Just another corolla - DIY Caterham frame 7age and ´93 Liftback RWD

MY GOD MAN. I thought I was bad about my corollas.... I am on my 4th now. My last corolla had 3 different engines over the course of a year. Went from 93 4afe (injector intake), to a 91 4afe (injector head), then a 7afe. hahaha

Im really digging this thread. You have done some really great mods and swaps. Tons of great info in these pages here. Keep it up man.

Im voting a great big HELLZ YES on the 7agte/L200.
The stock 7afe rods (especially after 240km) are not likely to withstand 8k revs that the 4age head/ecu make or anything over 8lbs of boost from the charger. there are plenty of cheap H-beam and I-beam rods on the market.

Thanks for the comment @Weazler

Im glad my obsession for doing stupid things is helpfull to others and making them glad  


So, I have not posted in a while, I quit my job the other day, just got fed up
rebuilding engines every single day... I got another job already working for
a big oil company, dont know what I will be doing there I dont start right away
I took one month to relax, NOT, relaxation my butthole, I just bought another house
Sold the old one and I had to sell my beautiful L200 also will miss that so much

SOLD



New house, new trouble, Offcourse I checked the garage first  


Big garage finally, Yea i had a Mercedes Benz E320 Rwd over the summer (its sold)


Its nice.. a whole alot off work already put in it, I bought it in the end of July.
I´ts two apartments and we are going to rent it all out.



Because of the house I have not had time to spend in the project
but i´ve tried to get it running to see if the 2.0l engine was ok or not
and finally the other day I did more small things...

Bought new sparkplugs, dizzy cab, and hammer, found used leads.


Also found out I wired the dizzy wrong


And then realizing there was something wrong inside the dizzy


Then going on google to find out that there´s a difference in a 3sfe
and 4age dizzy´s so I opened them both and tore them apart

4age dizzy


3sfe dizzy


4age ignition axle next to the 3sfe


Apparently 4age dizzy uses fever sensors then the 3sfe and it counts
the rotation on detonation on all four cylinders but the 3sfe only counts
nr.1 cylender. so that´s why the engine only cranks over and dosent
start, Im in heap of trouble...

This is something I did not expect to run into right now, I thought
the dizzy´s where all the same in Toyota´s, damn it.

Ive been talking this over with my Toyota buddies and trying to come
up with an easy and cheap solution for this...

nr1.
Find another engine harness from 3sfe that´s not cut in peaces and
make another spliced up harness to fit the 3sfe engine and ae111 corolla
and put the dizzy back togeather and on the engine, but then I have to
change the injectors to stock and use the engine as stock...

nr2.
I´ve already done the harness for 4age engine to fit a ae111 corolla
why not swap the 7age engine I already have into the car and
use my supra injectors and all the cool add on´s I have for 4age!

nr3.
Brake it, sell it and start another one, refresh button,  not my idea!

If anyone has the nr4. solution that involves less trouble please post!!!

I might add that I´ve already thought of the coil pack ignition system
but I cant use that if the 3sfe dizzy rotation sensors are the wrong ones,
then I would have to get a hall type sensor on the crank.. to much work.

In the mean time I got fed up with the build and put the corolla to rest at my
new house, going to start on this again when I start working again at the new
job, hopefully I will have more time after work then I had at the old job

Moving



Until next time, hope you guys have had grate summer!

have you tried a 3sge dizzy?
I could try to send you one from here in the UK if you want

miib14 wrote:

have you tried a 3sge dizzy?
I could try to send you one from here in the UK if you want

Nope, cant use that, apparently its got the hall sensor on the inside
but I cant see how it knows where the pistons are on stroke....

But thanks for the advise

3sge dizzy


After thinking this over and over and over again, even wrote down
on a paper like Ross did with Rachel in Friends pros and cons of
what to do and what to spend with what engine it all goes the same

the 7age is the rode to take, its the cheapest, easiest and thinking this
over and over It makes me want to do that.

