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Project Dori Dori ~~ 1987 Toyota Corolla GT-S
« on: January 31, 2014, 09:20:08 am »
Modifications list Updated 3/19/19

Exterior:

'NOS' Front JDM Zenki Trueno Bumper
'NOS' Front JDM Zenki Trueno Lip
Rear JDM Zenki Bumper
'NOS' OEM signal lights
OEM ‘Trueno’ Badge
Trueno Mudflaps
Trueno Chrome window visors
Sprinter Trueno Rear window Shade
Advan Carbon Fibre Hood, OEM Style
Modiride Carbon Fibre Fenders OEM Style
Full Vinyl Wrap - Red Panda
Cibie BOBI headlights + Osram 70/65w H4
Cibie Airport 35 fog lights + Narva Rangepower +50 H3
Sprinter Trueno Taillights

Interior:

New and used oem parts to freshen up the 25 year old insides
eBay ‘TRD’ floor mats
Vintage Alpine 7166 Head unit
Subaru STi 5 Speed Shift Knob
Domo
Bride Zeta III Gradation Driver seat
Buddy Club Seat Rails
330mm Personal Neo Grinta Wheel
HKB BOSS Hub Adapter
10mm NRG wheel Spacer
Ventclip Cup Holder

Powertrain:

Red top Smallport 4A-GE
TRD Metal Headgasket
Colt Cams Stage II Intake 261 degrees total duration (223 @ 0.050") and 0.326" lift (8.27 mm)
Colt Cams Stage III Exhaust 268 degrees total duration (229 @ 0.050") and 0.328" lift (8.27 mm)
Manon Racing Timing Belt Idler
Fidanza Cam Gears
Modified Oil Pump
OBX Tri-Y Header - Ceramic Coated
RA Motorsports Mid-pipe
Brave 60mm Cat-Back Exhaust
TRD Spark Plug Wires
NGK Laser Platinum Plugs
TRD Oil Cap
TRD Rad Cap
Deka Lightweight Battery
TRUST Type-E Oil Filter Sandwich
Mishimoto Oil Cooler
Mishimoto Aluminum Radiator
Dual Electric Fan Conversion w/ RA Motorsports shroud
RA Motorsports Intake Plenum
HKS Super Power Flow Filter
Tomei Type S FPR
SMR Fuel Rail
-6an Fuel Lines
Greddy Neodymium Magdrain
T3 Single Row Crank Pulley
Techno Pro Spirit Engine Mounts

In The Corners:

Greddy Coilover Kit
Cusco Panhard Rod
Cusco Tension Rod bar
Complete Polyurethane Bushing kit
20mm Extended and Boxed LCA's
T3 RCA’s
T3 Traction Brackets
T3 Outer Tie Rods
Megan Inner tie rods w/ Machined Spacer
AW11 Manual Rack
Power Steering Knuckles
RA Motorsports BMC Heat Shield
Goodridge braided S/S Brake lines
Wilwood Powerlite 4 piston calipers, Hawk DTC-60 pads, Drilled/Slotted Rotors
Project Mu Type HC+ Pads Rear, OEM rotors
195/60/14 Azenis RT615K Plus on Riken Mesh

Wet Weight (Without Driver, w/ Full Interior) - 980 KG

Photo Update 03/19/19





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Well It's been a few years now since I've modified anything, the last really being my L-WRX that's way up in the Yukon now lol
So here's what I've been looking at for the past year...


I bought this 87’ GTS Liftback basically on a complete whim. A friend of mine needed the money and was willing to let it go for more than a fair price, and I had always wanted one, but never really looked too hard. So like I said, it’s a 1987 Corolla GT-S Liftback, done almost 300,000km now and is on it’s second engine, which iirc is a high-ish compression big port w/ TVIS. It was originally a Vancouver car and has only done less than 20,000km in Alberta since it’s last service at Granville Toyota in 2006. Very minimal rust, and only where it’s quite easy to fix. It was basically stock when I picked it, save for some welded on exhaust, and Azenis on Supra’s. When I bought it, it still needed to pass an OOP, which I was quite familiar with thanks to importing. For it to pass it needed 3 things; pinion seal was leaking and needed replacement, power steering either needed a new pump or to be switch to a manual rack, and some rust needed to be fixed on one front fender where it made it’s way right through the sheet metal. So all that was fixed without too much hassle, besides trying to do a pinion seal for the first time without a lift. But even before all this, the car had 2 seized brake calipers and a leaking brake master. I’ll throw in some pictures here from the day I picked it up to the day it finally passed OOP. Day I got it it was in dire need of a good polish, which you’ll also see the results of.

