Hey guys I'm new here but not to the world of old toyota cars and trucks.My name is Nick and I'm a disabled and retired US Army Scout. I'm married and have a 2 year old son who shares my passion for cars and motorcycles. Ive owned several 4th gen celicas a few mr2s a 89 Camry with a 3sgte swap and a 1979 Celica Supra thats loaded and in amazing shape and a 2010 Corolla S that my wife drives. My daily driver is a 1988 Celica GT4 with 72,XXX mile, its my baby and will most likely be with me till the day i die. I'm in the process of building a 1979 Corolla SR5 Liftback (TE51) that i call Gary lol. The car is in pretty good shape, i am the 3rd owner. The 1st owner was a little old lady who bought it brand new and then she sold it to a high school kid who was going to put it in a demo derby but she made him promise he wouldnt do that so he ended up turning it into a highschool autoshop project and polished the head and repainted the car...badly. Not bad for a highschool kid. The car was originally that nice blue but was repainted a dark navy blue metallic with baby blue flames and racing stripes, a real looker :P after all the body work is done I'm going to pull the motor and replace every gasket and throw a new timing chain and polish up all the aluminium like the valve cover and front engine covers. It seems like i heard that a 1st gen MR2s front struts will fit, is that true? I'd like to upgrade all of the brakes and suspension. The cars lowered 1.5 in. all around but i would like to get her handling and braking better.
I'm having a hard time trying to find the weather stripping for drivers and passenger windows and I'm trying to locate a new dash pad if anyone knows where i can find these things any help would be appreciated. Heres a few pics of my GT4 and my TE51.
here is a link to the album:
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Auvaik/library/1979%20Corolla%20SR5%20Rebuild