General Mechanical

I think that I have read all of the FAQ's and googled more than I normally do at the bar on Friday night and I'm just checking for clarification on a few things. I swapped in a 3k-c into my ke15. I want to port and polish the intake and try to do something with the cam. Can I swap the cam and head from the k-c to the 3k-c? Just trying to see if I can work on the k-c head myself and get it finished/checked by a machine shop while still having a running motor in the car. Also, I have tried to find a cam through all of the parts sources here in the US and cannot find a cam available like the Tighe 112 (i think that was the right #) and I keep seeing something about …

Hey there, my name is james and I'm driving an sr coupe, 5k with cam & 32/36 weber, 5spd, fxgt dash, elec windows, central locking, integra seats, cynos back seats, lowered in progressive springs, re-set leaves and gas shocks, just about to take off the road for paint, air brush and motor polish. well thats me and now for the question. i was hoping to tap into some panelbeater/fabricator expertise. ive just had fi-glass flares made, have plastic side skirts and fi-glass end caps. Can i use bog or nu-tec to blend fi-glass parts in with the body before the new paint job or with heat and time will fi-glass and metal expand at different rates and crack the brand new pain…

Looking to give a standard AE82 h'back a bit of "attitude" on the road. As part of that, I'm looking at Kingsprings superlows (30-35mm lower) but these might be a little too low for my liking. Anyone know of a sort/brand of springs that wont drop the car as much as superlows ? Not planning a body kit at present though. There is a set of 4 new Kingspring superlows on eBay now for $220 - is that a reasonable buy ? thanks.

hey guys don't no if this has been covered before but i was wondering wats involved in putting a 5kc into a ke70? do they bold straight in or what plzz help me out cheers

hey guys ive ran a search but couldnt find anything. if you can find anything please direct me that way :) ive been giving a early model xx ke70 which has been in a front end crash. engine still runs, 5spd which has just been rebuilt. and all new breaks. so now heres my question, seeing my breaks are shit, can i put a ke70 axle in a ke35. without TOO much trouble what will i have to change? will it be too wide? Is this a good idea? is it worth the trouble? cheers jamie :P

hey guys, was just reading thread "new rims on my ke70" and noticed that his left hand rear wheel was rubbing an the guard, my ke70 has been lowered and it does the same, the wheels all have the same off set, is it from the five link rear end, is there a way to fix it cause it is slowy cutting into the tyre, besides rolling the guard. :y:

as title says, can get one for cheap, next to nothen, can it be rejetted to suit a 4k?, it came off a 1.6L gemini motor, which had only extractors, and it ran really well, and if anything was runing a bit lean... i might just grab it just in case, Thanks

Hi all, matt from Townsville, QLD, Australia here. I have a 1983 KE70 CS wagon and the lock on the tail gate has jammed. I've pulled it apart and found that the door release mechanism is fine, it's the lock barrel itself that's jammed. The key won't slide in, it stops about half way. I've tried squirting some lubricant into the lock but no difference. As many of you will know, the lock and door release are in a single unit, so it's pretty annoying. The only way I can open the tail gate is to climb into the car from the rear passenger doors, remove the trim panel from the inside of the tail gate and release the latch by hand. I'm 100% sure that it hasn't been tampered…

Hi Guys, If this is in the wrong section I'm sorry. Hoping someone can help - car is import, based loosely on gt starlet/toyota paseo. Automatic, 1.5L engine. Car is silent when not moving. Some days, I experience a grinding metal noise coming from the front drivers side wheel. Some days there is clunking that makes the car jerk like backfiring, but its clunking, not backfiring. Some days, the car is completely silent. I am a bit concerned as I DID have a hit at the drivers front wheel back in september of last year, but this has come on within the last week or so. At first I thought wheel bearings or maybe brakes and was gearing up to go get the br…

ok just wondering if you can have a sway bar with leaf suspension and if you can how does it work? pics would be helpful cheers, lloyd

hey people i own a ke70 and wanna put 17" chromies on it but am not sure on what i have to do as most hit the strut. do i need newer model struts? spacers? or just the right wheels with the right offset?

before u say use search, i have, and ive read thorugh the write up on it. i got my nikki the other day for nothen, and i got hold of a second gasket today thanks to KE30king at the cruise. i got it all conected up fine, but, i need help on tuning it better how do i know if its running lean or rich?, and also the thottle don't return properly, do i just add a stiffer spring to return it better? any help on this will be great, cause i really need the car to be working properly. thanks

Hi guys, I have a question. Basically, i used to know a panel beater that used to "modify" the exhausts of his cars. As a result, the cars always sounded a bit louder and tough! All with the car's standard exhaust What i want to know is, "is it possible to somehow make the standard exhaust on my ae82 corolla sound a little tougher and "rorty" by doing a few simple modifications? Basically, insurance wont allow me to modiy my car with an aftermarket exhaust, and i can't stand driving a car that has such a wimpy exhaust note. Please help!

