Captain_Fantastic

yes the test drive was at night. once we went over the bump the lights became much brighter the engine would rev again rather then just splutering from lack of spark and we could use the radio again. since the battery i was using was getting very low it was quite easy to tell when the alternator kicked in.

Hey guys. This is the issue. The car has been munching my battery. after about 3 seconds of fault finding i find that the alternator is in fact not charging my bat. First thing i check is the fuse able links. which were stuffed. so i fix this. Buuut issue is still there. So i get my batt tested. In case that is the issue but its fine. Then i realize my charge light doesn't come on. So i look over the alternator and turns out the wire for the exciter circuit isnt connected to the plus anymore. so i crimp a female blade onto the wire and connect it back up. This seems to fix the issue as the charge light came on when you put the ignition to on, but stayed on after you started the car. i thought this might be ok and i would just have to deal with it but after going for a test drive it became clear that it stil wasn't charging. on the test drive we went over a bump, then the light went out and the charge circuit started working. but abruptly a little while later the light came back on and the car died I am racking my brains trying to think of what to do. need the car for work so i don't have time to strip the loom and find out or do days of fault finding. and atm gunna have to be a bit of a backyard fix till next week. I'm thinking maybe a switch on the wire for the excite wire. turn it on to start the car. then once its on turn it off? i have no idea here. ;) any help would be very much appreciated. Cheers. Jack ps sorry for the fail typing i have been awake for ages. very tired :)

lol I'm pretty sure your cage is gunna weigh way more then the seat. I have always wondered though. looking at the shape of a coupe cage, would you be able to feed the bars down through the speaker holes in the parcel shelf? prob not but i think it would be close.

ah yes of course. *facepalm*

ran like that for 7 years since it was built. easily pulling up to 9, i had it at 9500 once getting 2nd instead of 5ht at the local race track. Still ran sweet aside from carby issues was the only thing. wish i hadnt f@$ked the valves by being a noob now :y: i would agree, but this is on 3 differnt tachos, two stock tacho dash clusters and one after market tacho (unsure of make) edit: stroke in a 5k is 73? and in a 3k its 66? I'm confused?

yep, till it finally died from f@$ked valve stem seals it reved clean past 8, up to 9 sometimes cold rofl. and it wasnt balanced huh? if it 6m shorter then the 5k crank then why would it stick out of the block?

Ok so I'm not actually thinking of doing this, but figured i would put my idea up for scrutinizing by other corolla nuts hehe. Does a 3k crank fit into a 5k? Assuming it does, when you did drop it in you would have a stroke of 6mm less correct?. Now i know what your thinking. "what is he thinking? it wouldn't work because your combustion chamber would be too big, cos of the piston being at 6mm lower at tdc" soooooo, the obvious answer would be to shave the top of the block 6mm. Hahaha, now i know what your thinking now, "what an idiot" But think of it this way, if you pulled it off, you could have a 5k with a bore of 80.5mm plus however much a 60" boreout would add in mm, and a stroke of 66mm Have it Balanced, add a massive cam, pair of sidiez, custom dizzy/advance curve ect Would it create a super high rpm monster or just a shit 5k? if done well? p.s. don't hate tooo hard please, its early in the morning hehe

man it still hits 9k lol, but only 1st gear stand stills now, doesnt have the tork to get into second :)

Yeah I was originally planning to rebuild this motor. But it was a speedway motor, then flogged for about 7 years before I got it, so its well tired. Its hard to decide what to do. but I guess it wouldn't be to hard for me to strip down the motor and give it new rings and a freshen up. Its got some really strange problems thou, like it gets realyl severe detonation randomly every now and again, and cutting out at 120kmph. The biggest problem i have is that the valve train sounds like a bucket of coins falling onto a metal bench between 1.2k and 3.5k rpm. Once I get an engine stand and another car sorted to drive around in ill strip it down and get working on it. Apparently ACL make a race rebuild kit for the 4k motor. comes in 20thou and 40thou oversized for about 500 bucks. Might be worth looking into.

so I have found a high ace parked in a paddock quite close to where i live. I'm thinking go and offer them 200 bucks for it, tow it away, rip out the 5k, stick my cam in it and then into my car. bit more tork down low and cheap replacement until I finally figure where I am gunna go with my car. I assume that there is no such thing as 4k and 5k cam? but just k motor cams? Also, do I need anything special to run the 5k or will all my 4k ancillary's do fine?

