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Good to hear you sorted it out. See here for more Dellorto and fuel regulator stuff. http://www.rollaclub.com/board/index.php?showtopic=33482

Anything you decide on will have to be customised to fit and cost bikkies. Search on here, has been covered eleventy billion times

Yes, well that's how everyone gets started. Just a taster they say, you'll be right, you won't get hooked. Then before you know it, your selling the kids into slavery so you can afford to trawl Yahoo Japan every night looking for fender mirrors and dildo gear knobs......

But where do you stop? If you put the Trueno tail lights on, do you then start looking for the cowl vents, c pillar vents and front end bits and pieces (grille, light surrounds etc), badging and so on. There's a few dollars in that lot.

Well before you start paying out for adjustable regulators, you should work out whether that is your problem. Not that a regulator would hurt. Presumably you have run the battery down trying to start it. If you have been pumping the throttle it will be flooded. Fully charge the battery, and work through logically. If all you have done is bolted on a manifold with carbies, look back at what you have done and check your work. Once the battery is charged, try again whilst holding the throttle down, but do not pump it. You are trying to clear out fuel mixture. If it starts, it will likely run like a pig if it is jetted for a 2 litre.

The pressure from the standard pump may be too much for the needle and seats in the carbs. It isn't a jetting thing. The fuel bowl keeps filling then overflows because the fuel pressure is too high for the needle to seat and stop the flow of fuel. Does it stink of fuel? But then it could be other things.

It could be a hundred things. If you are running the standard fuel pump. you may well be washing the bores.

Welcome to Rollaclub! Can I also suggest you visit www.3TCgarage.com Lots of US guys with TE72's amongst other Corolla's, oh, and me.

Not sure of your location. Add it to your profile. There is an RT81 at Heatherdale Rd that is definitely drum front, and another at Centre Rd which I think was drum front. If you phone centre Rd, they won't know or look. I would suggest registering on Toymods and perusing the rides threads and also the Corona Dedicated thread in General Car Talk. You can't see it unless registered.

Remind me never to upset Teddy, and his interesting friends..... He He He He

Quick visit to Pick Pay N Go on the way home tonight. Not much there, 2 KE55's but perhaps more interesting, a KE50 basically complete. All the exterior trims in very good nick. Not sure if the front is at all desirable for grafting onto a KE55?

For anyone who is interested, I have just received one of these from the US. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1982-TOYOTA...=item5d247955ad It is an external ignitor dizzy from a 4K equipped Starlet which I plan to try and run with an ignitor from a 21R. Crowd was really good to deal with. Postage to Australia $46.50 It's remanufactured with new rotor button, cap etc Looks a great deal

Fantastic progress. Funny when you see the car bare, there really isn't a lot in them is there. I'd be staying away from the hilux diff. Hellishly heavy for such a small car, and total overkill for a 4AGE. Where was your rust?

New TDC sensor (crank angle sensor) for my Renault - $112 genuine. No aftermarket ones in the country, Bosch could take 4 weeks from Germany... I can live with that. BUT, $119 for the pigtail wire between the new sensor and the loom because Renault changed the plug! It's in a bitch of a place so not really an option to do without it.

So can you PM me the old biddy's number? She sounds a bit of alright! I reckon I'll give her a call. Oh, nice car by the way!!

Well it was at the right place.......

Nah, they were just checking their makeup in your bling 17inch chromies

I had always thought that 10/11's were just there to provide spares for 15/17's.

Great work so far! Haven't been saying anything, but keeping a close watch on developments.

Fantastic news about the roadworthy. Realistically, I think the stuff you had to do was only to be expected in an old car. I am spending lots of time at the moment sourcing stuff to get and keep mine on the road. And I have been picking up stuff all over the place. Was talking to Peter recently and mentioned I had sourced some new control arm bushes which clearly got his interest. But these came from Japan..... Very interested to hear how and where you got them custom made. I have this vague idea of taking my new bushes somewhere to enquire about getting some copies made, but not sure what it would cost. Many years ago I got some urethane bushes made on a lathe for a mate who was running and winning (not many in his class dare I say it) the under 1600cc Vic sports sedan championship in a 4AGE powered KE15 running slicks.

Well it's like this, there are Toyota people and then there are mazda people. Not sure where that puts KE11restorer as he likes both.

Actually rediscovered this the other day http://www.rollaclub.com/board/index.php?showtopic=19896 May be helpful.

Great work, though I reckon I would have been putting the good bits in the KE25, but that's personal preference. Buckleys of using a angle grinder around my way at 2am.......though it may have happened once or twice. Hmm, hacksaw for 1/2 hr or angle grinder for 5 secs??

Agreed that is a great job, BUT, and I hate to rain on your parade, as Felix says, it would be extremely dangerous for the passenger if you crash. Likely to do a good job of taking off the legs at the shin level - seriously I would suggest making another one out of the thin masonite stuff. If you steam it, should bend around a mould of some sort (rolling pin). I think you will find that is why it was made from masonite in the first place. Otherwise you could cut down a plastic tray from the wreckers to suit, then trim it as you have done. Much safer and still very sturdy.

Is it just me, are all the KE1x's in Adelaide and Perth! Looking forward to this one, good luck with it. Would love a spare K engine, but you are a bit far away......