I was given a KE30 which I have recently got running and brought back to my garage. I took it for a little putter (well a paddock bash :)) and was really impressed with how it felt to drive. I still have a lot of work to go to get it up to road worthy, so all of the following discussion is either really long sighted, or just dreaming.. I already own a fairly worked GT-R and a daily gts-t this car is either going to be restored to stock, parted, or track.

 

I'm wondering what people think of taking a KE30 and dropping corona running gear in, or supra, or any other combination of toyota cars, a 4age or similar, and a 5 speed, perhaps a roll cage.

What has been done? Were the results great? Would you do it all again? How much could you budget for?

Edited November 15, 200916 yr by Saru

Here are some threads/pages that I have drawn a lot of inspiration from:

http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~bradw/FBU.html

http://www.rollaclub.com/board/index.php?showtopic=35837

I used my ke30 for the tracks for about 4 track days. money obviously needs to be spent in the handling / suspension areas but are still a bit of fun.

 

If you had the money and wanted serious times out of it youd convert it to a 4 link, however the leafs can cope alright aslong as they are sorted out. (reset , eye-flipped whatever)

 

Upfront youd want coilovers or a lower setup with swaybars all round.

Anything can be done, depends what you want to race in

Easiest engine conversions are going to be a 2TG or 4AGE into one of these. They have been done many times so there is plenty of information on it.

 

The corona strut/brake upgrade is excellent and worked really well in my track only KE35 Corolla

 

They are a great fun little car on the track and easy to drive.

 

Leaf spring on the rear is the biggest challenge - mine had serious axle tramp at times, and I couldn't get the corner weights perfect purely as there is no adjustability with the leaf.

 

My thread listed in my signature might give you some inspiration too!