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I haven't done sh*t to this car in a while, other than stealing parts off it :wink: Started cutting out the rust today though, I hope I can post up some progress soon!

So about a week ago, my buddy calls me.. I've just driven your Corolla he says. f@$k no I say.. Yup he says, I changed out the bent parts for ya [i'm still 350kms away from him].. So on Sunday we drove it down here and started working on it, got some lights working, removed the tow hook which was hanging in a rope, now we're gonna try the 'straightening frame rail with a chain' method.. :y: f@$k I'm so happy these days.. It's ALIIIIVE :y:

Looked like this: They fell off, one by one :) Badly zipped you'd think.. Oh no, the zip ties were still there after the hub caps had cracked into several pieces and launched themself out on the motorway :no2:

How about lowering a car with ropes instead of spring compressors? :) Or working into the wee hours to finish wiring up side markers spliced directly with parking lights? Driving with no front panel, grille etc, only lights, for days? 16" hubcaps zip tied to 13" wheels, one by one cracking off.. Powersliding into snow banks, then straightening out the dents in the rear quarter panel with your f@$king hand.. Angry tape of course...

Nice try but I got this to go sideways in :yes: I do miss something nimble to go sideways in though.. hmmm :wink: Oh, and super nice Charade mate, clean and low.

Haven't driven it since I sent it off the road bending a frame rail and front suspension in July. I'm sentimental these days, it's about a year since I got it now and life was good. Put 15k on it in half a year, got pulled over many times and generally had a blast driving it as often as possible. lol, when I killed the clutch and put it away for some weeks last winter: Right now I've got a Benz W124 that treats me okay (when I don't attempt burnouts), another KE70 that I'm building and a lowrider POS Daihatsu 'show car' that needs some TLC. I know it's not rational, but I want to do a 700 km road trip to get the white KE from my buddies crib and re-build it. It might have to go in a jig and have surgery on the frame rail if I've f@$ked it up badly enough, that's gonna be expensive for a high mile KE70. Still I want to rebuild this, sell the other KE70 and sell the Benzo and use the white KE as a daily instead, then I'd be at the same point I was a year ago. Or take some parts off this, sell the Daihatsu, use the other KE as a show car and keep the Benz? hmmm.. I need some guidance from the Corolla boys here!! I really want to save the white car anyway, so motivate me here :yes: They look so happy together don't they? :wink:

Took the engine out yesterday :P

Thanks dude, think I might need it, lol. Not much to report here, been on hols and living my life recently but planning to do some work this week, so I got my corner and the car cleaned up today :D

Haha yeah, in Norway salt eats you :dance: Damn I'd kill for a RHD bush-driven KE.. Anyway, I've found some more rust lately. All the damn mats covering the floorpan (dunno what you call them in English) are now gone.. :cool: And some random rust shots..

I'm from Norway.. :no2: That should cover it, haha.

This summer a buddy and me were going to the North Cape, a story you can read here. In short, I sent my white '82 KE70 off the road 150 miles down the trip and bought another '82 KE70 the same day. In two months I've put 5k miles on it and it's worked like a charm. Prior to the unintended offroading with the white car I was going to tear it down and build it up like a pre-facelift with JDM front lights, chrome bumpers and more. Right now I don't know exactly what's going to happen, but the beige '82 is a far better base than the white '82. Either I'm gonna restore the beige car with its original parts and newer chrome bumpers (that's if the white car survives, not decided yet), or build it up like I've intended to do with the white car (if it dies). What's pretty certain is that it's staying the stock color, getting either a 2T engine or a 4A-GE and some wheels and coils :no2: Two days ago I got ahold of a new daily (a Benz W124 that's already failed, haha) so I could put this out of its duties, and yesterday we got it into the garage. After five hours of work it looked like this when I left it :y: Nice.. The spare wheel well is good and the floors are good too, only a massive hole to the left there :wink:

Cruise control or A/C? ;) I know you could have AC on the AE92, but that's way newer.

Nope, only Ireland, the UK and Cyprus get right hand drive cars. Islands, in other words. Like Japan, Australia and NZ :P I really appreciate all your comments!! And I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it was pinned! :yes: :yes: In hindsight, I've realised that taking a KE70 on a this kind of trip was pretty crazy, but on the other hand it proves that you really can trust these cars :rolls:

