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Bought a AE111 Trueno sight unseen drove her home from QLD could not be happier!! Had 50thou kms on the clock, now up to about 77thou, never missed a beat and such a zipply little machine, mine is no superstrut, have fortune auto coilovers and handles like its on rails, so amazing.

Just a bit of delicious for your thursday evening! and latest update, which was a while ago now. (and i also have carbon engine covers now that arent pictured)

the purple ke30 may be Clints Haze, he sold her off a month or so ago. no one ever spots me cos no one knows what an ae111 is, plus i always see old timers, seen a few ke3X wags and of course plenty cool kids in kesevs =] occasional ke30, couple times even some coupes!!

Just some snaps from a nice Sunday drive

Yeah he still haze haze.

i do still have a corolla for cruising, lol I'm not an outsider anymore, i guess I'm not old school enough anymore :P

i wish it was just prep and paint, is rust repairs and i really want a new quarter from where it was hit as its full of evil bog.

Hey everyone i guess its time i gave you a crumb of something to hold onto with this car. Truth is i kinda got over it and its sat since the day it got to my mums pretty much. When you have no one to help and no one that is interested in it, thats what happens, i had almost thought of selling her as she sits but i can't bring myself to do that. I hope that within a year or so that i will get back into it, but not untill it is relocated somewhere more suitable. I now have more finances behind me than i did as an apprentice. i just seem to find myself busy with other things now. I hope that i can be welcomed back into the rollaclub community as i used to be a huge part of it, and i am back in a corolla technically, just one that most of you arent interested in. Anyways, hopefully there will be revival for this old girl soon, but when there is i doubt it will be anything like what i thought it would be before. Plus once you have had a 4AGE, you never go back. ;)

This thing is wikid. I have alot of love for the Ke10's and Ke11's. I read through the whole thread, id forgotten about it as i did comment a few years ago on it about the black behind the lights it just cleans it up and makes the grill POP. I miss having a cool old rolla, well i still have one but i don't get to work on it. Gives me inspiration for when i finally get back into it, Plus your dad is clearly a champ, your very lucky to have someone that is willing to work just as hard as you to get it where you want it!

Its a 1998. I think the trueno has nice upgrades from the levin too black surrounds in the lights etc. This year is a "facelift" model so has different lights and bar etc to earlier years. I love how aggresive and sporty it looks and feels. Plus who doesnt want a 4AGE with ITB's.

Here is a few snaps from a late night fang a few weeks ago.

it wasnt too bad converting it, we got all the odds and ends like lines and linkage and stuff outt a a manual ae101 (think it was a nova but same same) runs fine with the auto ecu. not many updates on this beastie yet, got the wheels on her now thou and also removed all but the toyota badge from the back end, so much nicer lookin now. Been super busy working on the chaser as i was given less than a month to get it resprayed for AJD but it made it there!

So latest updates, well i got the tints redone last weekend and so happy with them!! And today i recieved some goodies in the mail all the way from Japan and because I'm not the kind of person to waste anytime here are some pics :D And ive also just installed my square number plates but no photos of that =]

So latest update, finally registered in SA. Had to rip the tints off but apart from that all was sweet, and as soon as we were home coilovers went in XD much sportier now, but still not as harsh as the cressy is thankfully. Will get tints redone next weekend, wheels will come soon i hope. Good cut n polish and a thorough wash and she will be ready for some photos.

keen if ae111's are accepted :P

wrong one. bolt holes were no where near and the hole in the middle was much larger, was just a case of is not the right part.

