? By the way it's a 1978 ke55 4kc with a 5 speed And after market air filter and I changed the oil/filter about an hour ago no difference

last night i found some injector specs on google for yoda modas engine / inj colour / cc/min / impedance 4ke / light green / 145 / 2.4 1g / green / 145 / 2.4 4age / dark grey / 182 / 2.0 3sfe / dark grey / 200 / 1.7 22re / orange / 200 / …

Hey guys.. just built a 4agte.. I'm after new injectors but are unaware of which will suit and be bigger enough.. i'm after 550-650cc was told mitshibishi magna blue 1's.. are good ? any help please