99 E11 Sr

[PaulinhoT]

Ah soz miss understood, yeah the front calipers would look mighty in red, but the car has rear drums, unlike the G6R, so I'm looking at a rear disc conversion. Just wondered if I could up the disc size first

I just had confirmation that my Ultra racing 3 point front upper strut brace has been shipped, so should be here in a week

[eire_man]

like this

[PaulinhoT]

Yeah I think I will do that good idea ;)

Just ordered my silver indicator bulbs.

[eire_man]

cool, hope it works out bro

why dont you try a rwd conversion like sonur that sounds epic

[PaulinhoT]

A rwd comversion sounds crazy, I've seen (online) some EK Civics that have been done, but not a Corolla, I wonder how that would feel ? 4wd would be nice

I just think I will chip away each month and order some bits here an there, and see where I get in a few months time ;)

As for photos..

(big shadow)

Once I get the rear spoiler and front bumper resprayed I will try and arrange some "arty" photos (Got the other 1/2's MOT first, and she drives a Pug 306 :censor: )

[KPARRIS-JONES]

I really like this 'rolla, great colours and a lovely style!

Thanks for taking snaps mate :)

KP

[Steven252]

What a stunng example of the tte corolla, the best colour too ;) think mine needs to be lowered with the wheels painted white :)

As for the 306 the only good one of those is the gti-6 god i loved that car!!

[PaulinhoT]

Again thanks for the comments.

I have some silvertec indicators bulbs on there way in the post, should be here tomorrow or Wednesday. Also my Ultra Racing 3 point strut brace is now in China, so it's getting here, what are the chances of me being stung with import duty, as I never get away with gifts lol

Tomorrow my car is in the workshop having the inner N/S cv boot changed, and the rear brakes cleaned and hand brake adjusted. After which I have the other 1/2s 306 to MOT, that will prob bankrupt me, then time for some shopping

I was going to get the front bumper and rear wing sprayed after Christmas, but I may be able to bring that forward to just before, so all is looking very good. One thing I did notice today was the brakes, hopefully after the rear adjustment tomorrow the car should pull up really well. It stops !Removed! quick, but my prob is that I drive "other" cars at work, i.e. today I drove a 307CC, 206, new Focus, Focus estate, VW Golf estate, new VW Golf GTi, Vectra (spit), KA, French C3 thing ? and a few others, and all of them seemed to put me through the windscreen lol

I will see what the lads say in the workshop tomorrow..

I want to look at relocating the stereo (or throwing it away) to the double din sized area in the middle of the dash, and then put 3 gauges up the top.. Oddly I did this years ago on a Mk3 Cortina (yes I'm 40 ), but I'm a little unsure at the moment on what gauges to put in. Always thinking of future proofing the car you see..

[EXS]

oil temp and oil pressure gauges is always a good investment , and maybe a A/F meter

[PaulinhoT]

Thanks for that, I will put them on the shopping list

Had a bit of a home run with the car today, My Philips Silver Vision bulbs arrived in the post 1st thing this morning, so I was all set to come home from work and get a little photo guide up of fitting them but....

As I posted up the other day, my car was booked in today to have the front N/S inner cv boot changed, well I was in the office when I had a visit from one of the mechanics saying they had a problem. I feared the worse, but he said they took it all apart, went to fit the part, only to find they had been sent the wrong boot :!Removed!:

Fine I thought, just reorder the correct one, but it was too late in the day

Here's the mess from where the other one split (note to self, need to clean here).

As I left Connie tonight on the ramp

Still I borrowed this lovely little runner from work to get me home (which just about beat walking).

Photos taken on my E63 so not the best..

SO here's me with my fingers crossed for tomorrow, as there is a big Japanese car meet here tomorrow night which I hope to go to.