Day 3, after an hour sleep We then called a guy from a forum who lives in Bodø and I met him: This sign translates to Quiet Valley: Nice roads north of the town of Fauske: Chill place: Somewhere between Fauske and a place called Borgnes, where a ferry brings E6 over a fjord and alternativly takes you to an island called Hinnøya: We took the ferry to Hinnøya. Me chilling out on the ferry: Off the ferry: An oldschool telephone box in the town of Harstad: We ate a burger in Harstad and met another guy from a Norwegian forum: Yngve, my buddy I travelled with, and his party look: We couldn't figure out why Harstad was so quiet, but then we realised it was 12am: Einar: And finally, we saw it - the midnight sun: Just before we went to sleep for a couple of hours: Day 4 - Thursday We just got into the county of Troms before we went to sleep. Woke up way too late and started driving north towards Alta and the county of Finnmark: Some reindeer in the road, we would learn that was quite normal: There were no more pics this day for some reason neither me or my buddy remembers, we just drove through one county (albeit a big one). Arrived in the town of Alta around 9pm, ate chinese and went to sleep in a cabin (the kind you'll find at campings). Day 5 - Friday We overslept as usual, didn't get on the road before 1pm, but we still made a good driving day, this is between Alta and Skaidi: In the town of Hammerfest we had reached goal, atleast according to the banner above us: We hadn't reached our goal though, so we continued (you guessed it, north). Finally we were getting close: We're here! From there we went south (!) and put up the tent near the place Oldenfjord, just 40 miles or so from the North Cape: Day 6 - Saturday The previous evening we had arranged to meet an old collegue of my mother, Alf, so the first place we went was Lakselv. The phone network was down though, so we didn't get hold of him before in the middle of the day. He was in a town called Karasjok, but luckily for us, that was just on our way to home. 35 miles later Alf treated us to traditional Sami food and showed us some movies regarding the Sami people. Me and Alf: In Kautokeino Einar the Rolla wanted to race on a rally cross track: After some gas and oil we contiuned. Finland! Smooth Finish roads and lots of crap on the windshield: After a little drive (maybe an hour or so), we were in Sweden: This has got to be the slowest moving stretch of the whole 'international E-road network': Not a lot of traffic: Day 7 - Sunday We slept in the car from 6am and overslept (again!!), woke up in Storuman, Sweden. On our way to the town of Östersund the roads were still clear: Einar killed a bird, this became a huge attraction in Östersund, people started taking pics while we ate. When the Swedish took pics of it, we had to: http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h319/eir...il/IMG311-2.jpg On our way to Stockholm the rainbow showed. I asked my buddy if we could go looking for gold, but we realised that was dumb - it ended in some water and we hadn't brought scuba gear: Before we knew it (okay, after a loooong drive), we were in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden: Here the camera died, but the last 6 hours and 300 miles/500 kms between Stockholm and Oslo were dark (no more midnight sun) and boring anyway. We rolled into the drive 6:30 am Monday morning, and had killed one bird, almost driven into a group of reindeer, avoided a Swedish moose/elk that found the road a cool place to be and driven almost 3500 miles/5700 kms since Day 2 with a car I had owned less than a week :D Epilogue: The white Rolla was collected home on Monday after some sleep and it's back where it belongs. On intial inspection, it looks like a strut has been torn in two and that's it. There's hoping :D Thanks for looking :D

A couple of weeks ago, a buddy and me decided it'd be cool to go to the northernmost point of Europe, the North Cape in Norway. We both live in the capital Oslo, located on the other side of the country, in the south. None of us had been further north than Trondheim, which is a city 300 miles north of Oslo. We decided on going, why not, it'd be fun. We got some tips of what to see and where to eat from people on a Norwegian forum, I'd bring my 190k mile/306k km Rolla and my buddy would bring his boy scouts skills. This is the story of the two Norwegian kids on their journey towards the North Cape and the midnight sun. I'm going to be mentioning a whole lot of names you won't know. Keep Google Maps alongside you as you read, so you'll know where we are. Then you can hit up Wikipedia for more info on the places too, if that tickles your fancy. Here's a map that gives you a general idea of the area we covered, we were driving the European route E6 almost to the North Cape, then following the E45 to Östersund in Sweden, E14 to Sundsvall, E4 from there to Stockholm and E18 home to Oslo. Keep hitting up Wikipedia if you're lost :D Day 1 - Monday We had packed all our stuff the previous night and started driving north around 9 am, the time flied with the miles and life was good. We were driving through a valley called Østerdalen, which translates to the Easter Valley, on the Rv3 road. It was raining, but we would soon be happy in the mountains. Then the unthinkable happened, the front right tire blew out on a almost non-existing road shoulder and the car swerved into the ditch and after jumping two or three times, landed on a rock (either that or we moved the rock with the car).. Got the car back up on the road, it even started up, but this car could not take us to the North Cape, not the 180 miles home either. We called a tow truck and were towed to the nearest garage. I was optimistic as usual and was just going to hammer out the control arm or whatever bent and drive on... Sometimes reality suck! Everything was closed, Toyota was 60 miles off and even if we had the parts, the car couldn't necessarily drive 3000 miles. As I was standing next to my KE70 thinking I needed a parts car, I recalled a KE70 I was going to look at when I was coming home from the North, which I was planning to use for parts. Instead I called a couple of friends and the owner of said Corolla and talked a bit back and forth. We left the luggage in the white Rolla (that includes the camera, therefore no pics), took the train to Oslo and a few hours later I owned another KE70. I didn't even test drive the car (which was called Einar by the old owner), but we were going to the North Cape, that was definite. Day 2 - Tuesday Another try! Started driving north after sleeping at my buddies place and sorting the paperwork at around 11am. Einar is from a small place along the road to where the white KE was left, and probably felt more hope than what I did there. But we got there, and moved all the stuff over to the beige one. Even got use of the camera: An unevenly lowered Rolla: Einar og Rolla, side by side: We continued where we left with a bang the day before. Exciting roads.. We scared away all the children, I jumped up on the world's largest kicksled where I apparently belonged: The weather improved, Einar in his 4th county of the day after having played Alf Prøysen (a late kick-ass Norwegian singer) on his radio/cassette player: Towards Trondheim, Norway's 3rd biggest city: More lanes than two for the first time since greater Oslo: We showed off Einar the Rolla at the local university: Ate a burger at a recommended place, looked at the map and realised that the white Rolla's spectacular death (?) had delayed us by a lot so we kept on driving (after all, 300 miles a day wouldn't cut it). Amongst other cool stuff, we drove past Hell :D The main road we were driving on from Oslo and almost to the North Cape, E6, became nicer after Trondheim: Day 3 - Wednesday Day 3 continued where the previous ended. We drove into the wee hours of the day through entertaining mountain roads and towards the midnight sun. This picture was taken around 12am: And this about an hour later. The later it was, more light came from the sky - that's insane: We drove past a place called Mosjøen and took this in Mo i Rana, where one of Norway's three big racing tracks are: It was 4am and the action was not so great on the race track, in fact it was closed. Instead we drove past Bimbo: The Polar Circle: Towards a town called Bodø the weather again improved and I saw Einar in sunlight for the first time ever: Then we were in Bodø. I drove over the city sqare because I thought was the road, saw two police cars within minutes after that and we slept for the first time in 24 hours and 745 miles/1200 kms..

