Rolla__Boy Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 Well since you know everything, and wont listen to anyones advice....WHY POST THE f@$kIN QUESTION....how's that sound? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ke50 Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 ditto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-B-Benne Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 rollaboy: i apologise if i have offended you. the responses to my topic were fair and friendly. >> if anyone thinks this isn't a complete waste of time let me know and i'll post up the build details...still in paper at this point but juts gimme some time... >> i posted the question because i thought some of the people reading it would have been interested in the approach i'm taking....obviously not everyone...but i love a challenge, and preliminary measurements indicate it's not going to be the tooo hard... as far as i know, no-one has tried using a shortened falcon axle in a corolla...i don't see any in d1, in the oz drift nats, nz drift...no-where. they all stick with the panhard...so naturally, i want to see if and how well it might work...if i manage to get the placement of the engine/gearbox right, the car isn't going to be front weight biased...it might just all actually WORK...i thought some people might be interested in my ideas... sorry for wasting space, rollaclub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Jamie Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 the responses to my topic were fair and friendly. they were, so you're welcome around here anytime :S it's just alot of people are "all talk" about building 1uz-fe ke70s, we've heard it enough times that it becomes a pipe dream, because it would be a VERY hard project to do with a good proper result but honestly man, if you're going to do it, i for one would LOVE to see a corolla taken to that extreme. you'd pave the way for others to build similar cars, and modifying corollas is what we're all about, right? as an idea, google for "puerto rico piston team" and have a look at the half-chassis ke70s those guys have running 8 and 7 second quarter miles, with crappy old 3T-C pushrod motors which have turbo, nos, and efi. that's the kind of body you're going to have to build, if not something better and stronger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeys toy[RL] Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 i take objection to the "crappy" old "t" engines...... better'n a "k"....... arguments? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Jamie Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 i take objection to the "crappy" old "t" engines......better'n a "k"....... arguments? pointless argument. 1300cc pushrod non-crossflow is worse than 1800cc pushrod crossflow. but they're both shithouse compared to what you can get these days. the puerto ricans just use 3T-Cs cos that's all they have. they never got twincam heads, though you'd think for the amount of money they're spending on the rest of the car, the cost of importing a 2T-G head and associated parts would be worth it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeys toy[RL] Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 same here, MOST older corollas had 2t and 3t engines. k's were rare as hell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Jamie Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 lucky you then :S australia usually gets the sharp end of the stick with all international car distribution, we only get very limited numbers of GTRs and EVOs as well, for example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 Then they were/are waterd down versions of the oversea's cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Jamie Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 not always, our 32 gtr got more power than the japanese one. no 206kw limit over here :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 B-B-Benne! You appear to have your head on the correct way, and you have an awesome avatar pic :( Welcome to the club, your project interests me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st.nick Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 K's 'Rare' ?? Cool. so we should export a heap of them to the USA for the 'purists' and bring a heap of xT-G engines back here!!! As for 6cyl KE70's... Man, what an engineering challenge!! I remember seeing an AE86 with a 6cyl in it some time ago in a mag, and he was lucky to fit the thing!! Why someone would go to 'all-that-trouble' to fit a 6, when a 'formula Atlantic' spec 4agze would bolt straight in, give better balance, power-to-weight, etc sure beats the hell outta me. But if it floats you boat that badly... Then do it!! :) Take lots n lots of pics, detailed accounts of the steps, and all the issues :( you are BOUND to have with a swap like that!! As Peter Brock once said: "If you bite off more than you can chew... Then chew like HELL!!!" Hope ya got some good teeth brother!! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
love ke70 Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 not always, our 32 gtr got more power than the japanese one. no 206kw limit over here :) alot of cars broke the 206kw limit but just advertised them as 206 kw to keep the authorities happy i thought? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Jamie Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 alot of cars broke the 206kw limit but just advertised them as 206 kw to keep the authorities happy i thought? yeah, that's pretty much how it worked, and still does. you'll usually peel over 220kw at the wheels out out most bog stock "206kw" japanese cars released these days still, i have HEARD that the 100 genuine aussie 32GTRs went harder than the jap spec ones. but now we are just talking carpark rumors and "butt dyno" so who really knows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolla__Boy Posted December 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 Car manufacturers have been doing this forever, even XY GT's had alot more power than the factory claimed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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