Just another corolla - DIY Caterham frame 7age and ´93 Liftback RWD

the wagon does would be awesome with the crazy 4wd system

also ... "Ran from the police" , care to elaborate? lol

miib14 wrote:

the wagon does would be awesome with the crazy 4wd system

also ... "Ran from the police" , care to elaborate? lol

If you read the post about the cute little kitten trapped in the rav4, I went
to a local hardware store (one of to many in a little 300.000 people country)
and was about an hour in there and came back to my car and the rav4 was
still there and the little kitten was still going crazy in the car I just hate when
people do this leave their pets in a completely closed car not even a gap in
the windows.. So I just kidding about burning it down and run from cops in a
hate relate speaking.. hope I didn´t make a boo boo saying that..

Been buzy with the dolly making, all the material is in


Went to messure the 4wd fuel tank, did not remember it beein this rusty!!


It will have to do for now..


Then an old friend called me last night and asked If I would want to check on him
he was with another friend in his garage and had this to show me..



Its a ST165 Celica with 2.0 Twincam 3sge engine with T-vis system


He told me theres only two left in the country now, he bought the third one and
destroyed it to restore this black one and then theres another black one justl like
this one in the other end of Iceland wich he resenty found out about and hes also
restoring it same time as he is    cant make this stuff up...

I asked him what happent to the motor that was in the extra one he destroyed
and hes making it turbo and when he is done doing that Im thinking of buying the
engine that sits in his car now so I will be having a 3sge head to put on my 3sfte
engine  making mine a 3sgte engine muhahaha  

More updates comming soon.. hope you enjoy

oh wow, nice work so far, and no boo boo

are you sure thats the 165? the 165 was a turbo, the 162 was an N/A

liking the dished wheels on it

miib14 wrote:

oh wow, nice work so far, and no boo boo

are you sure thats the 165? the 165 was a turbo, the 162 was an N/A

liking the dished wheels on it

Thanks for the comment    

And you are right its an st162 NA
he made those steel rims him self!


Last saturday I borrowed my old corolla to take my fiance on a date,
went to Pizza Hut and to see a moive Secret Life Of Walter Mitty wich
was filmed a largely in Iceland, It was awesome I want to see It again!


Been wanting to buy electric band saw for a long time and yesterday I drove to
all of the hardware stores and tools shops in Iceland to find the right one
then this one comes on sale on a local internet page like craigslist in USA


Brand new been turned on one time, has speed adjuster and 45° angle bang for the buch


So I started right away, going to let the pictures talk now













Putting tiers under the table   


Hopefully next time I post I will be getting the Wagon!

homemade A frame, that is super awesome

Hopefully someone appreciates this stuff because It will help me pick up the new corolla


Table has wheels


And on with the A frame (not a dolly, silly me)


Low budget as you can see




Desited to turn the (what you call it?) around so it would be easier to loosen it



First mock up


Testing



aligning it straighter






So little left to do, then off to get the Wagon, going to finish this and test it tomorrow, I hope


Hope you enjoy

wow that is nice

Thanks for the comment!!

Just more A frame build going on


Doing this right the first time, It takes time..


Some stabelizer




Testing the stabelizer


Working grate


Welded the retainer bar holes on the wrong spot


Market and drilled the retainer bar, took me an hour!!



the last bid I hope



Mmmmm cant wait to test it out tomorrow!!


Enjoy this awesome A bar build, I was going to build a tow dolly with two
wheels but dind´t know what to do with it when I was not using it then I
found this A frame stuff and its perfect for me and I can store it in the garage!!

Went to my friend and hooked the A frame to his 4wd Wagon corolla


This stuff works so bad ass!!! I had him sitting in the driver seat just
incase the A frame would brake or something, I could completely forget
the corolla was even there, I want to build couple more and sell them

Now Im going to get the Wagon, hopefully

haha thats sweet..

i am sooo extremely jealous of the fact you got 4wd corollas

Been so super buzy lately

Still have not picked up the wagon,
but I bought a new timing belt and an o´ring for the 3sfe engine



And in the evenings I´ve been working for cash, changed this subaru legacy
muffler out for a BMW 525 muffler, the coolest subaru sound Ive heard came out



Went to look at some of the few AE86 left in my country for my toyota friend
he is looking to buy one and restore, this is one of my old ones and has been
sitting for 7years


And another that has been sitting for 10years or longer just waiting


then taking out the trash in the garage to make room for the wagon
and 4wd drivetrain build/swap


Then desited to finish the wall behind the shelfs been 3years now


So this is how it sits now, cant move much


Also bought couple of cars to fix and sell, maby Ill post them up but only two of them are Toyotas sadly.

Just wanted to update this abit nothing super going on, shcool is mostly killing all my time!!

Been really buzy but everytime I got an hour to kill I went to the garage
to try finish the wall so I could do something out there...

Also that wagon I was going to pick up was a nogo! It was so rusty
Ive been checking out about 10 corollas, saloon, wagon and 5door hatch
all of them where to rusty for my taste!

Im done with the wall for now and theres room for a car in there!!