For a KE70 that is.. I live in Norway so Kings are out of the question. Getting coilovers in a while, just can't watch the car in it's super high form anymore.. 8/

Daihatsu Charade.

Very close, Norway :bash: Almost lost my license a couple of weeks ago for doing roundabouts in the wet. I was told to find more remote places, so I did today.. :P Very remote and my buddy kept watch, no worries. A guy told us to get going after we had been ripping it up for a quarter or so, but we were leaving anyway.

Beast indeed lol Interior as of last night: Gave it a workout today: Oh yeah and 1400 km on it since Thursday now.. :bash:

My Rolla is always used for getting parts for my 'show car' or bringing me to shows to look at other peoples cars, it never gets any attention.. Put over a thousand kays on it since Thursday (that's 4 days, lol). So today I took some detours home from a show, now giving it 5 secs of glory, haha: Snapped a pic of it the other day as well actually: Oh, and I got these in the mail.. Gotta love the contrast between the car and the parts :bash: WTF is he up to...

Not an average of 6, are you crazy. I'm not granny either :D I did manage it over of 300 kms during a road trip though, I thought it was pretty wild for a nearly 30 y/o carb'd car. Just had to get it down, so you didn't think this problem affected my fuel economy. It could be that it's getting too little fuel, although I don't see how it gets an extra go when I go off the gas. Almost seems like the fuel is building up?

Yeah, can't wait to get that rattle gone.. Valves rattle for seconds as the oil pressure light is still on, and that's kinda sketchy when you sometimes have to give it a little gas to get it to start. Like I said earlier, if I wanted to slowly kill my engine I wouldn't have changed it up in the first place.

I just checked it out, it's a Tecneco filter sitting there at the moment. We have 3-4 big chains selling car maintainance parts in Oslo, it wasn't like I tried to save a couple of bucks buying crap. Especially as you obviously don't save a lot at all :y:

My 4K is fantastic, it's done 300k and the fuel consumption is great (6L/100km). It's only one thing that bothers me, and it's probably a simple fix. It stutters a bit when I floor it. Another car I have misfires, it's not like that, the Rolla's just hesitating a bit.. What's worse, when I've had the accelerator pressed for a while and go off, it pushes harder instead of slowing down. It doesn't last long, under a second, but it bugs me. Kinda crap when you've just overtaken and you're approaching the car in front of you... What could it be? It's almost like the car overfuels so it burns the remaining fuel when I release the throttle. Doesn't happen at all times, by the way.. I'm thinking the hesitation could be the fuel filter, but could that be the fault of the other problem too? Just wanted to hear around before I started replacing things :y:

Because it's worth it.. I changed my oil and oil filter a little over a month ago, but the filter sucks.. Takes a couple of seconds before the light goes out after I start it up, and I don't want to kill my motor, could've driven with the old filter then.. And since I almost have 5k km on the 'new' oil and filter now, I'm changing it over the weekend. The OEM filter is only a couple of dollars more than the crap I bought last time, that's just awesome really :y: