After spending (to) much time on this board I thought it was time to open my own topic. Just to know what you guys think about my ride and give me some advise.

 

My name is Jonas, I'm from Oudenaarde Belgium. I've been a Toyota-enthousiast for whole my life and since last year I have my own Corolla. I'm now studying my first year of carmechanics (it's a 3 year course) and I'm learning a lot from it.

 

This is how i bought the car:

 

 

Interior:

 

 

Temporary sound system (for a day :P ):

 

 

New Stereo (2 old speakers in the back just the have some music. I don't want the car to falling appart through bass ;) )

 

 

Painted the wheels as a temporary solution. They are now fitted with new tyres and I'm going to respray the centre and polish the edge:

 

 

Rusty sh*t:

 

 

Fixed the rusty spots:

 

I had just washed the car so the drups you are seeing are just wather, not paint

 

 

To bad didn't put more effort in getting the rust away, after 6 months it all starts coming back... And worse! Picture of today in the snow:

 

 

Photoshop lowered and stripes:

 

 

As for now I'm really not satisfied with the way she is running', With the cold weather the engine doesn't run like it should be.

 

Plans:

 

- Lower the car (lowering blocks at the back and try to lower the front woth a combination of mines and ta22 springs. Don't know how to explain but someone told that this could work)

- Clean up under the hood and give it a close look together with someone who knows more about it than me

- Polish the wheels

- Clean up the trunk and make it look good

- Install the new bootseal

- Find some new door pulls

- Install a second mirror on the passenger-door

- Get away from al the rust! But this time with more care and time

- Maybe striping like the picture above

 

 

In the future: An engine swap, i would like to install a 2T-B as a 2T-G is to hard to find and to expensive and my uncle has a 2T-B that I can buy. But for now I'll start with all the other things ;-)

Updates to come in februari as I am now studying for big tests (well actually I'm searching thru the board the whole time :( )

 

Tell me what you think, all information is welcome!

 

Grtzzz

Edited January 5, 200917 yr by Jonas dc

WoW mate, great start for a project.

 

Those door pulls can be found on ebay. They are definitely on the au version. I can dig up the link if you want. As for the passenger mirror you could find one on here, just look for an early KE70 as they had that style and we drive on the left.

 

But all up looking great. Keep us posted on your updates. :P

KE30 Door Pull

Love the KE30 2-door sedans, the late-KE55 tail-lights really look a treat too (I prefer them over the early-55/KE30 sedan tail-lights). Pity about the rust returning, but since you've got a photo of it in snow then I guess it's not that surprising, perhaps once you've got it all cut out and fixed up again you should go over the car with fish-oil to help prevent future break-outs (geez, I sound like an acne skin cream commercial)...

Awwwwwww it looks so cute :P

 

;)

Belgium eh....

 

Swap you a door mirror for some of that tasty tasty chocolate :P

that interior looks awesome, love the handbrake cover, really looks nice

is that ke55 grille stock over in belgium or did you place it in??

We are the only ones that got KE55's. Everyone else continued to receive KE30's. So to them thats a late KE30 grille with late KE30 tail lights.

 

Surprised that they didn't get foam pull handles like us.

KE30 Door Pull

 

Yes I found those yesterday to but I'm thinking of combining it with another product of this seller so I'm waiting for a moment, Thx!

 

 

 

Belgium eh....

 

Swap you a door mirror for some of that tasty tasty chocolate :D

 

Haha! Fine by me, I can't insure you that it will still be as good when it arrives

 

 

Love the KE30 2-door sedans, the late-KE55 tail-lights really look a treat too (I prefer them over the early-55/KE30 sedan tail-lights). Pity about the rust returning, but since you've got a photo of it in snow then I guess it's not that surprising, perhaps once you've got it all cut out and fixed up again you should go over the car with fish-oil to help prevent future break-outs (geez, I sound like an acne skin cream commercial)...

 

Yeah I know but it doesn't snow here a lot so I couldnt control myself doing some donuts on that parkinglot. But you are right, it's impossible to keep the car rust-free, it also always outside with a car-cover.. We are going to build a carport but I have to much work for school etc...

 

that interior looks awesome, love the handbrake cover, really looks nice

is that ke55 grille stock over in belgium or did you place it in??

 

Handbrake cover is original, or do yyou mean the cover for the gearlever? That's from a toyota starlet and adjusted. That old rubber was totally broken and when I drove true mud I got it all up in my face :y:

 

We are the only ones that got KE55's. Everyone else continued to receive KE30's. So to them thats a late KE30 grille with late KE30 tail lights.

 

Surprised that they didn't get foam pull handles like us.

 

That's correct :y:. What do you mean by foam pull handles?

 

Thx for the replies!

Edited January 6, 200917 yr by Jonas dc

If you look through you can see the handle. I have a huge box full of them. You want to convert??

 

Handbrake cover is original, or do yyou mean the cover for the gearlever? That's from a toyota starlet and adjusted. That old rubber was totally broken and when I drove true mud I got it all up in my face :y:

 

original??

we didn't get them over here

we just had the handbrake and that is all

i had to get a centre console out of a corona to make mine look flush

oh well

Jason do I need to prove you wrong?? Okay...

 

This is my KE55p (KE50/Liftback) Some KE70/AE71's came with this console too. Feel like asking me anything else?? :y:

 

That handbrake cover came off (in Australia) either an S or SE Ke70