So an update is due the slush box is gone =] It was a new experience for me completely as ive not done anything like it before but it was fun. There were a few hiccups with parts and stuff but thats life. So the first milestone was getting the slush box out which we achieved without too much trouble. The next thing to do was to strip out the flex plate? and replace with a flywheel and clutch, well thats all well and good but the flywheel supplied with the gearbox was completely not the right one, not even close, so we pinched the one of my partners ae93 20v so now i have a lightened flywheel, and then figured may as well use the hd clutch from his car also, the one we got with the box was fine but figured what the hell. Then was the pain in the ass of getting the box onto the motor, after much swearing we got there, the motor angle was all wrong and I'm sure my partner wished he had a dude to help but he was stuck with me. Then was the next issue. The rear gearbox mount, or side i don't know. the one closest to the battery. well the auto mount has no hope of fitting, so we went to u pull it and got a manual mount of an ae101, still no good as ae101's have the top part of the bracket spot welded to the chassis so a bit of time with a grinder and a welder we managed to make our own, using the auto gearbox mount and a piece of the manual mount. was a great coincidence that the auto mount hole lined up with a hole on the box which made life much easier. After we had the box in my partner finally let me start to work on the interior components, so firstly i got the linkages in and he got them hooked up on the box. We then has tonnes of fun drilling into the firewall for the clutch master, being sarcastic no fun at all. had to drill from the inside of the car as there was zilch room even with the itb cover and one of the plastic trumpets out of the way a drill was never going to go in there. After this i then got the clutch pedal mounted, when we bled it found id forgotten to do the top bolt, discovered as the firewall flexed like crazy so had another look and felt pretty stupid. The brake pedal was a whole other headache, because i assumed i just needed the pedal it didnt fit properly and gave me all kinds of headaches so we ended up just cutting down the auto pedal to suit. I gave it a bit of a bend in the press as its kinked to get it further from the accelerator, i probably only moved it about a cm closer, and didnt really need to at all but i did anyway. Now to the wiring, well speedo was easy the auto plug fits the manual box, simple. As was the neutral switch found the wired attached them together and no problemo. The only thing we havent finished is the reverse lights as we couldnt get it working, but with a little hunting for the correct wiring info I'm sure it wont be too hard. Put her all back togeteher and got the fluids in her and took her for a spin, F&*K me they fly. After having a ke55 with practically no power this thing is like a rocket, even compared to my cressy, but we wont go there. The syncros are a little worn but for how i drive most of the time its not that noticeable.

some 20bolt eye candy for you all. and a view of my half stripped intereior. had to sus bolts for shifter to make sure we got the right linkages for the manzy.

Yeah. There are wheels around they are just expensive or crap :P but I'm sure ill find something soon. I am a fan of an aggressive stance and thats the big problem here. Lol. Yeah. The more i drive it the more i love it. Going to take it thru rego transfer this friday so we can get coilys in asap. Has a seized shock in the back so is a bit bouncy. Lol.

Terry picked us up at the airport and went to a servo to do papers and such. And i meant the 1st. I'm all muddled with my dates. Haha. But yeah. Its a beauty to drive didnt skip a beat on the drive home and was surprisingly comfy to sleep in.

Wow small world. We picked it up on the 5th thou? And yes is an import and 90% sure theyre genuine kms as it drives like brand new and motor is super tidy. Not sure whats happening with the auto gear as of yet. Wheels. Well its hard to find anything with good ofset not requiring spacers but new i did find some ssr sp3's but a bit more than i wanna spend. Other styles are thin multispokes. But most have around +40 offset and I'm after around a +25 in a 16X7.5

Hey everyone I'm back, and in a corolla again finally! Here is the new beast a stock as ae111 sprinter trueno. Bought her from QLD and drove her the 2000k's back home last weekend. She only has 54,000ks on her and is pretty tidy, the inside more so than the paint anyway (lucky I'm an ex painter and can work some magic on her) The only downside is that she is currently an auto, but we bought a gearbox clutch and flywheel with her and sourced the rest of the manual gear of an ae101 last weekend and bought new clutch master and slave yesterday so the conversion will be starting next weekend (have a jzx100 cruise today so this weekends no go) can't wait so over driving autos after having the cressida for so long! Other plans apart from the conversion is obviously a bit of low down and some new shoes! Have got some coilys that were destined for partners ae93 racecar but fairly sure they are a straight bolt into the sprinter, so ill be stealing them. Ive already thrown the stock crap speakers in the bin and the ancient stereo someone put in it is in the bin also. I got some pioneer and alpine bits to replace, and may take the sub out the cressy if no one wants to pay extra for me to leave it there as its only a couple weeks old. Ne way here is a couple shitty iphone photos more will come in time =]

week before last: in thailand spotted two ke30's in desperate need of some tlc wednesday: spotted a garbage truck trying to ride off my cressida! friday: spotted a beige ke70 with quads on grand junction road near port road end and last night spotted a ke30 so rusty that the number plate light cover was seethru!

square lights for the win, and i prefer these bars over the shorter ones... you can't say this doesnt look sick! minus the ghey rear spoiler of course, but still.

i got a 5k sittin in the shed ;P