Paul

What it looked like when I bought it... And now... Since purchase I have... -Installed Pineer MP3 / WMA deck -JVC 4 Channel Amp -Pioneer 6" splits, woofers in custom box and tweeters on 'A' pillars -JL Audio 6x9 3 ways mounted on 19mm custom shelf -Hand stripped and polished 14" rims -Removed some badges and crappy black stripes from side of body and boot -Bought AE86 seats (to be installed as soon as a mate finishes using them for RWC checks) -Bought 4A-GE bigport genII (7 rib block) in need of re-build -Rust repairs, wheel bearings, some bushes and all the usual crap that was needed to get it on the road as i originally bought it as an unregistered car.

Man new taillights make a huge difference, very nice.

Hmmm... How I got into Corolla's I've grown up around cars, my dad used to be a motor trimmer by trade (closed his business in '88 or thereabouts). I can't remember anything from when he had his shop at all but he has still done the odd job for a mate at home on the weekend. He has an Austin A40 Somerset Convertible (rare, like 10 in country?) and an array of other unrestored vehicles (20 odd). I've always had my head in car mags reading heaps, and I got given a pile of late 90's Hot 4's and fast fours mags. My brother was looking in it and showed me a sprinter with a 3S-GTE in it and said "there you go you should get one of them for a first car (at age 15). So I grew an interest in the AE86 about then and started looking on the toymods forum. Bought a front smash 86 when I was 17 and haven't done anything with it since. Got to a few weeks before my P's test and dad coincidently bought a late front white KE70 and I killed that crappy engine in 4 weeks after getting my license coz i knew the valiant i had was getting registered and the rolla reg had 6 weeks left. I blew it up the day b4 my AP5 Valiant got registered, man was that fun. The Valiant was a nightmare of a car that costed too much to keep going so a bit more research found the AE71 would be an easy GE conversion so i bought mine for $500, got it roadworthy and registered and have never looked back. A car with so much potential...

Nice rolla I like it. ps. is that a studebaker in your av?

Oh, and I forgot to mention last night. Love the custom dash progress. Are you putting the whole dash together before it goes in the car?

Just read through this whole thread, very nice car and work. :) Looking forward to seeing more progress shots of the above worklist. :)

I like it;) Beasty little sleeper :)

I've heard of people using chopped falcon springs as an upgrade are you going to do this to avoid scrubbing? Reason I'm interested is i've got a basic idea of how i'm doing the front of my car but not the back yet.

So let me get this straight... ...The only thing u've done in the "lowering" in the above photo's on the rear of the car is replace the stock shock absorbers with (shorter) hilux jobbies and left the original springs in it (unchopped), and it's dropped that far??? Doesnt that compress the stock springs too much? Will be interesting to know how this rides.

AAAHHHH, MMMM, locked diff. Awsome. You give me ideas Some pre T series fun to be had in future :)

Name: Paul Car: 1984 AE71 CSX Motor & Driveline: Stock 4A-C & T50 (GE in garage to be done $$$ pending, will do T series diff also, possibly even W58 box as well) Suspension & Brakes: Stock Wheels & Tyres: Celica/Corona/Tarago Alloys hand sanded and polished Interior: Stock until next week (Gettin' AE86 seats as I sit too damn high) Body: De-badged (have not filled holes yet), Removed stoopid black CSX stripes Other: Pioneer DEH-2750MP deck, Pioneer TS-C1625 6" Splits up front, JL Audio 6x9's in rear, all running off JVC KS-AX3500 4 channel amp (Upgrading HU soon) Custom box for 6" woofers of splits yet to be covered JL's on custom 19mm chipboard shelf Some more tricky work, modded the original brackets of old radio to bolt and screw in the HU then cut the surround

Will get those drawings too you when I'm back from sydney mate. Anyways some pics from the cruize...

paul_stahlberg at hotmail dot com add me guys

Just thought I'd cut and paste the list of toymods cars / people / food confirmed Toymods list: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fujiwara_ToFu - AE86 / 4AGE - Sausages and Bread da_horse - SV21 / 3S-FE -? Stock_AE86 - R31 Silhouette / RB30DET - Infamous RED eksy + Drinks + Cups b1gb3n - AE86 / 4AGE - BEEER!!! YES! (passengers only) Sam_Q - AE86 / 4AGE - Drinks and cups Jetspeedcamry - VZV21 / 2VZ-FE - light snacks, bread and sodium chloride. Phil D - RA28 / 18RG - ? inertia - AZ92 / 4A-GZE - fchevaps, skinless sausages and OMGWTF - BBQ sauce trd-stT162 - AE82 / 4AGE - chips and snacks Rallystanza - AE86 / 4AC - hamburger patties + loads of bread AJ_AE82 - AE71 / 4AC - sorry paul, she did beat you to the list [treasurer] stahlz_ae86 - AE71 / 4AC - Food, drinks, salad Chooney (ae86dc) - AE82 / 4AGE - Chicken!!! Levin_Boi (ae86dc) - with chooney Yian - MA61 / 7MGTE - eating our food rthy - whatever is running on that day - cam corder with 1 gig stick (for the w1n!) NeoNasty - JZZ30 / 1JZGTE or ST162 / 3SGE - ? 4AGE - AE86 / 4AGE - something something Clown - AW11 / 4AGZE - cam corder (for the w1n!) -NiCkeL- TA22 / 2TG - sausages, bread, drinks + free esky he scored. GTI-TRD - AE92 / 4AGE - Gaki86 - AE86 / 4AGE - AE86DRFT (ae86dc) - AE82 / 4AGE Cya Saturday (Stahlz_ae86)

I'm your latest inclusion, from Heidelberg area. Loughlan that's really similar to what my AE71 looked like before i put the Corona/Celica Rims on it. Here's my beast :D