[KPARRIS-JONES]

A small pain in the arse but at least you don't have any uknown's or massive price hikes etc. You will have her back and revving tomorrow

KP

[PaulinhoT]

Yeah very true, not sure what the bill will be, I do get a discount which is lucky, the best bit was the Ford I borrowed seemed to be stuck on Radio Solent.. now I maybe 40, but it wasn't my thing

[KPARRIS-JONES]

Discounts always make the day better :)

Just don't send it for the MOT the week before a show.... I cropped a £300 bill for a new rear calliper, front calliper union and a few other bits and pieces.

Make sure you let us how it all goes :)

KP

[eire_man]

and take pictures please

[PaulinhoT]

Well, the local auto express factors turned up today, and you will never guess what.. yeap the wrong bit again :censor:

So out parts manager got on the phone to Toyota, and I should have a new inner CV boot tomorrow , so I'm sat at home, my camera is charged and I've no way of getting to the meet

[eire_man]

Well, the local auto express factors turned up today, and you will never guess what.. yeap the wrong bit again :censor:

So out parts manager got on the phone to Toyota, and I should have a new inner CV boot tomorrow , so I'm sat at home, my camera is charged and I've no way of getting to the meet

thats sum major f*** up mate sorry to hear. they should do the replacement for free for that, in fact they should be paying you.

but at least youll have her back tommorow the beauty

[PaulinhoT]

Well your right, I got her back today. The inner boot that was meant to turn up at 10am today actually turned up at 4:30pm, but the lads in the workshop stayed and fitted it all back together for me, so a top job by them

Had some parcels come today: (sorry bad picture)

My new Japanese Performance magazine Forza 4 and my Ultra Racing upper 3 point strut brace

As it was just starting to get dark when I got home I quickly took some photos of myself fitting the indicators to the car.

OK the picture above shows what the indicator lense looks like with the oranage 581 bulb in it.

Right when you open your bonnet your will see a small cross headed screw, so fetch yourself a cross headed screwdriver, and set about undoing the screw.

Once the scew is removed you can then push the secure tab on the back of the indicator lense and pull it out. This may require some twisting to allow the clip to become free from the oval hole in the wing.

With the indicator unit free, you can turn the bulb plug and remove it from the indicator lense.

This is the orange 581 bulb, so push gentle and twist the bulb, and it will pop out.

Now do the same but in reverse when fitting the new silver bulbs.

Now this is actually pretty silver, but it was getting dark, hense the orange tint.

This is all clipped back in, nice and tidy

Took 5 mins if that to do both sides, so well done Toyota.

This weekend I will set about the 3 point strut brace, sadly this may take a few mins. I have to remove the wiper arms, rain scuttle panel, drill some holes in the bulb head.

So should be fun

[KPARRIS-JONES]

That's a sweet and much needed touch! Good work mate, it's looking really smart now.

KP

[PaulinhoT]

Thank you, my clear side wing indicator units with silver 501 bulbs are in the post, so hopefully they maybe her before the weekend to

[EXS]

nice, im getting forza 4 tomorrow ... cant wait

you play online?

[toyotatomes]

so far the best bit ive seen is forza 4 :P ive just got back from tesco 24hr to tell me they dont know where it is out back and cant find it :censor: i may of broke some tesco employees legs.... my ultra racing 3 point brace is turning up tuesday! however its going straight into the workshop for some redecorative paint purple on white is the theme :)

Luke

[PaulinhoT]

Yeah I play online "PaulinhoT" is my live id

Luke, will be interesting to see what your Ultra Racing brace looks like, make sure you post up some photos

[Tibs]

One thing I did notice today was the brakes, hopefully after the rear adjustment tomorrow the car should pull up really well. It stops !Removed! quick, but my prob is that I drive "other" cars at work, i.e. today I drove a 307CC, 206, new Focus, Focus estate, VW Golf estate, new VW Golf GTi, Vectra (spit), KA, French C3 thing ? and a few others, and all of them seemed to put me through the windscreen lol

I will see what the lads say in the workshop tomorrow..

