Well since i have some spare time i thought i would make thread for at least one of my cars and my daily being the one i don't have to go into much detail with :y:

 

Anyway i managed to pick up my 1984 AE71 Corolla in November 2006.. I found it on eBay with the seller advertising it as a 4age motor for sale. I contacted the seller for more info. After all questions were answered i came to the conclusion that the item for sale was infact an AE71 with a JDM Bigport 4age engine in it which was just out of rego and required minor pink slip. I carefully watched the auction till the end where i eventually won! YAY!!!

So my brother and i began the 12 hour round trip of driving halfway to Queensland and trailering the car back to sydney.

 

Heres the car how we found it:

 

On the trailer ready for the trip home:

 

Since the car lived in the countryside it was filthy with caked dirt and dust. A good detailing and it came up like this:

Edited September 25, 200818 yr by Kebin

Among the first mods were do something about crappy 90's looking alloys which had great rubber but bugger all traction in the wet.

 

Take one average looking ae71:

 

And throw some D's on that bitch:

 

Another great eBay find it was! I managed a complete set of 15" Watanbes measuring 7.5" wide at the front and 8.5" wide at the rears. The wheels actually came off a DR30 Skyline so the bald tread that was on there was stripped and replaced with some decent 195/50's

Edited July 27, 200719 yr by Kebin

Thats a nice car mate. Can we see some more pictures of inside and under the bonnet? Please Please Please. Well worth the drive to collect it.

I thought it would be nice to see what the standard Bigport could get on the rollers so i attended a toymods dynoday and tried my luck.

 

 

and heres the results. I'm overally pleased with the result:

Thats a nice car mate. Can we see some more pictures of inside and under the bonnet? Please Please Please. Well worth the drive to collect it.

Definately worth the drive! Yeh i'll bung up more pics just gotta take em and upload em all.

Shortly after the dyno day i began to get sick of the fuel surge going around left handers caused by the crappy fuel pump setup. I redid the whole lot and fitted a surge tank with lo and high pressure pumps.

 

The modified intank pick up with pre-pump attached:

 

and the surge tank setup in the boot:

What ecu are you running, kebin? Looks like a fairly smooth tune by the dyno sheet.

with stock fuel regulator..???

I like the CSA's that were on it, even though Watanabe's rule :y:

 

Nice ride

yeah i reckon it looked uber neat once you cleaned it up with the csa's on it, watanabes are off tap though, awsoem find man

Edited July 28, 200719 yr by jamesrolla

front lips apron and duck-tail spoiler... to match with those street lethal watanabe wheels.. not rubbing the fenders arch?

What ecu are you running, kebin? Looks like a fairly smooth tune by the dyno sheet.

 

 

with stock fuel regulator..???

 

All standard fellas everything original out of the donor ae86 which it would have previously came out of.

That's a definate nice find and it wont attract attention :y:

Can we see some more pictures of inside

 

Along the way i added the bucket and matching steering wheel just because the base fell out of the original seat :y:

Very very nice mate - love it!