My 1972 KE25 Corolla Coupe

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:09 pm Post subject:

Ha! So this is YOU, Trond! Cool

I'll look out for this project in future and perhaps we can help with the sourcing of some parts for this car in the near future.

We're just completing a 20V blacktop conversion into an AE86, using the tidiest conversion bits we can find - within a budget. It's nearly done now - then will be mapped using a Freedom ECU. So maybe this will be useful learning for your project. It deserves a 20v Blacktop. That would be awesome in your little Corolla Cheerleader

Iketani Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Norway

Iketani Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Norway

Tomorrow the car has been with me for a week, I`ll post some pics when I get my camera back from a friend! It`s almost as good as I was promised, but it needs new paint. I`ve also put tires on the rims, and I`ve started bidding on used parts from yahoo auctions, mostly for the suspension.

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:09 am Post subject:

I hope you weren't bidding against me for some interior bits recently.

underbidder on both..... Sad

Iketani Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Norway

Iketani Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Norway

As I mentioned earlier, I managed to find some goodies on Yahoo Auctions Smile

- AE86 front struts, complete except calipers

- AE86 front calipers

- Cusco camber plates

- TRD 6kg/mm front springs

- Roll Centre Adjusters

- Stiffer leaf springs.
I don`t really know much about these, only what the engrish translation of the auction told me. Just for the record, HIRUKURAIMU means hillclimb, and NOMARUSHAKKURU means something like normal shackles

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:48 pm Post subject:

nice!

I'm using AE86 rear shocks and lowering blocks on mine Very Happy

Yahoo rocks Very Happy

Wataru Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 63 Location: Norway

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:08 am Post subject:

I was after a tacho dash cluster and the gauge panel with the heater controls. Will keep looking........

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:59 pm Post subject:

for both of them: look on Yahoo Auctions Japan, because Europe is LHD, it's no use for you ozzie guys, and the gauge panel with heater controls only went in the TE27's, so thats Japan only too.

Both items do come by every now and then Smile

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:07 pm Post subject:

I've been looking and bidding....... under bidder on both last week Crying or Very sad

But now poor again, so will wait a while before trying again.

At least have now solved the problem of where I can put the AE86 so I can get the KE25 in the garage, hence reason for being poor Wink

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:11 pm Post subject:

i had that a few times too (underbidder), but one time i was lucky and got the parts i wanted Very Happy

Iketani Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Norway

Small update!

I`ve painted and fitted the flares, and I`ve also installed hubs from a KE30 up front so I could get rid of my super awesome 12" winter tires. No pics of this yet, since I still have winter tires on the back, looks rather stupid. I did mange to take a pic of the car with the flares installed, and the 15" wheels put in front of the 12" steelies. Yes, it`s kinda childish, but I just couldn`t resist the urge Mr. Green

Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 5:26 pm Post subject:

what did you have to do to fit the flares?

The fronts fit quite ok i saw, but the rears are a bit strange

Iketani Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Norway

Iketani Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Norway

I`ve finally had the rear axles redrilled to 4x114.3, so the rear wheels are finally on the car! I`ve also let this friendly guy called Mr. Bosch help me out with lowering the front springs. The rear leaf springs had sagged so much that the car was way higher up front, so something had to be done until my AE86 front struts arrives.

I`ve yet to remove the parts of the stock fenders that are hidden under the flares, I will do this one of the coming days. There is a bit of scrubbing, but not much as I expected. Up front the wheels touched the inner fender/foot wells, but a bit of hammer bashing cured most of that. In the rear, the wheels touch the lip on the stock fenders, but this material is going to be removed anyways.

Edit:
Sorry for the piss-poor pics, I`ve got much to learn when it comes to the art of photography. I`ll get someone with more skills to take proper pics of the car for me sometime during the summer.

Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject:

nice!

My car is going to get the flares fitted this week or next week, the fenders are cut and welded in the next few days Very Happy

Wataru Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 69 Location: Luxemburg

I love it

Iketani Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Norway

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 12:26 am Post subject:

amazing car man!! Worship

Takumi Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 455 Location: Greece

Looks great... Drool

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject:

today, whilest scavaging through the shed of a friend of mine (who has 6 VW Beetles...) i found that the strips beetles use to mount the fenders on could work just as well as any other strip, and will be loads cheaper then any other flares strip you'd ever find i guess.

I've ordered a roll of fenderlining for a beetle for like 15 euro, enough to do a beetle (who need longer lines then our little cars Wink

)

Maybe you could find something like that too, for your car!

Iketani Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Norway

Well, not much happening here. I`ve found the TE27 steering arms I needed to install the AE86 struts, as well as more parts for the suspension, steering wheel hub, adjustable seat rails for bucket seats, wing mirrors etc. I barely missed a TE27 T-series axle with a TRD LSD in the US, which of course is rather annoying. It was sold the same day as I put my dibs in Crying or Very sad

The search continues...

I haven`t really worked much on the car lately, as I`m working offshore for 2-4 weeks at the time, and I`ve been busy with moving etc. Life takes time, unfortunately. Hopefully the winter will be spent in a nice, warm garage together with my car Cheerleader

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:51 pm Post subject:

I'm also on the lookout for a pair of Te27 steering arms.

Very interested to hear what you know of the TE27 rear end. It's the one thing I have had trouble finding any info on. Obviously it is a T series with spring hangers rather than trailing arms. Do you know what width it was? Did it have a panhard rod? Did they use the same diff as on a TA22? I believe very early TA22's had leaf sprung rear ends, clearly unlikely to be found now but presumably the same rear end as a TE27.

At this point I am planning on using an RA23 T series in mine which I believe is the same track as a TA22 rear end though supposedly wider axle bearings. and adding the spring hangers.