dannyboy86 Posted August 2, 2011 Report Share Posted August 2, 2011 Hi everyone, this is my first project build car. I have a ae102r corolla which I have done work on, but never done a build to this extent. A mate of mine traded a case of corona's for this car off some guy wanting to get rid of it. It had been sitting in a locked garage for 3 years with no rego and prior to that only been driven around locally. He was the original owner and bought it new from the Toyota dealership. It has 145,000km on the clock which I'm pretty happy with. I ended up buying this car off my mate for a few hundred which was the price for the replaced door and guard which he had purchased to fix the damaged ones on the car. The engine is staying stock as this car is being built for my girlfriend. My mate already took the interior out of this car for his corolla. So Ive picked up a full ae93 sx interior, trim and all which should look pretty nice. I will be re sprayed the corolla in either a red or a white still have decided on the exact colour yet. For the stereo It has the original tape deck in it which I'm going to keep in it because it looks pretty sweet having that there. But other than that I haven't put a lot of thought into it yet. I got my hands onto the car about 4 weeks now and made some good progress on it so far. The heavy rain we had for a week in Sydney slowed down progress as I couldn't get much done as the car is out doors. Hope you enjoy! This is what I had to work with. I cleaned the engine bay because it was greasy and grimy. Went to town with the degreaser and got that thing looking a lot better. The original owner was a smoker so he would of smoked in the car for at least 15 - 16 years of it. The interior plastics were dirty and ash trays still had ash and cigarette buds in them...:o Next I did a complete service changing all the fluids using treatments. Changed the air filter, thought it might need a change. Removed all the outside door trims of the car. Unfortunately when removing the rear passenger side trim off it tore paint and all straight to bare metal leaving a good ditch in the paint which I ended bogging it up. While I was back there tapped out the dent in the wheel arch as much as I could but Its pretty thick steel so bogged the imperfections. Gave the interior and good clean with some armor all which looked a hell of a lot better than how i got it, plus vacuumed the carpet. More pictures to come when I take them off the camera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben-89 Posted August 2, 2011 Report Share Posted August 2, 2011 Looking really good mate, wasnt really a bad thing taking those mouldings off anyway as one generally falls off on its own accord. It looks preety clean in the rust department as i cannot see any above the windscreen or below the tailgate. Owning one of these in white they looks preety crisp after a polish, so a respray would look even better for sure :y: With the interior from the SX, what is the condition of the interior plastics? Such as console lid, b pillar trims and boot panels. If its thats charcoal colour be wary of the plastic turning chalky from sun/heat exposure. It must be to with the composition of the plastic as the majority turn like that. Keeping the Csi hubcaps, your lucky it still has three of them! You only need one more. Keep up the good work mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyboy86 Posted August 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 Looking really good mate, wasnt really a bad thing taking those mouldings off anyway as one generally falls off on its own accord. It looks preety clean in the rust department as i cannot see any above the windscreen or below the tailgate. Owning one of these in white they looks preety crisp after a polish, so a respray would look even better for sure :y: With the interior from the SX, what is the condition of the interior plastics? Such as console lid, b pillar trims and boot panels. If its thats charcoal colour be wary of the plastic turning chalky from sun/heat exposure. It must be to with the composition of the plastic as the majority turn like that. Keeping the Csi hubcaps, your lucky it still has three of them! You only need one more. Keep up the good work mate. Yeah its only has a tiny bit of surface rust above the windscreen which i was pretty happy with because my mates one had a heap of rust holes above his windscreen. I only ended up getting all the interior seats front and back include the the door cards / trims. I was going to keep all the original plastic thats in it because its pretty immaculate other than being filthy. Its that bluey grey colour with out any chalkiness to it. Console lid, b pillar trim are perfect. The boot panel are pretty good with only a few small scratches in it which I'm not to fussed about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onikage Posted August 3, 2011 Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 Nice work so far. What else do you have planned for it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyboy86 Posted August 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 While I had the car jacked up I decided to paint the calipers for that extra power! I will be taking the disc off and giving them a good clean up after ive finished painting the car. Took all the interior plastic out including the one sorry looking seat. Car came with a bonus used bandage. with an unidentified hair on it :| Carpet removed I'm RICH B!TCH!