79 AE70 Corolla from NZ

[AE70]

The new car that I should be picking up on Saturday.

[skidkid]

Such nice cars!

[Nick475]

I love the wheels on it!

[cireericd]

sick rear spoiler you got there

[AE70]

So been a while since updating. I've had a lot of interest in my car, and a lot of time wasters... I made the decision today to go ahead with the engine swap, 20v 4AGE with ITBs...

Started at it tonight, will have old engine out and new engine sitting in the car by the end of the weekend.

[AE70]

Engines ready to come out, getting a crane tomorrow. Fingers crossed it won't be long before the 4AGE is in and running, got 3 weeks off work so will get as much done as possible.

[montgomery]

Don't sell it ya dangus!

[AE70]

It's not for sale, decided to keep it after all the mucking around.

[AE70]

And it's out! Now for the clean up and to assemble the 4AGE etc.

Horrible photo but phone was dying and wanted to get home.

[sterling archer]

Well now. You don't see many of those these days

[AE70]

You'd be surprised, theres a few around in New Zealand, just not the twin headlights. We're lucky, pretty much Japan's dumping ground.

[AE70]

Spent 3 hours today degreasing and scrubbing the engine bay. It's far from perfect but a huge improvement! Shouldn't be long until the motors in, just waiting on a few clutch parts to arrive. I also have a new alloy radiator.

[kevinc]

This is so cool. Keep up the good work man! Don't sell it.

[AE70]

Actually made some good progress on the car for the first time in 4 weeks. Managed to get the motor and gearbox etc mounted into place. Heaps of room and will be ordering some new headers hopefully this week. Going for CX Racing equal length which should look sick!

Some pics




And the headers

[keeton]

ITBs and pulleys looks awesome. Keep it up.