Skellington

COOL! your build has as much direction as mine! Would love to have an old efi'd motor. Keep it coming.

Thanks guys.

Update: I have taken apart the front of the 2tc to replace timing chain and components, water pump, and thermostat. My idle has been off due to it being off on its distributor gear. It was advanced so much that I couldn't see the mark with the timing light. No wonder it didn't like to run under 1600 RPM. I have also cleaned the manifold and re-gasketed it. Parts to instal: Before: For fun:

sweet. color came out nice.

Nice! love the corolla.

:thumbsup:

very cool. Is the f20c going to look like a stocker? If so that would be a good sleeper. could be fun on the streets.

My parents had an 81 2 door that had 370,000 miles on it or about 595,000 k's. It still ran when we parked it. It was a bit rough all around. can't wait to see more progress on your car!

I have been reading your thread off and on, and now I am to the current progress. I like your cars looks. I think that front valence, square look of the 80's panel, and the guards. Car looks good. Pro work. keep it up.

cool car (the yellow one). has some miles on it, but looks like its worth fixing up.

cool project. I'm interested to see what you do with the front towers.

Looks like you have a nice start on a track / daily car. Interested to see how you do this one. I already read about your last build. One can never have too many corollas.

cool car. I look forward to seeing the progression on this one. the original rims don't look bad in gloss black. Might have to paint mine.

Update: Did some work on the car. I had some horrific exhaust leaks due to my pipe and muffler deteriorating (think they were original), so I put a new 2" exhaust on it. I used factory Toyota cat. and an Aero muffler. The car sounds much better, and it isn't too loud. Now that I can actually hear the engine running and not a bunch of muttled sputtering, I can focus on making my engine run right. Pics of nicely tucked exhaust system: I took my valve cover off to adjust my valves and I was a bit horrified at how dirty the inside was. Its hard to tell with these pictures, but there is a lot of oily sludge in the bottom and all around. I am not sure what the best approach would be to clean this all up. Any ideas? Pics (their gross looking): I don't know if I should be alarmed by this stuff or not, but I would like to have the internals of my engine as clean as possible. After adjusting valves I checked all my vacuum lines and made sure they were all sealing. I checked the "vacuum box"? that they all connect to and found that there is a diagram on the bottom. So I followed that, and made sure they were all where they should be. I then started the car and used a can of carb cleaner to spray around the manifold. Found 2 areas where I have vacuum leaks. This is exciting for me because I now have an idea of what is making my car run like crud. can't wait to fix it and have my baby purr for me.

love this car

Moving right along. Looks good.

What are the plans for your car? short term? long term?

Nice build. Looks like you put time into the body work. It paid off with the gloss white paint. Looks sick. Looking forward to seeing where you go with this car.

<- (is very interested in a good AC system_ How do you make the AC system work off the exhaust? pics?

Stopped by the parts yard today (more for fun and to scout as I am poor till next month). They have a 76 corolla that I wanted to look at the rear quarter panels and ask what tools they would allow for me to cut it out. The panels are good and I will be returning with a cut off wheel to fix the ouch spot on mine. While looking at this grey with nice black interior car I noticed that it has a grille sitting in the back seat, so I grabbed it for next to nothing. Looks like ill have to re-do it like I did mine. I can keep it for a spare / different color grille, or help out a fellow corolla owner with the best looking corolla grill. I may make a simple write up on how to recondition your grill. Here is the other one I did, and it looked identical to this one or worse when I started.

Its the first one that gets messed up when you hit one.

Cool Car.

NICE! Thats going to be a bright car. Loving the subtle Keto too.

looks like a pretty clean wagon.