But for now Im going to wait for my brain to want to do more in the project
kind off got fed up when the dizzy pissed in my face

Until next time.. have a good day you guys

miib14

I just realized there are some theeth under the 24theeth wheel on the 3sge ignition axle
on that picture I just posted above, I cant find any other picture on google that shows how
many those theeths are, do you know how many they are? if not could you by any chance
check it out for me on your 3sge dizzy?

3sge dizzy might work after all...

Wow, just how fast time flies

I have been super busy the last 7 months, my new job is grate Im all over the place fixing
stuff for my company. Made couple of new friends and one that I could call my brother

I will kick this post off by telling you that my blue rwd corolla is finally getting started on again
but first I post about my beloved daily driver that broke down on me two days be for new year!

The day it broke down just couple of minutes later, the radiator fan
broke and hit the radiator and it blew up and threw coolant over everything


So i was out of a ride back and forth to work so I had to buy a new ride while I fixed the Pajero.

My friend had this ae101 sedan, the one I fixed his auto befor but now I made it manual for him







For the work I put into the corolla I got this Nissan Cedric Diesel instead from him
that became my daily and still is to day, love driving it so smooth




I started fixing the Pajero little by little when I had just a small window of time

Bought another used radiator and it was 6cm longer then the old one
and I had to raise up the body by 6cm for it to clear the body and engine


So because I had the radiator out I decided to change the wator pump


Man that was a mistake, I broke the las bolt holding the pump in place



I drilled it out by using the old pump, took me two evenings though



Mini me checking out my work so far, he loves the Pajero


Bought these body raise up blocks for 4runner and machined them to 6cm


And voila, just couple of loos ends left, raise up the bumpers and step side


Will be driving the Pajero in next couple of days, I need it so much


So on to the matter most, I think  

Its been sitting and waiting for to long now, poor rolla


I went with the 7A-GE route and that has been a wild ride!
I have bought and teared down 4 engines so far only to find out the bearrings
or piston walls where damaged to unrepaired, so now I have a mountain and
a hill of engine parts in my garage hehehe


Last weekend I picket up a set of 7afe and a E57 4wd transmission from a ae101 Touring


Brought it home


Opened the valve cover to have a look, it was ok for my taste


Removed the head, everything I could see was ok, nice honing marks still present


Turned it over and opened it up and removed the rods´n pistons


There where a little scars on the rod bearings, im in the search for new as is


The list of things already bought so far:
Adjustable cam gears 4age 16v
head gasket 7afe and 4age
timing belt Porche 944 117T
Bigport pistons with 20mm gudgeon pin holes (had them already)

The only thing im standed on are those bearings and now im thinking of adding
a renault clio ARP rod bolts to the stock 7afe rods to hold better when revving  

Hope you guys still like this slow build    
I will have to cut open a can of beer to fix all the lost pictures in all the other posts someday.

Just an sneak peak of what i have been up to the last year or so    


Still a work in progress,I will update later with all of what hass been done so far.

Looking good. Nice work.

Thanks trife96

Last wheekend just made up for the last two years of this slow build



Cant wait to drive it, when ever that might be  

Finally first test drive video, still running little strange
might have to retard the adjustable cam gears, already
retard 3° deg.


Both of my toys, actually my daily and the hopefully new daily this summer


Inserted some gauges to monitor the engine better, aftermerket rev gauge
water temp gauge after it has cone through the engine, temporary O2 gauge
just to fill the hole, looking for an oil pressure gauge, and last is a volt gauge.




So this engine is a holy lowbudget build just so I could drive it this summer
its equipet with stock 7afe basement and I mean stock, driven 224.000km
new 7afe headgasket, used 7afe headbolts, 4age Bluetop ae92 16v head
stock camshafts, T3 adjustable cam gears, Porche 944 116T timing belt,
4age timing belt tensioner, 7afe stock oilpump, 310cc 7mgte injectors,  stock
4age waterpump, 4age steering pump, 4age harmonic balancer, 4age alternator
4age ecu and harmess cut and connected to and into the factory body harness
and relay box, might be forgetting something....




In the video im struggling  with faulty waterpump or a gasget is gone because its
dripping coolant, and some water hose in the back is leaking coolant also. And in 4400rpm i hit a slight bog in partial throttle but not if im in full throttle, also in the
video the corolla is Rwd

The Video
https://www.facebook.com/elias.gudmundsson.9/videos/vb.633217716/10153605227722717/?type=3&theater

Eveything in this post just went cracy

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Now the body of the &quot;new&quot; build. I prop will not post more of this build into this threat seeing as it is not a corolla

Im all about machines so i bought this used lathe or what you call it i dont know the name in english.


Its so i can line work my heads my self and the blocks  100%
Because the headgasket in my 4wd/rwd 7age just gave up also i think i blew a piston rings in cylender 4 but i had a real good time with it now to build another motor

Been driving it like i stole it.


The other day a valve seal went and it burned a quart load of oil in 10km so i took it of the street.


The new engine is coming to geather. Waiting gor new piston rings

Great Man!

Awesome Job Mate!

saddly some of the pictures can't be reachable now...

Any updates on this?

Thank you JDM20VAE101

Here is a quick update. Actually already happent in november-desember 2016.

I bought a ae101 4wd wagon with a running 7afe and tore it apart.
I salvaged only the 4wd parts and fuelcell.



Brought the engine and gearbox home and removed the head


Went to my Toyota parts garage and picked up another 4age bluetop head from ae92 and aligned the surface (done this many many times)



Sprayed the new 7afe steel headgasket with coperspray and torqued the head down.



Went to the Toyota garage again and collected all the 4age stuff on the outside of the engine insdead of taking everything off 7age engine nr.1 wich was still in the enginebay.


Everything done i think.



Then went to the next street from my house with the corolla to the lift and took my son with me.

We took the 1st 7age out. A nice view 4age fwd and two 7age 4wd


Then dropped the 2nd 7age into it


Timed it in checked for leaks


Then the next day going to school and home i completely destroid the engine drifting all the way home taking every turn sideways and just two blocks from my house one of the rod bearing got massaged to bids.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154095908932717&id=633217716&fs=1&ref=content_filter&__tn__=R&_ft_=

And the next day it snowed so took it out again
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154097300152717&id=633217716&fs=4&ref=content_filter&__tn__=R&_ft_=

So i parked the peace of crap again and went to buy another engineblock actually did that in november i was going to make this one a Turbo build but that has to wait for now.

So this is going to be 7age nr.3 to hit this blue turd.

Last summer i bought my dream bike Kawasaki Gpz500s and just been using the bike everywhere i went. I started school again after last summer finishing my engine engineer and added lathe engineer to my school edjucation this year.

so thats the bike from the movie True Lies with the big chase scene with the bad guy on the big and Arnold riding a horse!

There is another bike in that movie i want to get some day.
Its a kawasaki zxr750 when the kid on the bike picks up Arnolds daughter to school.


And shortly after i bought that Gpz i started looking for a bike project instead to take on and paused the corolla project for a while, and i found this Gixer 750cc all mangled up so for couple of months last year i collected parts and made it whole again.


All fixed for now paint it winter 2017


Already this month ive prepped the bottom half of the 7age

I went on ebay. Bought new main and rod bearing new rings.


I messured the cylenders for egg shape warpage


Then messured the ring gap on the new rings


Then bean-honed the cylenders



Put the crank in again with new bearings


Put the pistons in bath



At last i washed the corolla. First time in 4 years ☺



Opened up 7age nr.2 from the bottom to have a look


The crank got all busta move on me


Its good that this turd is rwd and such a fine and funn thing to drive



Thats where im at now. Hopefully im driving again next month.

wow
Awesome, almost forgot about this thread... cant wait for the turbo build

Got a package today.


