silverra23

Hopefully see a few of you tomorrow :y:

Finally all back together! Have replaced the ball joints and outer tie rods as they crapped out when I was fitting things back together. I haven't yet got hold of my AE86 power steering knuckles yet. Being dicked around by the guy organising them for me. :y: I ended up fitting Ferodo DS3000 front pads as they are better suited to cold stops that you experience in hillclimbing. Purchased from Competition Friction and the part number is FCP167R if any one needs it. I had to run a drill through the brake pin slots to get them to fit, but nothing of significance. Anyways here is the final run down. Strut painted and ready to be bolted in. Decided not to run the helper springs that come with the Otomoto kit. How does the camber look? Will be interesting to see what it comes up as when I get a wheel alignment done. Camber top is basically one notch from the most extreme setting. The 4 stainless lock bolts are too long and are crashing into the top spring hat so I will need to replace them with shorter ones that don't protrude so far out from the under side of the strut top. Car looks awesome with its new wheels and stance If I was doing it again I think I would have gone to the extra effort of shortening the strut housings and using a short stroke shock. A lot of my shock travel is not going to be used, and the springs are a long way from captive. Not a biggie on a race car, but if it was a road car it would not be a good thing. I just need to bleed the brakes properly and take it for a run and see how it goes. I would probably have been all OK to run at Rob Roy Hillclimb tomorrow, but I still need a volunteer to pump the brake pedal for me while I do a final brake bleed, replace the front tyres with some of my free ones, along with a decent wheel alignment. Not competing at Rob Roy as advantages though. I told one of my colleagues I was going and suggested I should take the sportscars our sister company Elfin makes and show it off to the club racers. They said yes, so I am getting around in this for the weekend. 2.0L turbo, 780kgs, awesome!! More pics of the Elfin here Elfin Photos

Antony welds the sleeves to your strut housing, and shortens the housing too if that is what you are after to allow lower ride height and shorter stroke shocks. Actually assembly of everything is up to you, but thats a piece of piss.

So if I strip down to my silk undies I will be allowed in?

Love your car fellow Corolla racer :y:

Someone could ship kings to you pretty easy? Or get a local spring works to make them to your specs..or compress your current ones?

Another option. Buy the coil over kit from Ototomoto - $300. Includes sleeve, springs, adujsters, platforms and tools. Have my mate Antony do the work for $200. You just need to work out what insert you are running and away you go. You know you could have asked all these questions in one go, and probably found all the answers with a search. Mods here don't like the same question asked 11 billion times :y:

Cusco do make them and they are excellent. There is a guy in SA that you can buy them from. PM me for his details.

There seems to be about a hundred thread on this at the moment. Benefits of XT130 strut in a ke55 is bigger brakes and better strut insert options. Not extra camber. The XT130 LCA is the same lenght as the KE55 one. Details of my conversion to this in my KE35 race car are in my thread - link in signature below. However to summarise on things to think about. What spring and strut top combo are you using - Ones off your Corolla? If yes then you will need to get the Corolla bottom spring platform welded on to the XT130 strut housing. Or get a spring custom wound that fits the XT130 spring platform at the bottom and the Corolla top hat at the top. You could also convert them to coil-over and use an adjustable camber strut top - like the ones made by Cusco. The steering knuckle bolts on to the bottom of the strut and has a different spacing for a Corolla and a Corona. You will need the Corona ones, or Ae86 ones - the AE86 power steering ones apparently give a faster steering response. While you have it all apart it might be worth doing your steering tie-rods and ball-joints. They are cheap and better to do it while its all apart. There are lots of options for good brake pads with this conversion, as the Sumitomo caliper takes the same brake pad as a Datsun Z and Stanza and Mk II escorts, and a few other cars that are well used in motor sport. Oh yes last one. Most people I am aware of have had to go to 14 inch wheels to give appropriate clearance. You would want to check that before you started and make sure your wheels fit over the brakes, or you have new ones ready to go on.