Befor


After, this will do for another 3years



I desited to sell my fiances daily befor it would brake down on us
and I bought this Copcar Suparu Legacy, driven 460.000km, now I can
just relax and find the perfect corolla body to build the 4wd/rwd toycar
for my self!!!



Then couple of days ago I went on a roadtrip with my friend to pick
up a new car wich I got really cheap...


Love my Diesel Pajero!!


This is the beast!, Ford Transit diesel 1983, been sitting for 24years


As you can see I used my tow bar and its amazing it works so good!!



Then back home, dried lava everywhere you look!


Its got 2.4 diesel engine and came with extra engine and gearbox
extra rims (really hard to find) and extra doors all of this I can sell
for profit


Got it running and I drove it!!, Its driven 120.000km
last time it was running it was back in 1990, wow,
Theres also a reason I bought this old van, its a good start
for a Rat Rod build ive been wanting to do for 5years!


Then I went to the toyota garage and dug out my extra rear diff
going to weld it!


Then I finaly tear down the rav4 drivetrain front and rear



Rav4 rear hub left corolla 4wd rear hub right, same axle diameter and lengt!!!


Alot of driveshafts... from top to bottom, AE95, AE100, Rav4, AE86



Hopefully I will find a body in next couple of days Im getting really
exited about all this, I think about this 4wd swap when Im trying
to go to sleep :DI think only thing left now is sell some more crap
out of the garage to make better room for future Corolla beast!!

Hope you guys enjoy some of this if not I can take it all out and only post
the corolla part  

nice to see all the comparisons, cant wait to see you get another corolla

miib14 wrote:

nice to see all the comparisons, cant wait to see you get another corolla

Thanks for the comment   



I´ve been thinking this over and over and over, I cant seam to find a good
saloon wich is the only body I wanted in the first place and specially ae101
the reason is because I have a bodykit that fits the sallon only but I was going
to make it work on a wagon but I cant find a decent wagon either with little
or no rust...

Well. two days ago I saw and add for an ae111 saloon for sale with a really
decent price less then I could get a decent rusty ae101 saloon, so I went
to look at it and I desited to buy it and see where it goes from there..

I haven´t made any decision to use that body for the 4wd/rwd build but
Im leaning 60% to that body because its really good, no rust in the floor
no rust in the tunnel in the back where Im going to bolt the rear drivetrain
into the body and weld the mounts for it so that´s a huge bonus!

So here is the roadtrip that I took to day to get it, nice Icelandic scenery
and you can see how the god dam weather changes every minute!

Here we just arrived at the farm where the ae111 was kept in storage


Icelandic horses and mountains


Rusty jeep willys going into the ground


My trustwourthy MMC diesel pajero


The "maybe" new 4wd/rwd build body



Putting light on back of the corolla befor heading home


Rusty Suzuki something and farm equipment


Russian saloon Lada, my buddy´s face Is going to flip inside out when
I send him this photo hes collecting them, has 5-6 already he´s trying to
build a drift machine and he needs more parts....(he needs a toyota)


My Indian Icelandic tag along friend working for his Pepsi dring and candy   


Hehehe   


And on the way home, just a little snow blizzard nothing to worry happens all the time


Home sweet home, just finished checking the body for some
rust, walk around photos





This light base interior makes me want to trow up!


Just a little bit


4efe 1300cc engine this is going into my old saloon


So there you have it, Im still going to keep an eye for a ae101 saloon out
there if I find one thats better than this one I will buy it and sell this one.

But now I have something to start with, I have already cleaned the 3sfe engine
and I found out that the broken ring inside the E250 gearbox is the same
as the E57 Touring ae95 gearbox so I only need to swap that over then
the E250 is hole again.

I think next up is lower the ae111 with the old lowering springs from my old 4wd
G6 ae111 and put the front bumper on it with the lowered lip and G6R grill and
the front strutbrace, shit I got a hole bunch that fits the ae111 cant wait to start
tomorrow I love puzzling car parts  

haha, nice find.

does look like a clean model, but i really hope you can find an ae101 though, personally i dont like the look of these.
much prefer the ae101

Hey at least the outside color is awesome!  Nice find lol.  I remember seeing a couple of those in that color when I was there, looks good.  I always love seeing the Icelandic scenery!  +rep

Thanks you guys for the comments

I´ve actually been thinking about selling the ae111 front end and put a ae101 front end on it
so I could use my awesome front lip but I dont know if the ae101 front end fits that perfect,
might need some serious make up..

I tried to do something to day, I had to clean out alot of trash from the garage to make room for the
corolla, I sold the rear shocks and springs that same day so I made a
decision and I decited to do the 4wd/rwd swap to this corolla, Its just so clean!


Here you can see how clean it is, this bit was rusting away in the ae101 saloon


Nice that the complete rear drivetrain parts come down with just couple of bolts


Finally this steering wheel fits a car I own, been sitting
in my basement waiting for the right colored car   


Hope you guys like,,   

Nice steering wheel, time to replace the rest of the interior

gold94corolla wrote:

Nice steering wheel, time to replace the rest of the interior

Thanks for the comment   

I´ve located another ae111 saloon sitting on his belly and it has a dark grey
interior close to ae101 interior don´t know price for it yet...

