3KE70

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For Urgent Sale, located in Bowen Hills. 1993 WA Festiva 3 door hatch. 196000kms. No rego or RWC. Large dent in driver's door. Runs beautifully, revs cleanly, easy wheelspin :P. Very light car. Unreasonably good on fuel, could probably do a 3 point turn in most driveways. 4 good tyres, all lights working. No major rust. Even with the big dent in door, window winds all the way down, opens from both handles, locks fine. Don't see it being a roadworthy item. Has all new ignition components. Never overheats. And for the bad. It leaks when it rains, and thus features a mouldy interior which I'm not going to clean, cos it's my sister's car. Has a hole in the exhaust. Doesn't sound fully sick, just shitty. Would need fixing for RWC. Due to sitting for about 6 months, the brakes are hard as a rock, rather ineffective. Again, would need fixing for roadworthy. Buy it for a paddock basher, reliable throwaway transport, or whatever you like. It needs to be gone, so feel free to make offers. Contact me on 0422847730. Cheers, Nathan.

This is awesome.

Are you sure it's a Celica? Where's the rust? But seriously, beaut car man. :laff:

At this point I should reiterate that I know I am a bad person, and that I should feel bad. This is some of the cancer exhibited by the patient... roadworthy is such a malleable term...

Donor and recipient...

Introducing... My 1982 Corolla XX. My 'rolla started life as a lovely little car. With a 4K-C, 5 speed manual, tacho dash, brown velour trim and AC, it was living the life. From what I know, it then went on to become part of a learner fleet. and from there it passed into the hands of a bogan. When I saw the ad on Gumtree for $750, the old familiar rolla itch came back to me. I went and sussed it out; the bogan lived in Ferny Hills, and had been flooded. There was an EA parked on the street that would move no more, it had copped it up to the glass. Their electrics are suss enough at the best of times, without submerging to complicate the picture. The rolla, however, had been parked next to the house, and had only flooded to just above the floor, and sunk 4 inches into the mud. After much coercement, it started, with plumes of blue smoke, and ran like a mongrel. But at least it ran :dance: And as my last rolla was a KE30, I was a little swayed by the 5 speed, and a rear end located by more than leaf springs. But the rust was strong in this one, so I offered bogan $350, and settled on $400. This bought me the car, and a shed full of bits and bobs. Panels, wheels, over 9000 pushrods, 3 sets of taillights all with crumbling plastic, etc... I got all this home on the back of a truck. Once on my driveway, I made all the lights work, and pounded all the rust I could see with a hammer. I then smeared great globs of bog onto all the holes this made, and called a mobile mechanic to inspect the situation. His response was something along the lines of, "You've got to be shitting me..." Next, I asked for Christmas based clemency from Mr RWC. He told me he would come back tomorrow. If it went, steered and stopped, and I gave him $200 (!), and I solemnly promised never to sell it as a going concern, he would write the "Safety" certificate... One thing he stipulated was new pads, linings and wheels cylinders, which I wanted to do anyway. The next day, with much muttering and shaking of the head, and some carb tweaks to turn the plume of oil smoke into a puff, at idle at least, the RWC was written! WIN. Since then, my major goals for the Corolla have been to keep it as far away from any form of scrutiny as possible. I drove it around for a while, before deciding that the engine was too much of a handicap. I parked it and bought my big pimpin Crown. After about 6 months of its devastating fuel consumption, auto, land-yacht handling, and catastophic suspension failures, I longed for the rolla again. Being a clever troll, I had kept the rolla in rego. The search for a replacement motor hadn't even started, when I saw a forlorn KE30 in Wavell Heights. I used to drive forthe Dominos at Kedron, and had seen this car parked there for many moons. When I went past again months later, I realised it had been moved inside the fence. Curiousity got the better of me, and I went and asked what its story was. Turns out the owner had had it for yonks, and loved it, but about a year ago had fallen off a building and broken his neck. Thankfully he was still able to get about, but his motor skills had been impaired enough to prevent him from driving, and his rolla had been laid up ever since. Turns out about 10000 clicks before this, he had shelled out for a full rebuild for the 3K. He would sell the whole lot for a fraction of the rebuilds' cost... I well and truly had my evil hat on now. A dash of fuel down the carby, and a lend of a battery, and the bloody thing started first go. As in literally 3rd revolution of the crank. After not having run for 4 years. I picked it up the next day...

