carbonboy

I share your pain :wink:

That its is! I drive past their storage yard on Geelong Road on a regular basis. I'd really like to meet the guys who spray them as some designs are really cool & some slogans written on them are gold!

Here's some photos of our efforts, the other half of the shed was piled head high with old junk. This is a shed from a family of people who hoard stuff, however the force of having a project car that's theirs incoming overrode this & got him actually throwing things out! The space has been made, the car arrives tonight!

Have you tried using the websites search function or typing 'AE92/93 brake upgrade' into Google?

Shonnaons Insurance will only do a 3rd party property insurance, they do NOT do a 3rd party fire & theft option. For that I needed to go to Just Cars.

Well not a lot of progress made this week. :( I drilled out a snapped bolt under the radiator support area & cleaned up the thread before the TCCAV meeting on Tuesday night, nothing else. However I have been helping my mate moving $h1t out of the shed as my car is about to have some company. Its not going to be Toyota company so I'll discuss it no more, but you'll probably see it in future photos. :wink:

WGMG - Facebook, Twitter & MySpace. At least the social networking done here (RollaClub) is actually useful & achieves something, other than just wasting your data allowance, time & well, life! :P

Sadly guys Sunday is out for me, sorry to miss this due to some poor planning on my behalf! :blush:

Government departments...I'm yet to meet one that seems fully competent. Insanely long form-processing times, severe lack of communication skills & some seriously odd questions (I don't know what they do where they're from but I'm not in a relationship with my cousin OR her daughter, we just live in the same house!) seem to be the norm rather than the exception. I only deal with them when I have to, waiting for a fully pleasant experience.

Looking horn dude, bet you're bouncing off the walls with excitement! :yes: Just don't say the word 'Ford' too loudly, someone might hear you... :wink:

If & when that munches you from the lights, you'd be like "WTF?!?". Sweet sleeper mate :y: Any future plans?

Congratulations man, enjoy the freedom a licence gives you but respect the responsibilty too. I failed my first attempt, I failed to turn right on a green light as I'd been waiting on an arrow! The joys of learning to drive in a town with no traffic lights :laff:

Dammit! If I had the cash spare I'd take it as that crossmemeber would be handy & I could always use the spares. Aside from the that, if I were to have another Corolla come into my possession my housemate would have a few things to say about its storage location! :lolcry:

Winter = wet roads = less tyre wear when rippin skids :lolcry: Your ride looks sweet as, looking forward to seeing your plans unfold.

Perhaps opening up opportunities for people to offer to scratch it for them? :wink:

Cheers man! I've got me some foam mats now, so hopefully my hips, back & shoulders will quit their painful protesting of my actions, well a little bit anyway. At work I'm either up in a roof-space or on my guts under a house half the time so usually already sore when I start on the car. I tried to work on it once the day after a particularly 'enthusiastic' game of inline hockey...I lasted about 15 seconds & called it quits :laff:

Oh yes, fantastic weather conditions for those with nice, shiny cars :( I have been hanging to see how good the food is at The Emerald so I'll see you there at 7pm!

So on Sunday I dragged my arse back to the shed & decided that I had better get some damn primer on the drivers side, as if I had to remove rust from there one more time I was going to be pissed. Not quite neck a bottle of scotch & still be angry pissed, but close. :wink: Rust from the previous days rain... So after a bit of grinding, a bit of sanding & a lot of washing, the time for some primer arrived! First shot is just the areas I wanted an extra coat on, so hit them up first. A little bit on the passenger side I did, don't know why but it was bare metal so I figured why not. Drivers side primed! A little bog needed here. Am happy how this arch lip came up, needed a bit of bog work to get it nice & smooth after tapping out a dent or three. Overall a good weekend, happy enough with progress. Just gotta chug along during the week & see how things go.

Well the weekends come & gone so I'd better post up pics of my efforts. First of all I got down on the (concrete...really gotta remember to grab my old camping mats!!) floor & proceeded to straighten out the vertical seam that runs along the car underneath the doors. You know the one, where the head of the jack is supposed to slot onto but instead some tool bends the snot out of these both at the front & the rear? Good fun with a set of pliers, a steel bar & a hammer. After my bashing around... I then got stuck in with the rust converter on the drivers side first. My mates sheds roof has a bit of a gap above the door which allows rain to come on through, have been covering things up with sheets of plastic which have done okay but my reasoning is primer is better! Some before rust converter shots. I so should have stripped/primed it section by section to start with but hey, them's the breaks. It was at this point that the damn heavens decided to open. I'd just gotten it back to clean, shiny, grey steel AGAIN & rain is coming through the aforementioned gap! *sigh* Plastic sheets back on & go over to the passenger side & repeat the process. With rust. Without rust. These black spots recieved further wire brushing & another hit of rust converter, just to make damn sure its dead! As you can see, I knew how much I could get done over the weekend :laff: The damn gutters that have annoyed me for so long. The sanding begins... It is at this point on the saturday night that I hit the wall, was tired, sore & had had enough for the day, so off to bed it was!

On my AE82 I had a 'D' clamp setup, there was a U-shaped rod that looped around the pipe then the ends of the U were bolted through a flat bar that, before tightening, I had placed over a hook that attaches to the back of my engine block. Sorry about no pics, thought I did but FAIL. As long as you don't use a bit of builders strap & a tek screw like I have seen done, you should be good! Knocking up a cheap, easy fix shouldnt be too hard after some thought & a trip to Bunnings! :y:

So, did you end up having a new way to keep rats outta the shed or did you take it somehwre & release it?

Its even better when you're about 1 step behind some people & they suddenly stop, by the time I've registered that I should dodge or something, I've already gone plowing into the back of them/through them. However since this did not take place in a motor vehicle, I'm under no obligation to stop whatsoever. A little bit of situational awareness wont kill you folks, its the lack of it that will.

Hmmm...safe...scales...ziplock bags...you don't happen to ship interstate do you? :wink:

Mmmm num num num... Is shiny, is good! Plus I'm loving the front lip on your 86, speed humps are worst nightmares for it but oh well :wink: Collecting Corollas is an incurable disease, the only way to keep it in check is to work on them. :laff:

The rod looks awesome man & your daughter looks like she's having a ball with it too! Very soon she'll be rippin skids in the hallway...just like daddy :wink: Need to teach her to say "MY black car" lol. P.S Good to see a bug catcher in the background, no squealing & terror about bugs for your offspring :y: