My Corolla(s) progress thread - Lots of pics:::56K FTL!!

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Index post 05/01/07:

10/18/07 New headlights but they never made it on the car, since I broke them.

10/20/07 SSR MK1s, delicious.

11/18/07 Purchased the red ae86 coupe

11/21/07 Purchased the brown TE31 ['76 2dr]

2/11/08 ae86 coupe gets exhaust

2/16/08 ae86 clutch replaced at Xtreme Auto Repair. --couple more pics from my trip to Xtreme

3/6/08 The acquired Work Equip 01s get fitted to the ae86 coupe.

3/8/08 Tech inspection @ GTE

3/15/08 ae86 coupe gets Goodridge steel lines all the way around.

3/19/08 Tanabe rear sway bar came in for the ae86 coupe.

3/20/08 Random shot of the supplies I picked up at the shop. Another random shot of the Work Equips while I was at Xtreme.

3/21/08 No pics, but you can read the update. A # of things were accomplished.

3/29/08 New headlights for the ae86 coupe and grill for the TE31

4/14/08 SSR MK1s mounted, balanced, and fitted to the ae86 coupe.

4/21/08 Back from battle--Black Hills Circuit

4/26/08 Washed the TE31, connected a headlight, mounted the SSR and Enkei meshies.

7/13/08 Shot of Extra Made's bucket seat.

8/10/08 Springs, lifters and cam for the 3tc in the TE31. NRG harness bar, Buddy Club Seat rails for the Extra Made seat, Cusco Front Sway Bar for the ae86 coupe. Weld draglites 15x8 all around... 4.5" backspacing... JBlood replica rear add-ons... JBlood replica front bumper

Somewhere in between here, the NCRCAs were installed on the ae86 coupe.

10/2/08 14" Western Wheels mounted and JBlood front bumper installed

10/24/08 Teaser pic of new front end items--air dam, fog lights, primered fenders on the TE31

10/26/08 Shot of the TE31 at the 3rd Japanese Old School Meet... new weber carb on there, as well.

11/15/08 White sr5 ae86 sold. --replaced with TE38...wagon corolla. Changes to it since acquisition: buffed and clear-coated in a few spots, lowered, rims, front lip, weber, and ganksta leanin' pipe.

11/30/08 Zero Garage's own Lincoln locker, TE31 stripped to the metal. Zero's dual webers test-fitted, dual mikuni's ordered.




Inspired by Hybrid93hatch--much props to his thread. This won't be nearly as detailed as his, but I promise to have a lot of pics.

This will be the progress thread for my '86 sr5 hatch [4ac], '85 GTS coupe [4age], '76 2dr[3tc], and '76 auto wagon[2tc]

So far, I've gotten stock corolla rims for her. You'll only see 3 on the car right now, but I ordered some 195-40-14 Falken Ziex Ze 512s from Edgeracing.com. Good price...

I'm not a Toyota guru. Please, if you have any tips or suggestions, please post them. This thread's purpose is for learning, informing, and advising. I'm sure it will be very helpful for me and anyone else who might come across this.

Updates will be added to the 1st post as they are posted.

On with the pics:::

These are the steelies that were on the car:



Ah, yes. Looks a whole lot better with the corolla rims.



I know, still have a steelie in the rear. --waiting for my tires to come in. At least it's not painted black.



You might be able to see a little bit of surface rust on the passenger headlight. That will be addressed later on.



Driver side of the front bumper is a little off. I'm not too concerned with it right now. It's not bad.



You can already start to see where the previous owner had scraped off oxidation on the rear bumper. --will be addressed later.





Grassroots Motorsports FTW!!







Stock muffler:::ewwww.



minor damage:::



Yes, I love the headlights. I've never owned a car with flip-up headlights:::





Stock 4A





I haven't had a chance to really see what this was. Vacant wasp hive?



uh huh:::high mileage is gangster.



...and maroon interior FTW!!


More pics and updates to come:::

Update 4/20

Ooo...lookie lookie what came in yesterday :







I got a lot to do today. --will update when I'm done.

Thanks, again for your feedback and comments.



This was today. Fuel for the day's progress.
I'll upload more pics when I get home:::

Don't know if you can tell the difference but I had the new tires mounted (before and after animated .gif):



The still:



Update 4/27

Hmmm, decisions, decisions.

I know some of you are like this, too. The rims have to be pleasing to the eye. I just couldn't do the Celica rims anymore.

I did a little bit of shopping this week.

Enkeis are 15 x 7 30+ offset
SSRs 15 x 6 and 15 x 7

I like the Enkeis so much that I'm tempted to roll with the pair on one side and the SSRs on the other.












Update 5/01

I finally got some pics with the SSRs on the 86.
The tires are 195 60 15...blah:::

I tried to keep as much natural lighting as possible.
They are brightened just a bit 'cause the sun was setting.







Almost flush...still looks good, though.



Before and after (from Celica to SSR):