Vehicle Owner

Member ID: R1obbo

Location: Portsmouth, GB

Vehicle Info

1985 Toyota Corolla

Bought: Jan, 2007

Sold: Mar, 2009

Bragging Rights

  • 1/4 Mile0 sec @ -1 mph
  • 0-605.5sec
  • Top Speed120mph
  • HP165
  • Weight2200lbs

Major Upgrades

  • turbo
  • nitrous
  • bore increase
  • port and polish
  • supercharger
  • extrude honed
  • stroke increase
  • engine swap

Ratings

    • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.0/5 Stars.

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Last updated: Jul 25, 2009

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Rob’s Toyota Corolla
“AE86 Corolla Levin GT-Apex”

  • Currently 3.6 /5 Stars.
11 guestbook comments

Engine Refurbishment

 

With the stripping finished, it was time to put it all back together, better then Toyota ever intended. To do this some bits were refurbished; new seals all round, new uprated bearings. Everything else is original just degreased, cleaned, painted and put back in. A slight scratch was found on cylinder 3 so that was polished out first:

 

The engine block:

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The Pisons:

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New bits :^D:

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Crankshaft:

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Oil squirters (for cooling pistons):

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 Head:

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Valves, shims, springs, covers, etc:

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 Thrust washers:

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New gasket bearings for crankshaft:

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Oil feed pipe:

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Intake pipes and ABV:

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Sump pan:

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SC12 Supercharger:

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 The rocker covers:

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 DLI timer:

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Water piping:

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Supercharger bracket:

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Other water tubes:

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Oil filter sandwich plate and throttle body:

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Intake manifold:

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Coil pack mount:

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Flywheel:

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 Alternator:

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Guestbook

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Timmo77  

Posted by: Timmo77

07/25/2009 07:39AM

DAMN.....! Awesome job! 5*****

georgiom  

Posted by: georgiom

07/09/2009 03:18AM

gorgeous levin! Seriously, good job. The 4A-GZE looks top notch. Plan on building another eight-six anytime soon?

michaeldc  

Posted by: michaeldc

05/10/2009 03:33AM

5 stars :) see my ride!

JoLavoie  

Posted by: JoLavoie

01/28/2009 04:45PM

wow i love your car men 5stars

TX-BluStreak  

Posted by: TX-BluStreak

01/28/2009 01:34PM

Wow very nice lookin Levin you've got there. Awesome engine mods you've equipped to this ride of yours; 5* on a job well done! Come check out mine sometime and tell me whatya think?

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Vehicle Owner

Member ID: R1obbo

Location: Portsmouth, GB