Toyota Corolla Ke 20 1975

[trdracing]

Hi!
In the beginning I want to warn you: I write pretty good finnish rally-English. ;D But if you can't understand: take a look at the pictures!

I bought my first project in 2007. I worked on it about four years. Last summer I drove about 1000 kilometres with it.

There are some upgrades to do next summer: the engine is so loose that it burns oil just as much as gasoline.

Here are some pictures:


This is how I bought it



Engine lifted out



Almost everything was stripped out



This wasn't fun at all



Bottom painted and protected from stones. Here you can see the "garage" where I did almost all of the work. Not too much space and there was quite cold sometimes. I think the coldest was -20 c.



Rebuilding front fenders








First time out after painting. I painted it myself in that "garage" of mine. That painting was my first and it isn´t bad at all.



Had to try polishing






Rebuilted front brake calipers. I painted them and bought new seals. My father lathed stainless steel pistons to calipers



Exhaust made



Bought cheap gutman rims and painted them.


Poor quality in this pic.



Interior is almost original




And finally ready to rock and roll ;D I lowered it a "little bit". In the front you can find Vw caddy shock absorbers and shorter springs. And the rear has shorter shock absorbers and aluminium bars between rear axis and leaf springs.



More pictures of the engine project coming soon.

[yurikaze]

Brilliant work! do you have any pics of the Gutmann wheels on the car before they got painted black?
Machining the stainless caliper pistons is one of the coolest things I've read today.

[tenman]

sweet....

[cesarbarbosa]

It looked almost like my Volvo 164...
Damn it was hard to clean everything up... but in the end looked awesome...
Always good to see some KE20 love...

[Al Ramone]

looks great. nice job

[goldnrust]

Looks awesome, love these early Corollas Fair play for getting on with it at -20c!

I look forward to seeing your future plans for it

[trdracing]

Feb 26, 2012 18:45:59 GMT yurikaze said:

Brilliant work! do you have any pics of the Gutmann wheels on the car before they got painted black?
Machining the stainless caliper pistons is one of the coolest things I've read today.

I only have that picture of gutmann rims before painting I should had take more pictures during work. I must take more pictures in the future.

Before I could paint rims black I had to remove old lacquer. Rims had many corrosion spots too. I wanted to polish perimeters (if you know what part I mean) ;D but there were too much corrosion spots. So I had to sandblast the perimeters.

[trdracing]

Thanks for the comments!

[cesarbarbosa]

I was looking for one of these but for the same price tag I bought a volvo 164 which was a loooooot of engine...a 3.0 straight 6 ... but they are awesome neederless...

[The Doctor]

great to see another KE20 on here!

[MaDSeB]

kool build, love the old j tin. keep this updated

[ssscoupe]

Thats a real nice example! Having just stripped an re painted the bottom of my Rx4, i know what a headache this can be be! Nice colour combo underneath though! Mines the same except with red floor and black prop/axle

[trdracing]

Okay, I found a cure for loose engine. I think there is coming some more power too. Couple months ago found a pile(almost whole engine) of parts in low prise. (Whole project is done low budjet if you hadn't noticed)

Parts I found:
-4K block with +0,05mm bore
-Oversize pistons
-3K cylinder head with bigger intake ports
-280 degree camsaft
-A little bit bigger dellorto carburetor
-Self made exhaust manifold. Looks like Martelius and welded quite well

I bought later two sets of full seal sets and crane cams electronic ignition system.

I disassembled the engine and checked all parts. I think that engine is rebuilt recently. I have to disassemble the cylinder head too and atleast change valve stem seals.


Block and oil pan cleaned out


I found cheap and cool paint ;D This is test because some say that normal paint doesn't stick on the block and some say it sticks very well.


Sylinder head


Seals


Some kind of sound system: Chinese usb radio and Blaupunkt ballspeakers. Those orange ones are earplugs, these are needed in longer trips


Ke 20 is sleeping in the "good" chinese tarpaulin garage. Some salt in the colander. This far no mold

[bullyboy]

Hyvältä näyttää Missäpäin suomea Rolla asustaa?

[trdracing]

Parkanossa, Treeltä pohjoseenpäin..

[dude]

Hienosti remontoitu, kivaa että näistä tehdään muuta kuin vaan sprintti- ja jokkisautoja.
Kaverilta ostettiin ke27 mistä kuulema piti teettää sprinttiauto... Ei ole näkynny sen jälkeen.


Sorry for the finnish! ;D

[trdracing]

Yep, let's try to write English. As you said too many corollas and other rare old cars are in racing use.

[bullyboy]

Very comfortable working position by the looks of it ;D

[trdracing]

I done half of the bottom like that and other half when the car was on its other side. Actually that wasn't bad at all. ;D

[bullyboy]

Well yeah, beats lying on the ground under the car and swinging brush ;D