Ive found (with my gearbox at least) that if I stop from ~100kmph in 4th or 5th (usually 5th) and just clutch in and stop (if the phones ringing I don't bother down shifting, its faster just to stop), the selector forks jam in gear and I can't change gears until I'm doing ~40kmph. Now as you can imagine taking off in 5th is a real bastard and hard on the clutch. I'm not sure if this is just my gearbox being crap, or its a design flaw in the early T50s. It happened again today, and Id say my box is pretty well rooted this time. 2nd gear syncro works for up shifts but not down shifts now. 5th gear syncro has a metalic grinding noise (def syncro) but still works fine…

ok, got the extractors and 2" all the way with 1 muffler put on yesty. prob is, the car runs like crap, I'm pretty sure its the carby, the idle is rough and drops about 200-300 rpm, and then gains it back plus more, etc etc etc. also there is a big flat spot on acceleration, so I'm guessing the carby is really munted. mate has a weber that i will try when i get the adaptor plate. also, got new rotors put on the front, and the pads are still brand new, was wondering does it take time for the brake pads to adjust to the new rotors?. cause my brakeing power is still really low, thanks

is there a difference with the engine performance from using a contactpoint type of distributor to a cdi? i was planning to put a cdi, but i wasnt sure if how much gain will i have, and if itts worth it to do so

Righty-o. Brought diff center in to Diff Lapping today, Steve took one glance at it (wasn't even a big glance, if I had even blinked I would have thought he didn't even look) and the verdict is, in very technical terms: "mate, it's farked. Can't do anything with it, you need new gears" So yes, picked up a spare diff yesterday, don't know what ratio (forgot to check) but if it's the correct ratio I'm hoping to use those gears with my "LSD" center. Cost to swap gears at shop: $60. Spoke to someone today about swapping the gears, they recon it's a "piece of piss" job, and that as long as I'm using the same gears together (ie pinion and crown etc) and I torque it …

just realised that topics posted in sub-forums don't show up in the "recent posts" home page view. so ... I'm posting a link to my sub-forum topic here so it'll show up in the summary view ... in a nutshell ... I'll be replacing the head-gasket on the 4A-C (AE71) on the weekend and am looking for supporting info - Damm it, but Gregorys don't do a manual for the AE71 and I'm baulking at the idea of buying a later model corolla manual just to get the 4A-C info :P http://www.rollaclub.com/board/index.php?showtopic=5982 cheers, Slapper

this is worth a post of its own I reckon. I've stuffed this into my offline favourites as it looks like it probably shouldn't be online ... so maybe it'll disappear. Looks like a complete late (from our perspective anyway) model 'rolla manual. http://aarc.epnet.com/application/8586/8586.htm enjoy, Slapper

Its almost done. I have just finished mounting the SC12 Supercharger. Next i have to make brackets for the intercooler and plumb it. thought id share what i have is newyears weekend.

I'm sorta tossing up between getting a loan and rebuilding my car il get a better pic up as i have stripped the quarter panels (soon to be engine and gearbox) and the bumper. il apreciate opinions as soon as i can find my digital camera to take pics

ok, thought i thhrow this one out there from across the ditch, does anyone know of a company that makes custom scissor-door kits? ive been trying to find some here and there are plenty of kits for wrx's and evos's etc but no-one does a custom kit to suit my sr. any ideas?

Hello everyone I'm new here, I wanted to find out if anyone knows if a 3A engine would fit into a 79 rolla and if any modificatios would be needed.

hi everyone! I'm alvin from philippines..19yrs old..i had my ke70 since high school...back then it still had its stock 4k motor...modified it and still didnt squeeze enough.. i changed d ngne to 2tg and for only a week, i destroyed the ngne. so i had to use the soch version, 2t. i need ur help guys with how to modify the t50, is it possible to change or upgrade it? what differential can i use for my ke70? its hard to find lsd here in my plce, i don't know what would be bolt on on this car.. help me awt, gotta kip up with hondas, sumhow... the engine itself has been modified even if its a soch only... pnp works, hi-rise headrs..and the very difficult to tune, solex side dr…

its been hard to get the right tune for a twin carb, I'm wondering what and how much is a synchro... where do i buy that stuff? pls help... still holding on my 2t as of now..still tryng to sqeeze more juice out of it.. do u guys have any turbo manifold for 2t? somethiong must be done... :harhar:

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~

this might sound stupid but i just bought a booster out of a ke36 van to do a pajero master cylinder conversion. are they the same as ke35?

i've searched but can't come up with anything. i've just put on series 6 rx7 brakes and i'm after a master cylinder/ booster upgrade for my ke55. has anyone done this? ifso what have they used and what sort of mods are needed? it's just been painted so i don't realy want to go cuting up anything.

