Filling the void that is old Corolla content!

[Ant]

super tidy to begin with but the respray helped heaps. Dont blame you for driving it as it was, it looked showroom fresh haha

guessing the brand of those wheels are Epsilon ?

i'm always amazed at how much offset these cars can eat up! you going to space them for now or just wait til you get something more aggressive?

how's the height on the coils, can you get much lower? assuming they aren't base height adjustable, just spring perch?

[D&W]

looking good, my grandma in coffs harbor just sold her corolla just like this, it was 1 owner and only had like 50k on the odo. we sold it for like $600 to a local guy in town. drove amazing too.

[244Brick]

Yum rolla.. I love the wheels dude, they fit the car so well

[MartinsElerts]

Great start! Looks awesome!

[jcflowers]

Hey! I had an intro thread a while ago of myself and a few pictures, but seeing as I've been doing a bit more work lately, I thought I should actually make a build thread.

This is all just content transferred from the smaller community that is Rollaclub.

Here she is as I got her. A very tidy example with a few needed rust repairs in the usual places.
It's done a few km's and needed a new diff. Apart from that - spick and span.
Owned by a car-detailer that sold it because he got a AE86. Prior to him it was owned by a Toyota mechanic.






First step for me was to start hacking up the rust.
I stripped it completely and made up some panels to weld into place.
Once I'd done that, I fibre-glass filled the gaps, followed with plenty of sanding and bogging.

It got to this stage after that:



Similar repairs followed in the wheel arches:



Somewhere between all of this the car also got it's springs cut, a roadworthy, and the stock rims painted black.

Once the repairs were done, undercoat, rubbing and painting followed.


Some of you with a keen eye might recognise different guards in the paint oven - yep.
I've always liked quadlamps and decided to undertake making them fit.

Now to do it properly, a quad conversion is a big job on a slanty.
It begins with sourcing panels from a flat front, I picked them up from Pick-A-Part luckily.
the lights themselves are off an RT104 Corona, which the bases were modified and welded to fit and mount on the rad-support of the corolla.

You might also see that the door-frames have been painted black. That was my dad's idea so I thought "why not?" give it a go, see what it looks like.
I don't mind it actually.

Front comes off...


Front goes on...


After fitting the lamps



I drove it like this for quite a while.. but it NEEDED fender mirrors!



Also got a $20 stereo from the wreckers. A sweet find.


Then THESE came:


Uphilson Strato or something? I dunno. No name brand but look wicked. 14' x 7' 0 offset.



Got them mounted, wasn't low enough but they looked alright. Still running chopped springs at this point.

I unbolted the old shocks, one collapsed down - probably good I replaced them. They were marked 1997, hahaha. these are short stroke shocks from a Holden wagon.



It was finally worthy of it's "low and slow" sticker... because it won't get much lower than that. Front shocks are completely bottomed out and faaaarked. Rear is a finger off the bumpstops.





Follow me a few months down the track, and I purchased a new engine from a Townace van. Along with a 5 speed gearbox and extractors. These aren't in yet.



and TODAY I put these in:


Adjustable coil-overs, nice height, can be wound down another inch or so (which I will!) and are great.

So thanks for this, kind (and constructive words) are appreciated!
Ask any questions you may have!

Oh! and here's how I WANT it to look eventually :P