philbey

Yeh get into it that thing is cool

regardless of the time and money for little gain, messing with K engines in definitely great fun.

Just another tip, I had an AE86 with a nasty pull in one direction, turned out one of the pins the caliper slides on had got shit in there and wasn't closing properly, so it'd be worth taking a look over them as well.

under 500, tell me more. I've been hanging for a good cheap ignition controller that I can fiddle my advance curve with!

100 bucks each I paid for both of mine, in pieces, in boxes. Complete though. I'd pay up to 500 for a runner depending on condition of engine etc. As for interchangeable parts, most bits fit. Pistons bigger and dished, crank same as 4K, heads are different, but mostly yes.

Do you want to do it properly or do you want to just make them bigger so you sleep better at night? Because TW will flow it and port it properly for that couple of hundred dollars.

TW Engineering port matched my head to my inlet manifold, opened it up to about 33mm. Unit D/ 140 Tolley Rd St Agnes SA 5097 - (08) 8263 6311

Yeh I'd buy a secondhand aircon from a wreckers and get it rebuilt if I were you. As for the Thermofan, just spend the money and buy a davies craig thermo, they cost more but It'll be more reliable than the chinese rubbish supercheap sell.

what seatbelts did you use? Retractables? I put a mount into mine for a retractable.

looking at horsepowerinabox.com.au the MSD with rev limiter (using chips what is this 1978) is 100 bucks more than the crane unit with built in dial rev limiter.

yeh lets just call it quits there everyone, too much angst flying around now.

pffft levitation is wack. the best blokes don't even need to move, the world just arranges itself around me so that I'm where I want to be.

nope it's driven off the distributor so you don't need it out.

Top job man, you've just advertised your killswitch location all over the internet!

Correct, mechanincal kickdown only on the toyoglide. Pedal box is an easy switch over if you can find one. There's a dude wrecking a KE11 at the moment be worth dropping him a line.

After living for 7 years in melbourne, I call bullshit on this one Luke. But anyway, I've often wondered why this is, and I'd say almost definitely the lack of roadworthies (a la melbourne) or yearly inspections (NSW?) is the reason there's still so many getting around.

and if people "bump" their shitty chopped spring, dirty piece of shit R31/flat blacked KE70/fuuuuuull sick commonwhore within 72 hours, their thread gets locked.

Man I have to ask, are the ke15's as painful to fuel up as the KE16? Because mine is a dog to get full and when you do it you gotta be on your game to make sure you don't ge eau de petroleum before you head out with the lady...

Cam looking good mate. I'm keen to see how you go with the KE1x aircon as well, I'm keen to get one in mine some day. I've got a whiteline swaybar ready to fit to mine as well, but most people I know have had it foul with the discs on full lock. By the way, sorry i didn't catch you when you were in adelaide the other week man, I didn't spot it in my Pm's until the monday. More notice next time man!

Yeh sorry I meant in adelaide. They've probably all done toyota work but I doubt you'll find anyone for whom toyota stuff is their bread and butter.

Alrighty then, You've got a recon engine, I would advise you to stay well clear of pulling the head off; if it's freshly rebuilt, as soon as you pull a head off you'll need a new head gasket and head skimmed. Leave it for the moment. Felix is dead right, the best place to start is with a camshaft change. You've got the exahust and extractors, so the next logical step is a mild-warm street grind. 1- Hydraulic lifters or Solids? You'll need to identify them, if you don't know, speak up. It's not that hard to tell. 2- Find a spare camshaft and lifters to match; you'll need to know which of the above you have and get the right one. 3- Research cams, there's lots of great info on them on the internet. Get familiar with the following terms; lift, duration, overlap etc. Once you've done that, there's a bunch of discussion on the Rollaclub about what grinds work for corollas. 4- Decide which sounds right for you, call the Cam grinder (Tighe, Wade etc), send your cam and lifters to them. Wait a couple of weeks, check letterbox. So far you've only spent ~150 bucks tops, and you're a bit more well read 5- Time to bite the bullet; To swap a cam isn't that hard, but I wont go into that now. A workshop manual will give you loads of info. Even a beginner should manage to swap a cam in a weekend, and as long as you check and double check, it's pretty hard to get it wrong. When you get to 5, let us know. Changing a cam, from my point of view, is the best option now, because you can get big gains without too much intrusive work. Head work is a waste of time with a stock camshaft and will be much more expensive.

You're unlikely to find a "toyota specialist" for a port and polish, the bread and butter work for P&P is going to be v8 guys. At the end of the day if you want it to flow good HP, you need an engine builder that's going to flow bench test it. I'd go and see TW Engineering in St Agnes for this, I've used them and they're good blokes. Rodders, they fiddle with a lot of V8's but also build RB26's etx.

Oil pump should just slide out once you've got the bolt (it's just one isn't it I can't remember) off.

Most reports will tell you that they're much more easy and reliable to get started in the morning and if you've got any minor gremlins, you'll probably find it to be a little smoother running. Don't expect any real HP Gains, although you may get some. Also, I did a lot of research and I reckon (although not tested) that the Crane Cams Hi-6 is a better unit than the MSD, it's a digital unit instead of some wacky analogue circuitry, and it's rev-limiter setup is MUCH better than the stupid MSD unit; MSD you need to pull out the little chips and swap them over, the Crane has a simple little dial. EDIT - The crane unit is also cheaper, and it has a better timing module add on as well.

Damn no info. Still chasing valve springs, looks like I'll get a set of V8 ones so there'll be a second set available. BUT if anyone can get me some measurements of retainers/spring dia's/etc from a 3/4k that'd be the ducks nuts.