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haha yeah cheers mate i hope so ,just want it to pass engineers ,trying to do everything as strong as possible , still suprises me how long little things like this can take ,cheers for the advices by the way , after i sort this out looking at doing the fuel system .....

hay man great to see the progress still coming along nicely, with the front panel this is what i done after i cut the holes, just welded a strip 10mm wide i think around the hole, it strenghten it up alot and dosent move at all,can sorta see what i mean below, also i seen on another idea that chrisgt done,sorry mate for stealing your pic :) just a thought , keep up the great work ,hope you finish way before i do then i can pick your brains some more :S

yeah been doing the sr conversion for a while now, yeah i was debating 2 or 4 ,i only ended up doing 4 because thats what the ends of the drive shaft loop had on it orignaly, i had to shorten it down to get it to fit and redrill, i may get 4 thick washers and lock washers ,hopefully that should be ok, i had spoken to an engineer about it,actualy an engineer that i had been using for a bit ,but this guy seriously had no idea ,he may have had the paper to say he was an engineer but some of the things he was making me do was just rediculous ,changing his mind after id done what he told me and bascily not making any sense at all,he wanted me to weld little brakets to the floor with bolts hanging off , i had made up the brakets that he wanted but on closer inspection i found these to be a terrible idea ,as the brakets were small and would just rip off the floor if anything realy went wrong,also the drive shaft loop wouldnt have even been touching the floor the way it is now, it would have hung down away from the floor about 8 mm only touching where the it bolted to the braket thingys ,make any sence??? and way i believe the surface area of the 2.5 mm plates is way stronger than having any bolts welded to the bottom of the floor and the loop actualy is hard up against the floor also, any way ive got rid of that guy as he was breaking my balls with his rediculousness and I'm using a differnt engineer now

ok well thanks guys i guess ill leave it as it is , i just wanted to get a few options ,any one else want to throw there 2 bob in ? :)

hay peoples looking for some advice been stuffing round with my drive shaft loop trying to get it to fit , i ended up making 2 x 2.5 mm steel plates and drilled 4 holes in each, then welded in some thick bolts, lined up the loop and drilled some holes thru the floor ,bolted it in and swung my full body wieght on it ,its solid and doesnt move, but I'm still not happy , i was going to weld some steel plates under the floor, so it would go something like this ::: 2.5mm steel plate with bolts thru the floor then thru another steel plate and then thru the drive shaft loop , does this sound like over kill???????????????? or what i have be strong enuf? like to see some pics of what others have done that would be helpful,my cars a ke55 any advice be great thanks guys

Hay mate if you have a search on here there are several rolla owners who have done this conversion ,theres alot of usefull pictures and info in the forums also,if you ask nicely you may even get advice from others who have done it all ready,the sr20 fits a little tite in places but can be made to fit with out tooo much chopping, I'm in the process of doing the sr20 in to a 55,some general advice for you to think about tho,,,,, first your going to need alot of patients and time ,this sort of thing dosent happen over nite,next lay out a large budget any where from 4000 up to 15000 depending on how far you want to take it,remember its not just hay lets slap a turbo it that would be sickkkkk, you also have to upgrade your suspention and braking systems, a new gear box must be fitted to take the new engine and off corse theres the diff that will most definatley have to be changed,new exhuast system as the old pee shoot wont work anymore and a whole new fuel system,lines pumps surge tanks etc etc etc etc, have some good understanding and know how to use all kinds of tools ,depending on where your from be prepared to have your balls broken by engineers,that is if your going to do it legal of corse, do your research!!!,jump on google and spend the next few months going thru forums and sites and emailing people about this and that and arm your self with what you need to know before jumping in, unless your a die hard rolla fan i would advice you just to spend your money on a 180sx then you can drive the same engine and all the works done for you but if your realy keen then do your home work and plan it out properly , being orginised is very important if you want things to go as smooth as possible, well thats just my thoughts on it I'm sure other members here will tell you to go for gold, then again they mite have not taken on this conversion them selfs, good luck with it if you decide to take it on,feel free to pm if you have any questions more than happy to give you advice thru my experience,others may not be so willing to share there secrets :wink:

haha i mean the rod that connects the steering box and the idler arm together and has the tie rods coming off it , pretty sure i havnt put in on the wrong way as its the same as my other 55 and realy will only fitt one way , could be right about the manual trying to keep it basic, i was hoping i could find a straight one tho would help alot with clearance issues, maybe ill have to try some other toyotas ???????

any one? can some one with a ke30 have a quick look for me?