Ah yeah i was forgetting about the Rwd problem. so with the 7k, you need to modify the sump, and there is a problem with the gearbox? can i just use my 4k clutch to mate it up with a ke70 5 speed? is this all? 7k seems the best way to go. easily modified to fit in the ke70 and still easy to work on tune ect. How much more powerful then a 5k would this be? is it worth the extra effort? and matt, how well does your rev? still want to confirm they arn't to much of a truck engine.

hmm 7k seems an option. anyone actually used one in their rolla? i have been told that they are a bit of a truck engine? and i know what you mean about a high reving street car. its annoying enough to drive at the moment. you simply can't drive it down low. that being said i do want to be able to wind it out a bit every now and again. what did the 7k come out in? so if i can pick up a ae82 its got pretty much every thing i need for a 4age install? or did some of them come out with 4ac's? thanks for the input guys, very helpful. hadn't even thought of a 7k.

Ok guys second time corolla owner first time modifier here. bit of a lurker when it comes to rollaclub. Basically i want more power. At the moment I have a 4k High comp extractors and zorst 32/36 webber oversized pistons big unknown cam had a custom re curved ice dizzy but it broke so its got a standard one on atm. After having some HUGE problems with the car for about 1 month of it not running or running but shit or whatever i replaced before mentioned dizzy, the leads, the coil and the plugs and then it started working. buuut must have stuffed it up because it ended up pinging like a mofo. wondered what it was for a while but didnt know. then clicked too late. damage was done. it now has completely stuffed rings and blows more smoke then an old diesel. If you take the oil cap off after running it for even like 30 seconds you get bulk oilly air and smoke coming out :wink: anyways. sooner or later it will need a freshen up. after thinking about it a LOT. i am completly unsure of what road to go down. i have had an engine builder up here quote me 3500 for a worked 4k with 5k head. ACL race rebuild kit (pistons rods bearings ect) 40 thou oversized Balanced Big cam Lightened flywheel. Will rev to 9k and make power till its stop reving they say. The quote was for me taking the car to them and picking it up finished. BUUT i think that is a hell of alot of money for a k motor. even if it does crack 100hp. thats not 3.5k well spent at all. Building it myself is the next obvious option, and i read Tough 4k but tbh I'm not very confidant in my engine building ability's. I am looking for other options. the next thing would be to go 4age some might say. but then i think. if i am going to be changing gear box engine cross member peddlebox prob diff as well.. i might as well go bigger then a 4age. maybe something like 13bt? done alot of searching around but it made things worse knowing there are so many options! basically i have no idea where to go from here or what to do. just wondering if anyone has come across a similer situation and wanted to go something other then 4age? cheers! jack

http://www.ke70.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1467&st=0 ^^^ this is definitely my favorite corolla build of all time. should be able to get some ideas of what to run from that, he has a sr20 with custom solid mounts, s13 box with hole in floor and a blue bird diff. some of the fabrication in that build is amazing. good luck on you drifter build mate

man if you are keen to keep her (she sounds like a nice little wagon) maybe its worth getting one of those rust prevention modules that they fit to 4WD's that go to the beach. I'm not gunna go into how they work, (you might already know, if not google is your friend) but they should do alot to stop any more rust from forming. they work great on 4wd's that are frequant beach visitors. i have always believed they would work well on a sedan/wagon too. might be work a look into so you don't have to sell her other wise id probly agree with these other guys we need photos, but probly be looking above the 600 mark, if the rust isnt too bad. hope i helped at all! good luck