ke70dave

Hi Mate, welcome to the ol' rollaclub! To be honest the best place to start looking is google. Rollaclub comes up first or second in almost every google result about old corollas. The other thing is to start a build thread:) then you can document your progress for us all to look at, and ask questions about your projects in one place.

First Step is to confirm your alternator works, Put a multi meter on the battery and let us know what it says with the engine off, engine at idle and engine at 4000rpm.

yeah check out their facebook page, no shortage of angry people expressing themselves.

The whole photobucket thing is a disaster. All of the information in forums that was posted within the last 10yrs died instantly due to all the photos missing. Hardly any new information is being posted in forums anymore. its sad really, and i don't think theres much that can be done.

Somewhere in the middle you can get one of these: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/New-OEM-QUALITY-Carburetor-Repair-Kit-For-Toyota-Corolla-KE55-KE70-1-3L-4K-C-/151923317878?hash=item235f55dc76:g:eGEAAOSwE0JY-uL5

any indication its getting fuel? a carby that has sat for 10years is not a happy carby. perhaps a rebuild kit for the carby? they are like 30bucks i think.

Need pictures mate. Based on your description though, sub 1500 dollars, maybe closer to 1000. Sadly with rust, regardless of teh size the same amount of work is required to fix it, cut, weld, bog and paint. not much difference between fixing a 1cm rust hole and a 3cm rust hole, still rust. The poor ol ae92s are getting old, and even good condition ones just aren't worth much, in my opinion anyway. https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/canberra-city/cars-vans-utes/1992-toyota-corolla-hatchback-4age-manual/1154998734 here is one for 1900, if i was in the market id offer him 1400. you might be better off keeping your ae92 and putting the 4age into your ae71 ;)

I park my 80s bmw reversed up against the wall at work. Theres a nice black spot on the wall from where the soot comes out when i start it at the end of the day. Just old cars and old engines. My car is rich as hell when its stone cold, so that doesnt help either.

I feel like photobucket used to be much better. Like 5yrs ago. But the website is full off adverts and is somehow very difficult to use even with an add blocker.

The internet is going full circle! None information, loads of information, back to none information. Cept for information about celebrities on faceballs.

92 pages of info, basically useless thanks to photobucket. Sad.

1984 Mazda 323. The shitty fwd ford laser one. Not the cool red bug eye one:(

if a company needs to advertise as much as youi does, I am highly skeptical. I dont watch much TV, but when i do i swear all i see is youi adverts. For what it is worth my only claim has been with NRMA, no issues at all. One my fault, and one not my fault, both handled fine. I shop around every time renewal comes up and they are always the cheapest for normal cars. Not sure what they are like on highly modified cars though

Lock me in in eddy. Hopefully a german ke70 is welcome ;) See if i can get my mate to come in his clubman. Do you remember that cruise yrs ago which must have been a record for attendance, We even had teddy and medicine man! and was it dougy? spun out on the dirt. Damn that was a good day, must be 8yrs ago now. I had the 4k with the 3k carby that was flat out getting up the hills, flat foot in 2nd and still losing revs, with medicine man behind me with his 4k and twin carbies ready to grab 3rd.

How do they keep track of the 10days a month? Do you have to keep a log book?

Nope, no thanks. too much effort for very little gain. Just think, its the same amount of effort to put an sr20de as a 4y. Just the initial cost of the sr20de and rwd box is a bit more. And i know which one id rather have long term, or short term, or like....any term.

Prices for mid 90s bmw engines are dirty cheap. I reckon youd definatley get a motor and box cheaper than a 4age and t50. They made sooooo many of the e36 318i amd 318is and the cars them selves are not very sort after, the e36 is the black sheep of the bmw family:p

E30 bmw is the gentlemans ke70 :) EFI, IRS, nice interiors, coupe options, factory LSDs, factory quad lights! uber loads of factory diff ratio options, and the 6clr ones have plenty of power and 4 wheel brakes from factory. And no stupid softtop like an mx5:P I would love an mx5 though, cool cars. you do have to think a bit differently with a bmw though, but nothing too exciting. Edit: Just Realised you were talking about engine from an mx5, not the whole mx5. The m42 or m44 from the bmw e36 might be an option too. plenty of power for a ke70, same amount of work as the mx5 engine and box. Theres nothing wrong with a ke70, i had one for years, great platform to learn how to swing spanners and modify things. But they are cheap cars. keep them cheap, Don't over capitalise.

I think you need to take a step backwards and remember what you are talking about here. A ke70 when it was new it was an econobox with absolutely zero performance orientation at all. Now it is a 30yr old econobox with absolutely zero performance orientation at all where everything is worn out.... Apart from a 4age conversion, everything else is a custom everything. and the big thing that most people forget when dreaming about engine conversions is you need suspension, brakes, wheels, tyres and a differential to get any sort of benefit from any high powered engine in a ke70. You put a 200kw sr20det in, regardless of the cost of the engine conversion itself you are looking at ~2k for a differential, $1k for brakes, maybe $2k for suspension, $500 bucks for a seat to hold you in, wheels and DECENT tyres - $1500.... You are in for probably at least ~$7k before you even think about your engine, gearbox, intercooler piping, exhaust, fuel system.... Obviously good deals come up for parts, but this is probably what i would consider "average" prices. which is why a proper sr20det enging conversion in a ke70 will set you back about $12k on average and maybe even more for the nice reliable well done installs. You can buy an s14 silvia for $10k that will do everything better... A stocko 16v 4age is more than enough power in a ke70 and with the right combination of parts (that admittedly are getting harder to find) it will bolt in. However 16v 4ages are at least 25yrs old too, budget an engine rebuild.....but again you still need suspension, brakes wheels and tyres to make a 4age powered ke70 proper fun. This is why it took me about 5yrs to build my 4age ke70 back in the day, stuff is expensive and you just have to wait for the parts to come along and jump on them. Or buy a ke70 with the engine conversion already done, you'll pay alot less that way:)

The days of motoring will only be a memory for that orange machine. But there are some good looking parts there.

I think the next step is 10 cans of degreaser and a pressure washer:)

You talking about that fluffy stuff? if so you are talking about "Bailey Channel" You can buy it from places like clark rubber. they have all kinds of sizes, you just match it up to your old one. https://www.clarkrubber.com.au/rubber/extrusions/bailey-channel

Ahhh munji mods, that is a name i haven't heard in a long time.

I heard 15mins was possible, telling porkies i reckon.

Ohh i like these threads. Looking forward to updates:)