Rollasrus

OK I know autos are for people with one leg and I drive a truck for a living so shifting gears is no big deal at all for me but I have other reasons for this. My suzuki sierra with its 4kc motor is gonns enter soon in a 4wd comp (once i put my non smokey 4k in) The only motorsport I know of where we modify our cars to go slower :) Under the current rules i somehow still scrape into standard class. So to help it crawl in low range much better up hills I have considered putting an auto box in. My question is what would this involve to bolt up a corolla auto box to my currently configured for manual 4k?? Also what is the size difference between my current k50 box and an auto box? mainly length and how fat it is in the middle? Also i have heard there is a trimatic, some toyota 3 speed and a 2 speed toyoglide, would not preferr the 2 speed as the car stil gets driven on the road and most 4wd trips happen out of Sydney, which one would be best? what sort of dollars for one/whre to get one? Basically any help to actually make my sierra crawl better without ratio changes??

If I get my new 4k fitted in my suzuki sierra could I come?? It has a little flat bed tray to carry some fire wood

I know a suzuki sierra 1.3 carby bolts straight on very easily, although it is an aisin carby but the throats look a little bigger than the 4k carb. On road performance gain seems to be very minimal but if you ever roll your car on its side it will keep idling along nicely :S

Cheers guys I bought the zook with the engine conversion already done and engineered. From my experience within the suzuki 4wd club a 4k conversion was the gun thing to do with early 1 litre sierras and the earlier suzuki LJ's untill the 1.3 sierras and the vitara 1.6 engine came along. The 4kc I have was out of a ke70 with the t-50 5 speed box. Obviously new chasis mounting points need to be made up for the engine and gearbox, because I have the later gearbox the gear shifter hole was moved back a little (although I think the earlier boxes with a more forward mounted shifter may not need this) and the slip yoke out of the box remains but goes to a single uni and the standard transferr case input flange (its a tight fitt cause the box is a bit longer) and my transferr case was moved forward about 1 inch. The clutch cable i replaced recently came from a 1 litre sierra and fitts well as a 1.3 sierra cable is 2 inches too long. Oh and to make the car run on angles offroad throw the corolla carby out the window and get yourself a sierra 1.3 carby. its an aisin carby like the rolla one, the throttle cable goes straight onto it and it is a straight bolt in onto the corolla manifold. I reckon this is necessary as any little step offroad makes the rolla carby cough and splutter, Once I tore 2 transferr case mounts trying to keep it from stalling by keeping the revs up and bouncing it a bit much. the next week went back with the sierra carb and idled straight up easily. Everything else on my car is all suzuki sierra, it did start life as a 1 litre narrow track hardtop but has been chopped into a ute with a spring over diff conversion, 31 inch tires (standard is 26) and wide track (4 inches wider) diffs and transferr case off a later model 1.3, oh and the later plastic 1.3 grille :S :D You have a long wheelbase? is it a 1 litre 1.3 or the very very rare 1.3 wide track? If its a 1.3 lwb sierra i would recommend putting in the 1.6 vitara motor (either carby of efi) much easier to do. if its a 1 litre then any conversion takes just as much work and I know a 4k conversion is much much cheaper to buy. Good luck with it.

Hi guys, new to the forum although been browsing on here heaps as a guest. Mainly on here for technical stuff regarding the 4kc motor in the suzuki sierra I bought recently. Have owned many toyotas before 2 surfs, an ae82 rolla and a zze 122 rolla, current ly own the rolla engined zook and a 6 inch lifted jeep cherokee, but the sierra and 4kc are much more fun to drive and easier and cheaper to work on. Also the driver trainer of the suzuki 4wd club of nsw. Here is some pics of my zze122 rolla thats gone and my 4k-c sierra, enjoy