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Member Name - Ben Area - Toowoomba Daily Drive - Holden Apollo (camry thingo), And My CA18 KE70 Corolla when its finished

You asking if thats my car? Mines in the shed haha, daily is a dirty red holden apollo.. Anyone see that datto ute with the CA18det in it? with a ghetto crossover pipe no cooler, and a pretty interesting dash install.. looked dodge as.. didnt have a mod plate, doubt it would pass roady.. also saw a few things that did crack me up, T25 that was apparently off an RB20 standard, with ball bearings.. Ah a CA18 T4 top mount manifold marked as an SR18 lol, oh and watched a stall holder get fired up when some guy told him his XY dash wasnt worth what he wanted...

What a turnout!! Lots of stuff to be had if your a HOLDEN owner.. quite disappointed i didnt find anything that relates to me... oh well 3hrs of walking around and i still didnt see every stall there..

going to this if anyone needs me to have a look for parts send me a pm :jamie:

that last ones awesome!! are you a dancer? "no, no no no I'm just drunk" ahhhhhh haha ... love it..

used the 32/36 adapter for a 38/38, and no dfferences, all the same.. get it ordered and slap her on ;)

thats when you unsolder it and put another one in, by that time i should have some terminals :dance:

Yeah i have haha, just didnt have any at the time, had a soldering iron and solder so did it this way.. works so i don't mind..

Hows this thing goin dawson? done much on it or is it sittin in the shed like my car is :wink: check out what ive done in my buildup haha

So since christmas/new years, I found a T18 diff cheap, along with some T18 front struts/brakes, Fitted the T18 diff, wired up all the relays, so its all ready to go in a sense, just need engine mounts, tailshaft put the clutch pedal in, chuck ecu in the passenger kick panel and setup a front mount, its slowly but surely getting there, just cash seems to be the main thing slowing it down.

Might go check it out, see what i don't need and buy for the sake of having it ... haha

yeah ive had only 2 G's that wouldnt die, one was bored and stroked to 2L and was out of a rally car, the 2nd was a repotted 1.6L and it just wouldnt die.. ended up throwing that out cause it had basically no rings or compression left.. had one go out in spectacular fashion with a rod exiting the side and leaving a ncie hole in the block, pulled engine out a week later and looked like someone had used the sump for shotgun practice... ;)

Ill go with the G161 gemini engine, in total i destroyed 9 of them, all shattering bottom ends.. not to mention constant head gasket blowouts, noisy timing chains, my HJ ute, 202 with 3 on the tree on gas.. regular 8k gear shifts, never missed a beat..

any more progress on the big girl?

Yeah it has the standard diff that has been slightly tampered with... :)

thanks mate, just got more bits for it in the mail, Nice new surge tank, holds 1.8L and a brand new VL turbo pump, now i only need to start putting this all together so i can get it running.. last thing to be done will be tailshaft :dance:

So got a daily and the CA-rolla can be off the road for a while.. needs to be modplated anyhow.. so this is what 2hrs of fiddling can do...

that would been me haha :y: no front or rear bumpers, went to redcliffe for ca parts and had a cruise around brissy :P

Na mate theres no real meet ups, i generally only see the other guys with the corollas when they cruise past or somethin, but generally there isnt much up here in a way of meets.. which is kind of stupid

there is a few of us in toowoomba, couple of neat ones here that put mine to shame... but not for long muahahah :)

Few pics of the last few days, have been sidetracked a little as my mate just got himself a WB ute and we have been working on that, also put a porch up to which got ripped down by a whirlie wind, which also ripped up some hay bales and threw a water tank halfway across a paddock... so for now she will sit like this until we have the ute sorted and the porch done... :)

A Few More :wink:

So i Bought the Ksev about February of 2009, dirty old 4k, standard, Got some wheels, a new exhaust, gktech wheel, and basically havent done much else to it, Finally decided its time to attack it and get it looking somewhat better than it was, so i started by finding what rust i had and figured why not get into it and sand it back to give it a new colour. decided i wanted to do an engine conversion, found a cheap CA18det engine package and have started the process of long hours of sanding, welding, bogging, more sanding, fab work, and such.. Havent got a deadline as of yet, so atm i do some work, forget about it, do some more, and so on...

Saw a red KE55 in front of the tyre shop at goodna mills rd i thinks the one? and spotted a beige KE70 outside blacksoil headin to brissy...

ah well it will be a lot of trial and error for me.. luckily got a gantry and a shed to use.. got a complete engine and box package cheap so will be into this like mustard haha, i will be doin pics and such for the people who want to know how to do the fun stuff...