If I had to choose a direction that I was going with the car, it would just have to be a fun daily, plus restoring it to its original glory. A clean and simple build.

The day I picked her up:











Testing out Polish:





Tackling the Brakes:







Replacing Pinion Seal:





Before/After Interior Cleaning:

















After Exterior Polish:











My First Rust Repair:



Engine Bay Cleaned:



Steering Rack Restored:



Installed:
(Also the day it passed OOP)



Now that it was street legal entirely it was my summer daily and one time track car for the summer of 2013. Got to stretch it’s legs for the first time at the first annual Rev for Le Cure. Added a few new OEM parts + a couple simple parts before the races.

TRD:



T3 Extended Short Throw Shifter:



New OEM:







Basically since then the car has been parked in my garage where I’ve been slowly disassembling it for the past few months. Basically at the point now, where parts are starting to go back on.











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Re: Project Not A Subaru
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2014, 09:29:43 am »
YES!  I've been waiting for this!
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Re: Project Not A Subaru
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2014, 09:42:40 am »
Goddamnit. Want so bad. That thing is beautiful!
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« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2014, 09:50:40 am »
Wow that thing is beautiful!
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Re: Project Not A Subaru
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2014, 10:27:50 am »
Such a beautiful car!!

As for plans regarding the car, I'm going to start saving for when the engine blows up.


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Re: Project Not A Subaru
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2014, 01:23:50 pm »
Daym Matthew! I had no idea you were this far along already.
Polish worked great!
Love the car and the photos. Good work  8)

We must shoot rollers!
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Re: Project Not A Subaru
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2014, 06:33:48 pm »
JEEZUS!  Love it, this looks like an awesome project!

Lol kind of related; I was riding my motorcycle to school early one morning in the summer, and I see in one of my mirrors while stopped at a red- A RHD white Corolla in good looking condition. My jaw just dropped a little.
So we get going and I change lanes and slow down to get a better look: Its a ['87 I think] RHD Manual Corolla GTS in immaculate condition, driven by what appeared to be a 60+ year old lady. She must be the coolest.
She looks over and just has the biggest grin on her face cause she knows how awesome her car is.
Completely made my morning!

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« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2014, 09:31:57 pm »
Nice!  Seeing that really makes me miss my old beater corolla. 

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Re: Project Not A Subaru
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2014, 09:59:31 am »
Rear axle and suspension ready for powdercoating;



And fully boxed and extended my lower control arms +15mm



And yes Danny, as soon as it's rolling, rollers are a must.
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« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2014, 01:30:44 pm »
Man that looks a lot like a rear axle out of a 22RE pickup truck. Toyota partsbinning never fails to amaze me.

Great project, I can't believe how nice the body is. Don't modify it too much, keep it classy!

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« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2014, 03:11:09 pm »
Man that looks a lot like a rear axle out of a 22RE pickup truck. Toyota partsbinning never fails to amaze me.

Great project, I can't believe how nice the body is. Don't modify it too much, keep it classy!

Truck axle would be larger, probably 7"+ ring gear compared to my 6.7" but they are extremely similar yeah, anything older than 88 with a solid axle is basically the same lol

Going for a basically stock look.
Carbon fenders will be vinyled over to match body colour, still debating on doing the same to the hood
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« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2014, 05:16:25 pm »
...still debating on doing the same to the hood

Yes!  Do it!  Unmatched CF Hoods on these cars are played out! 
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Re: Project Not A Subaru
« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2014, 07:52:54 pm »
Man that looks a lot like a rear axle out of a 22RE pickup truck. Toyota partsbinning never fails to amaze me.

