Well as much as I love my 2001 Subaru Outback, I have found that it can be quite expensive to operate all the time, upgrade like I want, so I'm slowing the roll on that project for now, but none the less it will get what is due.

Anyways I've rolled into another project and picked up a 1980 Toyota Corolla 3-door Liftback, TE-72 for those that know about chassis codes. I paid 400 dollars for it, it has 103,000 miles on it, and it runs really well, with the exception of the power steering has a leak, windshield wipers aren't working, weather striping needs replacing, and that's it for any real major repairs that need to be done.

Anyways if anyone knows of a good forum to go to for corollas that would be awesome.

I know of one a friend is into.. has a '86 hatchi roku..only 57k on it gannys car..I'll get back to ya on the site...he also has an '85 corolla...
He's a Subaru nut as well with a rally car replica '99 2.5RS that is sweet!

 

Re: Re: My "new" 1980 Toyota Corolla TE72

I know of one a friend is into.. has a '86 hatchi roku..only 57k on it gannys car..I'll get back to ya on the site...he also has an '85 corolla...
He's a Subaru nut as well with a rally car replica '99 2.5RS that is sweet!

Nice! Those AE86s are pretty cool.

 

Found Club4ag

 

Yeah, I've got several things I've bought for this thing:

New springs
Bilstein Struts and shocks
New Strut Top mounts
New wheels, 14" x 6" like the Konig Rewinds

Getting:
New Exhaust, new cat and muffler

 

awesome.. TE72s are pretty awesome.. and while they aren't as popular as the AE86 (Hachiroku).. you can pretty much do whatever you want with them and make them just as fun...

Here's a couple of pics for inspiration maybe?

pics of yours please!

 

I'll get pics up today, with before and after pics with the old then new wheels.

 

anything but a NA rotory swap with no exhaust!!!!

there is a sick 4cly motor swap out the tacaoma that will take 1000hp on stock block and crank 3tc is the name of the motor

 

anything but a NA rotory swap with no exhaust!!!!

there is a sick 4cly motor swap out the tacaoma that will take 1000hp on stock block and crank 3tc is the name of the motor

then he'd by like every other swapped corolla that doesn't have a rotary!

 

Here's a couple of pics for inspiration maybe?

Oh damn, if you ended up building yours up like that, I'd give you crazy amounts of respect.

 

Well here's a link to my thread, it has a couple of pictures, and includes list of things I've done to the car since I bought it on 23rd of October, this month. Also have list of parts on order and planned mods.

My Project thread at Toyota 3TC forums

 

Well anyways, the car has made some significant progress, and is running much better as far as handling goes, still gotta finish the tune up process.

 

my first car was the same car as yours but an 82. these cars are awesome. i'm registered at club4ag as well. great forum lots of info. i've actually been contemplating of getting another old school yota for a while. $400 is a very good deal.

 

yeah I've been making significant progress on getting the car to where I want it to be, here's a link to what I've done so far:

1980 Toyota Corolla Liftback

 

I had one of those! It was a 1981 SR5, a 2 door hard top coupe. It's one of my favorite cars that I have owned. My dad bought it for me in 1984 when I was in school. It had 60,000 miles on it. Fun to drive - a light, RWD car with a 5 speed. And extremely reliable. I drove it until 1990 and well over 200,000 miles. Gave it to my brother (poor college student at the time), who drove it for over a year and then gave it to a friend. No major repairs were ever needed. My biggest issue with it was that it had no A/C (not broken, it wasn't installed at the factory).

 

Yeah, I'm really liking the car, it's so easy to work on, I can't believe that I got it so cheap, 400 dollars, what a steal that I got, can't wait to get back to work on it on Wednesday.

 

An '82 SR5 Hatchback manual was my firt car! Loved it. The guage cluster was great for it's day lol.

It got me to the 'put ins' at West Virginia's rivers. A real sleeper on dirt roads.

Nice on the paved twisties too. Highway 16 eat of Charleston is a great twisty road that follows the New River. The car was way underpowered, but still fun.

 

I've got a '94 Toyota pickup as my beater/daily driver. if you're looking for a web site on Toyota's, try www.toyotanation.com