With reference these other cars putting you 'through the windscreen'.. More modern cars have a larger, more 'boosted' servo. This is why they 'bite' the way they do. The downside is a trade off in 'feel' I find. It's very 'artificial' to me.

[PaulinhoT]

I would have to agree with your comment 100%, I like the feedback via my brake pedal, you can almost feel the tread moving just before you lock a brake where as on the new cars it seems to come on slowly then BAM I've stopped :censor:

Right ok, I finished work by mid afternoon today so was able to come home and do a few jobs to Connie. I managed to fit my new side indicators and 3 point strut brace before my "oldmans" back started to hurt.

I bought some clear side indicators from Ultra Auto Design, there not too bad in terms of quality and I'm 70% happy with them.

Ok the photo above show the OEM Toyota Orange side indicators, which I actually like, but thought I would fit on some clear ones.

When you go to remove these use a very flat thin edged tool, I have a special bit of metal to do this, but take care NOT to scratch the wing. You need to press the release tab on the back side of the light unit. Once you do this you can just pull the unit out of the wing.

Unscrew the orange lense away from the plug at the end of the cable.

Remove the 501 capless bulb and replace it with your silver 501

Then screw the new clear lense back on.

Turn and press back into the wing, and it is that simple.

The thing was when I stepped away from the car I didn't like the look of the unit as the rubber was hidden behind the lense.

So I removed the old rubber off the OEM unit and took a look at them both...

The Toyota one offers more around the edges, so I tried it on the car to see what I thought.

Yep 100% better in my eyes so that is how it will stay. Now fitted I think they look rather nice, and yes it is the little things that look good

Right just going to upload some more photo's and then do another post

[PaulinhoT]

Also on my "todo" list was fit my newly arrived Ultra Racing 3 point strut brace, so I just managed to fit it this afternoon before it got dark, windy and rather crap

So yesterday I pre-oiled my strut top bolts with some penetrating oil (I had a bad experience with one of my Civic bolts breaking off in the past). This made easy work of undoing the nuts, this was after I snapped my small socket set reducer from the cheap'o Drapper set my Mrs had bought me so out come my real tools.

Right with the Ultra racing brace you only need to undo the two inner nuts on both sides, not all three as with most braces.

As you can see below (again bad picture) They came off pretty easy, but did require a little force.

I then placed the 3 point brace over the top just to check it fitted 100% which it did, although there was a gap between the third point and the bulk head, which had me worried for about 30 seconds.

Right next was to remove the wiper arms, before I did this I marked the windscreen with tape to show where the blades rested. The other way to do this is to paint a tiny white line on the arm and across the bolt so when you come back to fitting them you can align them with ease.

Once you have done this you want to remove the nuts holding the arms on, and lift the arms away from the screen. There is a special tool for this, but I've never had to use one.

Next remove all of the screws on the rain skuttle, along with the rubber seal and clips.

These little plastic clips can be very brittle with age, so be careful not to break any.

Once all of the clips are out, lift the skuttle away above the bonnet.

Next I placed the 3 point brace back on to mark up where the holes needed to be on the bulk head.

These are the bolts that came with the brace.

The fun part was about to start, the bolts are about 8.8mm so I went and got my dril (big mother) and a metal bit, put a tiny bit of oil on the area I was going to drill and slowly started to go about drilling the whole.

Now either Ultra racing designed the 3rd point to line up with the two indentations that are on the bulk head, or Toyota made the Shell with the thought of running a 3 point brace ?

With the holes drilled I then treated the inside of the holes to some anti rust treatment. (You can see my cambelt stickers)

Next was to bolt the whole thing up, I bolted the bolts on the bulkhead first, but I didn't murder then to much. I then tightened the strut top bolts going from one side to ther other.

Then just do everything in reverse and you will be sorted

After a drive around the nuts will need a nip down again, just to be 100%

All tight and fitted