Hey, Thanks for all your replies. Problem solved!!(Onto the next problem...) I took the carby top off, and after much dicking around (related to not having a wide enough screwdriver) managed to get the seat unscrewed. It's only a little mangled :dance: The fine mesh filter that sits on top of it was packed with fine grit. Assembly was the reverse of removal, voila, running 3K. I promptly took it out for a thrash in todays fine Corolla weather, but alas, the slidiness was curtailed by the mongrel refusing to make power over about 3500rpm. I checked the carb again, but no, plenty of fuel coming from both jets now. It's quite strong down low and doesn't misfire, so I'm guessing that it's not an issue with spark, but with timing...

Check, check and check. Tight as a drum. Plenty of brake boost, and plenty of vacuum when I did the hand over intake trick. No hissing or sucking noises when it's running.

Needle? Seat? As you might have gathered from my tentative use of the words float bowl and venturi, I know these things exist and are carb parts, but I have no idea where they are, what they do, what they look like, or how to tell if they're shagged... Thanks for the reply though.

Evening guys. I have just stuck a 3K-C into a KE70; for about a day she went just fine, a good 3 hours total. Prior to insertion, the engine had been out of action for at least a year, but fired up strong and clean; it had been rebuilt prior to being laid up. Fired first go, didn't blow smoke, pulled well up until ~5000rpm, after which it would still rev, but not make power. And now drama has struck. It seems like it keeps running out of fuel; It will start, run for a few seconds, and then die. If you touch the accelerator, it dies. After a few seconds of cranking, it will do this over and over. If I leave it say, half and hour, it might run for 30 seconds? I then realised that if I start it with foot flat to the floor, or the choke fully on, it will rev, and then die until it *almost* stalls and then rev again. Over and over. The first thing I checked was the filter (by bypassing it), no probs. Then the fuel lines to the tank, which I had cleared prior to starting it up; no worries there either. Then the pump; pulled the fuel line off the carb and cranked it, solid jets of fuel came forth. So from that, I'm pretty sure the carb is getting plenty of fuel. Next, I pulled apart as much of the carb as I dared; pulled the top off and drained it, and using a piece of spaghetti hose, blew through every orifice I could see. Took out the ?venturis? (circles with nozzles inside suspended in the airflow) and blew through them. Unscrewed the little brass pinhole things inside the fuel reservoir and blew through them. Wiped all the gunge out of the bottom of the reservoir (?float bowl?). Found nothing that was an obvious obstruction, but as you can tell, I know bugger all about carbs. Reassembled it, exactly the same. Hit it with a good whack of Clean-R-Carb; nothing. Also tried trick I've heard of; getting a big rev up and then sealing mouth of carb with a gloved hand, to create vacuum to suck shit out of the pipes. Also nothing. So at this point, the narrowest diagnosis I can come up with is "carby's f@$ked". Short of just attempting to put a 4k carb on it which I have spare, and playing the guessing game with umpteen spaghetti pipes I have even less of a clue about, I'm out of ideas. Help! Thanks for reading this epic post, any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Nathan

Hey hey, nice to be back, I saw this gem and knew you guys had to have it. See the legendary TRD 137E in all it's glory. 16 valves, directly actuated by chain driven DOHC's. Nippondenso mechanical fuel injection, slide throttle, "dorai soompa" lubrication. 1.3 naturally aspirated litres making 180PS @ 9500rpm... I would crawl through broken glass for a KE35 with one of these suckers under the bonnet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoLi8NZJYu0...player_embedded and the blog it came from; it was the next video recommended after the one with the Tomei Sunny (also a nice piece of old racecar porn). http://beeoneoneoh.wordpress.com/ But anyway, Hi everybody, I'm Nathan. Used to be on here as CorollaTestPilot, but that was years ago, and I've forgotten the login :bash: Took a hiatus from Rollaclub when I took a hiatus from 'rollas; bought me a manual E34 535is. Beautiful car, superior in every way to a Corolla, except for the very reasons we love 'rollas so much; Weight, fuel consumption, susceptibility to failure (and price of the German plastic needed to rectify said failures...). Drove it up the arse of a Commodore whilst delivering pizzas 6 months later :yes: I've been languishing in an MS112 for about a year now, whilst I've set about re-powering a KE70 with a rebuilt 3K. With the swap now good to go, I reckon it's time I started hanging out here more often. Cheers.