Ady

updated with content from the weekend.

Your car has so much more work in it than my car, it's so much neater inside and out. Good on you dude for putting in so much effort, your car looks awesome. Goes pretty good too :P I'm going to upset everyone once my ke70 gets it's new engine conversion though ;)

Ahh good stuff dude :)

Definitely, that's one of my favourite things about the little corolla.

Yeah dude, 3rd gear and ALL the clutch kicks! Lol

I started off buying a white slanty 4age ke70 from SA, left Melton at 5:30am, drove to the other side of adelaide and then drove this corolla back with no heater & a locked r/h/f strut for 7 hours at 4,200rpm. It was standard bodied on 14 inch cressida steel wheels. I cut the springs and fitted a set of rota grids & cheap china tyres then it looked like this. Went drifting with it Decided I'd have a go running it around Winton with my friends in their r33 gtsts, Best time of the day first time ever on the track was 1:52.4 Was hooked on racing so I started to get into any track days I could, I completed a second winton track day, only thing I changed was my tyres (achilles 123) & my rear shocks to keep up with the higher spring rate caused by cutting the springs. Best time the 2nd time out was a 1:48. Third time taking the car out racing was at the Bryant park "haunted hills" hillclimb. Best time of the day was 61.8 seconds. I tried too hard after my 2nd timed run and managed to put it into a tractor tyre wall. Fair ʞ©$ɟed it too. Nek minnit Add BC coilovers Reshell begins, hours and hours and hours of work. Check out how far that rail is pushed up! All ready to race with only minutes to spare before I had to load up to drive to Winton! Done really well in the new car, 1:45 straight off the trailer. (no photos of the car at winton this time sadly) Ran out of guard clearance when I fitted my AJPS LCAs. Got a full cage fitted (don't have a good photo of it) and patched up the rear firewall/parcel shelf to pass scruit at Winton. Ran the new car at Haunted hills again, didnt put it into the wall this time! yeeeeeee. Done a 60.72 lap with a mega ʞ©$ɟed alignment, 20 degrees toe in & over 5 degrees neg camber. BIG thanks to Grant @ Gripshiftslide.com for the awesome photos. Sorted out the mangled guards just in time for my last outing at winton. Went out on sunday to winton and run a PB with the new setup (LCA's and front swaybar + alignment) 1:44.2. I'll put up some more pics once I get them. And that's all for now, All of this has taken place since last august when I bought the white corolla. Update: Went drifting 10/08/13 Done fairly well, everyone loved the car.

I bet the fuel is off

When you pull it up does it feel like there is any tension? The rear brakes may just need adjusting. You can check if the hand brake cable is broken if the brakes are adjusted correctly.

Diff oil is the most foul substance on the planet.

Replace the pump, that means it's faulty.

are you sure it's bottom end knock if it's only doing it for 5 seconds after start up?

get a gregories manual for the car and a torque wrench and if you follow the steps you should get it all done for $300 easy AND you'll know how to do it next time.

sounds like it's rediculously rich to me.

just get the pistons coated until there is a 0.000001" gap between piston & bore and forget about rings all together.

That's a stunner up there in the pic, mine won't be so pretty :P. I'm fairly electronically and mechanically minded,I also know a few of the right people, I also HATE dealing with messes. I'll be putting it together the first time and making it run immaculately, I don't have the coin to do it over and over again so it'll be done right the 1st time (as cheaply as possible, but I don't have to pay for any labour so it won't be hard!).

Hey, my name is Adrian, I'm a mechanic from Melton and I like KE70's lol. At the moment it's a stock 4k with a straight through exhaust to massive chrome cannon LOL, it's also a 5 speed. I've procured a 1JZ and I'm sourcing a gt35 to start off with and we'll see where I go from there. (I don't want to use the twins setup.) Also got a bunch of S13 suspension bits to go in the front of it. I'll be hunting around 300rwkw's and a reasonably stock looking car, wheels and ride height are all I want to change. I'll post some pics up tomorrow, it's nothing special at the moment but I'm about to change that!

KE3x or 5x wagon in red, can't remember the model as its been years since ive seen it. (still own it) Ae80 Holden vy exec Supercharged v6 vy Calais (still own) Soon to be ke70 sedan aswell (will own! :))

Haha, thanks mate =] This site will be my bible over the next few months haha. Yeah I'll be looking for a 7 rib block then, the GZE pistons are forged correct? are the rods forged aswell or just h-beam or something? I definitely like the VY/VZ shape over the more rounded VT/VX shape, I've had all sorts of performance ideas for this car I was going to leave it at; intense stage 3 cam, C.O.M.E stage 3 heads, all the bits and bobs to go with the cam install (valve springs, pushrods, roller tip rockers, lifters etc.), a 77mm pulley and the 3.7 lsd along with a nice mafless tune which would've netted me around 200rwkw's safely and easily uncooled.

Yeah, it keeps up with LS1's and falcon v8's just with the pulley so I'm excited for the diff haha. I've been thinking about buying one with a 4age or 4agze converted to turbo, although I wouldn't care if I had to do it myself as I have a whole workshop complete with hoists and every tool you could think of to do the conversion, but yes it would be easier to get one already done. Also if I had to do it myself I think I'd be going with a 4agze starting point, would a gze be prefered? I'm not 100% clear on the differences between the blocks but I am sure that one of them IS better than the other.

Hey, my name is Adrian, or Ady, I'm a mechanic from Melton in Victoria, I've been lurking this site for a while and made an account the other day and thought I'd just post up my cars. I used to own an '86 AE80 Corolla that was on gas, it was the cheapest thing in the WORLD to run, shattered I got rid of it =< I am however about to get into the KE70 market, I'm gonna put a 4AGTE in it, or buy one already with a 4AGE, doesn't really bother me. This is my L67 engined (factory supercharged v6) Holden VY Calais. I've got a smaller pulley on the supercharger now, 87MM for 10psi boost in the LIM, I'm going to put a 3.7 ratio LSD in it and then leave it at that and get into the KE70. Ady.

Does your mate that had the torque wrench have a set of feeler guages? The gregory's should have the clearance settings. Also glad to hear you gave it a crack! Ady.

haggard as, i love it.

Hey mate, definitely don't put that shit in your radiator, you'll end up with a blocked radiator if you get a leak again and when it hardens up inside a radiator it's basically a throw away instantly. Just do the head gasket it's not that hard use the Gregory's manual and borrow a torque wrench off someone if you don't have one!