Thank You All
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:09 am
i woke up 3 days ago to my dad standing in the driveway and my 94' legacy 2.2 na 5mt 2wd wagon, with dark green/ gray interior being hauled away on a flatbed truck. damn that thing was so beutiful, so faaaast... i wanna cry.but i have a new project to start because i bought a new car for $120 and got a new clutch slave for free and fixed it myself! now here is the kicker, i live in wisconsin so almost every car out there has rust on it, but this car has not one spot on it and it was just brought here from Atlanta. soooo i have a 121000 original mile 5speed 2door AE86 Toyota corolla!! its not a hatch and its not a GT-S twin cam it only has an open rear diff. and a single cam carburated 1.6l its got potential and needs a little TLC but the main thing is no rust! and it doesn't burn a drop of oil!! did i mention its an 84'? everything works inside and out!
now to jump on this "DRIFT" bandwagon and build a full blow drift car out of the rolla' and sell it! then i'll be able to have that 350 all wheel horse power 2.5RS impreza i have always wanted
thank you all for the helpful information you all have provided to me, i hope to see you all again soon with 2.5 keys in my pocket!
best regards,
ben bowen
) SR5 corolla!!! so i start getting all these evil thoughts and she says its got "clutch problems", now i thought ok that costs money but who cares so i get the phone number for the owner and called her up she has no idea what she has on her hands and i offer her $50 for it, she had no way to get it out of hollys yard and her and holly had a fight so the car was stuck unless i bought it so after a but of haggling and discussion i set up a meeting place and go buy the title and keys and start heading back to hollys, now i bought the car without even hearing it run!! i wanted an AE86 that bad! i got back to hollys and started it up, the carburated 1.6 fired on the first crank!! rumbling to life with out even a puff or chug and best of all no smoke at all, even revving it to 6300rpm still no smoke! but i hit the clutch pedal and it falls to the floor without hesitating, uh oh, pop the hood and it looks fine, open the hydraulic master cylinder cap and there is no dot3 brake fluid in it. so i get some dot 3 and filled it up and started pumping the clutch and it is spraying all over the floor boards on the driver side! so i talk to a toyota nut i know and he has an old 92 yota pickup in his barn and lets me rip the master cylinder out of it and bring it down to hollys with me and hollys boyfriend randy had a high pressure brake line with flared ends and fittings the exact size i need but its 2 feet longer than what i needed (i cut the factory line, stupid me 
) so i hand bent all the curves i needed and fitted it to the truck cylinder and re routed the extra line and added fluid, pumped the clutch for 15 min and away we go! fixed it all for free!! this thing is so light weight already but in the last 24 hours i have stripped everything out of it and removed the AC belt and it has much more responsive "turn in" and much worse "in-lift" in laymens terms for the few that dont understand what those are turn in is when you first turn into a corner the rolla understeered a little bit now it doesnt even hesitate with the lighter rear end, and the in-lift is from the open type differential pushing the inside rear harder than the outside wheel, it lifts the inside rear under throttle cornering.