Been waiting for this since July 2016


Two used 4age heads and rods and pistons



I think its late bigport. The rods are 25mm thick might be good for turbo.


7age continue

Cleaned all of the 7afe pistons and put new ring on em
Two in two to go


All four in


7afe and 4age oil pump. Went with the 4age


Pump on and new 4age timing gear


And last i did was the back, new gasket and seal



Found another 7afe engine block. It was in my engine washing station. I dont remember when i put it in there

great work bro

"Found another 7afe engine block. It was in my engine washing station. I dont remember when i put it in there"

They are reproducing

Its a mistery where it came from


Didn't do much today. I got the 7age nr.2 out of the turd


And home, ready to transfer everything 4age related over to nr.3 7age


I like to show you my work space dedicated to rebuilding engines

I like to show you my work space dedicated to rebuilding engines

Washing corner station


Standing drill cnc used as a shelf for couple of my twincam heads


Machining corner hydraulic press/lathe/standing drill/kitchen


Storage, oils, 4age-starters-alternators-harness ecu and internet computer for ebay and youtube only


Everything iron. Sandblaster and welder, storage


And then my old 2tonn hydraulic lift


My garage is almoast complete. Im searching for a small valve grinding machine then i need a hoist that can reach for engines from the door to the washing corner then im all set i think

Then i went to say hello to a friend of mine, he was fitting a 1G-FE 2.0l 6cyl engine wich he bought from me, into his Starlet



Completely hacked up firewall

I have been looking for wheels for the blue blacing hot rod to ride on when using the car from a-b and i wanted to find one of my old set 18" 5star rimz.

I had them back in 2005-2007 under my first 4wd project G6 AE111 corolla


I put out an add on facebook looking for them and it turned out one of my car friend got them for trades for 22" dub wheels that needed repaint. I called him up and they where now mine again


You might want to know more about my old G6?

I bought it stock looking with 1300cc 6speed and the following wheekend i lowered it and swapped to used 4age.


1.3l sold


4age in


Me fixing exhaust


Complete



I used it everyday drove over 30.000km in 6months, then blew a bearing so i rebuilt it, it was my first ever!


Then about 6months later i wanted to do something more to it and bought a silvertop 4age and a blacktop harness and ecu, back then no one had done st with bt ecu atleast not online so i was afraid it woulden work but it did....


Engine arrived from canada and i wanted to do more than swap engines. I had already collected 4wd drivetrain to fit the car.



Here the bt harness is in the ae111 carib harness next to it is the E57 4wd gearbox



Me making a huge mess first time fitting the E57 to the st




Everything in and running like a champ




I sold it to a friend. Bought it back 3years later. Sold the st and bought a bt and rebuilt it. Drove it for 1year then sold the bt. Bought a 7afe and turboed it then sold the car to another friend that still ownes it running 4years and its his baby.

Here is a link to all the crazyness with videos and alot of pictures if you like to see more maad corolla stuff. Hope you enjoy.

http://www.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/topic/114881-my-g6-corolla-4x4-56k-warning/

I desited to build a hoist in the roof to help with lifting the engines into the engine stand or into the car.

Had some material for it in my iron storage corner


I bought this new 9years ago and now im finally using it


About an hour later


It works wonderfull. Max kg capacity on the hoist is 250kg



Back to 7age rebuild

First half of the oilpan is clean and bolted on


Then cleaned the lower half and bolted that on



So little left to do and i have so little time to do it in


In this picture there are three 7age one 4age and one to be 7agte thanks to my magic washing stasion


Then finally desited wich head to use on the new 7age


And put everything into the washing stasion to clean over night.


Hope you enjoy

Cleaned the head as good as i could


Cleaned the camshafts and a set of valve covers



But desited ti go with black ones



Messured head warp. With in specs of 0.05mm


Noticed this befor cleaning.



So i need to change valve steams.



Only did one for now.


New in



Messured the valve spring with in limits wich is 41mm if i recall