I felt bad that I joined up just to look for a car for my Girlfriend, so I thought I'd start a thread on the car that made my Girl love Toyota's.

 

She's an RA40 with an 18RC, I bought her probably 20 months ago now. I new nothing about cars, I saw them as an object to get from A to B... It's amazing how much I have changed my perspective on cars in those 20 months. I've rebuilt the engine and done a few modifications to my car that make people wonder.

 

Well, here she is when I first bought her.

 

 

 

Here's what she looked like after a month of having her. I used tyre shine on the rubber bumpers every weekend, and I polished her once a month =P

 

 

and Here is what she looks like now.

 

 

 

I rebuilt the original engine over a couple weeks, Complete rebuild with new piston rings and honed bores etc etc... I deleted the 'C' part from 18RC, No more Emissions crap. I added a 32/36 Weber and extractors. I've been told it's one of the nicest 18R's people have seen, Hehe.

 

Fitted an EA Falcon 85Amp alternator with a bracket I made.

 

 

I've always had a thing for fender mirrors too, and also thought the single mirror on the drivers side looked a bit dicky so I got some glass from a 78 model and fitted it to 'Delete' the stock mirror.

 

 

 

Thats pretty much it so far. I bought a mild cam for it and a manifold for a single sidedraught, I plan on putting a 45mm Weber on it with the cam but thats a mod I'll do later...

 

 

By the way, Sorry it isn't a Corolla =)

Nice 40, also good to see someone using the correct terminology for the prefix C.

Cheers mate. What do people think the 'C' stands for? =P

 

It says in the Manual on the 18R series that it's emission. If it's a 'B' it's twin SU carbs,Not many people know that one either... Theres also a rare 18RE, EFI version.

I've learnt a fair amount over the last 20 months, hehe.

C = California spec emissions. (although the jury is still out on that one... Some say it stands for 'carburettor')

 

Became the default suffix globally for anti-pollution gear as California always had the strictest 'smog' laws.

Edited August 19, 201214 yr by 7shades

Ahh, didn't tell me that in the manual. Learn something new everyday.

Lovely example- the chrome bumpers look much better, that period of American laws gave us world-wide ugly bumpers!

C = California spec emissions. (although the jury is still out on that one... Some say it stands for 'carburettor')

 

Jury isn't out, it has and always will stand for "California", there are plenty of carby Toyota motors that didn't have the -C moniker, just most of the ones we got here had the -C. For comparison, -U is the Japanese market emissions package.

 

The confusion probably arises because I don't believe the -C ever appeared on an EFI engine (or if it did, it was extremely uncommon), whereas the -U did in several high-profile engines (ie 18RGEU, 2TGEU etc etc), and pretty much all mention of emissions packages in engine codes disappeared when EFI became virtually standard across the Toyota range in the early 90s

Edited August 20, 201214 yr by Hiro Protagonist

Looks sweet as. I would have this car...

Thanks everyone =P

 

 

Saying that though, I don't understand how there is confusion when the 18R was around before the 18RC and didn't have the emissions crap... Essentially, I made my engine an 18R.

The confusion probably arises because I don't believe the -C ever appeared on an EFI engine (or if it did, it was extremely uncommon), whereas the -U did in several high-profile engines (ie 18RGEU, 2TGEU etc etc), and pretty much all mention of emissions packages in engine codes disappeared when EFI became virtually standard across the Toyota range in the early 90s

 

U and C both appeared in 4age codes.

U and C both appeared in 4age codes.

 

*slaps forehead

 

Knew there would have been at least one...actually, come to think of it there might have been a 3SGELC as well...both would have been that mid/late-80s changeover time though which might explain it

Your number plates are AWESOME! I have an RA40 rally car, good to see some other people showing some RA40 love. :)

Cheers, The number plates get a lot of questions and conversations started =P I love it haha.

 

I have 3 RA40's. Heres the other two.

 

 

 

The blue one is my parts car, I bought it for $250 and it has an 18RG in it that me and my brother got running in a couple of hours. I am rebuilding it, Lowering compression, turboing it and chucking it in this:

 

 

Rust free shell! Just needs paint and interior. It'll be my Daily while I fix up NOOB due to her being so bloody rusty! Poor girl =/

love to see these beauties ........ :yes:

 

never seen a celica in sri lanka........ :elvis:

 

keep it up :y: :y:

dude this is a nice car! keen to see the 18rg+t build too.