Cruise has got a name now? Love it!

I think you probably got lucky finding the datto photo, given this is a corolla forum and all!

Ahhh the collection exposed! Hope you feel better. I think I blame my mums chocolate brown Ke55 as the reason for my toyota obsession, will have to see if I can come up with some cool photos like your old ones hehe 8/

With the Elfin logo's on the blue one, I assume that it was a car Garrie Cooper built when Elfin was right into open wheeler racers. There is a company called Elfin Heritage Centre here in Melbourne that looks after all sorts of machinery like that one. They have some information about the cars on their website www.elfinheritage.com.au This looks like that car http://www.elfinheritage.com.au/792_pop.html

Do you remember what model Parrot?

Ke55 arms are the same lenght as Xt130 arms. This makes them longer than KE70 based on your comments.

Usually runs from about 10am through to 3pm. Bit later if there have been lots of delays.

Greetings fellow victorians There is a hillclimb on this Sunday up at Rob Roy (Christmas Hills) I know of a few TCCA members competing, and there is usually a good variety of cars running up the hill. I am going to go out for a look. I was planning on competing, but my car isn't going to be ready in time, so I am going to drive up and take some photos. I managed to talk work into lending me an Elfin for the weekend too which will make it a nice drive. There are some good winding roads up that way too for those of you who like a twisty run :yes:

Yes stock LCA - it is the same length as the Xt130 Corona one so there is no advantage to be gained from changing it. As for inserts, I think you will find you don't have a lot of options for the standard Corolla strut housing. If you upgrade to the Xt130/RT132 housing you will open up your options considerably. What insert you put in then depends on what you are planning to do with the car. Road? Track? Combo of both?

Corona LCA is exactly the same length as the Corolla one so it will not give you extra camber. I have been told about a Cressida one that might be longer and may suit, but I don't know anything about it.

There is lots of info about this in here and other forums already, you should do a search. But effectively you wont get lots of camber with out doing some decent mods.

Sounds good. Better than watching footy!

Not doing the Phillip Island 6 hour - don't think the old girl would cope too well with an hour around there. Would be fun, but expensive me thinks! I am going to do the Winton 6 hour with some of the toymods guys.. if I ever the thing back together.

What a prick or a weekend. Haven't achieved what I wanted to but its getting there. I am going to can running at Rob Roy next weekend as I am not confident I will be ready and organised in time. Anyways here is what I did get done. Painted my calipers shiny red with VHT brake caliper paint. You have to bake it in the oven at 200 degrees for an hour to set it. Little bit of brake fluid left in the calipers meant my house got filled with stinky smoke. Don't try this at home if you have a Mrs!! Couple of close ups of my friend and sponsor Antony's fab work - Outlaw Fabrications do excellent work :yes: Picture of the LH side installed. Need to fit the pads still, which arrive on Monday, and work out where to set the spring perches. What you can't see is the tie-rod end that I had to replace when the one on the car crapped out on me. 1.5 hours of frigging around on the phone finding some in the stock, going and getting them, then realising I got the inners not the outers... back again.. off to a different store. ARRRRGGGGGGG!!!! Couple more installation photos RH side isnt in yet - tie rod is stuck in the steering tube, so need to get that out some how. Ball joint is also fuxored, so have to work out how to replace that. Another first for me. Loving this!! :mad: Oh and to finish it off, my maxi wheel nuts that I picked up on Friday turned out to have two that were the correct part, and 14 that weren't. When I checked them at the store I only looked at one and it was one of the two correct ones. Annoying!!!

Have a look at my thread on my race car, I expect I will get some where between 2 and 3 degrees with that set up.

I am like a kid with a new toy. I should be having a shower and on my way out to dinner.. but nooo I am in the garage seeing if my coil-overs all go together nicely! They do :hmm: Got my wheel nuts and gland nuts today along with the strut housings too. Yay! Best I go get ready or I will be in the shit :y: