Richard's Corolla KE35

I purchased the car in 2001, as an unregistered, and barely legal road car. The car was originally a Corolla CS Coupe 1200cc automatic 2 speed.

It now runs a 1600cc 4-AG with Toyota T5 gear box, a Toyota Corona Mk2 rear axle and BIG drum brakes.  Front suspension is height adjustable Celica, and the front brakes are ventilated Cressida discs with Crown Calipers. (Don't you love the way these Toyota parts all swap around). Adjustable K-Mac strut tops improved suspension geometry easily, but more camber and caster are desperately needed.  Lower control arms are TRD lengthened units.

I installed a Cobra Race seat and a Bond bolt in roll cage, which stiffened up the flexi pillarless body no end.  Race harnesses for both front seats. (Rear seat removed for roll cage installation). Diff failed at the Island going into turn 2 in 2003 ( diff oil on rear tyres-INTERESTING!!! ) Diff rebuilt by Trans-diff at Bayswater to same specs as Auscar racers used, i.e. reinforced CIG locker.  Diff lock took 3 secs off PI lap time.

Enquiries with VicRoads indicated that as this body style and model was available with a 1600cc twin cam engine (2-TG) in Japan (and raced in Australia), the 4AG installation fell within the guidelines for CH plates, so now it can be driven on the road.

Recently, the after-market injection system died, and a change to twin Webers was indicated by my tune-up guy. Original injected engine was 86kW at flywheel. I now have 90+kW at back wheels, with the dyno print-outs to prove it. The conversion was not as straight forward as expected!

Most recent update was to install Pedders Track Ryder shocks on the rear and a Whiteline rear anti-roll bar.  This improved the Sandown lap times by about 2 seconds. Turn in massively improved, as locked diff really promotes understeer big time. Will be interesting to see the improvement around Winton.