I did a bunch to day really happy how everything went like butter

I inserted my rear FK lowering springs in a extra 4wd shocks I had
those suspension blocks will not go under, will take them off


Then I removed the rear drivetrain



Rwd drivetrain, just to see what the changes will be


Left (driver´s side)


Right


Now you see where the stabilizer bar is bolted in, that´s where one of the
bolts will go in the rwd drivetrain and also the one far on right where the
stock drivetrain was bolted in..


Emtying the fueltank


Fueltank out and fuel filler pipe



Just surface rust you see where the fueltank use to be
I will sand it out and paint it



Hopefully tomorrow I will pick up the rwd drivetrain in my Toyota garage
and some other stuff I think I will need to bolt the drivetrain under the car
I will have to drill and weld two nuts into the body for the bolts that go
between the stabilizer bar bolts...

Damn Im looking forward to morrow!!  

More 4wd/rwd stuff

Today I went to my Toyota garage and picked up the rwd drivetrain and fueltank


Then to the local hardware store for nuts and heavy duty shims


Then messured the bolts that need to be lathed to right size and turns? for the nuts
that will go into the body with the heavy duty shims, this is much stronger then my
other corolla 4wd build simply because this will be more sideways I hope!!


I will have to sand and paint the fueltank befor bolting it up


Comparing the 4wd to stock tank, I think stock tank is 48l the 4wd is 40l



Then comparing the rwd drivetrain to stock


Those two bolt holes longest away from you on both drivetrains are the ones
that fit the other bolt hole on the rwd drivetrain will be drilled and the nut and
shim will be welded into the body, I will also have to cut into the body just
little bit, I will show you as I go on with the build.



Then picked up 1m of 35mm and 12mm fuel hoses to connect the 4wd
tank to the fuel filler pipe, It needs to be lengthen a bit from stock.


Just sent the bolts for the drivetrain to my ae101 blue hatch lathe magician
will pick them up hopefully tomorrow or the next day and bolt everything up.

Enjoy and of course you may comment if you like to ask something about the build!  

nice work so far, cant wait to see pics of you bolting up the 4wd system

Thanks for the comment   

Good to see that someone is looking forward to this build


I went back out there yesterday evening to fit the ae111 liftback spoiler



Actually goes about 1 inch higher, could not hold it closeer to the roof


Then today I sanded and painted the 4wd fuel tank



Almost good as new   


Then I sanded the floor and painted it also


Then got a call from a customer who wanted me to fix his corolla SI (sport interior) (in other countries it´s named Gsi) and I gave him a price for picking
up the corolla out of town and tow it back to my place so I could fix it there
and he agreed to it.

So off I go again to the same place last three times


Hour later I arrived


I put the gearbox in the trunk along with other stuff


The guy moved away years ago but left the corolla, I was going to buy it from
him couple of years back but never had the time to go check on it funny that
now im fixing it for him been sitting all this time with out engine..



And yes this is probably the only country I know off that you can just go into someones garage and pick someones else´s car, never met the guy be for
in my life and I will not see him until Im finished with the fixing
gotta love how good Iceland is, everybody here are so nice!

I removed the passenger front seat and strapped the engine in there




Then all set, closed the garage and went home


Mountains, mountains, mountains, mountains everywhere!!!


Home sweet home


The job is to go over the engine he bought years back and change clutch
waterpump, timing belt and put it into the car, fix the axles and radiator.
Short version - Fix so he can use it again   

Im still wating for the bolts for the rwd drivetrain cind off stuck just waiting...

all you crazy people lol

I always love seeing the pics you post, especially of the scenery (snowy mountains in this case).

I posted some pics that I took here (on page 2):
http://www.ae101ownersclub.com/t631-iceland-100-pics-added-7-16

And I definitely noticed how nice the people were there.... much moreso than here

Aww you guys   

gold94corolla, That are some nice photos you´ve taken of my little island
you clearly have gone places that I´ve never seen myself      


Im getting so exited to finish the rear drivetrain install, Im having trouble getting
to sleep at night just thinking about driving it for the first time with the rwd setup

I went to my ae101 hatch friend yesterday and picked up the bolts


Then after school today I went straight to the garage, bolted the fuel tank in
Im having trouble remembering what straps I used to bolt it up, the 4wd ones
or the stock ones, these are with stock straps, I dont have the 4wd ones.


Then fitted the drivetrain in, It dosen´t go higher I
have to cut into the body to make room for it


This is after I cut into the body and make all the adjustments for it
This is to show you how I want it to be, this way I get extra 4-5cm in lowering   


Here is where I have to drill new hole and weld the nut into the hole


To show how the strap for the fuel tank was in the way
I just cant remember how I did this last time


This is clearense behind the spare tire compartment


And after I banged it in, maybe to much, easy to bang on it from inside again


Now for the cutting




Both sides done



Snug fitment, bolt hanging down for the fuel tank strap,
picture angle is taken on top of the rear axle


And again, this is how it sits now, I´ve started drilling for one of the bolts
then had to stop to go pick up the kids from shcool, will continue this tomorrow