So right now I have a dilemma, do I throw this car together with the bare minimum parts so I have a driveable car when I get back next December or do I do it the way I want to and do it RIGHT and hope I finish before June. Hopefully it's not any worse than it looks under that sound deadening. Unfortanetly the windshield has been leaking, (I hadn't realized as bad as it was until I got a floor mat and it starting PUDDLING in it) and it rusted a hole in the passenger side floor. I speculate the boxing will be around where the heater core pipes normally go. I grabbed some pictures of where it is right now while it was still daylight. Starts on page 6.Ĭlick to expand.Honestly welding that bar seems a whole lot easier than playing with jacks and 6 jackstands. If you want to read more gritty details, the original posts are in my Corolla build thread. (removed carb details because it was not necessary.)Īnyway that's all caught up. It was my first rebuild by myself and I feel it went pretty well. Did both today.Īlso have some issues with the carburetor. Thanks Jolly-JohnĪlright, today I got the oil filter and carburetor kit. 2-17-15Īlso got this in the mail from a fellow forum user. Just waiting on that title to come in the mail so I can go register and drive this car. I went and got the title transferred from my brothers name to mine. It'll work for now.Īnyway, got the heater core swapped, that's all good now. It comes out angled right in front of the rear tire. To remedy this I used the end muffler and just welded it to where it broke off. SOO lucky it didn't pinch the rear brake line, it was about an inch away. It got caught and it looped around the axle, so I had to cut it off. From the cat all the way back it was rotten at the joint and jostled free. We got a bunch of snow and I had a little fun in it with the Starlet, ended up busting the exhaust off. Once I got the fender back on I thought I was really close to finishing the car, I took the car for a drive and found the heater core was leaking. Only problem I'm having with rear wiring is that the fuel tank sender isn't reading. Hopefully I will have the car driving and legal within a couple weeks.Īlso got all the taillights working the way they should. The bad car has been stripped (This is around when I decided to buy my brother out of this deal.) So now this is 100% my project. The bad engine had a pretty decent clutch on it so I used that. Our short term was to at least make one good running car out of the two, then decide what to do.īad clutch. Eventually we couldn't agree so we don't have a end goal yet. He had a bunch of ideas, small block, ford turbo motor, 4.3 v6. Unfortunately it was in a collision and the driver fender was messed up.Īnyway, me and my brother debated for awhile about what to do with them. The bad car had a good engine and rusty body and trashed interior. The good car had a bad motor but a clean body. He signed the titles, so they are in my brothers name. Me and my brother went halves and both paid $200. I figured it's time to stop clogging my Corolla's build thread and make a dedicated one.īack in August of 2014, 2 1981 Toyota Starlet's popped up on craigslist right down the road from me, for $400.
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