Seeing as i just got new Rims what suspension do you guys suggest. I have heard mixeds rumours about monroe and king springs Do pedders make stuff for ke70's and if so how much are we talking. Pricing on this does not matter if you are going to do something you might as well do it properly. So any advice would be grealty appreciated. :hammer:

OK so I've had a problem for a while that my battery runs flat really easily. I was listening to my stereo for like 20 minutes when I waxed my car thisarv, so when I go to start her up she's flat as a tack........ no worries, got a jump start, headed off. Ran alright for a while but then the lights started going dim. So I pull into a side street and let it idle for 10 minutes or so.... pull off and the problem is still just as bad, and after a minute I couldn't even rev the engine without the lights off!! Ran without lights on, trying to get home, but then she won't even run with the lights off entirely and I broke down and had to call mum for a jumpstart again. …

ok gust this is the second time it has happend to me with too difrent type of gauges (split fire) sold (auto meter) new 1 ok i hooked them up as the instructions sed to do // but wen u set your shift light posistin lets say 5000rpm the shift light would flash at 4000rpm but not stay on it would just flicker then wen u hit 5000rpm it would flash and stay on as ment to. just wondering if anny of u guys have had this problem or anny one have a taco and dusent have this problem with your gauges ???

hey guys, well last night while i was out partying in the dark dad decided to go get some maccas, goin there the road under the bridge was flooded, but this usually isnt very deep, so through he goes, and half way across he says it stopped. long story short i asked him how high the water was and he says, ooh lapping up around the bonnet...."did you think of that cold air intake dad?" :) so this mornin he went down took the plugs out and turned her over pissing water all out of it, but she still wont start were assuming its left over water in the cylinders and intake wetting the spark so she wont start.... how do we fix this problem? how do we get her started again? …

Hey People I'm calling on the ke70 guys who have had experince with rims to help me make my mind up. I'm keen on 17x7 Mullins/CSA Pursuit wheels. The PCD is 4x114.3 and offset is +40. The question is will these fit up nice under the gaurds, will i need spacers and are they to big.

got oil in the sparkplug holes....alot of it... i dunno if previous owner spilt oil in 2of them, or its forced its way out of the head... also, what cause a engine to backfire....loud!...is it carby runing too rich? thanks

i just bought a trueno digital gauge cluster and proud to have it, but a problem has come up, i'm not sure if i can convert/install this gauge cluster. has anyone ever put a trueno gauges into there AE71 (or any corolla)? i really need help with this cause my project STI wont be shit without it (i think so). anyone help please.

Sort of flowing on from "The Beast" thread.. How to the Australian clones of Japanese cars compare? eg. The Ford Laser/ Mazda 323. Mechanically? Cosmetic things like panels and interior bits? I'm just keeping an eye for prospective replacements for wagonodeath, and I was wondering if I should consider the local copies as well as the Japanses originals. (mods feel free to move to off topic)

hey all new here ive posted a few times here mainly looken for KE30 parts, umm bout a week ago i bought a bright-ish green KE30 corolla 77 model i think. mods so far stand at a modefied airbox..lol thats all. amm searchin for a few parts but thats in a different section of this forum. have a issue with the brakes, mainly front ones, i have to pretty much put foot to floor to stop and even then its slow to slow down. i have bleed the brakes and done it twice to make sure it was done well, after that it slows down a bit better, if i apply it hard the rear wheels lock up (on gravel driveway) but the fronts down!!... now shouldnt the front brakes have majority of…

I swear I have done this kind of thing before even though it doesn't seem like it. This car is kicking my a$$ everytime I get to the next level with it. The exhaust is done and all seems well with the quality. I go to start the car and I have no spark. It's got to be in the distributor/points/rotor/timing area I think. Here's what I have done: I have checked to see if there is a fuse that could be blown and cannot find one. There is 12v at the coil with the key on and 12v at the ignition lead going into the top of the distributor. I have checked and the timing appears to be right. I cannot find any wires that are cooked/loose. Again, this is a 3k…

well the other day i just found out that the linkage between the throttle spring and the lever that pumps the fuel in is missing. so i figured at the moment it would be good for fuel economy but down on horses. at the moment it is just relying on vacum to suck the fuel through, which is why is i try and accelerate fast it tries to die on me and makes the big slurp sound. my question is, is there any disadvantages in the long run of leaving it as is for a while until i can find/make a replacement? please correct me on anything i havent got right. cheers tom

i installed a gm 4 pin igniter on the 4k in my ke16 today. hooked up as shown in the wiki red wire to the w pin, white wire to the smaller pin marked g.it started but wouldn't rev up.i switched the wires around and after retarding the timing back to 10 btdc it runs great.can anyone clarify?from everything i can find it's backwards but it works.