Ke70/Ae71 Buyers Help

[PLZ818]

as stated I'm looking at one on saturday i know rust is the killer so where is it i should be looking at it? also anything else that comes to mind would be Overrated.

 

also iv had a quick look but a auto to manual conversion is a fairly easy process yes?

 

P.S.i was on here a while back looking at ae's since there out of my range iv decided the ke is my best option atm cheers!

[bAKER]

ae71s and ke70s are basically the same car, basically the same price.

 

 

Theres no 1 spot to look, look everywhere.

 

Common places are around the tail lights (look from inside the boot)

Bottom of rear quarters,

Around fuel filler,

and door drain holes.

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Bottom of the rear window corners, spare wheel well and under the boot seal.

[Spencer[RL]]

Take a magnet if it doesnt stick it's been bogged up.

[altezzaclub]

There are some bargains to be found, but a very nice, granny-spec rustfree one with less than 150,000km should go for $1500-2000 odd.

 

By the time you get to well-worn but almost rustfree, still registered and on the road they are a grand, and anything rusty or no rego is worth nothing.

 

Autos are usually in better condition as P-platers tend to thrash their manuals to bits. Buying inland helps with rust too, the ones out here in the Central West don't have rust at all.

[ke70dave]

they are all too expensive, anything stock complete, but unregod should be under 700bucks, maximum of 1.5 -2k for a rego'd running one.

 

but don't be afraid to pay a bit more for a nicer one, save you in the long run.

 

mechanics are easy to fix, engine replacements can be done in a day.

 

but paint and rust is time consuming and expensive to fix.

[PLZ818]

sweet guys well hopefully the bloke doesnt mess me round tomorrow an ill check everything stated an more :D

[parrot]

Hold out for a manual AE71.

 

Eventually you will want to convert it.

[PLZ818]

but i have found the most Overrated ke70 its auto owned all its life but a mature woman an a steal for 1.5k (I'm offering 1k an see how i go) all i need to do now is sell the bloody GP exa :S

[altezzaclub]

No you don't! You need to mortgage your sister's body and get that KE70 !!! The Exa can wait...

[cerby]

To be brutally honest I think you would be balls out of pants retarded to buy an auto ke70. And if that left you confused what i mean is you would be better off using you money as toilet paper.

Its got the wrong motor, the wrong gearbox, the wrong clutch set up from the wrong century, the wrong interior and doubtlessly a million other things that are wrong.

There are two situations in which you would be slightly less than retarded to buy it.

1. Its $50/free, drives and is registered. Drive it around till you find a manual ae71 of a similar colour. Steal the manual ae71. Park your shitheap in the same spot and hope that nobody notices.

 

2. You just wrapped your manual ae71 round a tree and the auto ke70 is in showroom condition, registered.......and free. You take all the wrong things out of the auto (and by this I mean everything except panels and seats and maybe steering wheel) and have a bonfire, then put all the ae71 stuff in.....get half way through, discover you need to actual fabricate stuff to get it work, borrow mums excel and leave both corollas to rot in the backyard till someone buys all the usefull parts and you send the rest to the scrap metal guys :P

 

 

Seriously though with the way manual conversion parts and 4a conversion parts are going these days the parts needed to put in a 4age (not including the engine) will cost more than the car originally cost. AND getting the ke70 swapped to manual and a hyraulic clutch setup installed would be at least twice as much work as a 4age conversion into an ae71.

 

Find a manual ae71. It will have rust in the rear gaurds. Now go to the wreckers and find an auto ke70 that someone dumped cos nobody was stupid enough to buy it and give the wrecker $30 for both front guards. Now give a panel beater a couple of hundred to weld in the arches out of the front guards to replace the rusty ones.

You are now $800-$1000 ahead. I will except paypal, cash or bank deposit for my services :P

[PLZ818]

To be brutally honest I think you would be balls out of pants retarded to buy an auto ke70. And if that left you confused what i mean is you would be better off using you money as toilet paper.

Its got the wrong motor, the wrong gearbox, the wrong clutch set up from the wrong century, the wrong interior and doubtlessly a million other things that are wrong.

There are two situations in which you would be slightly less than retarded to buy it.

1. Its $50/free, drives and is registered. Drive it around till you find a manual ae71 of a similar colour. Steal the manual ae71. Park your shitheap in the same spot and hope that nobody notices.

 

2. You just wrapped your manual ae71 round a tree and the auto ke70 is in showroom condition, registered.......and free. You take all the wrong things out of the auto (and by this I mean everything except panels and seats and maybe steering wheel) and have a bonfire, then put all the ae71 stuff in.....get half way through, discover you need to actual fabricate stuff to get it work, borrow mums excel and leave both corollas to rot in the backyard till someone buys all the usefull parts and you send the rest to the scrap metal guys :P

 

 

Seriously though with the way manual conversion parts and 4a conversion parts are going these days the parts needed to put in a 4age (not including the engine) will cost more than the car originally cost. AND getting the ke70 swapped to manual and a hyraulic clutch setup installed would be at least twice as much work as a 4age conversion into an ae71.

 

Find a manual ae71. It will have rust in the rear gaurds. Now go to the wreckers and find an auto ke70 that someone dumped cos nobody was stupid enough to buy it and give the wrecker $30 for both front guards. Now give a panel beater a couple of hundred to weld in the arches out of the front guards to replace the rusty ones.

You are now $800-$1000 ahead. I will except paypal, cash or bank deposit for my services :P

BUT ITS SOOOO NEAT! an idm having a project car really how hard is it to go from auto to man?

[cerby]

you need, a gearbox $200/$300, a pedal box, gearbox crossmember, and a cable clutch setup which will need to be fitted to the firewall (ie drilling holes and shiz). Right that gets you from auto ke70 to manual ke70.

Now assume you will want to go to a 4age at some stage. You need to get a t50 gearbox same price, ae71 pedal box $200, hydro clutch setup, ae71 crossmember and engine mounts, oh and a 4ac or 4age.

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Take a magnet if it doesnt stick it's been bogged up.

 

I schooled you good son.