I have been working on my Peanut for the past few months bit by bits and so far I'm %75 done. My car came with an extra rebuilt 3K motor when I purchased the car. I was going to put 4AGE in it, but decided at the meantime since money right now is pretty tight the rebuilt 3K would sufice fro now. The car came with a K40 4speed tranny, but I was lucky enough to get a K50 5speed tranny from a Starlet at a local salvage yard. The K50 bolts right in with no modifications needed. I am also putting in a dual Mikuni 40s sidedraft setup with my stock motor. I also have a K series header, but I am having clearance issues because of the steering box on the way. For now the stock exhaust has to be used. I am plannig on doing a Starlet rack and pinion conversion in the future to solve the header clearance or I might just have my dad order me a custom made header back in the Philippines. If anyone can source one to fit a KE20 with the steering box in the way please let me know. Also if anyone out there have a single side draught manifold please let me know.

 

In the beggining:

 

 

 

My old dirty engine bay:

 

 

Tear down:

 

 

The engine hoist :dance1 (my cousin, Nick, pitured here helped me yank out the motor with a solid drain pipe):

 

The old 3K (still running, I'm going to work on a 4K block and 3K head combo to have on the side)

 

Motor out:

 

 

 

Engine bay prepped. I got rid of all the grease, grime, and sanded out most of the rust:

 

 

My weapons of choice for the engine bay paint job:

 

 

Primer & Paint:

 

 

 

Tagged:

 

 

 

 

Finished engine bay ( I'm no paint expert, but the results came out better that I expected)

 

 

Fresh old stock crate 3K:

 

 

Transmission ( Left: K50 - Right: K40):

 

 

Carby ( Notice one of the carby has been hacked :bangin: :cool: to death, but I have an extra one. The header is for a K series motor, but I have clearance issues with the steering box):

 

Edited May 3, 200818 yr by migz808

Motor and tranny together:

 

 

Ready to put the motor/tranny back in:

 

 

Motor back in and test fitting the carby setup:

 

 

 

 

Carby with trumpet hitting the sensor a bit beneath the master cylinder. It night be a more tight fight when the gaskets are all mounted on the intake and the carby. I think it should be OK.

 

 

Next step is the suspension. The KE20 came with a 4x110 bolt pattern and its a real pain in the ass to llok for rims. So I'm going with a AE86 fronts with coilovers and a TE27 rear.

 

 

 

More to come!!

lookin very very nice man!

excellent work champ.

 

engine bay came up sweet.

 

keep the picks coming.

 

cheers, scott

super keen to see how the coilover conversion turns out.If its easier enough i may well be a very good option for my car

is that a brand new 3k!!?? :cool:

Yeah there was a guy a couple of weeks ago on kp61.net selling NOS crate 3k's. Guess its one of those. :POSTPICS!:

 

....Looks like it might even be a big port!!

Cheers and thanks all for the compliments. The engine came with the car when I bought it. It is an new old stock rebuilt motor from Japan. BTW how do tell if its big port or not?? Only difference I see from my old 3K is the water outlet behind the head. The suspension setup from the AE86 is pretty simple. Just use the Ke20 tophat and a pair of TE27 steering arms. I think there might be a + or negative camber offset, but can be solved by a pair of camber plates.

Nice job :dance:

 

Man i wish we could get NOS engines over here ! :POSTPICS!:

Nice job :dance:

 

Man i wish we could get NOS engines over here ! :POSTPICS!:

 

Soz for the silly question, what is a NOS engine though?

NOS = New Old Stock

whats the go with your bumpers??

are they factory?

 

they look like some sort of custom jobbys?

 

i thought your standard bumpers had huge plastic/rubber things hangin off them.

 

cheers, scott

hey man, nice 20.

 

just havin a look at the pic and whats the go with the clutch cable? it goes in the same side as the right hand drive models we have here and thats a left had drive with the pedals in the other side? just curious.

 

CHEERS

Ryan

The plastic plugs in the intake ports look quite large, thats why I made the big port comment!

Gday mate.

 

Welcome to Rollaclub, its always good to see what our Corolla loving cousins on other continents are up to.

 

The car looks fabulous so far, a nice starting point, and a nice motor for her. Keep up the good work and please keep us posted! How hard was the TE27 diff to get? They're a T series leaf sprung setup? I heard thats what they were and thats what it looks like to me, anyhow.

 

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