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Hi people, so I been working on my little corolla for a while now and thought I would make a thread about my build process.It's a 1984 AE71, I brought the car for $400 of an old hippie lady lol. Anyway when I got the car it had a stuffed 4a in it and had oil all over the engine bay god now's what happend to the poor old girl but that didn't bother me as I had a ke70 wagon with a clean dark blue interior and only 143000km on the clock, so I decided to scrap the wagon and go for the sedan (woohoo) I have wanted one of these since I was 13.When I got it home I pulled the dash out and all the pinchweld, platic trim and so on and replaced it with the dark blue stuff from my wagon, the only thing I left that was original was the velour seats, while I had the dash out I put my manual pedalbox in from the wagon, the AE71 was auto :(( like most of them. I then pulled the 4a out the hard way, as I didn't have a engine hoist, first I pulled the head off to lighten the load then got under the car with no axle stands jacked up on scissor jacks and tyres in case the car fell off the jacks unbolted the gearbox and tailshaft then pulled the gearbox out by myself (in other words a pain in the arse) then pulled all the crap of the motor an engine bay and then lifted the block out by hand which was akward but I got it out.Next I took the ae71 crossmember out and left the sruts in as my ones in the wagon were stuffed.Oh and I done everything the same way when removing the engine and driveline from the wagon except I had a friend help me lift the engine & gearbox out compleate after cutting the rad support pannel off. Then I got the engine from the ke70 and took the old k40 off it to put a k50 behind it that came with the AE71, I then had to drag the engine on a old tyre to the front of the AE and jacked it up and put two tyres under each side of the front doors to give me enough room to slide the 4k under the front end (dodey I know) but I got it under there just.So next step was how to lift the engine up so I went upstairs got my barbell weight bar and ran it across the two shock towers with a bit off chain connected to the motor, then I got a friend on one end with me on the other and we lifted the 4k up bit by bit as another friend slid tyres under the sump each time tightening the chian, once we got it high enough we took the tyres out and let the engine hang off the bar while we put the ke70 crossmember in (worked a treat). Thank god thats done :hail: lol, next task was bolting the gearbox up which once again I done by myself, fun fun but it went on pretty easy but had to cut the plug off for the reverse lights as the 5 speed had a different plug (came from a flat front XX) then on go's the manual tailshaft, I had to cut the hole around the shifter to allow the manual to fit (still got to tidy it up a bit).Then i took the loom off the 4k and just pluged it into the plug on the firewall to easy right, WRONG!!! the loom on the 4k had 5 pins where the plug on the firewall had 6, the extra pin turn out to be the wire for the starter solenoid, it took me 2 days 2 starter motor swaps, cutting all the condue off the wiring loom and checking all the wires, cutting off and re soldering the fusible links 3 batterys and a ignition barrel swap to find out the hard way it was just the 6th pin going to nothing, so i cut the wire and ran it to the solenoid and what do you know it cranked straight over FFS :bash: what a effort for a 2 min fix oh well I know next time.Anyway while I had the soldering iron out I relocated the coil to the correct side of the engine bay with some wires I found out of an old power cord (works).Unfortunetly as we all now these car love to get cancer in the boot and rear arches so mine was no exception but pretty good compared to my wagon and others I've seen, so time to attack the rust my favourite job :notimp: .What I like to do when making plates to weld in is cut the rust out with the grinder without marking it out (yes I'm lazy) then cut, bent and shape the plate by eye till it fits nicely (who can be bothed making templates anyway) and it seems to work for me PS: bogs for finishing not for filling holes imo. I have started work on the rear inner wheel wells as they have rusted around that stupid water logging shit they put between the pannels c'mon toyota you should know better lol. Check back people as I will be updating this tread as I go. Cheers Stuart.