ke70dave

a guide to driving a modified car on your p plates - -No you can't change engine AT ALL (unless it was a factory option), focus on ensuring that the stnadard engine is in good condition, consider light modifications such as exhaust, carburettion upgrades, port head, new camshaft. these will fly under the radar of a cop. -no you can't add a turbo to the standard engine, or a supercharger, or nos. -no you can't add any mods that require a modification plate/certifiacation (pretty much everything). -focus your attention on suspension and brake modifications, not changing them, but getting them into good condition, lowered springs,sway bars, new bushes and good shocks with good discs, pads and fluid in a corolla, and you will out handle anything. -also focus your attention on a good set of light weight wheels, and buy the most expensive tyres you can afford. -don't drive like a muppet, and if you do get pulled over don't act like a muppet. if you do the above to your ae71, you will probably be faster than a 4age half assed finished ae71s out there. my 2c anywaty.

google it. weight: pipe weighs stuff all, its the shape that gives it its strength. a roll cage is an evenly distributed load as well, thus the weight would be a neglible effect. and generally you get a rollcage because you requrie it to enter a class, you can't avoid the weight, thus i would be ignoring the weight all together. not to mention weight gain, will most likely be out weighed (exuse the pun!) by the effect of the increase in structural regidity of the car.

what size tyre are you looking at buying? And what sort of budget? ($100 the limit?) the federal 595 RSR were pretty awesome for the price ($140 fitted 195/50/r15). Or the bridgeston RE02 are supposed to be pretty good, can get them in most sizes.

the problem is in summer, when it rains...the windscreen fogs up! so you need to use the heater to clear it. so you end up sitting in the car, in more or less a sauna waiting for the windows to defog! thankgoodness for air conditioning.

they look pretty simliar to the Aadvan oni (?) wheels though. which seem reasonably popular. you can't go passed SSR mesh wheels on ke70's. look good.

that orange thing has waaaaaayyyy too much going on.

excellent progress mate. nice tight squeeze there.

you want to keep all 4 tyres the same. a few pointers to fitting wheels to a car. -diamter is not the biggest problem. -width and (most importantly) OFFSET is the problem. -you need to use tyres that suit the width of the wheel. what wheels are you thinking of getting? 16x5.5" 16x6"? 16x7"? 16x8"? 16x9"?

i bought a corolla 6yrs ago as it cost $500 and i could fiddle with it and learn stuff whilst being a poor uni student. finished uni, sold it this year and bought an s15. 2nd best thing i ever did. sold the s15 last week and just bought a new toy....picks up soon :wink: quite posssibly the best thing i ever did (car related anyway) i think if i ever went back to playing with old cars, it would have to be a ground up rebuild (first thing being a full respray...to make it clean!), in a shed, with something other than a corolla (unless it was a TE27). something with some race pedegree...an old escort, a datto 1600, or european.....triumph, mg etc. though ive been researching kit cars lately, mmmm caterham 7.....

the problem is, engineers and their requrirements also vary. there is no consistancy with it all, the rules they go by are guides and generally include a clause that sais "to the engineers discretion" i had a 16V bigport mod plated no problems in ke70, though i did know the engineer..but its a bolt in conversion. the carburetta conversion may be slightly different, as it is no longer a standard engine anymore. you really do need to ring someone up about this, as like i said its up to th engineers discretion alot of the time. which varys. i would guess that you would require emissions testing with that carburetta, but i can only speculate. fuel pump in a the boot is a fail of an idea, either do it all intank, or mount everything under the car (yes its possible, i had a surge tank and 2 pumps mounted under the car) you do not want a noisy smelly fuel pump buzzing away in an enclosed area. i was also told there was no mod plate code for the ae86 suspension/brakes in my ke70, on similar grounds to what little red said. but things might have changed as that was prolly 2yrs ago now.

oh i have a good one. insurance companies! my brother (19yrs old) had his car reversed into by some muppet, smashed the front end all up. (1999? pulsar) took it into get repaired today, all good, insurance pays. he has fully comprehensive, and it was other guys fault etc etc. he was reversed into whilst he was parked. insurance told him he could have a hire car, but to call him once he had dropped the car off at the crash repairs. all good. called them up this morning...oh the car rental people they go through don't give out hire cars to people on their p's. so they said, if my brother could find a car rental that would do it they would pay. we found one, but it costs heaps (being 19yrs old), and insurance wont pay as its too much. they will only pay like 1/3. and my brother doesnt want to pay the rest. (around $100/day for him, and hes a first year apprentice...) so now no hire car......comprehensive insurance...not so comprehensive.

something is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for them. how much do they weigh? did you google it? http://www.comp.co.uk/wheels/wheels.asp?size=13%22+Classic+and+Special+Order+Wheels why not just email the makers? i don't see the exact wheel there, but yours might be an older style.

did you get the head checked before you put it back in when you replaced the headgasket? edit: alloy heads do get cracks, but its usually from corosion. an old 4k i had had a corroded head that leaked, had to get it welded up by the machine shop.

have you also tried undoing both the hoses, and shoving your garden hose on one end, make sure the tap is open, and flush your heater core out? though you said you tried another core..... when it goes cold, you could put your hand on both the heater hoses, see if they are still hot.

New Evanescence album is pretty rockin. pretty much typical Evanescence sound, but better!

which "rolla"? 1968 or 2011?

to be honest your questions are pretty much impossible for us to answer.... Get some pics up (more for my interests sake!) its a ~30yr old car it could be rusted to all getout, or it might be in pretty good working order. as for a new shell, just jump into the for sale section, i think there are a few up forsale now. and you can either do all the work yourself for minimum cost, or get someone to do everything for maximum cost.

maybe no the most beautiful car, but the audi rs6 wagon has some nice lines.

i think i just used a normal 8mm spanner for this job. which i promptly dropped into one rear wheel well....found it about 2yrs after.

castor is also known as 'Dynamic Camber'. essentially when you turn, you wind on more camber at the same time. so you get more camber int he corners, whilst retaining a fairly conservative amount of camber in a straight line to help straight line braking and tyre wear. down side is, the more castor you wind on the more twitchy the car feels.

haha yeah edited....bit of a nasty typo that one. new rule: no posts without pictures! I think the mazda FD rx7 has to be one of the nicest looking non supercar (ie somewhat affordable) late model cars. I'd have one as a weekend car. (even though the stolen photo sais super car, i don't class it as a super car, ie ferrari, lambo etc)

I thought i would start a thread where we could post up photos of cars that we think are just fantastic looking. beautiful looking cars, that you just look and and say "wow that looks good". now id like to try and keep this to factory cars, or only mildly modified. the car could be absolute garbage, unreliable, but if it looks fantastic, post it up. no limit on age, ok go! ill start off with a few of my favourites: Astin Martin DB4GT Zagato (all Astins look good, but this one especially) mercdedes 300 SL triumph TR4a and of course one of the most beautiful cars of all time. the ferraro 250GTO

pft. we engineers don't do maths. We had to do maths to get our degree. almost 18months out of uni, and i reckon i would fail every exam i ever passed at uni.

big question is, how much cash do you have to spend? koni isnt cheap. I'm almost certain they don't make a koni to suit the ke70 front, you will need to use ae86 or similar shock tubes as they are slightly bigger.

damn they have a bloody word for everything. i guess its more evidence that no system is perfect.