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyboy86 Posted August 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 (edited) Nice work so far. What else do you have planned for it? Thanks mate I'm giving it a full respray, stereo and just going to clean it up. Depending on how much ive spent on it in the end might lower it and put some stock alloys on it. I have a complete set of ae112 levin alloy 8 spokes which would look nice on it. Just tossing up if i should put them on my corolla. The car is being given to my girlfriend to drive as a daily so I don't want to go overboard with stuff. Edited August 3, 2011 by dannyboy86 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyboy86 Posted August 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 All screws, interior plastic and carpet tagged and bagged. interior door trim brackets looked a little to rush so sanded them back and respayed them matt black. Did the same with the rear brackets but gloss black. You will never see these brackets once the cars put together. But I can't resist making it look fresh and new :laff: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyboy86 Posted August 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2011 I decided on painting the car white. Went out to Autolac in Brookvale and I would highly recommended them to all. Really helpful and took the time out to explain things so :y: to them, plus very reasonable in price...$50 to $100 cheaper than other places I went to. The colour is Honda Taffeti white. Looks really nice and crisp. Ive also got coming white pearl metallic flake coming which will be mixed in with the clear to make that car pop when its out in the sun :cool: So while everything thing was out I decided to brush on sound deadener paint. Not sure with this stuff works but thought I would give it a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyboy86 Posted August 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2011 Update. Got the car primed minus front and rear bumper. Need to buy some plastic primer. Pics coming soon. Removed all the window trims and found some little surprises. Few ants nest in different locations on the car. Little bit of surface rust around the windscreen which I'm happy about because its nothing major. Smoothed out the bog and finished the repair on the rear door and wheel arch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben-89 Posted August 5, 2011 Report Share Posted August 5, 2011 Second ae92 on here with the ants nest, how did you go about removing that plastic trim goes down the a pillar? and also the windscreen trims? Your advice would be appreciated :y: Nice progress too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyboy86 Posted August 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2011 Second ae92 on here with the ants nest, how did you go about removing that plastic trim goes down the a pillar? and also the windscreen trims? Your advice would be appreciated :y: Nice progress too. lol I think your talking about my one, I did the post about the leaking ae92 :) removing the platic trims I used a small flat screw driver starting from the back door and slowly prising the plastic off the rail till I reached the front then it pretty much popped off. For the windscreen trim the clips and plastic is pretty fragile. There is ruffle about 5 - 6 clips on both sides. Pretty much just used the same method with a flat screw driver trying not to break the clips. Then you can take the corner molds off which will allow you to take the top trim/ seal off the windscreen. This pretty much pulls off just start from one side and start pulling it off. This part has a sort of metal or something in it so that if you bend it it will keep the bend but it can be straightened out again. Hope this helps The clips looks something like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben-89 Posted August 5, 2011 Report Share Posted August 5, 2011 Ah fantastic thanks for the tip! I may need to remove those rain channel trims to clean in the a pillars to rid it of anything which may have accumilated in its 17 years. So are you going to reuse those trims for the windscreen, or just use one of those generic rubber seals as seen on Vt Commodores. A few glaziers I spoke to recommended this as it was more effective in sealing and was less likely to have movement and trap dirt/moisture etc,etc. Are you going with an acrylic or 2k paint? Colour choice sounds realy nice. Loving the progress on this mate, keep it up :y: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyboy86 Posted August 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2011 Ah fantastic thanks for the tip! I may need to remove those rain channel trims to clean in the a pillars to rid it of anything which may have accumilated in its 17 years. So are you going to reuse those trims for the windscreen, or just use one of those generic rubber seals as seen on Vt Commodores. A few glaziers I spoke to recommended this as it was more effective in sealing and was less likely to have movement and trap dirt/moisture etc,etc. Are you going with an acrylic or 2k paint? Colour choice sounds realy nice. Loving the progress on this mate, keep it up :y: I thought about using the originals but if these generic rubber seals your talking about does a better job I will probably go with that. Thats for the tip :y: I'm doing 2k paint, everyone has told me that the colour last alot longer with 2k paints. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyboy86 Posted August 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2011 With the beautiful weather we had in Sydney on Friday and Saturday got the car sanded back and primed :) Really happy with the job, only got 1 small dag in the primer about the size of a 10cent piece but its no biggy will come out when went sanding. Other than that no runs! :laff: Time for picture! THE CAR IS CALLING All sanded back and masked off. Didn't bother about the front windscreen because its getting replaced anyways. Sprayed it with the hatch down and will do the hatch jamb when the bumpers are getting sprayed plus will remove the bonnet and spray the under side. All door jambs got sprayed aswell. All primed! Opps forgot to mask off the aerial :o Front bumper metal strip, quarter panel with replacement panel and front left door sanded back and primed. Wow that was a big post! Sorry about the quality of some picture. Some taken with the SLR and the others iphone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben-89 Posted August 7, 2011 Report Share Posted August 7, 2011 Awesome progress, this should be a real pearler in no time. Looking forward to the finished product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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