Hay guys have an odd question for you ke30 owners were there any ke30s made with a straight steering connecting rod, thats the rod that connects to the steering box and idler arm, i have a ke55 manual and it shows a straight connecting rod, how ever in my 55 i have a offset rod, this is causing some issues with hitting so I'm trying to track down a straight rod that mite fix this issue, so does any one know ???? maybe the early ke30s had a straight rod??>>>?? what about the earlyer models ke20s or something >?????? any advice be apreciated getting stressed out here cheers

haha thanks mate and your so right , i was getting abit over it to be honest didnt realy think i was making much progress but just starting it has cleared my mind and heaps of new ideas have started flooding in I'm back!!

thanks guys getting a bit off topic here , so back to my car...... well finding things a bit hard latley ,cash is very much non exsistant making progress very slow, :P hoping for a few perk jobs to keep me going ,but I'm not out yet! done a few bits and pieces here and there but probably the most important was the other night , managed to dumby up the piping and slap a radiator in and hook up my computer and my test wiring board, and a few other things ( yes i know it looks very dodgy it was! but its not staying like that) and powered up the board turned it over a few times with the cas disconnected to build oil pressure, once that was done pluged the cass back in and........ pressed the starter button 2 seconds later she fired to life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) was very pleased with myself ,and a huge relief on all the effort so far, basicly it was driving me mental to know if the motor would even go so i had to get it started at least just for piece of mind haha ,now thats out of the way i can realy get serious about stuff and move forward hopefully cash permiting

Yeah mate be good, my factory dumper sitts very close to the idler arm thingo just woundered if these ones were much different, nice build tho wish i was at that stage!! everything takes so dam long to do haha ,

dammm thats some mother humping bad ass machine dude!@ well done looking great!

nice dump pipe there, question:: how much clearance to the idler arm do you get with this one over stock?

cheers mate much apreciated, I'm trying haha, finding some of it a bit trying at times hoping i can pull this off by the end of the year if money permits,... just finished of the airbox set up, all fitted and looks pretty good for a home made jobby ;-)

dejavu!!!!!!! haha awesum build mate ,I'm doing exact same thing in to a 4door good to see another sr20 rolla coming to life nice work :jamie:

hope you got lots a cash, cause it sure adds up all those little bits an pieces, I'm doing it my self, have a look at the gallery i have hundreds of pics of the progress in there may give you an idea of what your iin for or maybe some ideas to play with your self, either way good luck with it cheers

heres a couple of pics i just finished making my air box and fitted some intake piping bends to go from the afm to the turbo, also welded in a port for the return air from the bov,nothing to exciting but back on the job now so hopefuly get some more pics as i go along

