Hey hey, nice to be back, I saw this gem and knew you guys had to have it.

See the legendary TRD 137E in all it's glory.

16 valves, directly actuated by chain driven DOHC's.

Nippondenso mechanical fuel injection, slide throttle, "dorai soompa" lubrication.

1.3 naturally aspirated litres making 180PS @ 9500rpm...

 

I would crawl through broken glass for a KE35 with one of these suckers under the bonnet.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoLi8NZJYu0...player_embedded

 

and the blog it came from; it was the next video recommended after the one with the Tomei Sunny (also a nice piece of old racecar porn).

http://beeoneoneoh.wordpress.com/

 

But anyway, Hi everybody, I'm Nathan. Used to be on here as CorollaTestPilot, but that was years ago, and I've forgotten the login :bash:

Took a hiatus from Rollaclub when I took a hiatus from 'rollas; bought me a manual E34 535is. Beautiful car, superior in every way to a Corolla, except for the very reasons we love 'rollas so much; Weight, fuel consumption, susceptibility to failure (and price of the German plastic needed to rectify said failures...). Drove it up the arse of a Commodore whilst delivering pizzas 6 months later :yes:

I've been languishing in an MS112 for about a year now, whilst I've set about re-powering a KE70 with a rebuilt 3K. With the swap now good to go, I reckon it's time I started hanging out here more often. Cheers.

Edited April 11, 201016 yr by 3KE70

i wish i had that under the bonnet of my KE35

May I have a private room. I think i've stained myself.

 

HOLY SHEET.

 

Understood about 40% of whath was going on...like the 2 million USD (then money) to develop that bad boy

Edited April 12, 201016 yr by Bamboo