Out with the old, in with the new (by 3 years)

[verse]

Okay. So I no longer have the Celica. I really loved that car, but it was time to let it go. I sold it to a good guy down in TN. He traded me a CLEAN '85 Corolla and $600 for my '82 Celica. It needs lowered, and I don't like the positive offset wheels(honda wheels), but they will stay that way for a bit. I'm going to lower it next weekend a bit I think. Here's some pictures.

 

 

http://www.unshadowed.com/verse/celica/byebye.jpg

 

Bye bye

 

http://www.unshadowed.com/verse/corolla/firstfill.jpg

 

http://www.unshadowed.com/verse/corolla/firstfill3.jpg

[Adam]

good looking car, i guess it makes up for getting rid of one of the few good looking celicas around

[Doug1647545489]

celica> corolla

[Buck531]

Originally posted by Doug:

celica> corolla

+1. However, I do like the Corolla. VERY clean. how many miles on it? Too bad it's not a GT-S .

[verse]

140k on the body 10k on the newly rebuilt motor. Runs soooo good.

[Buck531]

The stock 8 valve whatever single cam motor? or did he swap something else in?

[Buckeye1647545503]

listen to your buddy with the red one and buy panasports old school toyota with panasports (and a turbo) =win

[verse]

Originally posted by Buck531:

The stock 8 valve whatever single cam motor? or did he swap something else in?

Yeah it's a stock SR5 4AC motor. It's faster than my Celica, lol. I'm going to keep that motor for a little while, until I get the suspension tuned. I plan to get rid of those wheels soon to get something with a bit of a lip probably 14x7.5's. The Celica had some rust, no holes, some things didn't work. Everything on this car works, no rust, so I think I got a really good deal.

[nismo]

Nice deal. Its alot nicer than the one you got from me!

[verse]

Originally posted by Nismo:

Nice deal. Its alot nicer than the one you got from me!

lol a little bit. That one is running great though. Just needs some new fenders and we'll be good to go. I'm going to repair the rockers soon too.

[Guest GSRchick714]

Looks nice, its REALLY clean! At least its faster than your Celica but that car was the cleanest celica supra I have EVER seen

[Guest mudbutt]

If you are wanting some wide 14s, I believe my buddy still has a spare set of mk2 supra wheels.

[Kuruma]

That hachi is WAY cleaner then my delivery-driving rusted up hachi... Too bad it's not a GT-S tho. Nice find. I'm working on getting an FC3S convertable soon, myself.

[BIGGU]

why must everyone call it "hachi", "86" "ae86" or "roku" just call it like it really is called and that would be a Corolla

[Kuruma]

Because when you just say "Corolla" people tend to think you mean the FWD model that was released during the same years. It lets people know you mean a RWD Corolla from 1984-1987. One shop I took it to refused to believe it was RWD after I said it was a Corolla until they opened the hood. it's also hell of a lot quicker to say "I've got (an eight-six, an AE86, a hachi, a hachi-roku, etc.)" then to say "I have a rear wheel drive 1986 Corolla."

 

That and it just seems to be the way things go with a lot of japanese cars (esp. Toyota), people referring to them by their chassis code, instead of just the normal name.

 

Jon: If you really don't like those wheels I'd be willing to trade my Toyota wheels for it, pics are somewhere on this forum (the ones I took at Easton show the wheels I got my car with, though I really think the ones on yours look nice.)

[verse]

Originally posted by Kuruma:

Jon: If you really don't like those wheels I'd be willing to trade my Toyota wheels for it, pics are somewhere on this forum (the ones I took at Easton show the wheels I got my car with, though I really think the ones on yours look nice.)

I already promised I'd give these wheels to Andy's neighbor when I get new wheels.

[zeitgeist57]

I'm not up that much on Corollas (I do know "hachi-roku" means "8-6" in Japanese from Initial D ) but as long as the '85 is RWD, that's all that matters.

 

I like the way it looks. Drop it in the weeds and smack on some old-skool 14s or 15s and that thing will be a decent runner!

[Kuruma]

As long as it's an SR5 or GT-S from that time, it's guaranteed to be RWD. It's a real shit that the only new Corollas available now are FWD sedans, no coupes, no hatchbacks. Can you say "poor people's Camry"? graemlins/nonono.gif

 

You really ought to do that mod that I posted about a while back, with the air cleaner swap. It'll still be a 4AC, thus slow as shit, but it really helps the car out by replacing the crappy stock air cleaner with a more free flowing one. Changed my setup a little bit too, eliminating the hose from the air cleaner to the valve cover and gave that it's own independant filter. $9 from Advance for one of those little APC ones, minor improvement, not too noticable but still an improvement.

[Farkas]

those breathers for the valve covers dont do anything but make a car smoke.. plus they put the hose to the oil catch can for a reason.

[Black ITR Guy]

looks nice