RECAP..... ok well been a while since i been on here, i found once i started doing this project that ive been flat out working so havnt had realy much chance to get in a few pics and burble about them which is a shame,but any way thought id just say a few things about how ive been going and make a few comments ,first of all ive been going now for a little over 8 months now,and what ive managed to do in this time isnt to bad i think ,considering that i have a full time job that keeps me very busy,the fact that i realy only get to work on the weekends and the fact that I'm doing everything bymy self with out any help from anyone ,and yet an other fact is i took 2 months off the car to build an arcade machine for my bedroom ;-),so these things considered I'm doing fairly well with the progress, id like to say everything has been smooth sailing so far but that would be a lie,i now have a great respect for anyone who has done this engine conversion or any real major rebuild ,ive come to apreciate how long it takes to do things properly and the effort that it takes to make things work, so to all you guys on here ,especialy the sr20 to corolla guys , big ups from me ,and well done with your conversions,;-) ,and thanks for the pictures youve posted up ,these little things have been a great help thus far, now to any one considering doing this particular conversion,my advice is don't,haha unless of coarse you have a)alot of money b) alot of time c) a few good friends who are willing to give you there time to do hard work on your car for little reward, d) you have some general mechanical skills or some kind of automotive skills ,or e) your quite insane and enjoy punishing your self with rediculous amounts of work .like my self haha, , but seriously if your like myself and you love your corolla and realy want to do it then ,go ahead just be ready for some work ,its not just a matter of slapping in an engine and away you go .....just my thoughts on the hole process, now so yeah 8 months down have no idea how many more probably another 8 who knows , like i said at the start no time limit and no money ,so it takes as long as it takes, but i think i have been doing pretty good in regards to progress ,this is a full rebuild and engine conversion ,full respray and interior mission so its a major job and will take time ,but heres where I'm at with stuff:: basicly this is how things have gone from the start, first thing,whole car gutted,stripped to the bones everything out and pulled to pieces, i found labling things and boxing parts very helpful even thos the rolla is pretty basic it just helps to keep some orginisation in the hole thing.. shell:rust removed from the 1/4s and guards, and any where else ,there wasnt to much so i was lucky there, all areas replaced with steel and finished in bog ,then 2 pack primed, whole shell blocked backed and fixed up any areas that wasnt happy with and reprimed the hole thing again, engine bay:: major hours spent in the engine bay, sanded the whole thing back,welded up alot of holes , made custom made tower to fire wall braces,for engineers,removed the top radsuport panel and made it a bolt on part,cuttout a seciton in the front panel to allow more air and for a bigger radiator to be fitted later on,, ,filled alot of crappy looking areas and generaly smoothed things out , :P then hole thing 2 pack primed panels;; all doors and bonnet /boot lid striped of all parts ,small rust repairs here and there,wasnt to bad,a bit of panel work and everything primed,ready for next stage of straighting, inside shell:: insides all sanded back,including inside the whole boot and floor sections,welded a panel over the old gear stick hole and cut a new gearstick hole ,stone guarded inside the boot and the floor,then painted a grey colour just to finish it off,made 2 panels one for the back of the seats and 2 for the parcel shelf,also engineers required, underneath:: made 2 new cross beams that join the sills to the chassis,also engineers required,sanded the hole underneth and cleaned ,then stoneguarded the whole underneath of the car, wheel arches:: also done a few little repairs and sanded the hole wheel arches and stone guarded underneath the arches;-) i like stone guard , diff::: had a r31 skyline lsd shortened and rebuild to suit the rolla, sanded the hole thing and all the parts, including the leaf springs and underneath parts, fitted it back in with new bushes and new bolts , grill: done a little custom modding on the rolla grill just for something differnt, turned out ok, dash:: modded the dash facia,and fitted a 180sx gauge cluster ,also made cuttouts for various other gauges to be fitted,, wiring:: started to sort out my engine wiring and how to set up relays and stuff,this has probably been the hardest part so far,months spent on the net researching and asking alot of questions to alot of people, pretty much figured out most of it so getting there with that, steering:: all steering replaced with new parts and everything painted, engine:: now this bit is still a major work in progress , ive managed to fit the engine and custom gearbox set up, so far I'm up to 5 times in and out,getting prety good at pulling it out haha,its a very tight fit everywhere is like well frigen tight ,hope its right !! made up some engine mounts using the old rolla mounts and some celica engine mounts , ,made up a gear box mount ,but not happy with that so gota make another soon, ive modded the heater box hoses to go from the left side to the right and modded the engine heater pipes to stay on the right side ,bit of a mission but should be ok,also another requirment for roady,windscreen demister.,,,, modded the factory accell cable to fit , customed up the factory pedal box to take a ta22 clutch cyclinder, still not sure on this set up it should be ok, next I'm basicly going thru all the engine parts that have to be fitted be for i can start the thing, this is a hard part as money is tight as and the need for custom radiator and intercooler and piping and parts and more parts and more parts haha so its going a bit slow here,any one wanta donate???? lol didnt think so , any way ive done some other bits and p[ieces here and there but thats the bulk of what ive managed to do in 8 months by my self ,i will try gett some decent pics this weekend and stick em up

CONGRATS MAN! hanging to get to that stage got miles to go yet, hay what radiator are you gona use? having issues finding a one to fit up , had a s13 one but just a little too tall , heard of bmw radiators being used ,i just wanta avoid a custom made one, everything ive done so far is dam custom geting over it, let us know what you come up with!!

hmm i have a s13 alloy one but the filler cap is to tall and hits the bonnet ,mite be a slightly differnt one to his model,my toyota radiator was stuft and the inlet and out let are in the wrong places also my rad support has been modded so need a longer one any way, cheers any way, any one else got any ideas???? i was thinking some thing like a mr2 or something slimline ,

Hay guys ,any one with a sr20 in a ke30/55 ,I'm trying to find out what radiator out of what car could fitt, i have a s13 radiator but its to tall and wont fit , can any one tell me of what they have heard of being used? thanks

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cheers mate, yip you got it bigger power needs bigger braking ,well thats what the engineer wants anyway, all ready done the rear end, has a skyline lsd and disk brakes ,so no more drum ;-) and will do most of the suspention set up once its back on the ground and everythings back in so i can set the ride height i want ,, the brake conversion so far hasnt been very hard ,and yes you do need spacers theres about an 5-8 mm gap between the caliper mount and the strut , the guy who done it on toy mods used washers ,which is fine ,i just wanted something a little more tidy for my set up, more pics to come when i get the chance or check out my gallery plenty there ,cheers

50-100ml of oil with a shock insert is advisable aparently, any way went thru that list and found the ae92 shocks to be of interest,unfortunatly the cheaper version of these only came in a complete strut, tryed pedders and found them very un helpful, ended up going to a koni suspention place.,top performance ,melbounre, highly recomended ,the guys there were very helpful didnt f@$k me round ,i took all my struts etc in and we measured everything up and found a suitable shock in sert to fit, so ive ended up with a koni adjustable sport gas insert, wasnt looking to spend that much but ahh well they were needed and suited to aplication so thats what ive ended up with ,cheers