My corolla e11 build

My name is paul, i joined the club on the first of jan 2012. Glad that i did as it gives me more reason to tinker with my e11. Within a couple of weeks on the way home from work one night, I had just finished a 12 hour shift i was going down an unlit country lane in heavy rain (doing the legal speed limit), a cyclist dressed in dark clothing with no lights on just came from behind a hedge at a good rate of speed, he went straight in to the front passenger side wing, hit the window and bounced off the roof, so some of you may assume im a poor driver but bad things can happen to any of us. Anyway as im running over to aid him aswell as on the phone to the emergency services his friend decides to start hitting me in the head. The out come in the end was the cyclist having a broken leg, me getting sent on a drivers awareness course and fined £275 aswell as the damage to my car. The best part is he even tried getting me done for a racist assault even though the guy was the same skin tone as me and i had never met him before. So just to verify im NOT racist and I dont have any sort of problems with responsable cyclists. Will post pics very soon comments welcome thanks.

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And then followed the repairs

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About 2 weeks after the repairs i decided to swap the stardered gs front bumper for a G6 grille and bumper with fogs and splitter.

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This is it so far let me no what you think or any ideas.

That had to be the longest sentence EVER!

oh wow thats not goood at all mate

gold94corolla wrote:

That had to be the longest sentence EVER!

miib14 wrote:

gold94corolla wrote:

That had to be the longest sentence EVER!

lol but still its nice to tell the truth .and that sentence is interesting bro what happened next did u get the car repaired and how big was the damage any pics .and if it wasnt ur fault why did u let them beat u up and gave the fine its just wrong

yeah I admit the story was very interesting enough that I read it all as one sentence anyway!

I never really understood stupid cyclists and those who felt the road belonged to them. Since I do both driving and cycling, I try to keep a good perspective about both

I was riding along some parked cars, and one of the doors opened right in front of me because they didn't look. I crashed into it of course and ended up on the road, but as soon as I realized I wasn't dead, I was apologizing to the guy for hitting his door. He was equally sorry. See! Not so hard to be nice to each other, and everyone is happy

I get what you mean i did feel horrid for what happened. But didnt feel totally to blame the police officer said if i was to take it to the judge the chances are i would get a bigger fine and points on my license. they were his words so i just chose to bite the bullet so to speak.
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oh wow the damage does look bad.. also 4afe?

yeh i think so not to good with the codes ans so on but if im ever unsure i ask you first lol

lol cool mate

Atleast you're tinkering and fixing it, it's a nice lookin ride and I love the colour.

I agree, I love that color! Your sig pic looks very nice. It sure did a lot of damage, like hitting a deer here lol.

But it's no fair, you edited your post so now it's not a long sentence and my first post doesn't make any sense lol

lol im not the best on knowing where to put commers and full stops etc so had to try and fix it mate.

The last few days I have been trying to light weight the car and took out the obvious bits such as the cd player, speakers, parcel shelf, rear seats, rear door cards, rear wiper motor, and hopefully picking up a lighter battery later on will add pics soon

Yeah I heard you were lightening it up. Does it have A/C? That weighs a lot!

yep thats somthing else i need info on because i have heard the a/c gas is dangerous so not certain how to go about it yet.

It's not dangerous so much, but it's under pressure. I personally hit mine with a hammer (accidentally) and broke it and the freon stuff went all over, but it evaporated no problem.

Maybe you could give your AC to whiteoldcorolla!

yeh cant see why not ill have to look a little more into it and get more info but im sure its somthing ill be doing soon.

Heres a picture before i took the wiper off just to keep the pics going.

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also ideas for the build welcome.

Heres what I have been doing the last few days.

This is a blank i made out of some plastic wrapped in vinyl to save having the weight of a cd player, better than having a random hole
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Took out all the rear interior and unecessary bits and bobs.
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Thats it up to now. Will be making some blanks for were the rear door card holes tomorrow hopefully

nice work mate,

try to take the sound insulators out tooo, that weighs abit tooo

what does it look like i take it its not the little sponges if it weighs abit

its like a foam all around the car, google it

ok another job for the weekend im thinking its the dark stuff each side of the spare wheel gap will sort it

Id put gauge holder in the din slot, you can get single din slot gauge holders off ebay

i was thinking about that but for hopefully when it gets a turbo conversion (3sgte) then have a boost gauge.

just ordered 2 new yokohama parada's spec 2. so will be picking them up tomorrow
(205/45zr17w)

smaller battery comes tomorrow aswell.