Great project, I can't believe how nice the body is. Don't modify it too much, keep it classy!

I've driven my fair share of Toyota's from the late 80s through 2000s, the dash is the same dash, same steering wheel, basically everything that isn't switches. As my brother said, "Why fix what isn't breaking?".

That said, they don't look near as good.
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« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2014, 10:06:54 pm »
Seeing this makes me miss my 86 MR2, had the same 4age in it.  You could pop a 3sgte or a beams in there and the thing would fly.  I always wish I did that to mine.

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« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2014, 08:34:35 am »
Seeing this makes me miss my 86 MR2, had the same 4age in it.  You could pop a 3sgte or a beams in there and the thing would fly.  I always wish I did that to mine.

Very easy to do that yes, but the beams is basically just a really heavy 20V 4AGE, and you don't need any more that 200hp in a car this light so tuning it becomes pointless.

One day I'll source a 4AGZE, the supercharged engine from the MR2.. One day... Along with the 6 speed J160 out of the Altezza, or RX8, or Silvia, or Miata...
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« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2014, 09:23:29 am »
Theres so many ways you could play this car.  4agze with a big pulley is probably the easiest.  Actually you could just throw a supercharger on the 4age and run low boost.  That's easiest. 

Ive seen a 4agze with the s/c removed and turbo charged instead and that really starts to move. 

There's always all the v6's from Camry's you could stick in there.  Theres a shop out of the UK that fits the new camry engine 2GRFE 276hp 250tq and I heard it like a rocket leaving the atmosphere.  :)

Same engine as the lotus elise/evora.

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« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2014, 09:40:23 am »
I feel like putting power in one of these things kind of defeats the purpose, but I really love having fun in low-powered economy cars.

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« Reply #17 on: February 04, 2014, 02:37:29 pm »
I feel like putting power in one of these things kind of defeats the purpose, but I really love having fun in low-powered economy cars.

This is what I'm after.


Momentum.

That being said, I'll still be aiming for ~130 whp with the next motor.. which I already have..
but that's for next year.. ;)
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« Reply #18 on: February 04, 2014, 02:55:51 pm »
Such a cool little project. Thanks for sharing. Keep us posted!

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« Reply #19 on: February 04, 2014, 04:04:58 pm »
Just got word that all my hardware has been re-plated. way faster turn around than I expected. Will post pictures of the results when I pick-up.
Since that moved along so quickly I went and got everything together that's needed for the rear axle:

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« Reply #20 on: February 06, 2014, 10:47:17 am »
Whooo HOOO

Yellow CAD plating:

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« Reply #21 on: February 06, 2014, 11:57:03 am »
Cad plating is wicked, just don't stick it in your mouth.

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« Reply #22 on: February 06, 2014, 12:10:47 pm »
Oh my god, this thing is incredibly awesome. What exactly does CAD plating do? Apart from looking wicked, that is :D

SUPER excited to see where this build goes, and now that I know these things exist over here I may have to go on a hunt...
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« Reply #23 on: February 06, 2014, 12:12:29 pm »
Oh my god, this thing is incredibly awesome. What exactly does CAD plating do? Apart from looking wicked, that is :D

SUPER excited to see where this build goes, and now that I know these things exist over here I may have to go on a hunt...

I had to look it up too  :P.

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« Reply #24 on: February 21, 2014, 01:50:34 pm »
Slowly been plugging away at everything..

Everything has been powdercoated:



Oil cooler lines and plated hood latch:



Twisted/completely mangled the fuel line to the fuel filter:





Timing belt, water pump, pulleys and alternator done:



Lost this, ran to the stearship and had a new one $43 later...



Timing covers:



Fuel Injectors:





Header assembled outside the car, tried installing it when on the car and the springs are in real awkward places



And where it sits now basically:



Done a few more things, but forgot to take pictures, so that's for the next post.

Also have Techno Spirit motor and trans mounts on order from my broker in Japan :)
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