JDM55

hay mate good to hear its running, ive seen a few done with ta22 clutch masters as there quite small and if you mod it rite can get it close to the master with out to much dramas, also seen a 180sx clutch master i think in marty ks rolla seem to just fit from the looks , iguess it all depends on where the engine is mounted to how much clearances you have,as for boosters i think the factory booster recoed works ok but you can use a 5/16 or 1 inch brake master cyclinder from a holden v8 ,this is the way I'm going , it bolts directly to the ke55 booster, how ever if you want to keep the ke55 brake resivor you have to do a few little mods to the master,nothing drastic just need a slight shaving off the top to drop the tank down closer to the master,i gots pics in the gallery some where of doing this I'm pretty sure, any way speak to you soon !great to hear its running mate , gives me abit of insentive to keep going at it ! cheers

EXCELLENT thanks alot rolliac thats what i was after ,looks to be a few options there also ,again cheers very helpful :dance:

i had cut lovel front springs and monroe gas inserts was lowered maybe a few inches,a very very noticable difernce in handling, much firmer,looses the body roll and shapens the steering ,how ever the gas shocks only lasted a year be for they stufted out,so i wouldnt recomened standard height shocks with cut springs! I'm currently in the same situation as you ,I'm looking for a shock and spring combo that i can use in my 55, don't want cut springs any more but maybe a factory spring that is shorter than the corolla item and a shock to suit??? the hunt is on! ,ive never heard of ford springs being used so would be interested as well in there lenght.........

so test fit all back together ,xt130 strut,ra60 disk and mx62 caliper,bolted my wheel one to make sure the caliper clears, it all fits very well,lots of clearance between the rim and caliper, :dance: hopefully these pics will help anyone lookin to do the same conversion,any one need to ask anything can pm me now onto the shocks and springs mission!

grinded smooth and shaped to match the brackets a bit better, a fair bit of stuffing around ,but getting there, next i used a grinder and a file to level it off a bit better and match the caliper to strut bracket angle,all the time puting the disk on and then the caliper to test fittment .....

zip zap,welded on,,

here are the small spacers i made up out of 4-5 mm steel plate ,fairly simple,just bolted the plate to the holes ,traced around the bracket shape, then cut them out,and grinded them down to a closer shape, then bolted them back onto the bracket and ready for welding,

the threaded holes need to be grinded smooth as you don't need the thread any more,going to be using the caliper threaded holes instead

here the bracket has been grinded up and made a bit more level, need to do this so i could weld on the spacers.....

this is the xt130 strut in the vice ,the caliper bracket about to be delt to,

here you can see how far back the pads need to be to fit over the disk,also new pads are fairly thick,but they do fit

this is what the mx62 caliper looks like sitting on the disk, its not easpecialy huge or anything the main reason its used is becasue of the bolt spacing ,still it weighs a fair bit ,definatley will be heavy duty in a corolla

here is the mx62 caliper sitting on the disk, you have to squeese the fluid out of the caliper to get the pads to fit over the disk,its tight but does fit,now you can see the caliper to strut gap that has to be filled with something,can be done with washers or spacers ,take your pic, i went the harder way and leveled off the bracket first ,then cut sum 4-5 mm steel plate into small spacers and welded them on ,this closed up the gap considerbly,leaving only a bit of work to get the angles right ,as the 2 brackets on the strut are slighty differnt from each other, another thing that had to be done was the threaded holes on the strut had to be drilled out,i just used a die grinder to a few moments and was done,

test fitting the xt130 strut with celica disk ,to see any fitment problems , can see it fits under 15s easy as pie, while still being a larger disk than the corolla item,,,

xt130 hub bolted to ra60 vented disk is a direct bolt on no mods needed

ra60 celica struts/brakes vs corolla ke55 brakes

cheers for that info lol any way back to my car..... so ive been doing a heap of work and this an that at the moment I'm up to the front suspention and steering ,this is all proving to be very time consuming due to lack of funds for parts needed , not to worry will deal with that some how, now i know this is all ready covered on toy mods and I'm sure on here a bunch of times, but when i was searching for info i didnt find much in the way of legit info ,so just want to confirm a few things that i have found while in the middle of doing the xt130 strut /brake up grade, 1) xt130 steering arms fit ke30/ke55 ball joints 2)ke55 tie rods fit xt130 steering arms 3) ra60 celica vented disk is a direct bolt on to the xt130 hub 4) mx62 caliper and pads do fit with 100% pad to disk area,just... 5)it is easyer to level or machine the xt130 strut caliper brackets before adding washers or spacers,or you have to battle with some wierd angles to get them to sitt on straight, 6) ra60 caliper bolts are perfect lenght for the mx62 caliper so yeah thats sorta where I'm upto, just for those who don't know ill go thru the parts list you need to make this set up work,or at least what i have used so far,but be fore i do a quick note that it says on toymods that this is a 250 dollar upgrade,well from going to the wreakers a billion times and sorcing all these parts it has cost well over that and i havnet even got the new parts yet, so be warned this isnt a cheapy upgrade ,unless you have the cars laying around lol or deal with a decent non over pricing wreaker! PARTS::::: 2 X XT130 CORONA STEERING ARMS 2 X XT130 CORONA STRUTS 2 X XT130 CORNONA HUBS AND BEARINGS 2 X RA60 CELICA VENTED DISK 2 X MX62 CRESSIDA CALIPERS AND PADS 4 X RA60 CELICA CALIPER BOLTS 2 X KE55 LOWER SPRING CUPS(UNLESS YOUR GOING COILOVER,I AM NOT) 2 X KE55 SPRINGS 2 X KE55 SPRING HATS 2 X KE55 TOWERTOPS 2 X KE55 LOWER CONTROL ARMS 2 X SHOCK INSERT( STILL YET TO FIND ONE THAT WILL WORK FOR ME...) so i think thats about the parts I'm using little bit of a list there,as i said having trouble finding a insert that is shorter than the corolla one by about 40 -50 mm somehting like that ,got a bit of ringing around to do for that one, any heres a few pics of making the brake upgrade work:::::::

just had a look at the munroe catalogue seems they only do a lowered/shorterstroke shock for fords and holdens :) guess thats out then , ae86? shocks? any one got the measurements or can measure one for us??? can't seem to find a measurement chart anywhere for shocks , this is going to get tricky ............

thanks guys,yeah had a read on the toy mods site,and some other sites,a bit vauge on details, id love some konis but think the pricing gona put me off ,on a very tight budget on this build haha so munroe actualy make a shorter stroke shock then? hmmm

pimp ,when you gona finish the 55??? hahahhaha

hay guys interested in hearing what inserts you have used and from what car ,into the xt130 front struts, I'm doing the xt130 conversion into my 55 and need to find a shorter shock, to keep my spring held in tight , so any one at all who has done this conversion let me know what inserts i can use ,what car they were from,and how much shorter they are ,would be very helpful cheers

any more updates on this puppy??

well ive started the work on the car!! actualy ive done alot recently ,posted up pics in the gallery if any ones interested :2thumbs:

jdm as fu%k, sick ass mega dish on those rims, looking good keep up the good work, peace

thats sweet mate,nice daily, what size and make are the wheels?