Pic from a few months back I forgot to upload. Who said Corolla's are practical vehicles!? lol .........

 

Also found a new cap for my cas. Its the lid off the sugar jar, fits nice and is spun stainless.

Ha ha nice one, quick hide the jar before the missus finds it!

Driving from launy to Hobart last night, hit a rather large roo (well by Tassie standards anyway). Made a but of a mess of the front, bend bumper, mangled stone tray, lower rad support is pushed back quite a bit, have even bent the rad but it somehow still holds water. Will upload pics shortly.

pics don't look as bad as it actually is......

 

may have found a nos full chrome 30 bumper, still need to find straight stone tray, and also a cut from wreck of the lower rad support panel. can anybody help?

Man that sucks! I never really associated roos with tassie, apparently i was wrong. Rad support damage is a shame, but s nos bumper is a score.

So probably about time I updated this... So 6 months on from hitting the roo I finally got it back on the road early this week. Ended up wrecking the old n/a shitter "dirt" for its stone tray and the cut I needed for the front. Have a whole cars worth of parts if anybody needs anything. The stone tray/valance was actually 2 half straight ones cut and screwed together so I'll still keep my eye out for a nice one.

Was lucky enough to find both front and rear nos Ke30 full chrome bumpers...and cheap too.

Got myself another brand new vn radiator from repco...$130. I can't believe how much the last one bent, twisted and warped without springing a leak.

I'll upload some pics soon, might give it a wash first. Looks the same other than bumpers.

Edited August 15, 201511 yr by Taz_Rx

Pleased you have it all sorted now buddy! VN radiator loves a good hit haha

Finally took a couple of pics on the weekend after giving her a wash. Only real visible differences are the chrome bars....

 

 

 

I'll get some pics of the bent radiator soon too

Looking good! How easy/ hard was it to fit the vn radiator? I'm thinking about getting one, they are cheap and look to have similar inlet and outlet position. Cheers

Piece of piss really. I have mine a bit offset to the drivers side as the cooler pipes run past the passenger side of it. If you had it centred then its just a matter of drilling a couple of 10mm holes in the brackets that hold the front control arms for the locating lugs in the bottom of each end tank. I then just made up a couple of simply brackets that screw onto the top bolt holes for the stock fan shroud and screw into the top radiator support. You could find some pics a few pages back. I've always intended to redo it a but nicer but its half one of those 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' sort of things. Some grommets in the holes for the lower lugs wouldn't be a bad idea too. The stock upper mounts are plastic lugs that stick out of each side of the end tanks about 100mm from the top.

The way mine is mounted I can remove the radiator in under 5 minutes.

Make sure you get one with a cap as I think the earlier ones don't have one, you can use the original k cap. Can use an original passenger side hose, but the top/drivers side one is just too short. The one I have now is a generic flexi hose I got from a rubber/hose supplier for about $60.

I very nearly bought a full alloy one of Ebay....

http://m.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_nkw=vn+full+alloy+radiator&isNewKw=1&isRefine=true&mfs=GOCLK&acimp=0&_trksid=undefined.TR0.TRC0.Xvn+full+alloy+radiator&sqp=vn+full+alloy+radiator

...but was a little dubious on Chinese weld quality and sort of needed one asap, so went to repco as I knew they'd have one in stock.

Have a look at one of the Ebay adds and you'll see the locating lugs I'm talking about.

Sounds pretty straight forward. Just wanted to hear from you that is wasn't too fiddly. I did see a pic of it but could only see the top mounts. I was looking at this one just due to the price, although those alloy ones look really nice.

Bit of a delayed pic upload.....

 

Here was some of the damage during strip down...

 

 

 

 

 

While it was off the road I removed the dumb pipe and got another bung welded on on a 45 degree angle. Can now easy screw in an o2 sensor when I get one. Read up in the Wolf user manual a bit. The v4 is pre-calibrated for a bosch LSM-11. Highly recommends not always leaving it in when not using it for tuning purposes.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

While I'm at it, couple of pics of a little beast I found at a local car show...